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The air you breathe doesn’t just affect your lungs. It could be toxic to your brain. A study by University of Pennsylvania researchers linked increased exposure to air pollution to worse cases of ...

Study author Edward Lee, MD, PhD, co-director of Penn's Institute on Aging, told Newsweek in an email that there is "good evidence" that dementia has been decreasing in modern society, suggesting that ...

You might think of lung cancer as a "smoker's disease," but new research suggests that isn't the case at all. Instead, there are several factors that have been tied to genetic mutations which can ...

A federal appeals court has ruled that the state of Wisconsin and businesses operating in certain parts of southeastern ...

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