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What You Need to Know About HMPV: The Respiratory Virus You’ve Never Heard Of

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New Study Identifies 14 Risk Factors for Dementia, Including Two Previously Unknown

This graph shows how a 1% change in stock prices affects death rates from specific causes. It covers three Chinese stock indexes: Shanghai, Shenzhen, and the CSI 300. The effects are measured on the same day (lag 0) and the next day (lag 1) after market changes

Stock Market Volatility Tied to Increased Cardiovascular and Suicide Risks

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Anxiety After 50 Doubles Parkinson’s Risk, New Study Reveals

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Suicide and Homicide Risks Peak at Night, Study Reveals the Dangers of “The Mind After Midnight”

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Global life expectancy to increase by nearly five years by 2050

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Storing Chemicals in Attached Garages Linked to Higher Risk of ALS

Image caption: To the left of the figure, the red-yellow colour denotes the regions that degenerate earlier than the rest of the brain, and are vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease. These brain areas are higher-order regions that process and combine information coming from our different senses. To the right of the figure, each dot represents the brain data from one UK Biobank participant. The overall curve shows that, in these particularly fragile regions of the brain, there is accelerated degeneration with age. Credit: G. Douaud and J. Manuello.

Researchers Identify Top Dementia Risk Factors

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Recreational activities such as golfing, gardening may be associated with increased ALS risk among men

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Combination of migraine and persistent hot flashes could prove deadly

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder linked to heightened risk of death

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Living in poverty with chronic inflammation significantly increases heart disease, cancer risk

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Young-onset dementia risk could be reduced through health, lifestyle factors

Modifiable risk factors—including hypertension, obesity, diabetes, low HDL cholesterol and sleep disorders—confer a higher risk of dementia for people in some minority ethnic groups compared to White people, according to the new study.

Risk for dementia varies by ethnicity, study finds

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