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| Oncologists Don't Discuss Healthy Lifestyles With Cancer Survivors Physicians caring for cancer survivors don't always promote healthy lifestyle changes, and oncologists and other specialists are less likely to do so than primary care physicians (PCPs). So suggest the results from a new survey of 91 physicians. This included ... | |
| US prices for multiple sclerosis drugs are on the rise (Reuters Health) - Annual costs of disease modifying treatments for multiple sclerosis more than quadrupled from 2006 to 2016 as several new, costly medicines entered the market, a U.S. study suggests. Before 2009, only four drugs were available to reduce ... | |
| Critics: CDC silent on vaping THC as injuries mount Federal health officials are under fire for their unclear public warnings following one death and nearly 200 cases of vaping-related lung illnesses, which some say are related to the far riskier practice of vaping marijuana oil rather than nicotine. Some state ... | |
| Areas Warned About Mosquito-Borne Illness EEE Aug. 28, 2019 -- Medical officials are warning residents about the rare but deadly eastern equine encephalitis virus, or EEE, which claimed the life of a Massachusetts mother late last week. EEE is a mosquito-borne virus that can cause brain swelling and ... | |
| Does the US Unnecessarily Discard Donor Kidneys? Deceased-donor kidneys are twice as likely to be discarded in the United States as they are in France, according to a study published online August 26 in JAMA Internal Medicine. "The high discard rate of deceased-donor kidneys is a major concern for the ... | |
| 'Fast and Feast' Diet Works for Weight Loss WEDNESDAY, Aug. 28, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Tired of that spare tire? Low-calorie diets work, but can be difficult to follow. A much simpler approach to losing weight might be to just stop eating every other day. It's called alternate-day fasting (ADF). As the ... | |
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| Why Denying Migrants Flu Shots Is a Dangerous, Foolish Move It's a puzzle of public health that we don't take flu seriously. Every year, only about half of American adults get the vaccine that prevents it. And yet, every year, at least 37 million Americans catch the flu, more than 500,000 become sick enough to be ... | |
| What we don't know about prenatal opioid exposure Pregnancy can be a time of anxious uncertainty, particularly if there are any risks of complications. The question always arises, from parents, grandparents, friends and others: "Will the baby be OK?" In cases where the baby has been exposed to opioids in the ... | |
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| USPSTF: Screen All Adults for Hepatitis C Infection All adults -- not just Baby Boomers and other considered at high risk -- should be screened for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, said the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). Citing better treatments with direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy and ... | |
| Childhood cancer survivors face variety of heart risks (Reuters Health) - Childhood cancer survivors' risks for heart problems may be broader than what was previously recognized, researchers say. It's been known for years that some treatments for childhood cancer increase the risk of heart failure. But in a new ... | |
| Researchers identify a gene linked to needing less sleep The genetics of circadian rhythms have been well studied in recent years, but much less is known about other types of genes that play a role in sleep, specifically those that regulate how much sleep our bodies require. Now, by studying a family with several ... | |
| 'Fast and Feast' Diet Works for Weight Loss By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, Aug. 28, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Tired of that spare tire? Low-calorie diets work, but can be difficult to follow. A much simpler approach to losing weight might be to just stop eating every ... | |
| Progress Against Cardiometabolic Death Stalls in US Long-running trends toward improved survival for patients with diabetes, stroke, and heart disease essentially stalled in the past decade, researchers found, while deaths related to hypertension continued their climb extending back to at least 1999. | |
| Vaccine against deadly superbug Klebsiella effective in mice Scientists have produced and tested, in mice, a vaccine that protects against a worrisome superbug: a hypervirulent form of the bacteria Klebsiella pneumoniae. And they've done so by genetically manipulating a harmless form of E. coli, report researchers at ... | |
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| US Discards Thousands of Donated Kidneys TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- When it comes to using kidneys from deceased donors, the United States might want to follow France's example. That's according to new research that found kidneys from older donors are much more likely to be ... | |
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| Tattoo Needles May Trigger Allergic Reactions Tattoos can cause allergic reactions, and tattoo needles, even clean ones, may be partly to blame, a new study found. Previous studies have shown that tattoo inks contain high amounts of nickel, chromium, cobalt and mercury, which are transported to the ... | |
| Cancer Survivors Face Increased Long-Term CVD Risk Survivors of most site-specific cancers had a substantially increased risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD), according to a review of medical records from over 100,000 U.K. cancer patients. The main analyses of 108,215 patients who had completed active ... | |
| Study: C-Section Tied to Higher Risk of Autism Children born via cesarean section may be more likely to develop autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, a new analysis indicates. Reviewing earlier data encompassing more than 20 million births in 19 countries, researchers found C-sections ... | |
| USPSTF recommends expanding hepatitis C screenings The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force on Tuesday proposed recommending clinicians screen all adults between the ages of 18 and 79 for the hepatitis C virus regardless of their risk level of contracting the disease. The expert panel's draft recommendation ... | |
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| Being an Optimist May Help People Live Past 85 Humans have been searching for centuries for the secret to living longer, but the answer may be as simple as maintaining a positive state of mind. A new study published Monday by researchers at Boston University adds to the evidence that optimistic men ... | |
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| Graphene film promising for blocking mosquitoes Health officials are touting a new protection against bloodsucking insects amid reports of a rare mosquito-borne disease that has infected four people in Massachusetts, killing one woman. Researchers conducting a study funded by the National Institute of ... | |
| US throws away 3500 donated kidneys each year: report Thousands of donated kidneys are thrown away each year in the U.S., a new study found, despite the fact that there are some 93,00 people currently on the waiting list to receive the organ. The study, published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, ... | |
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| Exercise Is Good Medicine for Advanced Colon Cancer By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, Aug. 28, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Waging a successful battle against advanced colon cancer should include regular doses of exercise, a new study suggests. It found that physical activity ... | |
| Alternate-day fasting associated with weight loss (Reuters Health) - People who start fasting every other day may lose more weight than they would if they stuck to their usual eating habits, a small study suggests. The 60 healthy people in the four-week study were not overweight. Researchers randomly ... | |
| Turbocharging the body's natural killer cells to defeat cancer Natural Killer (NK) cells have long been the soldiers of the immune system that prevents the growth and spread of cancers, and subduing this army of cells is one of the key ways that tumours take hold. Australian researchers have discovered a protein found ... | |
| Human Cases Of West Nile Virus Found In Larimer County LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – Larimer County health officials detected the first human cases of West Nile Virus. The residents live in Wellington and Fort Collins. They were not hospitalized. The virus was also confirmed in mosquitoes in Brighton last ... | |
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| Heightened impulsivity common in many psychiatric disorders Results from a meta-analysis published in JAMA Psychiatry support delay discounting — a type of decision-making tied to impulsivity — as a robust transdiagnostic process across many different psychiatric disorders. "Steeper delay discounting and, ... | |
| Can't stand mosquito bites? Here's how to avoid them Want to know the secret to avoiding mosquitoes in Houston? Don't live in Houston. But when that's not an option, there are still other ways to getting rid of the bloodsucking bugs that have made Houston the No. 3 most infested city in the country. We're in the ... | |
| CDC: Report Possible Vaping-associated Pulmonary Illness August 27, 2019 10:34 am News Staff – One hundred and ninety-three potential cases of severe lung illness associated with e-cigarette product use were reported to the CDC by 22 states between June 28 and Aug. 20, according to an agency telebriefing on ... | |
| Researchers use graphene-lined clothes to deter mosquitoes Graphene, the highly flexible supermaterial used to build solar cells (and perhaps one day foldable phones), is also a powerful mosquito repellent. A team of researchers at Brown University discovered that graphene-lined clothing not only is an effective ... | |
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