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	health Daily update ⋅ August 14, 2019
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	Washington Post A flight attendant who contracted measles has died amid a global rise in outbreaks Washington Post An Israeli flight attendant died after contracting measles and falling into a coma, Israeli media reported Tuesday, the latest incident amid growing measles outbreaks in countries around the world. There were more reported cases of the virus in the first half of ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Hepatitis A Races Across the Country Medscape Just before the Fourth of July, Trenton Burrell began feeling run-down and achy. Soon he could barely muster the energy to walk from one room to another. A friend shared an alarming observation: "You're turning yellow." Within days, the 40-year-old landed ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Israeli flight attendant dies after contracting measles CNN (CNN) An Israeli flight attendant and mother of three has died of measles. Rotem Amitai, 43, died Tuesday, according to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel. Amitai had traveled from New York to Tel Aviv a few days before developing a fever in March, but ... Flag as irrelevant
	EurekAlert (press release) Exercise associated with benefit to patients with advanced colorectal cancer EurekAlert (press release) First study to examine the association of physical activity with patient survival in advanced, metastatic colorectal cancer; Even low-intensity exercise was associated with a reduction in progression free survival. BOSTON - Patients with metastatic colorectal ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Mermaiding is trendy. I hit the water in monofin and tail to see if it's also a workout. Washington Post On a hot weekday morning in late July, I arrived at Marcus Garvey Pool in Manhattan for a long-awaited meetup with a mermaid. Cookie DeJesus, also known as the Harlem Mermaid , has become a fixture in those chlorinated waters over the past several ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Common ADHD Medication May Affect Brain Development Medscape Treatment with methylphenidate (multiple brands) may affect the development of the brain's signal-carrying white matter in boys with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), new research suggests. Results of a randomized placebo-controlled study ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Is a Chlamydia Vaccine on the Horizon? WebMD By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, Aug. 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A vaccine against the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia appears safe and potentially effective, an early trial suggests. The phase 1 study included 35 healthy ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR Air Pollution May Be As Harmful To Your Lungs As Smoking Cigarettes, Study Finds NPR Emphysema is considered a smoker's disease. But turns out, exposure to air pollution may lead to the same changes in the lung that give rise to emphysema. A new study published today in JAMA finds that long-term exposure to slightly elevated levels of air ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress In a first, scientists map the genetic diversity of microbes residing in the human gut and mouth Medical Xpress How many stars are there in the observable universe? It was once deemed an impossible question, but astronomers have gleaned an answer—about one billion trillion of them. Now, scientists at Harvard Medical School and Joslin Diabetes Center have ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com A Doctor Tested a New Treatment on Himself. Now, It May Help Others with This Rare Disease. Livescience.com A doctor's quest to understand his own rare disease led him to test an experimental treatment on himself. Shares. Dr. David Fajgenbaum, above, has a rare disease known as Castleman disease. He identified a treatment for himself that may work for others. Flag as irrelevant
	NBCNews.com 22 people have been hospitalized with vaping-linked breathing problems. Doctors don't know why. NBCNews.com Almost two dozen people in the Midwest have been hospitalized with severe breathing difficulties linked to vaping, and doctors aren't sure why. It's unclear exactly what the patients — many of whom are young adults — had been inhaling or what type of ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post US health panel recommends doctors screen all adults for illicit drug use Washington Post An influential group of health experts recommended Tuesday that doctors screen all adults for use of illegal drugs, another step toward curbing the epidemic that claims tens of thousands of lives each year. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said that ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Teen vaping tied to marijuana use Reuters (Reuters Health) - Adolescents and young adults who have smoked e-cigarettes are more than three times more likely to move on to marijuana than youth who never try vaping, a research review study suggests. FILE PHOTO: A man holds an electronic ... Flag as irrelevant
	CIDRAP Study: Genetic adaptations primed C diff for hospital transmission CIDRAP A large genomic study of the gut bacterium Clostridioides difficile suggests the strains that have become endemic in healthcare systems around the world belong to an emerging species that's genetically adapted to spread among hospital patients. Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Hepatitis A Races Across the Country U.S. News & World Report By Laura Ungar. AKRON, Ohio — Just before the Fourth of July, Trenton Burrell began feeling run-down and achy. Soon he could barely muster the energy to walk from one room to another. A friend shared an alarming observation: "You're turning yellow.". Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Israeli flight attendant dies after contracting measles CNN (CNN) An Israeli flight attendant and mother of three has died of measles. Rotem Amitai died this month after she came down with measles in the spring. Rotem Amitai, 43, died Tuesday, according to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel. Amitai had ... Flag as irrelevant
	Irish Examiner Lots of Gluten During Toddler Years Might Raise Odds for Celiac Disease U.S. News & World Report By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, Aug. 13, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Too much white bread and pasta fed to at-risk kids under age 5 could increase their odds of developing celiac disease, a new international study has ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Lots of Gluten During Toddler Years Might Raise Odds for Celiac Disease HealthDay TUESDAY, Aug. 13, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Too much white bread and pasta fed to at-risk kids under age 5 could increase their odds of developing celiac disease, a new international study has concluded. Every extra daily gram of gluten a young child ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healio Regular, moderate exercise may help delay Alzheimer's in at-risk older adults Healio Moderate exercise may help delay the development of Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in at-risk older adults, according to three studies presented at the 2019 American Psychological Association convention. In the first study, Ozioma Okonkwo, PhD, assistant ... Flag as irrelevant
	TIME Social Media Hurts Girls More Than Boys TIME The public and experts alike have blamed social media for a long list of mental health issues, including rising rates of depression, anxiety and suicidal behavior among America's youth. But research on the subject is conflicting. One study published this spring, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Smithsonian Researchers Have Finally Found an Effective Treatment for Ebola Smithsonian As the second-largest outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus reached its one-year mark in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a group of public health organizations announced that researchers have finally found an effective treatment for the devastating ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today Antibiotics for UTIs: Recipe for Resistance Down the Road? MedPage Today British patients diagnosed with urinary tract infections (UTIs) rarely had any testing performed before receiving antibiotics, a records analysis indicated. Almost 86% of patients received antibiotics for a UTI on the day they were diagnosed, and 83% of those ... Flag as irrelevant
	National Institutes of Health (press release) Intensive blood pressure control may slow age-related brain damage National Institutes of Health (press release) In a nationwide study, researchers used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to scan the brains of hundreds of participants in the National Institutes of Health's Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) and found that intensively controlling a person's ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times With opioid abuse surging, expert panel recommends drug screening for all US adults Los Angeles Times It's time for doctors to start asking every patient, every time: Have you engaged in any illicit drug use? That's the new advice from a panel of public health experts who examined whether a primary care physician's time is well spent — and whether patients' ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay All US Adults Should Be Screened for Illicit Drug Use, National Panel Urges HealthDay TUESDAY, Aug. 13, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Amid an ongoing epidemic of opioid addiction and misuse, a national panel on Tuesday advised that doctors routinely screen all adults for illicit drug use. That includes the misuse of prescribed medications, ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Less 'Screen Time,' More Sleep = Better-Behaved Kids HealthDay WEDNESDAY, Aug. 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- School kids who get to bed early rather than staring at their devices at night may be better equipped to control their behavior, a new study suggests. Researchers found that 8- to 11-year-olds who got ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Social media use may harm teens' mental health by disrupting positive activities, study says CNN (CNN) Social media use has been linked to depression, especially in teenage girls. But a new study argues that the issue may be more complex than experts think. The research, published Tuesday in the journal The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Social-media use 'disrupting teen sleep and exercise' BBC News Using social media isn't directly harming teenagers - but it can reduce the time they spend on healthy activities, such as sleeping and exercising, a study suggests. Parents should ban phones from bedrooms after 22:00 and encourage more physical activity, ... Flag as irrelevant
	TIME Here's How Too Much Social Media Can Harm Girls U.S. News & World Report By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, Aug 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Bingeing on social media isn't good for any teen, but new research has pinpointed three ways in which hours spent on Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healio Aerobic exercise programs improve endurance, walking after stroke Healio Stroke survivors improved their aerobic capacity and walking ability after completing group-based aerobic exercise programs that are similar in design and duration to cardiac rehabilitation programs in the U.S.. According to a study published in the Journal of ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Tight Blood Pressure Control Could Help Save Aging Brains HealthDay TUESDAY, Aug. 13, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Staying sharp and warding off dementia might rely, in part, on doing your best to keep high blood pressure at bay. So finds a new study that suggests strict control of hypertension may help prevent dementia. Flag as irrelevant
	New York Post America's biggest cancer killer: government's failure to back screenings New York Post When it comes to protecting yourself from cancer, don't take the government's word. Listen to the experts. The biggest cancer killer isn't smoking, or a chemical in the environment, or even an inherited gene. It's the failure to screen patients at high risk for the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Social media mental health harms might be due to exposure to cyberbullying, loss of sleep or reduced physical activity Medical Xpress First study to examine three mechanisms by which very frequent use of social media may harm mental health suggests efforts should be made to reduce young people's exposure to harmful content, and the impact it has on healthy activities (such as sleep and ... Flag as irrelevant
	WJXT News4JAX Chlamydia vaccine shows promise in phase 1 trial Healio A chlamydia vaccine candidate showed promise in a first-in-human phase 1 trial, demonstrating safety and tolerability and provoking an immune response, researchers reported in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. According to the CDC, chlamydia is the most ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Here's How Too Much Social Media Can Harm Girls HealthDay WEDNESDAY, Aug 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Bingeing on social media isn't good for any teen, but new research has pinpointed three ways in which hours spent on Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and Facebook may harm the mental health of young girls in ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Times Heavy Smog as Bad as Pack-a-Day Smoking for Lungs U.S. News & World Report By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, Aug. 13, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Living in a more polluted area of the United States may be as damaging to your lungs as a pack-a-day cigarette habit, according to a new long-term study. Flag as irrelevant
	Patch.com West Nile Mosquitoes Found In Louisville Patch.com "You should wear insect repellant if you go outside and remove standing water around your home," advises the Department of Public Health. By Press Release Desk, News Partner. Aug 13, 2019 12:07 pm ET ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Eating more gluten early in life is tied to children's higher risk of celiac disease, a study says CNN (CNN) Bad news for lovers of bread, pasta and baked goods: Eating lots of gluten-heavy foods from a young age could eventually lead to gluten intolerance. A study published Tuesday in the journal JAMA suggests that eating higher-than-normal levels of ... Flag as irrelevant
	myfox8.com Eating more gluten early in life is tied to children's higher risk of celiac disease, study says myfox8.com Bad news for lovers of bread, pasta and baked goods: Eating lots of gluten-heavy foods from a young age could eventually lead to gluten intolerance. A study published Tuesday in the journal JAMA suggests that eating higher-than-normal levels of gluten ... Flag as irrelevant
	New York Daily News New Mexico confirms state's first human case of West Nile Virus for 2019 New York Daily News People in at least 19 states have reportedly been afflicted with West Nile Virus this year, now that New Mexico has confirmed its first human case for 2019. The unnamed 42-year-old from Doña Ana County — a southern county that includes Las Cruces ... Flag as irrelevant
	KUSI Eating more plant-based foods and less meat could help you live longer MarketWatch Easing up on steak dinners in favor of more veggies, fruits and nuts may be associated with a longer, healthier life. Diets that are higher in plant-based foods (like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts and legumes) and lower in animal-based foods (like meat, ... Flag as irrelevant
	KCUR Climate Change Could Make Missouri A Mosquito Paradise, But Health Experts Warn We Aren't Ready KCUR This year's catastrophic flooding has created hard times for many people in Midwest, but it's created a nirvana for mosquitoes. Kansas City and the surrounding region could potentially become a hotbed for mosquito-borne viruses like West Nile virus in the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Futurity: Research News Air pollution speeds up emphysema Futurity: Research News Air pollution—especially ozone air pollution—accelerates the progression of emphysema of the lung, according to a new study. While previous studies have shown a clear connection between air pollutants and some heart and lung diseases, new research in ... Flag as irrelevant
	Sleep Review Type 2 Diabetes Link to Sleep Problems Confirmed in Midlife Women Sleep Review Published on August 14, 2019. diabetes-sleep-menopause. Hormone changes are known to alter insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism, as well as interfere with women's sleep patterns. But little was known about the association between diabetes and ... Flag as irrelevant
	AAP News 24-Hour Movement Behaviors and Impulsivity AAP News BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to examine individual and concurrent associations between meeting the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth (9–11 hours of sleep per night, ≤2 hours of recreational screen time ... Flag as irrelevant
	New York Post Excessive daytime napping could be early sign of Alzheimer's disease: study New York Post Needing to nap could be an early warning sign of Alzheimer's disease, according to new research. Experts found that the brain cells that keep us awake during the day are among the first to be targeted by the neurological disease. It was previously thought the ... Flag as irrelevant
	WTOP Sending your kid off to college? How to approach underage drinking WTOP College is a place filled with newfound freedoms. No one tells you when to go to bed, what time to go to class or what's for dinner. It's also a time to try new things — and for many young adults, that includes drinking. More than 50% of full-time college students ... Flag as irrelevant
	Outbreak News Today Measles: Number of cases up 3-times last year worldwide, Europe sees nearly 90K in 6 months Outbreak News Today By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews. Globally, measles cases are being reported at higher numbers through the mid-point of 2019, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The latest preliminary reports reveal in the first six months of 2019, ... Flag as irrelevant
	WPLG Local 10 Chlamydia vaccine shows signs of success in early trial WPLG Local 10 LONDON - Scientists have taken a step towards a vaccine for chlamydia following a successful early trial. A vaccine developed by a British and Danish team was shown to be safe and effective during a randomized controlled trial involving 35 women, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Sacramento Bee Butte County reports first human West Nile virus infection of 2019, 11th across California Sacramento Bee Public health officials announced Tuesday that they have recently confirmed Butte County's first human case of West Nile virus for 2019. The infected person was an adult who had suffered fever-like symptoms, the Butte County Public Health Department said ... Flag as irrelevant

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