Life expectancy for men in U.S. falls to 73 years - STAT
Nov 13, 2023 · The picture is especially concerning for men, whose life expectancy is now 73.2 years, compared with women’s 79.1.This 5.9 year gap is the widest between the two genders since 1996. “Across ...
Comparing three Covid-19 vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, J&J - STAT
Feb 2, 2021 · The interval between Moderna doses is 28 days; for the Pfizer vaccine, it’s 21 days. Each dose of Pfizer’s contains 30 micrograms of vaccine. Moderna went with a much larger dose of vaccine ...
Experts: Trump speech patterns hint of potential cognitive decline
Aug 7, 2024 · advertisement. This shifting from topic to topic, with few connections — a pattern of speech called tangentiality — is one of several disjointed and occasionally incoherent verbal habits that ...
Trump ear injury: Gunshot trauma experts offer general …
Jul 17, 2024 · Andrew Harnik/Getty Images. S ix days after former president Donald Trump was shot in the ear at a rally in Pennsylvania, his medical team has yet to release detailed records of his condition or ...
Medical errors and accidents: an ongoing threat to health| STAT
Aug 4, 2021 · A meta-analysis of such studies concluded that the average annual death rate from such errors in the first decade of the 2000s was in the neighborhood of 250,000. That’s more than enough to make ...
Health websites are notoriously misleading. So we rated their
Jul 26, 2019 · Of all the sites with red ratings, 37% publish false or unfounded health claims. These sites accounted for more than 49 million engagements (shares, likes, comments, etc.) on social media in the ...
The history of OxyContin, told through Purdue Pharma documents …
June 15, 1993 to April 15, 1994: Purdue conducted a clinical trial in elderly patients with osteoarthritis to test the safety and efficacy of OxyContin. It enrolled 133 patients, but only 63 ...
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Two-thirds of Congress cashed a pharma campaign check in 2020
Jun 9, 2021 · More than two-thirds of Congress cashed a pharma campaign check in 2020, new STAT analysis shows. STAT’s tool allows users to visualize individual drug companies’ corporate PAC spending ...
Why liver experts renamed NASH to MASH, and NAFLD to MASLD …
Dec 28, 2023 · A group of over 200 physicians, public health experts, industry representatives, regulatory officials, and patient advocates made the call in a supermajority vote: Non-alcoholic fatty liver ...