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	health Daily update ⋅ December 19, 2019
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	The New York Times 'Why My Baby?' How Measles Robbed Samoa of Its Young The New York Times UPOLU, Samoa — From the beginning, Nuu Lameko's baby daughter radiated happiness. She clapped and danced to the songs of praise at church. Often, Ms. Lameko would roll a coconut across the floor of their home to hear her giggle. "Whenever I'm ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Half of America will be obese within 10 years, study says, unless we work together CNN (CNN) If America does not collectively adopt healthier eating habits, over half of the nation will be obese within 10 years. Even worse, one in four Americans will be "severely obese" with a body mass index over 35, which means they will be more than 100 ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Heart Risks in Your Genes? Get Good Sleep WebMD By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, Dec. 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Good sleep patterns can help reduce your risk of heart disease or stroke, even if you're at high genetic risk, new research shows. In fact, the study of several hundred ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Breast cancer survivors face other health risks after treatment Reuters (Reuters Health) - In the years following breast cancer treatment, women are at increased risk of death from other cancers, heart disease, stroke and infections, a new analysis finds. FILE PHOTO: Pink balloons are displayed in front of an artificial waterfall ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Drug-Resistant Dysentery Emerging Among Gay Men HealthDay By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, Dec. 19, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Australian researchers are sounding the alarm over cases of a highly infectious intestinal illness that appear to be resistant to all forms of standard oral antibiotic treatment. Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Half of US Adults Will Be Obese in 10 Years WebMD WEDNESDAY, Dec. 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A decade from now, roughly half of U.S. adults will be obese -- with nearly one-quarter severely so, a new study projects. The predictions by researchers at Harvard University paint a grim picture: By 2030, the ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Early Flu Season Leads to Deaths of Texas Children WebMD Dec. 18, 2019 -- Six children ages 16 and younger have died from flu-related causes in Texas since the flu season began in late September. That earlier-than-usual start to the season has caught many people off guard, according to Jennifer Shuford, MD, ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Lots of Overtime Could Send Your Blood Pressure Soaring HealthDay THURSDAY, Dec. 19, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Long hours spent working will do no favors for your blood pressure, a new Canadian study suggests. The five-year study tracked the working hours and blood pressure readings of 3,500 white-collar workers at ... Flag as irrelevant
	Los Angeles Times By 2030, nearly half of all US adults will be obese, experts predict Los Angeles Times A tidal wave of fat, and the ailments that come with it, now appears virtually inevitable in the United States. New research finds that by 2030, nearly half of American adults — 49.2% to be exact — will be obese. In every single state, no fewer than 35% of adults ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD More US Teens Are Vaping Pot WebMD WEDNESDAY, Dec. 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- As electronic-cigarette use has soared among America's teens, so too has the number vaping marijuana, two new reports indicate. A team from the University of Nebraska found youth use of pot in ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Half of US Adults Will Be Obese in 10 Years HealthDay By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, Dec. 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A decade from now, roughly half of U.S. adults will be obese -- with nearly one-quarter severely so, a new study projects. The predictions by researchers at Harvard ... Flag as irrelevant
	WIRED New Tests Use Epigenetics to Guess How Fast You're Aging WIRED From the beginning of time, humankind has searched for the secret to a long life. Now science may have found an answer, in the form of molecular augury. The pattern of chemical chains that attach to the DNA in your cells—on-off switches known as ... Flag as irrelevant
	NBCNews.com How to wash your hands properly, according to doctors NBCNews.com Hopefully, washing your hands is a perfunctory and frequent a part of your daily routine. Yet, it never ceases to amaze Dr. Robert Segal, MD, founder of Medical Offices of Manhattan, how many full-grown adults manage to do a less-than ideal job at ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News NHS Wales: A&E record low performance as ambulance service struggles BBC News Accident and emergency performance at hospitals in Wales is at a record low for the third month running, according to latest figures. It comes as the Welsh Ambulance Service failed to meet its response time target for the first time in four years. There were ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News Losing weight could reduce breast cancer risk for women over 50, study finds Fox News Overweight women over the age of 50 could see a reduction in their risk of developing breast cancer if they lost weight, according to a new study. The study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) and conducted by researchers from ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Air Pollution Tied to Hypertension in Pregnant Women U.S. News & World Report Women who live near major roadways appear more likely to develop high blood pressure during pregnancy, which can lead to serious and fatal complications if left unchecked, new federal research suggests. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is among ... Flag as irrelevant
	CBS Denver Infant At Risk Of Getting Measles At Children's Hospital: 'It Could've Been Prevented' CBS Denver AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – A mother and her baby will spend their first Christmas together at Children's Hospital Colorado. Heather and her 4-month-old son, Crosby, were exposed to the measles virus at that same hospital. (credit: CBS). Heather brought ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Study Estimates That Half of US Adults Will Be Obese by 2030 The New York Times There's no way to sugarcoat this news: Nearly half of American adults will be obese within a decade and one-quarter will be severely so, a new report predicts. It corrects for a weakness in previous estimates that may have made the problem seem not as big ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Do You Know the 5 Symptoms of a Heart Attack? Many Don't HealthDay By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, Dec. 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Time is of the essence when you're having a heart attack. But one in five Americans can't name the three most common symptoms of a heart attack, making it more ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Tobacco epidemic at turning point as male smoking rates stall: WHO Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - The number of men who smoke and use tobacco has stopped rising and is on the turn for the first time, marking a shift in a global epidemic that has killed tens of millions of people over decades, the World Health Organization said on ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Denver, Los Angeles airport measles cases connected Washington Post DENVER — U.S. health officials have confirmed that three children recently hospitalized with measles in Colorado traveled from New Zealand to Los Angeles International Airport before arriving in Denver. The Denver Post reported Tuesday that the Centers ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY The spice of life? New study finds that regularly eating chili pepper lowers risk of cardiovascular disease USA TODAY Regularly eating chili pepper is linked with a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease, a new study of Italian adults has found. But experts suggest the findings don't necessarily mean you should drastically spice up your diet. The research, published in ... Flag as irrelevant
	SFGate Should you avoid meat for good health? How to slice off the facts from the fiction SFGate (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University. (THE CONVERSATION) More than half of Americans who make New Year's resolutions resolve to ... Flag as irrelevant
	Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Quantum Dots Deliver Vaccines and Invisibly Encode Vaccination History in Skin Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Science Translational Medicine (2019)] Researchers headed by a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a microneedle platform using fluorescent microparticles called quantum dots (QD), which can deliver vaccines and at the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healthline Study Finds Overeating Not Inactivity May Help Explain Child Obesity Rates Healthline A new study looking at children in the Amazon found that diet, not a lack of physical activity, may be behind childhood obesity increase. The study found that children in the Amazon did not burn substantially more calories than their counterparts in developed ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com Pet Store Puppies Tied to New Outbreak of Drug-Resistant Bacteria Livescience.com Sure, that puppy in the window is cute, but the little furball might make you sick — puppies sold in pet stores have been linked with a new outbreak of a multidrug-resistant bacterial infection, according to health officials. This week, the Centers for Disease ... Flag as irrelevant
	KFGO News Nearly half of US adults don't recognize some heart attack symptoms Reuters (Reuters Health) - Nearly half of Americans might not realize they are having a heart attack because they are not familiar with some of the symptoms, a new study suggests. In a nationally-representative survey, 47% of people didn't recognize some heart ... Flag as irrelevant
	Patch.com Pet Store Puppies Linked To Drug-Resistant Infection In Georgia Patch.com The CDC is investigating a multi-state outbreak, including GA, of drug-resistant infections linked to contact with puppies from pet stores. By Kathleen Sturgeon, Patch Staff. Dec 18, 2019 12:52 pm ET ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Vegans 'need to be aware of B12 deficiency risk' BBC News Experts are warning that people eating a vegan diet need to make sure they get enough B12 - because the risk of deficiency is "not a myth". They were speaking ahead of 'Veganuary', when increasing numbers turn to a vegan diet each January. The diet is ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Edinburgh poetry event actor was victim of delusional man BBC News A star of the Amazon hit TV series Outlander was the victim of a murder bid by a man who held delusional beliefs that Scottish actors were part of a paedophile ring, a court heard. Tam Dean Burn was stabbed on the neck with a knife as he left the Scottish ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Sisters bound by deadly family legacy—and by lifesaving transplants Medical Xpress Jane Herndon and her family share an unusually close bond, forged through tragedy and triumphs. Their difficult journey began when Jane and her three sisters were in their teens and early 20s. Their mother, Nancy, collapsed in 1981 at her daughters' ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Breakthrough science provides hope for lupus patients Medical Xpress Today the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) publishes research led by Monash University Professor Eric Morand that offers the first real hope for the treatment of lupus, a disease which affects 1.5 million people in the US and more than 5 ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times The More Processed Foods You Eat, the Higher Your Diabetes Risk The New York Times Eating ultraprocessed foods may increase your risk for Type 2 diabetes. Ultraprocessed foods — including chips, instant noodles, breakfast cereals, chicken nuggets and other industrially processed ready-to-eat or microwaveable fare — are designed for ... Flag as irrelevant
	Colorado Springs Gazette Low measles immunization rates in Colorado and El Paso County concerning amid recent cases Colorado Springs Gazette A few days before winter break, school nurse Laura Kotcher was on her third round of collecting and recording immunization data for Ellicott School District 22, a rural district east of Colorado Springs. The new state deadline to turn in statistics for this academic ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Long work hours at the office linked to both regular and hidden high blood pressure Medical Xpress Office workers who spend long hours on the job are more likely to have high blood pressure, including a type that can go undetected during a routine medical appointment, according to a new study published today in the American Heart Association's journal ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Samoa law embeds compulsory measles shots Medical Xpress Samoa has passed a law to make childhood vaccinations compulsory as the Pacific nation continues efforts to contain a devastating measles outbreak that by Thursday had killed 77 people, most of them infants. The country introduced mandatory vaccination ... Flag as irrelevant
	Newsweek Lupus Treatment Edges Closer as Phase 3 Trial Shows Promising Results for Anifrolumab Newsweek A new drug for the treatment of lupus has completed its third clinical trial—meaning a potential medication for the 5 million plus people worldwide suffering from the condition has edged one step closer. This is according to research from scientists at the ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay More US Teens Are Vaping Pot HealthDay By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, Dec. 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- As electronic-cigarette use has soared among America's teens, so too has the number vaping marijuana, two new reports indicate. A team from the University of ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News Whooping cough outbreak closes Texas school despite 100-percent vaccination rate: officials Fox News An outbreak of the highly contagious whooping cough has forced one school in Houston, Tex., to close its doors early for the holiday break. St. Theresa Catholic School in Memorial Park will be closed until Jan. 6 due to the outbreak, which has affected ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress WHO moves step closer to cheaper breast cancer treatment Medical Xpress The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Wednesday that it had for the first time approved a "biosimilar" medicine—one derived from living sources rather than chemicals—to make breast cancer treatment affordable to women globally. Flag as irrelevant
	Smithsonian This Spiky Patch Could Invisibly Record Vaccination History Under Skin Smithsonian The human body is an extraordinary record keeper. Tattooed into its skin are the scars of old wounds; archived in the molecules of the immune system are the traces of past infections. But when that history gets translated into written medical records, things ... Flag as irrelevant
	Patch.com The Benefits of Sleep and Slowing Down Patch.com 40 percent of Americans get less than seven hours of sleep each night, which is the recommended amount of sleep we need. By Kristina Wodicka, D.C., Neighbor. Dec 19, 2019 8:57 am ET | Updated Dec 19, 2019 9:04 am ET ... Flag as irrelevant
	Baylor University Eating Too Much — Not Exercising Too Little — May Be at Core of Weight Gain, Study of Amazonian Children Finds Baylor University Findings challenge conventional wisdom and may provide clues for reversing global trends in obesity, Baylor University researcher says. Media Contact: Terry Goodrich, Baylor University Media and Public Relations, 254-710-3321. Follow us on Twitter: @ ... Flag as irrelevant
	NBCNews.com America's obesity epidemic, especially among women, expected to get worse NBCNews.com Almost half of U.S. adults will be considered obese by 2030 — with women, African Americans and people in low-income households most vulnerable, according to new projections published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Eating too much—not exercising too little—may be at core of weight gain, study finds Medical Xpress Forager-horticulturalist children in the Amazon rainforest do not spend more calories in their everyday lives than children in the United States, but they do spend calories differently. That finding provides clues for understanding and reversing global trends in ... Flag as irrelevant
	wtvr.com Visit museums or art galleries and you may live longer, new research suggests wtvr.com A trip to the theater, museum or art gallery could help you live longer. And the more often you get that culture fix the better, a new study suggests. Researchers from University College London (UCL) found that people who engaged in the arts more frequently ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Season of birth may be linked to risk of heart death Medical Xpress The time of the year you are born may be linked to your risk of dying from heart disease in later life, suggests a large US study in the Christmas issue of The BMJ. The findings show that those born in the spring and summer had a small but significant increase ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress World-first treatment with 'acoustic cluster therapy' to improve chemotherapy delivery Medical Xpress The first patient has been treated with an innovative new technology that uses microscopic clusters of bubbles and liquid droplets to enhance the delivery of chemotherapy drugs to tumors. The clusters of microdroplets and microbubbles are injected along ... Flag as irrelevant
	Santa Rosa Press Democrat One Sonoma County flu-related death confirmed as flu season arrives early Santa Rosa Press Democrat The early arrival of flu season has caused its first death in Sonoma County, while 27 people have died from flu-related complications statewide since September, local and state health officials said. Officials with the county department of health services ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Anglesey birds in mystery mass death 'died from trauma' BBC News Hundreds of birds which were found dead on a road died due to trauma from impact with the ground, preliminary findings have indicated. About 225 starlings were found dead on a lane on Anglesey on 11 December. The Department for the Environment, ... Flag as irrelevant

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