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New way of defining Alzheimer's aims to find disease sooner

New way of defining Alzheimer's aims to find disease sooner

Government and other scientists are proposing a new way to define Alzheimer's disease -- basing it on biological signs, such as brain changes, rather than memory loss and other symptoms of dementia that are used today.
by The Associated Press

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How culturally centered care could help mothers and babies

An estimated 700 to 900 women die in the U.S. every year from pregnancy- and childbirth-related causes. Black women are three to four times more likely to die of these causes than white women.
by Marianne Combs and Nancy Yang

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Surgeon general urges more Americans to carry opioid antidote

Surgeon general urges more Americans to carry opioid antidote

The drug naloxone can reverse opioid overdoses and save lives. U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams says more Americans should have naloxone on hand in case loved ones, friends or neighbors need help.
by Rachel Martin and Menaka Wilhelm

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Senior living community resident likely dead for 2 days before she was found

Thompson had terminal esophageal cancer and had lived at the facility for more than four years. Thompson could use her own feeding tube and administer her own medications, but she was classified as "assisted living," the police report said.
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