We do not know if medicinal and non-medicinal treatments help reduce impulsive-compulsive behaviors in people with Parkinson's disease because the currently available evidence is limited and uncertain ...

Myasthenia gravis is a rare disease where the immune system attacks the communication between nerves and muscles, causing weakness. It often affects the muscles used for eye movement, facial ...

Simple hysterectomy may result in little to no difference in the number of deaths from any cause, life expectancy after treatment, deaths from cancer, cancer-free period after treatment, or the rate ...

Doctors need reliable ways to predict seizure risk after a first unprovoked seizure, to help guide diagnosis and treatment. This is especially important because a diagnosis of epilepsy can now be made ...

• Blood pressure-lowering medications lower the chance of death and probably reduce heart attacks and strokes in people with hypertension (high blood pressure) 60 years of age or older. • There may be ...

We did not find enough good‐quality evidence to draw reliable conclusions about the benefits and risks of different work-break interventions for preventing musculoskeletal symptoms and disorders ...

These modules fucking suck. I am doing them because I am mandated by my university, however it is just like "learning" a language on Duolingo. I do not understand the point of this besides selling ...

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