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Women with obesity (BMI 30 to 40) do not need to gain guidelines weight during pregnancy, and women above BMI40 could have beneficial from weight gain below guidelines

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Regular erections could be important for maintaining erectile function, according to a new study on mice: "an increased frequency of erections leads to more fibroblasts cells that enable erection and vice versa"

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Bacterial meningitis injures one in three children for life. Results show that those diagnosed with bacterial meningitis consistently have a higher prevalence of neurological disabilities such as cognitive impairment, seizures, visual or hearing impairment, motor impairment, behavioral disorders

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Finding that statins could slow dementia stimulates further research: A new study shows that people with Alzheimer's dementia deteriorated more slowly in their cognitive functions if they were also treated with a lipid-lowering statin, compared to those who were not treated. (reddit)

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Researchers have developed a microscale device for implantation in the eye, which presents new opportunities for cell-based treatment of diabetes and other diseases (reddit)

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Drones enabled the use of defibrillators before ambulance arrival. In more than half of the cases in the study, the drones were ahead of the ambulance by an average of 3 minutes. In cases where the patient was in cardiac arrest, the drone-delivered defibrillator was used in a majority of cases. (reddit)

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People who have a higher biological age than their actual age, calculated using 18 biomarkers, have a significantly (+40%) increased risk of stroke and dementia, especially vascular dementia (reddit)

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Study on 45213 Sweden women, who receive a false positive mammography result, found that women aged 60–75, with low breast density and a false positive mammography result, are more likely to develop breast cancer over the subsequent 20 years (reddit)

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Study in mice found that an early phase in the process of developing Alzheimer’s disease is a metabolic increase in a part of the brain called the hippocampus. The discovery opens up for new potential methods of early intervention (reddit)

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