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Urgent action needed to protect vulnerable women, children and adolescents
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] April 27 (ANI/PNN): Women, children and adolescents, and the health and aid workers who provide their care and support, are facing growing challenges and life-threatening risks in these times of escalating conflict and humanitarian crises worldwide, according to a commentar
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Here's why heavy energy drink consumption may be detrimental for your heal
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], April 18 (ANI): In the journal BMJ Case Reports, researchers have warned that heavy energy drink consumption may be linked to heart failure, the doctors suggested so after treating a 21-year-old, who had regularly drunk 4 such cans every day for around 2 years.
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Heavy energy drink consumption linked to heart failure in a young man
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], April 16 (ANI): Heavy energy drink consumption may be linked to heart failure, doctors have warned in the journal BMJ Case Reports after treating a 21-year-old, who had regularly drunk 4 such cans every day for around 2 years.
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Study explores temporal link between medicinal cannabis for epilepsy, earl
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], April 16 (ANI): The use of medical cannabis for severe childhood epilepsy may be linked to early puberty, doctors have warned in the journal BMJ Case Reports after treating a two-year-old child with the condition.
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Study reveals unhealthy lifestyle only explains small part of health inequ
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], April 15 (ANI): Unhealthy lifestyles alone only explain a small proportion of the socioeconomic inequity in health in both US and UK adults, suggest data from two large studies published by The BMJ today.
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Deaths due to anaphylaxis halved despite increase in hospital admissions:
Updated : 5 years ago IST
London [UK], February 20 (ANI): A research published in the BMJ journal shed light on the death rate from food-induced anaphylaxis that has halved despite a highly increased rate of hospital admissions in the UK due to this life-threatening allergic reaction disease.
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Study: Anti-clotting therapy may prevent death in COVID-19 patients
Updated : 5 years ago IST
London [UK], February 13 (ANI): A clinical study circulated by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) claims strong evidence that prompt preventive blood-thinning drugs may reduce the risk of death in COVID-19 patients.
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Antidepressants do not work for back pain, osteoarthritis: Study
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Canberra [Australia], January 23 (ANI): Stimulant medications are generally inadequate for back and osteoarthritis pain, in spite of being broadly utilized for these conditions, suggests a study published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
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Antidepressants ineffectual for back pain and osteoarthritis
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Canberra [Australia], January 21 (ANI): A study published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) provides evidence that stimulant medications are generally inadequate for back and osteoarthritis pain, in spite of being broadly utilized for these conditions.
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'Diseases of despair' have soared over past decade in US
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 10 (ANI): 'Diseases of despair', such as substance abuse, alcohol dependency, and suicidal thoughts and behaviours, have soared in the US over the past decade, reveals an analysis of health insurance claims data published in the online journal BMJ Open.
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Depression can be treated with probiotics alone or combined with prebiotic
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], July 11 (ANI): A review published in the journal BMJ Nutrition Prevention and Health suggests that probiotics either taken alone or combined with prebiotics, may help to ease depression.
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Review suggests probiotics alone or combined with prebiotics may ease depr
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], July 7 (ANI): Probiotics either taken alone or combined with prebiotics, may help to ease depression, suggests a review published in the journal BMJ Nutrition Prevention and Health.
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