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Scientists Have Made a Human Microbiome From Scratch To better understand how microbes affect our health, scientists have for the first time created a synthetic human microbiome, combining 119 species of bacteria naturally found in the human body. When the researchers gave the concoction to ...
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Walk this number of steps each day to cut your risk of dementia "It is a brisk walking activity, like a power walk," said study coauthor Borja del Pozo Cruz, an adjunct associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark, and senior researcher in health sciences for the University of Cadiz in ...
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Sleep Apnea Linked to Higher Risks of Cancer, Dementia, Clots Patients with obstructive sleep apnea, or OSA, have part or all of their airways blocked during sleep, which interrupts breathing several times per night. This can lead to loud snoring, gasping, and daytime fatigue.
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Seriously, Flu Could Be Bad This Year Australia recently wrapped an unusually early and "very significant" season with flu viruses, says Kanta Subbarao, the director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza at the Doherty Institute. By sheer confirmed case counts ...
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Psychological, not physical factors linked to long COVID Psychological distress, including depression, anxiety, worry, perceived stress, and loneliness, before COVID-19 infection was associated with an increased risk of long COVID, according to researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Australia's tough flu season could spell trouble for the US this winter, especially with Covid-19 in the mix If that happens, it would be the first winter in which the US has had to contend with those two respiratory viruses circulating together at high levels, something infectious disease experts have cautioned about since the beginning of the pandemic.
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How Fat Signals Us to Eat More of It Scientists discover how fat triggers a gut-to-brain mechanism that drives us to keep consuming more of it. Their findings could one day lead to interventions to help treat obesity and associated disorders. Labeled in green are the fat-sensing neurons ...
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NC expands eligibility for monkeypox vaccine to more people who may be at risk This includes women who have sex with bisexual men. As of Tuesday, there were 377 reported cases of monkeypox in the state. Nearly all of them were in men and just over two-thirds of ...
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Your Blood Type May Help Predict Your Risk of Early Stroke, Study Shows The study found that people with blood type A are more likely to suffer a stroke before the age of 60 than those with blood type O. This study could lead to potential new ways to prevent strokes ...
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Medical experts urge parents to get flu vaccines for their children as soon as possible Coverage was lower for Black children compared to White children. While flu infection rates were lower last season likely because of COVID precautions, health experts are concerned we'll see more flu and other respiratory viruses this season.
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The diagnostic potential of AI: from COVID-19 to COPD Despite fluctuations in infection rates, it is likely that the COVID-19 virus will remain a prevalent part of our society for the near future. The need for rapid, but accurate, diagnostic technologies is therefore emphasized.
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Wisconsin health officials expand monkeypox vaccine eligibility criteria MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - More Wisconsinites are now allowed to get vaccinated against monkeypox after state health officials widened the eligibility criteria Tuesday. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reports that 63 cases of ...
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Scientists Discovered an Antibody That Can Take Out All COVID-19 Variants SP1-77 is an antibody developed by researchers that so far can neutralize all forms of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It was created after researchers modified a mouse model that was originally made to search for broadly neutralizing ...
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Boosting physical activity/curbing sitting time highly likely to lower breast cancer risk Mendelian randomisation is a technique that uses genetic variants as proxies for a particular risk factor—in this case lifelong physical activity levels/sedentary behaviour—to obtain genetic evidence in support of a causal relationship.
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Boosting physical activity/curbing sitting time highly likely to lower breast cancer risk The study led by Cancer Council Victoria in Australia, and including the Bristol Medical School: Population Health Sciences, is published online today [6 September] in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The ...
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Pediatricians Urge Flu Vaccine for Kids Sept. 6, 2022 – Attention parents: The nation's leading pediatric medical society is urging you to make sure your children get a flu shot this fall to prevent and control the spread of the illness. The American Academy of Pediatrics this week called on ...
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Global cancer rates in people 50 and younger on the rise, study finds Researchers at the Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital found early-onset cancers diagnosed before age 50 are on the rise. Researchers analyzed global data of 14 cancer types as well as studies examining trends in possible risk factors, ...
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Canadians living with dementia expected to triple by 2050, Alzheimer's society says The study used data from Statistics Canada to create representations of people living in Canada and looked at how many of those people would develop dementia over time in what is called a "microsimulation." In 2020 ...
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West Nile Virus found in Monroe County, Indiana universities join CDC efforts against disease In a press release, environmental health specialist Simeon Baker, who manages Monroe County's mosquito surveillance program, said eliminating areas of standing water available for mosquito breeding will help keep the community safe from the virus.
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Man in his 20s becomes third Massachusetts human case of West Nile virus in 2022 The risk of human infection with West Nile virus is moderate to high in the Greater Boston area according to health officials. The risk level for Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville was raised from moderate ...
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Diet change may make biggest impact on reducing heart risk in people with hypertension In a simulation study using the latest U.S. statistics for stage 1 hypertension, researchers found that lifestyle changes to reduce systolic blood pressure to below 130 mm Hg may prevent 26,000 heart attacks and strokes and reduce health care costs over ...
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Discovery of bacteria-killing toxin could pave the way for new generation of antibiotics The study, led by John Whitney at the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, shows that the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, known to cause hospital-acquired infections such as pneumonia, secretes a toxin that has evolved ...
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Monkeypox just touched down in Hong Kong for the first time. A 30-year-old man currently in quarantine has it A 30-year-old traveler whose recent stops included the U.S., Canada, and the Philippines has Hong Kong's first reported case of monkeypox, health officials said. The man, who engaged in unspecified high-risk activities, developed symptoms of the virus ...
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Bird flu is back in Wisconsin. Some poultry producers worry the highly contagious disease is here to stay. Last spring, eight commercial flocks and 14 backyard or small farm flocks were culled across Wisconsin because of the disease. It's the first time the state's poultry owners have dealt with the highly pathogenic avian influenza since 2015.
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Prehistoric skeleton reveals oldest surgical amputation — in a hunter-gatherer society 31000 years ago The amputation happened when the individual was perhaps 12 years old, the skeleton indicates. Gone is the lower portion of the left leg. And somehow, the individual survived the surgical procedure — a remarkable feat given that it happened some 31,000 ...
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Nearly one million Canadians will live with dementia by 2030, Alzheimer Society predicts Cathy Barrick, CEO of the Alzheimer Society of Ontario, warns that dementia cases are 03:18. Study predicts large rise in dementia in Canada.
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How to know if your kid will need more than 1 flu shot this year The American Academy of Pediatrics, the United States' leading pediatricians' group, released recommendations for the 2022-2023 flu season on Tuesday, urging all children 6 months and older to get vaccinated against influenza this fall.
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Smartphone app can detect COVID-19 infection in your voice This is what led scientists from the Maastricht University in the Netherlands to design a mobile phone app that identifies COVID-19 sufferers from the sound of their voices. One of the main symptoms of this disease is ...
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Aches and pains that could signal prostate cancer September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month · Problems urinating, including a slow or weak urinary stream or the need to urinate more often, especially at night · Blood in the urine or semen · Trouble getting an erection (erectile dysfunction or ED) ...
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Woman's grim photo is stark warning to always apply sun cream on your neck As the summer has come to an end, many people will think it's time to put the sun cream away for another year. But an image of a 92-year-old woman's neck may make you think twice before doing so - and shows what more than 40 years of sun damage can do ...
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McMaster researchers discover bacteria-killing toxin that could lead to innovation in antibiotics Whitney and Nathan Bullen, a McMaster biochemistry and biomedical sciences graduate student, spent three years studying the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. It causes infections such as pneumonia, but the discovery showed it also secretes a toxin ...
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"Random noise" may provide a new path to faster learning Transcranial random noise stimulation is not what we typically think of as noise. Impulses come from electrodes attached to the head, emitting a weak current that passes through certain sections of the brain. Study lead author ...
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Cancer more likely to affect younger people now: These are potential causes Early-onset cancers, or those identified before the age of 50, had dramatically increased globally since 1990, Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers discovered. These cancers include kidney, liver, pancreatic, breast, colon, esophageal and colon cancers ...
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Study offers potential diagnostic & therapeutic tools for fatty-liver-induced diabetes A new study by a team of researchers from several Indian institutions has unraveled the biochemical relationship between fatty liver disease and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). This understanding is expected to help develop newer tools for diagnosing ...
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Researchers develop new approach to find antigens that trigger specific immune cells Understanding how T cells sensitively distinguish these antigenic peptides from host peptides to avoid mistakenly killing host cells has long been a mystery. "A T cell can detect a single antigenic peptide amongst a sea of 10,000 ...
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Juul Settles Multistate Youth Vaping Inquiry for $438.5 Million But Juul had already discontinued several marketing practices and withdrawn many of its flavored pods that appealed to teenagers, under public pressure from lawmakers, parents and health experts a few years ago when the vaping crisis was at a peak.
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Juul to pay nearly $440M to settle states' teen vaping probe HARTFORD, Conn. — Electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs has agreed to pay nearly $440 million to settle a two-year investigation by 33 states into the marketing of its high-nicotine vaping products, which have long been blamed for sparking a national ...
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Juul to pay $439 million in settlement over marketing to teens "Juul's cynically calculated advertising campaigns created a new generation of nicotine addicts," Tong said. "They relentlessly marketed vaping products to underage youth, manipulated their chemical composition to be palatable to inexperienced users, ...
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Can Therese Coffey deliver her NHS A, B, C and D? New Health Secretary Therese Coffey has been quick to spell out her priorities. They are, she says, the A, B, C and D of the NHS - ambulance, backlogs, care, and doctors and dentists. It is easy to understand why she highlights these areas - they are ...
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September is World Alzheimer's Month; Sept. 21 is Alzheimer's Day During the month, the organization supports and works with Alzheimer's and dementia associations in 120 countries, along with patient caregivers and other organizations. "During World Alzheimer's Month, we ...
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Thérèse Coffey: convivial pragmatist inherits health service in crisis Thérèse Coffey is a beer, music and football-loving MP whose lively karaoke parties are the stuff of legend at Westminster. One regular attender has been her good friend Liz Truss, who has appointed the Suffolk Coastal MP as the new health and social ...
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Study finds link between poor mental health and long Covid A Harvard analysis of health data from nearly 55,000 US volunteers, most of whom were women, found that high levels of psychological distress before Covid infection raised the risk of long-term illness by 32%-46%.
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Therese Coffey becomes health secretary and deputy PM in Truss's new Cabinet Ms Coffey, who has also been appointed as deputy prime minister, said her top priorities are "A, B, C, D - Ambulances, backlogs, care, D – doctors and dentists".
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Protection against SARS-CoV-2 transmission by a parenteral prime—Intranasal boost vaccine strategy We administered Spike HexaPro trimer formulated in a cationic liposomal adjuvant as a parenteral (subcutaneous – s.c.) prime - intranasal boost regimen to elicit airway mucosal immune responses and evaluated this in a Syrian hamster model of virus ...
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Increased physical activity reduces breast cancer risk, international study suggests An international team including researchers from Australia, the UK and US have used genetic analysis to establish a causal relationship between overall activity levels and cancer risk. The study ...
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UVA Health study finds premenstrual mood swings and anxiety are common, and a public health issue "Perhaps the most important finding was that premenstrual mood and anxiety symptoms were extremely common," Doctor Jennifer Payne said. Dr. Payne is the vice chair of research in the Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences Department ...
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