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Birds of a Feather: The Joy of Neurodivergent Friendships

Loneliness is a national epidemic, as damaging to your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Among people with ADHD, the experience of loneliness is especially prevalent. In a recent survey, 80% of respondents reported feeling lonely, even in the company of others.
Though lonelines...
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More than half a million global stroke deaths may be tied to climate change

A changing climate may be linked to growing death and disability from stroke in regions around the world, according to a new study. Researchers found over three decades that non-optimal temperatures, those above or below temperatures associated with the lowest death rates, were increasingly linked t...
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Revascularization enhances quality of life for patients with chronic limb threatening ischemia

Over 200 million people around the world experience peripheral artery disease (PAD) -- a condition caused by the narrowing of the blood vessels from the heart to the lower limbs that leads to pain when walking -- and for roughly 1-in-10 this advances to chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), an a...
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“It Just Takes One Good Friend to Change the Course of a Life”

Making friends during adolescence is akin to navigating a labyrinth filled with twists, turns — and the potential for profound connections. For individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the journey toward friendship often presents its own set of unique challenges and opportunities. ...
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No link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and children's risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability, says large sibling study

In the largest study to date on the subject, researchers found no evidence to support a causal link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD and intellectual disability in children. The findings use data from a nationwide cohort of over 2.4 million children born ...
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The Menstrual Cycle Impacts ADHD Symptoms in Disparate Ways

For girls, women, and naturally cycling individuals with ADHD, fluctuating estrogen and progesterone across the menstrual cycle invariably impact ADHD symptoms, emotions, and functioning. We know thi...
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Preventive angioplasty does not improve prognosis

For heart attack patients, treating only the coronary artery that caused the infarction works just as well as preventive balloon dilation of the other coronary arteries, according to a new large study.

Stopping aspirin one month after coronary stenting procedures significantly reduces bleeding complications in heart attack patients, study suggests

New research could change standard-of-care guidelines to improve outcomes for heart attack patients after coronary stenting procedures.

Successful 'first in human' clinical trial of pioneering guidance for heart bypass surgery

Trial findings suggest that the less invasive approach to heart bypass surgery offers comparable safety and efficacy to established methods and that safety issues inherent to invasive catheterisation investigation can be replaced by a non-invasive technique using CT scan imaging and AI-powered blood...
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ADHD Medication Use Lowers the Risk of Death, Hospitalization: Study

Treating ADHD with medication can lower overall risk of mortality and of hospitalizations, both psychiatric and non-psychiatric, according to two new Swedish studies.1, ...
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