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In a surprising finding, researchers at UC San Francisco have discovered that the prevalence among Americans of chronic kidney disease (CKD), a condition that costs Medicare tens of billions of dollars to treat each year, hasn't increased since the early 2000s.
More women these days are grooming their pubic hair, especially younger women, but the practice poses some risks, most often related to shaving injuries.
A study that tracked tens of thousands of midlife and older men for more than 20 years has found that vigorous exercise and other healthy lifestyle habits may cut their chances of developing a lethal type of prostate cancer by up to 68 percent.
UCSF Medical Center issues a statement regarding its notification to patients whose bladders were examined this year at its Outpatient Urology Practice that a step was inadvertently omitted in the cleaning of equipment used in their procedure.