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	health Daily update ⋅ June 19, 2019
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	Washington Post Meet the New York couple donating millions to the anti-vax movement Washington Post A wealthy Manhattan couple has emerged as significant financiers of the anti-vaccine movement, contributing more than $3 million in recent years to groups that stoke fears about immunizations online and at live events — including two forums this year at the ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Low trust in vaccines 'a global crisis' BBC News Public mistrust of vaccines means the world is taking a step backwards in the fight against deadly yet preventable infectious diseases, warn experts. The biggest global study into attitudes on immunisation suggests confidence is low in some regions. Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times Suicide rates for US teens and young adults are the highest on record Los Angeles Times The rate at which young Americans took their own lives reached a high-water mark in 2017, driven by a sharp rise in suicides among older teenage boys, according to new research. In that year alone, suicide claimed the lives of 5,016 males and 1,225 ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR When Surgeons Are Abrasive To Coworkers, Patients' Health May Suffer NPR As a group, surgeons are not well known for their bedside manner. "The stereotype of the abrasive, technically gifted...surgeon is ubiquitous among members of the public and the medical profession," write the authors of a 2018 article in the AMA Journal of ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Traveling to Europe? Make sure your measles vaccination is up to date CNN (CNN) Measles is not the souvenir you want to bring back from your once-in-a-lifetime trip to Europe this summer, but there's an increasing likelihood that could happen if your vaccinations are not up to date. Researchers who work with the US Centers for ... Flag as irrelevant
	Bloomberg One Day of Work a Week Is Most 'Effective' Dose for Mental Health, Study Says Bloomberg Just one day of work per week is the most "effective dose" to give the mental health benefits of paid employment, research suggests. A study indicated that the risk of mental health problems reduces by 30% when people move from unemployment or ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News Mom loses tip of nose after dismissing skin cancer symptom as pimple Fox News A former sun worshipper who admitted to soaking up the rays without using protection for decades shared how she had the tip of her nose cut off after a pink pimple on the end turned out to be sun-bathing induced skin cancer. Left with a hole in her nose, ... Flag as irrelevant
	NBCNews.com Why it's important for patients to look at their doctor's note NBCNews.com When Pamela DeSalvo read the clinical note from her doctor's visit, the words on the page hit her hard: "clinically morbidly obese." She knew she was overweight, but seeing those three words together shocked her. It also inspired her to start losing weight. Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD 'Flesh-Eating' Bacteria On Rise With Climate Change WebMD By Dennis Thompson. HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, June 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A flesh-eating bacteria has migrated into the Delaware Bay between Delaware and New Jersey, drawn north by the warmer waters of climate change, doctors say. Flag as irrelevant
	TIME Inside the Battle to Save Congo From the Ebola Crisis TIME Outside a brown cement house in the eastern city of Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a government-employed psychologist is telling 19-year-old Merveille Mwenze that her husband has tested positive for Ebola. She's seven months ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Listeria outbreak: Meat supplier 'passed latest inspection' BBC News A meat supplier linked to a fatal listeria outbreak passed its latest safety inspection but had tested positive for the bacteria twice before. Inspectors detected listeria at North Country Cooked Meats, in Salford, in 2009 and 2010. None had been found since, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Eroding trust in vaccines leaves populations vulnerable, global study finds Reuters LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - Trust in vaccines - one of the world's most effective and widely-used medical products - is highest in poorer countries but weaker in wealthier ones where skepticism has allowed outbreaks of diseases such as measles to persist, ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Pharmacy tests turn up another cancer-causing compound in heart drugs CNN (CNN) Tests by an online pharmacy turned up another cancer-causing compound in heart medications, and these drugs haven't been recalled. Blood pressure patients can take tainted pills during valsartan shortage, FDA says. Drugs containing valsaratan ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report A-Fib Can Raise Dementia Risk, Even in Absence of Stroke U.S. News & World Report By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, June 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Many aging Americans have the common heart rhythm disorder known as atrial fibrillation, or "a-fib." Now comes the sobering news that it might raise their ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today WHO: Be 'Aware' of Antibiotic Use on a National Scale MedPage Today To combat the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance, all countries should adopt tools to encourage more appropriate use of antibiotics, said the World Health Organization (WHO). Of course, the WHO encouraged the adoption of its own tool, called ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Study: More Pregnant Women Using Pot, Despite Risks WebMD TUESDAY, June 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- As laws around marijuana relax nationwide and the drug becomes more popular, American women are increasingly using pot during pregnancy, a new study finds. The study was based on data from more than ... Flag as irrelevant
	Live Science Alcohol Boosts the Risk of Breast Cancer. Many Women Have No Idea. Live Science Drinking alcohol is known to raise women's risk of developing breast cancer, but many women aren't aware of this link, a new study from the United Kingdom suggests. The study researchers analyzed information from 205 women who were undergoing breast ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Yogurt Might Help Men Avoid Colon Cancer: Study U.S. News & World Report By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, June 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Yogurt is a healthy food, and it may also be a cancer fighter, a new study suggests. Men who had two or more servings of yogurt a week had a 26% lower ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today Vosoritide Boosts Growth in Kids With Achondroplasia MedPage Today Children with achondroplasia, the genetic bone growth disorder that causes disproportionate dwarfism, saw sustained increases in annualized growth velocity with an investigational C-type natriuretic peptide analogue called vosoritide, researchers said. Flag as irrelevant
	Quartz Five scientifically proven ways to fall asleep faster Quartz Nearly two-thirds of adults in developed nations fail to meet the nightly eight hours of sleep recommended by the World Health Organization. According to Matthew Walker, sleep expert, neuroscientist, and Berkeley professor, driving while drowsy is more ... Flag as irrelevant
	Forbes Marijuana Study Finds CBD Can Cause Liver Damage Forbes There is no denying that cannabidiol, more commonly referred to as CBD, is rapidly becoming more popular in the United States than sliced bread. It is a hot trend that got started several years ago after Dr. Sanja Gupta showed the nation in his documentary ... Flag as irrelevant
	CIDRAP Ebola cases top 2180 as Uganda OKs experimental therapies CIDRAP As expected, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) yesterday announced 20 new cases, part of an uptick in activity and transmission that continues in several smaller hot spots, and it added 13 cases today, for a total of 2,181. In developments in ... Flag as irrelevant
	Slate Magazine Carrying the Legacy of AIDS Activism Forward Slate Magazine This piece is part of the Legacies issue, a special Pride Month series from Outward, Slate's home for coverage of LGBTQ life, thought, and culture. Read an introduction to the issue here. What would a world with little or no HIV transmission mean for the AIDS ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today MRI Wins Again in Women at High-Risk for Breast Cancer MedPage Today MRI-based screening detected cancers at an earlier stage than mammography in women with a familial risk of breast cancer, according to the Dutch FaMRIsc trial. In a cohort of 1,355 women with a familial predisposition to breast cancer who were ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress How France is persuading its citizens to get vaccinated Medical Xpress In February this year, a holiday in paradise turned into a nightmare for one French family. Soon after their arrival in Costa Rica, their unvaccinated five-year-old son developed measles, the country's first case since 2014. The parents, also unvaccinated, tested ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Does more rain mean more risk of mosquito-borne diseases? Medical Xpress Experts have ranked May 2019 as one of the wettest Mays on record in central Illinois. Is it possible that the incidence of mosquito-borne illnesses increases with the amount of rainfall? To find out, News Bureau science writer Ananya Sen asked Brian F. Allan, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Slate Magazine Let's All Stop Holding Out for Science to Find the Perfect Diet Slate Magazine Nutrition advice is often all over the map, even contradictory: Red wine is good, all alcohol is bad, eat breakfast, skip breakfast, eat a million small meals, go vegetarian, eat lots of meat. One explanation for why it's all so confusing? Maybe there is no right diet ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times Obesity rates are falling for young children on WIC, study says Los Angeles Times Preschoolers on government food aid have grown a little less pudgy, a new study found, offering fresh evidence that previous signs of declining childhood obesity rates in the U.S. weren't a fluke. Obesity rates dropped steadily to about 14% in 2016 — the ... Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News Research offers possible clues about persistent Lyme disease ABC News In a groundbreaking study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Virginia Tech, Yale and Harvard may have found a reason why some people who get Lyme disease still have the crippling symptoms years after ... Flag as irrelevant
	Crux: Covering all things Catholic Vaccines preserve 'moral health' of communities, say church experts Crux: Covering all things Catholic ALBANY, New York - Measles, chicken pox and other diseases are making a comeback as more parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children out of the fear of side effects, especially with regard to the Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine. Skeptics are ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healio Vitamin D supplementation fails to reduce major adverse CV events Healio Vitamin D supplementation did not reduce individual CVD endpoints, all-cause mortality or major adverse CV events, according to a meta-analysis published in JAMA Cardiology. "The findings suggest that in the general 'usual risk' population not selected for ... Flag as irrelevant
	New York Post People who post 'God' and 'pray' on Facebook are more likely to develop these life-threatening conditions MarketWatch Language in Facebook FB, -0.17% posts can predict whether someone will develop diabetes and other conditions including depression, anxiety, alcohol abuse, sexually-transmitted diseases, and drug abuse better than demographic information like age, sex, ... Flag as irrelevant
	PEOPLE.com Researchers Successfully Train Dogs to Sniff Out Lung Cancer with 97 Percent Accuracy PEOPLE.com Dogs are already the perfect cuddle buddy, fetch partner and best friend, but a few good pups can add another line to their resume — cancer detectors. In a new study released Monday in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, researchers ... Flag as irrelevant
	NBCNews.com Meet the nurses who cared for AIDS patients when no one else would NBCNews.com At the beginning of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s, little was known about the disease except that contracting it was effectively a death sentence. Before it was known how the disease spread or how it could be treated, nurses at San Francisco General ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today How Bad Is Cannabis in Pregnancy? MedPage Today Women who reported exposure to cannabis during pregnancy had higher rates of preterm birth compared to unexposed women, researchers found. Cannabis exposure in pregnant women in Canada was significantly associated with a higher risk of preterm ... Flag as irrelevant
	PBS NewsHour How bad is the measles comeback? Here's 70 years of data PBS NewsHour With 1,044 cases as of June 13, America's measles outbreak has sent the nation back in time. In the first few months of 2019, the epidemic reached the worst level in a single calendar year since the disease was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000—and ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report AHA News: Popcorn as a Snack Healthy Hit or Dietary Horror Show? U.S. News & World Report TUESDAY, June 18, 2019 (American Heart Association News) -- Popcorn, with its ample dietary fiber and typically low calorie count, makes it easy to understand why many people think a giant bucket at the movie theater qualifies as a healthy snack. Flag as irrelevant
	FierceBiotech Qiagen launches one-stop antimicrobial resistance database alongside CDC commitment FierceBiotech Separately, the World Health Organization has launched a new campaign urging governments to adopt its tool that classifies antibiotics as safe to use, under surveillance or used only as a last resort. (Image: Qiagen). Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Guardian Could banning sunscreen to help save coral do more harm than good? The Guardian Hawaii, Mexico and Palau are encouraging tourists to use reef-friendly lotions – but protecting ourselves from the sun shouldn't fall by the wayside. Lisa Niven-Phillips. Wed 19 Jun 2019 07.00 EDT. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter · Share via Email. Flag as irrelevant
	NBC10 Boston Obesity-related pain contributes to opioid use Reuters (Reuters Health) - Long-term use of prescription opioids for chronic pain is more common among people who are overweight or obese, a new study finds. As a group, these individuals are more likely to use prescription opioids for pain in the back, joints, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News Georgia toddler diagnosed with rare ovarian cancer now disease-free Fox News Parents raise awareness on childhood ovarian cancer after their 2-year-old daughter is diagnosed with disease. 2-year-old McKenna Xydias had been experiencing fevers on and off for a few months, as well as a bloated stomach when her parents took her to ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Yogurt may help to lower pre-cancerous bowel growth risk in men Medical Xpress Eating two or more weekly servings of yogurt may help to lower the risk of developing the abnormal growths (adenomas) which precede the development of bowel cancer—at least in men—finds research published online in the journal Gut. The observed ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Times New York summer camp attendees now required to have vaccines amid measles outbreak Washington Times Health care specialists are alerting parents of the risks of exposing their children to measles at summer camps, as the largest U.S. outbreak in 25 years continues to spread and youth programs open for the season. "Those are environments where a virus that ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Denver Channel Pharmacy tests turn up another cancer-causing compound in heart drugs The Denver Channel Tests by an online pharmacy turned up another cancer-causing compound in heart medications, and these drugs haven't been recalled. Drugs containing valsaratan, losartan and irbesartan made by a variety of companies in a variety of countries have been ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Researchers find cause of rare, fatal disease that turns babies' lips and skin blue Medical Xpress Scientists used a gene editing method called CRISPR/Cas9 to generate mice that faithfully mimic a fatal respiratory disorder in newborn infants that turns their lips and skin blue. The new laboratory model allowed researchers to pinpoint the ailment's cause ... Flag as irrelevant
	CBS Denver Rabid Bat Found In Busy Lakewood Neighborhood CBS Denver LAKEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) – The first bat to test positive for rabies in Jefferson County this year was found in the busy Belmar neighborhood in Lakewood. The bat was found on South Reed Street — just a few blocks southwest of the shopping center and ... Flag as irrelevant
	CIDRAP New AWaRe tool aims to guide antibiotic use globally CIDRAP Using the "access," "watch," and "reserve" designations established previously, the World Health Organization (WHO) has created a new tool to limit the use of drugs associated with the highest risk of resistance and to increase the use of antibiotics in ... Flag as irrelevant
	New York Post Ebola's spread shows how science needs societies to succeed: experts New York Post LONDON – The persistence of Congo's Ebola outbreak and its deadly spread to Uganda in recent days show how societal issues are as crucial as scientific advances in controlling disease outbreaks, specialists in global public health say. Medical scientists ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress One day of employment a week is all we need for mental health benefits: study Medical Xpress As automation advances, predictions of a jobless future have some fearing unrest from mass unemployment, while others imagine a more contented work-free society. Aside from economic factors, paid employment brings other benefits—often ... Flag as irrelevant
	New York Daily News Obesity declining among preschoolers on public aid New York Daily News Obesity rates have dropped among children aged 2 to 4 who are receiving public assistance under the WIC program, in the wake of nutritional changes enacted over the past few years. The decrease was subtle, from 16% in 2010 to 14% in 2016, but the study ... Flag as irrelevant

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