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(MedPage Today) -- Cognitive impairments persist for at least a decade in children who have a traumatic brain injury at an early age, two prospective Australian studies found.

Breast cancer experts are cheering what could be some of the biggest advances in more than a decade: two new medicines that significantly delay the time until women with very advanced cases get worse.

The number of overdose deaths from powerful painkillers more than tripled over a decade, the government reported Tuesday - a trend that a U.S. health official called an epidemic, but one that can be stopped.

(MedPage Today) -- Deaths caused by overdoses of prescription opioid painkillers more than tripled over a decade, to nearly 15,000, CDC researchers reported.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A new government report shows the number of overdose deaths from powerful painkillers have more than tripled over a decade....

There has been a fall of nearly 40% in the number of deaths from malaria worldwide in the past decade, the World Health Organization says.

There was about a 60% increase in the estimated number of concussions and other traumatic brain injuries (TBI) seen among young athletes during the past decade, according to the CDC.

(MedPage Today) -- Sports-related head injuries fueled a 60% increase in emergency department visits for nonfatal traumatic brain injury during the past decade, CDC researchers have found.

New research shows that smokers tend to have strokes close to one full decade earlier than nonsmokers.

(MedPage Today) -- No progress has been made in the past decade toward abolishing state-level restrictions on local anti-smoking policies, one of the goals of the national Healthy People 2020 project, researchers said.