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Trying to crack the Nipah code: How does this deadly virus spill from bats to humans? Researchers used to think spillovers were rare events. Now it is clear they happen all the time. That has changed how scientists look for new deadly viruses. To learn more, we traveled to Guatemala and Bangladesh, to Borneo and South Africa.
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Mpox is almost gone in the US, leaving lessons and mysteries in its wake The US public health emergency declaration for mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, ends Tuesday. The outbreak, which once seemed to be spiraling out of control, has quietly wound down. The virus isn't completely gone, but for more than a month, ...
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Clinical Overview: Lecanemab for the Treatment of Alzheimer Disease Lecanemab (Leqembi) is a recombinant humanized immunoglobulin gamma 1 (IgG1) monoclonal antibody that reduces forms insoluble amyloid beta (Aβ) proteins responsible for cognitive impairment and the development of Alzheimer disease (AD).
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Poor Sleep Quality as a Teen May Up MS Risk in Adulthood Too little sleep or poor sleep quality during the teen years can significantly increase the risk for multiple sclerosis (MS) during adulthood, new research suggests. In a large case-control study, individuals who slept less than 7 hours a night on ...
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Managing Respiratory Symptoms in the 'Tripledemic' Era It's a common scenario. A patient, Agnes, with symptoms of an upper respiratory infection (URI), but what's the cause? Is it COVID-19, flu, or even RSV? I recently described just such a patient, an obese woman with type 2 diabetes, presenting with ...
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The link between our food, gut microbiome and depression Research has long suggested a link between our diet and our mental health. The gut microbiome — the collective genome of trillions of bacteria that live in the intestinal tract that are created largely by what we eat and drink — appears to influence ...
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Your child's academic success may start with their screen time as infants, study says Letting infants watch tablets and TV may be impairing their academic achievement and emotional well-being later on, according to a new study. Researchers found that increased use of screen time during infancy was associated with poorer executive ...
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Woman, 32, finds breast cancer during pregnancy: 'How could this happen?' Just a day after April Addison gave birth to a baby boy last summer, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It seemed impossible. She was 32, fit and experienced with symptoms of the disease as an oncology nurse in suburban Atlanta. "I was devastated.
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Your child's academic success may start with their screen time as infants, study says Those executive functioning skills are important for higher-level cognition, such as emotional regulation, learning, academic achievement and mental health, according to the study. They influence our success socially, academically, professionally and ...
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Similar Brain Atrophy in Obesity and Alzheimer's Disease Comparisons of MRI scans for more than 1000 participants indicate correlations between the two conditions, especially in areas of gray matter thinning, suggesting that managing excess weight might slow cognitive decline and lower the risk for AD, according ...
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Viruses Tied to Subsequent Dementia, Other Neurodegenerative Diseases At least 22 viral illnesses were linked with an increased risk of subsequent neurodegenerative disease, NIH researchers found. Using data from the U.K. and Finland, Mike Nalls, PhD, of the NIH Center for Alzheimer's and Related Dementias, ...
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Having 3 Concussions Linked to Declining Brain Function Later in Life They add that recovery from head trauma is different in each individual. A study published today reports that people who experience three concussions – or just one moderate-to-severe concussion – have a higher ...
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Flu, RSV on Decline, but COVID Deaths Persist Jan. 30, 2023 – Respiratory illness levels in the U.S. have declined so much in recent weeks that they are approaching numbers usually seen during non-flu season. Just 3% of flu tests are coming back positive, according to the CDC's weekly Fluview ...
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Polypill Tested for Cognitive, Functional Benefits During a 5-year follow-up, about the same number of trial participants in TIPS-3 experienced substantive cognitive decline in both the treatment and placebo groups, according to Jacqueline Bosch, PhD, of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and ...
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Early high-flow oxygen therapy fails to shorten hospital stay in children Children aged 1 to 4 years with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure did not experience shorter hospital stays on early high-flow oxygen compared with standard oxygen therapy, according to study results. These results, presented at Society of Critical ...
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Study unravels interplay between sleep, chronic pain and spinal cord stimulation Between 67 to 88 percent of them also suffer from sleep disturbances, including longer and more frequent nocturnal awakenings and poorer sleep quality. Moreover, sleep disorders also may exacerbate pain by contributing to the development of obesity, ...
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Higher levels of metal, sulfur in air linked to poor respiratory health in children Elevations in metal, sulfur and particle oxidative potential in the air strengthened the link between short-term exposure to outdoor pollution and respiratory hospitalizations among children, according to study results. "Although Canada has some of the ...
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Mindfulness Training May Improve Outcomes for People With Parkinson Disease The researchers found that mindfulness meditation looked to be an attainable and hopeful strategy for depressive symptom management and emotional stability, with similar advantages on cognitive performance, compared with SRTE. Outcomes of those in the ...
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Here's Why Coffee With Milk May Help Fight Inflammation There are many benefits of incorporating polyphenols in your diet. Sources of polyphenols include berries such as strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, green tea, red wine, pomegranate, apples, nuts (such as almonds, and walnuts), and extra-virgin olive ...
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Cancer: Urgent action needed amid NHS pressures, warns charity The Covid-19 pandemic cannot continue being blamed for poor cancer care, a charity boss has said. Judi Rhys, of Tenovus Cancer Care, said urgent action was needed to save lives when more people than ever are living with cancer in Wales.
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CVD-Related Deaths Surged During First Year of COVID-19 Pandemic Overall, CVD consists of coronary heart disease, stroke, heart failure and hypertension/high blood pressure. Coronary heart disease remains the number one cause of death in the United States, while stroke continued to rank fifth among all causes of death.
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Warmer Climate May Drive Fungi to Be More Dangerous to Our Health But all that may be about to change. A new study out of Duke University School of Medicine finds that raised temperatures cause a pathogenic fungus known as Cryptococcus deneoformans to turn its adaptative responses into overdrive.
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Macular Degeneration: Can 3-D Printed 'Retina' Models Help? The blood-retinal barrier is involved in the delivery of nutrients and removal of wastes from retinal pigment epithelial cells, which themselves are important for the health of photoreceptors in your eyes. "By recreating that ...
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mRNA Vaccine Associated With Lower Risk of Symptomatic COVID-19 in Children The primary outcome of the study was a symptomatic or asymptomatic response to COVID-19 infection. Secondary outcomes were infections, hospitalizations, and MIS-C, along with vaccine AEs. mRNA vaccines have already ...
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COVID-19 is a leading cause of death among US children and teens, study shows To put this death toll in context, the team pulled child and teen mortality data from 2019, before the pandemic began. In doing so, they checked the National Center for Health Statistics' ranked list of causes of death, where the causes are ordered by the ...
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How Many Daily Steps Do You Need to Lose Weight? By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Jan. 30, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- It's clear that staying active is key to being healthy, and fitness trackers and smartwatches have become popular tools for tracking activity.
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9 diseases that keep epidemiologists up at night The virus now known as SARS-CoV-2 — which causes the disease COVID-19 — is still spreading. But for those who study infectious diseases, talking about possible next pandemics is a necessity.
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Black Individuals May Be More Likely to Experience Food Insecurity, Linked to Cardiovascular Risk Individuals who face economic food insecurity were found to have an increased risk of incident coronary heart disease (CHD) and incident heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
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Study Unravels Interplay Between Sleep, Chronic Pain and Spinal Cord Stimulation Newswise — Often debilitating, chronic pain is one of the most common reasons individuals seek medical help. About 65 million adults in the United States are affected by chronic pain. Between 67 to 88 percent of them also suffer from sleep disturbances ...
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The Cost of Bariatric Surgery in 2023 When diet, exercise, or weight loss drugs haven't worked and excess weight is causing serious health problems, it may be time to consider bariatric surgery, according to Dr. Dana Telem, Chief of General Surgery at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor.
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Step Up! Here's How to Start a Healthy Walking Habit By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Jan. 30, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Starting a walking routine is simple because it requires so little: comfortable, supportive walking shoes and your own two feet. Unlike gym workouts, the initial ...
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Cervical Health Awareness Month brings attention to necessary screenings Salani: There are two ways to think about this. There is a screening test for cervical cancer, so oftentimes, precancerous lesions or even early-stage cancer, may be detected by Pap testing or HPV testing on routine examination.
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Coffee with milk may ease inflammation in humans Researchers found that a combination of proteins and antioxidants doubles the anti-inflammatory properties in immune cells. They hope to be able to study the health effects on humans. Whenever bacteria, viruses, and other foreign substances enter the ...
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Polypill reduced functional decline, but not cognitive decline in older adults A pill containing antihypertensives and a statin, with or without aspirin, was associated with reduced functional decline, but not reduced cognitive decline, in those aged 65 years and older, researchers reported in JAMA Neurology.
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The deadly VEXAS syndrome is more common than doctors thought An elderly male patient sits on a medical exam bed with his back to the camera. Older men are more likely than women to get VEXAS syndrome, a genetic disease that arises later in life.
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Probability of Employment Lower in Patients With Arthritis "All forms of arthritis can make life difficult for people because of the pain, swelling, or stiffness in a joint or joints, and because of difficulties in getting about," investigators explained.
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CT Study Says Deep Learning Model Could Help Differentiate Between Acute Diverticulitis and Colon Carcinoma Researchers showed that adjunctive use of a deep learning algorithm resulted in an eight percent increase in sensitivity and a nearly 10 percent increase in specificity for differentiating between colon carcinoma and acute diverticulitis on computed ...
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Long-COVID brain changes causing rise in mental health issues The hallmarks of COVID-19 have been trouble breathing, loss of smell and taste, and fatigue, but as the years pass, doctors have documented up to 200 related symptoms. One trend has been a rise in incidents of suicide and doctors are finding the risk ...
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Mendelian randomization analyses of associations between breast cancer and bone mineral density Summary statistics for exposures and outcomes were obtained from corresponding genome-wide association studies. The bidirectional and multivariate mediated Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses were performed. In the bidirectional MR analysis, breast ...
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Cervical Cancer Awareness Month: Kaiser doctor explains why getting HPV vaccine is key But doctors say cervical cancer is highly preventable with regular screening and it's treatable if it's caught early. Advertisement. Dr. Zhanetta Harrison, the chief of obstetrics ...
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"One-Stop Shop" Screening Centers May Improve Cancer Detection Centers that perform comprehensive cancer screening in a single appointment may enable earlier cancer diagnosis, according to research published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Researchers found that screening performed at an integrated cancer ...
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Implications of SARS-CoV-2 immunological evasion Immunity evasion has consequences for short- and long-term viral transmission levels, potential alterations in disease severity, and the efficiency of vaccines and treatments, particularly monoclonal antibodies. For the development of non-pharmaceutical ...
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New Alzheimer's drug appears to slow progression of disease It's called Leqembi and is most effective for those with mild symptoms. On Wellness Monday, "News All Day" was joined by Dr. Mary Sano, director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Scientists Document Two Separate Reservoirs of Latent HIV in Patients This research, led by UNC School of Medicine scientists Laura Kincer, Sarah Joseph, PhD, and Ron Swanstrom, PhD, with international collaborators, shows that in addition to HIV's ability to lay dormant in the blood/lymphoid system, the virus may also ...
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Study evaluates post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 in US university In addition, long COVID symptoms vary by sex, age, and initial disease severity. For instance, younger patients and women have reported more headaches, and anxiety/depression, while older patients experience cognitive deficits and breathing problems more ...
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If you're taking Ozempic to lose weight, don't lose your muscles too "There've only been a few studies of muscle loss with semaglutide so far, but Japanese researchers reported that people lost half a kilo of muscle after three months on the drug," says Dr Rob Newton, Professor of Exercise Medicine at Perth's Edith Cowan ...
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Nearly half of pregnant people experiencing intimate partner violence are not screened before or after pregnancy Most policy, research and clinical efforts to reduce maternal mortality focus on clinical risk factors and the quality of hospital-based care for pregnant people, but a new study examines maternal safety outside the clinical setting.
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Matters of the heart When there is a blockage caused by plaque, the heart cannot get blood, which can contribute to a heart condition called coronary artery disease and could lead to cardiac arrest. High cholesterol also has been linked to ...
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Valley fever, historically found only in the Southwest, is spreading. It can have devastating consequences. The fungus that causes Valley fever is found in hot, dry environments. As the climate warms, scientists project its range will expand. Photo Illustration: A medical illustration of lungs superimposed over an image of the Arizona desert.
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OMA applauds American Academy of Pediatrics' new guidelines for childhood obesity The Obesity Medicine Association (OMA), the clinical and educational leader in the care of patients with obesity, applauds the American Academy of Pediatrics' (AAP) first comprehensive Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of ...
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