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Having a stroke may significantly increase the risk of developing dementia. The risk of dementia was the highest in the first year after a stroke and remained elevated over a period of twenty years, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2024.

While there was no significant increase in preventable illnesses and deaths in kids during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study suggests there were delays in some diagnoses.

Study authors say the findings are reassuring and show that better education efforts on signs and symptoms for illnesses to watch for could help in a future public-health emergency

Survival 75% worse compared with outcomes seen in registrational studies

Eating disorders can happen to anyone, but often people think they mainly affect wealthy, White teens. Now, the rates are growing for those who don’t fit the mold.

Eating disorders can happen to anyone, but often people think they mainly affect wealthy, White teens. Now, the rates are growing for those who don’t fit the mold.

Hospitalizations of young male patients increased by 416%.

Boys are now making up a growing component of eating disorders.

'It doesn't align with kind of what people expect outside of the eating disorder field,' the lead author said of the study's findings.

  Rate of opioid-related deaths in Ontario has tripled in past fifteen years, with most significant increase in young adults St. Michael's Hospital IMAGE: Dr. Tara Gomes is a researcher at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). Credit: St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, April…