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How gut bacteria are controlling your brain Looking after the multitudes of bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms living in our guts could help us think better and even offer new ways of treating mental health conditions. Y. Your gut is a bustling and thriving alien colony.
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Many women underestimate breast density as a risk factor for breast cancer, study shows Women were asked to compare the risk of breast density to five other breast cancer risk factors: having a first-degree relative with breast cancer, being overweight or obese, drinking more than one alcoholic beverage per day, never having children and ...
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Widely used test kept Black people from getting kidney transplants sooner. Now that's changing. Kristal Higgins just wants to be healthy, become a nurse and travel to Greece. But she has kidney failure and has been on a transplant waiting list for six years. The disease and its comorbidities have touched many of her loved ones.
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Just Lose Weight? Why It's Not That Easy and It Shouldn't Matter Despite our strides in body positivity, neutrality and inclusion, weight stigma is still prevalent. It's one of the forms of prejudice we continue to tolerate in our society. Fatphobia is the bias toward overweight people and their perceived moral ...
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What's new in intermittent fasting research? More not-so-good news But back to the present. Overall, this latest round of studies continues to find that intermittent fasting isn't any better than good old-fashioned calorie restriction for weight loss and improving health markers such as blood sugar and cholesterol levels.
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COVID-19 Vaccines in Children Aged 5 to 11 Effective, Safe, Study Finds Severe adverse events (AEs) from the vaccine, which reduced hospitalizations and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), were rare; the AEs that did occur resolved within a few days.
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Kindergarten vaccination rates drop in all but 3 WA counties In the 2021-22 school year, only one county in Washington reached the federal target of 95% or more children receiving all required vaccinations before entering kindergarten. No, it wasn't King. The sole county was Franklin in Eastern Washington, ...
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Study: 5-Minute Walk Every 30 Minutes Improves Health Outcomes After Prolonged Sitting Prolonged sitting can negatively affect health, even with regular exercise, according to the results of a study published Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. Investigators from Columbia University found that 5 minutes of walking every half hour ...
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Genetic prediction of medication use patterns in cardiometabolic disease By performing a large-scale biobank-based genome-wide association study, we identified a strong link between the underlying risk of cardiometabolic disease and patterns of lifelong medication use in hyperlipidemia, hypertension and type 2 diabetes.
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Study finds omicron caused fewer, milder cases of MIS-C in children than delta A new UB study conducted at John R. Oishei Children's Hospital is one of the first to reveal that there were fewer cases of multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) during the omicron wave of the pandemic than the delta wave.
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Comparative susceptibility of SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV across mammals Exploring wild reservoirs of pathogenic viruses is critical for their long-term control and for predicting future pandemic scenarios. Here, a comparative in vitro infection analysis was first performed on 83 cell cultures derived from 55 mammalian ...
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HPV vaccination rates decline among South East schoolchildren The uptake of a vaccine against cervical cancer has fallen from pre-pandemic levels among schoolchildren in the South East, figures show. In 2019, 75% of Year 9 girls in East Sussex received the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.
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Stress And Weight Gain: Why Does It Happen And How To Prevent It More severe, long-term health effects may develop when stress peaks or becomes challenging to manage. Untreated chronic stress has been related to depression, high blood pressure, sleeplessness, heart disease, anxiety, and obesity.
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Senolytics could be a beneficial therapeutic for COVID neuropathology The rapid outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has resulted in the pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has claimed more than 6.7 million lives worldwide. Scientists worldwide have been ...
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Bird flu could wipe out Australian black swans, gene study reveals The graceful black swan is a familiar sight in waterways across Australia, but it could disappear if avian flu ever takes hold here. That's the grim conclusion of an international study that has sequenced the iconic bird's genome — and that of its ...
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Young people who missed out on HPV jab urged to contact their GP 'The HPV vaccine will prevent most cervical cancer cases, but not all, and so even vaccinated women should still attend for cervical screening when invited to do so. 'And if you've missed ...
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Why antidepressants can blunt both negative and positive emotions An unwanted flattening of all emotions is one of the most frequent side effects of antidepressants – and now we know more about why it can happen. The most commonly used types of antidepressant belong to a class called selective serotonin reuptake ...
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Phase I trial results from AdaptVac's COVID capsid virus-like particle vaccine Waning COVID-19 vaccination efficacy against emerging severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) mutations, continued transmission, and the lack of universal availability have necessitated the development of novel vaccines.
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Potent small-molecule inhibitors against SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2 In a recent study posted to bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers in the United States identified several potent pan-coronavirus (CoV) inhibitors. CoVs are single-stranded, positive-sense, enveloped RNA viruses from the Coronaviridae family.
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Heart symptoms persist in 10% of patients with long-COVID Recent studies have shown that long-term cardiac symptoms associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection can persist for months or even years. Chest discomfort, inflammatory heart disease, and arrhythmia, among other ...
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What is the association between COVID-19, cardiovascular disease, and mortality? Improving the understanding of cardiovascular outcomes of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections could aid in identifying high-risk patients and providing tailored therapy to improve the standard of care.
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New imaging system reveals how female and male hearts respond differently to stress hormone The team built a new type of fluorescence imaging system that allows them to use light to see how a mouse heart responds to hormones and neurotransmitters in real time. The mice were exposed to noradrenaline, also known as norepinephrine.
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Our body temperature is decreasing and gut bacteria could be responsible Over the past 150 years, researchers have seen the average human body temperature drop by more than half a degree Fahrenheit (-0.3 °C). In a new study from the University of Michigan, scientists looking at hospitalized sepsis patients found certain ...
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Diabetes: 10 easy exercises you can do at home for managing blood sugar Sedentary lifestyle can be deadly for diabetics. If you are someone who doesn't get much opportunity to venture out, stay active and exercise, you should consider doing exercises from the comforts of your home. Here are 10 convenient indoor exercises.
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Study Finds Meditation May Improve Your Gut Health Over Time New study found Tibetan monks who meditate regularly have a better gut microbiome than people who don't meditate. This isn't the first study to link meditation to good gut health. Experts say it can't hurt to add meditation to your life.
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Antidepressants like SSRI can cause 'emotional blunting', according to new research Antidepressants such as SSRI can cause 'emotional blunting', taking away the feeling of joy along with depression and emotional pain, according to research. The study shows that in addition to making it easier to handle depression, it can make humans ...
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Avian flu could decimate Australian black swans UQ research shows black swans lack some immune genes which help other wild waterfowl combat avian flu. Image: Adobe. 23 January 2023. The unique genetics of the Australian black swan leaves the species vulnerable to viral illnesses such as avian flu, ...
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Symptoms of new Orthrus Covid variant that could 'take over' as dominant strain in Britain A new Covid strain has been identified as a likely contender to become the most dominant across the UK. The Orthrus - or CH.1.1. - strain is part of the Omicron variant and may already account for as much as 23 percent of all Covid cases in England, ...
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COVID, flu, RSV declining in hospitals as 'tripledemic' threat fades Topics · The RSV wave has receded across the country. Flu cases have rapidly dwindled. COVID hospitalizations rose briefly after Christmas, only to fall again. · Tagged Under:.
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New Technique Measures Thousands of Molecules From a Single Drop of Blood The new approach combines a microsampling device — a tool used to self-administer a finger prick — with "multiomics" technologies, which simultaneously analyze a vast array of proteins, fats, by-products of metabolism and inflammatory markers.
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Chance of early flu season in 2023 Flu cases were much higher in Australia in 2022 than they had been during the first two years of the pandemic. After a record low Australian influenza season in 2021 and then significantly higher numbers ...
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SARS-CoV-2 Omicron XBB.1.5, CA.3.1, and CH.1.1 exhibit remarkable antibody resistance In a recent study posted to bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers at Ohio State University examined the degree of neutralizing antibody (nAb) evasion by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron XBB.1.5, CA.3.1, and CH.1.1 ...
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The seer: AI tool from MIT, Mass General predicts lung cancer risk in nonsmokers 6 years out Much like its ancient Greek namesake, a new artificial intelligence tool dubbed Sybil may be able to see into the future—though its predictions are delivered to doctors, rather than mythical gods. The AI oracle was developed by researchers from MIT and ...
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Mindfulness exercises can be as effective as anxiety drugs, study shows Practicing mindfulness to relieve anxiety can be just as effective as medication, new research shows. A recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry showed that people who received eight weeks of mindfulness-based interventions experienced a decrease in ...
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FDA considers major shift in COVID vaccine strategy The Food and Drug Administration is considering a major shift in the nation's COVID-19 vaccine strategy, NPR has learned. The goal is to simplify vaccination against COVID and perhaps adopt an approach similar that used for the flu vaccine, ...
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What is intuitive eating? The first rule of intuitive eating is to reject the diet mentality, but its principles can still support healthy weight management. A dietitian explains how.
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11 Foods and Drinks With a Ton of Hidden Sugar A truly healthy bread shouldn't contain more than 2 or 3 grams of sugar per slice and ideally shouldn't contain ingredients like high fructose corn syrup or evaporated cane juice. For an example of a ...
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A Comprehensive Treatment Protocol for Endometriosis Patients Decreases Pain and Improves Function All women included had a history of chronic pelvic pain for at least 6 months and had completed a course of 6 weeks of pelvic floor physical therapy with persistent symptoms. Participants had endometriosis with central sensitization and myofascial pain ...
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Emerging Treatment Options for Geographic Atrophy (GA) Secondary to Age-Related Macular Degeneration However, data from various clinical trials have demonstrated favorable results with significant reduction in GA lesion growth. Approaches to GA treatment vary from complement inhibitors to ocular gene therapy, some of which may delay disease progression, ...
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Deep Learning Model May Predict Lung Cancer Risk from a Single CT Scan Trained and developed on over 35,000 low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans and validated in three independent data sets, a deep learning algorithm demonstrated an average area under the curve (AUC) of 90.6 percent for predicting lung cancer within ...
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Healthy eating: This is what makes til-gul the ultimate winter combination Anything consumed in excess can be dangerous for health. So, having too much jaggery may lead to weight gain, and sesame seeds in large quantities can cause one's blood sugar levels to drop, said Dr Jinal Patel, dietitian, Apollo Spectra Hospital, Mumbai.
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Diabetes: These Diet Tips From An Expert Will Help You Control Blood Sugar Levels Effectively After all, it's in your hands to keep diabetes under control. You've got to avoid sugar, and processed food items and load your meals with healthy alternatives. After medicines, it's only your diet and proper lifestyle that can help you keep this health ...
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The swan genome and transcriptome, it is not all black and white. Jan 23, 2023. Contributor: Anjana C Karawita,Yuanyuan Cheng,Keng Yih Chew,Arjun Challagulla,Robert Kraus,Ralf C Mueller,Marcus Z W Tong,Katina D Hulme,Helle Bielefeldt-Ohmann,Lauren E Steele,Melanie Wu,Julian Sng,Ellesandra Noye,Timothy J Bruxner,Gough ...
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BC's alcohol 'spike' during COVID starting to wane In the fiscal year 2019/20 B.C. residents over the age of 15 consumed, on average, 9.1 litres of pure alcohol, or about 534 drinks each, according to B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch records. That increased to 9.28 litres at the height of the COVID pandemic ...
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Use Dinner to Teach Kids About Green Eating Cooking with your kids is a fun way to spend time together while sharing valuable lessons about the environment. Grocery shopping, food transport, meal prep, menu choice, and cleanup all increase your household's carbon footprint.
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'I spotted something was off when I used the loo': Man with pancreatic cancer shares symptoms This was also the case for Andy, who didn't share his last name. Andy shared with Pancreatic Cancer UK the first symptoms that eventually led to a pancreatic cancer diagnosis at the age of 50. Knowing the warning signs is essential for early diagnosis and ...
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Is glycolic acid safe to use by all skin types? Exfoliating the skin is an important step in the skincare routine. Exfoliation— physical or chemical– helps remove dead cells from the surface of the skin and improves its texture. As per the American Academy of Dermatology, exfoliation can leave your ...
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