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What new questions will I be asked when I donate blood? The guidelines call for posing questions to every donor — regardless of gender or sexual orientation — that focus on anal sex, which carries a higher risk of HIV transmission than other forms of sex.
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Virologists defend their science as officials eye more oversight of risky experiments The advisors' draft recommendations call for expanding a special decision-making process that currently weighs the risks and benefits of experiments that might make "potential pandemic pathogens" more dangerous. "The government really has ...
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Covid Vaccines Targeting Omicron Should Be Standard, Panel Says As the advisers endorsed ending one era of the Covid vaccination campaign, they also grappled with its future. F.D.A. scientists on Thursday described a broad series of possible changes to the country's vaccination program, all of them ...
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Why Experts Are Urging Swifter Treatment for Children With Obesity The recommendations came as a surprise to many parents, and to some experts, as they encourage vigorous behavioral interventions even for very young children, as well as drug treatment or surgery for adolescents. The guidelines ...
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Panel: Collaboration, Increased Naloxone Availability Can Help Prevent Opioid-Related Deaths Partnerships that include representatives from communities, government, and health care can play a key role in addressing opioid-related overdoses, according to a panel of experts who discussed the fentanyl crisis in the United States.
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An FDA committee votes to roll out a new COVID vaccination strategy Updated 5:55 p.m. ET. A committee of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on a proposal to simplify the nation's strategy for vaccinating people against COVID-19. The recommendation is that future COVID-19 vaccines should be ...
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Six Healthy Lifestyle Habits Linked to Slowed Memory Decline Adhering to six healthy lifestyle behaviors is linked to slower memory decline in older adults, a large, population-based study suggests. Investigators found that a healthy diet, cognitive activity, regular physical exercise, not smoking, ...
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FDA advisers favor retiring original covid shot in favor of newer version The recommendation, if adopted by the FDA, will have minimal impact on most people, affecting unvaccinated people who have not yet received any doses of the vaccine; they were still being offered two initial shots of a vaccine based on the original form of ...
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Preeclampsia During Pregnancy May Increase the Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke — Even Years Later Experts say this study is important because heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States. They add that a healthy diet and regular exercise can help lower the risk of preeclampsia.
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A Neurologist Answers Questions Patients Might Have about the New Alzheimer's Drug Lecanemab No drug with consistent statistical evidence from clinical trials had ever been found to slow the course of Alzheimer's disease before the Food and Drug Administration gave its nod this month to lecanemab, which clears the brain of the toxic amyloid ...
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Belfast experimental cancer centre to get £1.7m research funding The money is the result of a partnership between Cancer Research UK and the Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland. The Belfast ECMC is part of a network across the UK, funded by ...
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Long COVID: What Do the Latest Data Show? Within this context, we examine the latest data on long COVID from the Household Pulse Survey, as reported by the CDC. Previous research has highlighted the implications of long COVID for employment and health coverage and it's potential to exacerbate ...
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About 1 in 3 American Adults Has an Allergy Caused by a reaction to plant pollen, seasonal allergies were most common type of allergy in both kids and adults. Symptoms include sniffling, sneezing, coughing and itchy eyes. The study wasn' ...
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Black-sheep immune cells activated to eliminate tumors in laboratory mice The treatment eliminated existing tumors and reduced the number and size of subsequent metastases in mice with cancers of the skin, lung, breast and colon. It also activated human neutrophils to kill human cancer cells in a ...
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FDA proposes allowing gay and bisexual monogamous men to donate blood The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Friday it will ease blood donation restrictions on gay and bisexual men, including allowing those in monogamous relationships to donate. The policy change, which was revealed in new draft guidance, ...
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Study Finds Nearly 3 in 10 Individuals With Chronic Pain Use Cannabis "Evidence is mixed about whether medical cannabis serves as a substitute for prescription opioids or other pain treatments," the study authors wrote. "Accurate estimates of cannabis use or its substitution in place of pain treatments among adults with ...
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Scientists Tried to Break Cuddling. Instead, They Broke 30 Years of Research. Of the dozens of hormones found in the human body, oxytocin might just be the most overrated. Linked to the pleasures of romance, orgasms, philanthropy, and more, the chemical has been endlessly billed as the "hug hormone," the "moral molecule," even ...
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Risks for Heart Failure Rise in Rural America Researchers from the U.S. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., analyzed data from a long-term health study of adults in the southeastern United States.
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What Is VEXAS? Scientists found the UBA1 gene mutation in the myeloid cells (white blood cells that affect your immune response and inflammation) of those who have VEXAS. They think these cells activate needlessly and cause inflammatory symptoms.
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Cancer's Capacity to Resist Treatment Thwarted New research shows blocking genomic instability in an aggressive from of cancer—metastatic cutaneous melanoma—may prevent tumors from acquiring genetic diversity that enables them from escaping therapy. The findings, published in the journal Cancer ...
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Shopping purchases may help spot ovarian cancer Tracking what shoppers buy, via loyalty-card data, can help spot those with early signs of cancer, doctors who have been running a study say. Frequent purchases of over-the-counter painkillers and indigestion tablets revealed a higher risk of ovarian ...
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Crispr Wants to Feed the World The power to fight human diseases put genome editing on the map. But similar technology could help crops withstand the stress of climate change.
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Microbiome and its Metabolites Promote Endometriosis in Animal Model The scientists found that mice lacking a gut microbiome had smaller endometriotic lesions than mice with a microbiome. Furthermore, when gut microbiome-free mice received gut microbiota from mice with endometriosis, the lesions grew as large as those in ...
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What Is the Mediterranean Diet, and How Can It Help You? "The Mediterranean diet emphasizes plenty of vegetables, fruits, beans, lentils, whole grains, nuts, seeds, olive oil, herbs and spices," Al Bochi said. "Dairy, fish and poultry are consumed a few times a week, whereas red meat and processed meat is ...
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Is There a Scale for Cancer Survivorship? I was lucky because I caught my cancer early during a routine mammogram, and I was luckier still that I happened to work for a radiology company, so getting my results, my biopsy, an appointment with the oncologist, even my surgery, all happened quickly.
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Bivalent Booster Helps Prevent Symptoms from XBB.1.5: Study Jan. 26, 2023 –New data for the bivalent COVID-19 booster shot shows that it cuts the risk in half for symptomatic infection from the now predominant Omicron subvariant, XBB.1.5. The results from the CDC are the first to show how well the bivalent ...
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Heart Disease When Young Could Bring Memory Issues by Middle Age The study, published online Jan. 25 in the journal Neurology, focused on people who had developed premature cardiovascular disease. That refers to heart disease, stroke or leg artery disease that strikes before the age of 60.
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Higher 'Good' Cholesterol Linked to Worse ALS Survival Rate Elevated levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) — commonly called the "good" cholesterol — are significantly associated with a poorer survival rate among people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), according to a population-based study in the ...
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Updated boosters cut risk of XBB variant infection by nearly half In a finding that suggests the updated bivalent COVID booster shots are worth getting, new government data shows they cut the chances of infection with the new XBB variant by nearly half. While those ages 49 and under saw a 48% reduction in risk, ...
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Prediction model for myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery using machine learning Between January 2010 and June 2019, a total of 6811 patients underwent non-cardiac surgery with normal preoperative level of cardiac troponin (cTn). We used machine learning techniques with an extreme gradient boosting algorithm to evaluate the effects of ...
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Reflection and Gratitude 3 Years Into COVID-19 Pandemic: An Open Letter to the Community from Sansum Clinic It was also very clear, as other local healthcare practices closed down and temporarily shuttered their doors, that our patients and our community needed us more than ever. Much has happened over the past three years ...
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Loyalty card data could help to identify ovarian cancer symptoms sooner Loyalty card data on over-the-counter medicine purchases could help spot ovarian cancer cases earlier, an Imperial College London-led study suggests. The study of almost 300 women found that pain and indigestion medication purchases were higher in ...
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Mink on a Spanish farm caught bird flu. Is the virus adapting to mammals? Bloody snouts, clumsiness—these were among the signs last October that mink on a Spanish fur farm had a problem. The subsequent identification of the culprit, highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1, now has health experts warning that humans might also ...
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Wearable Ultrasound Patch Images the Heart in Real-Time A wearable ultrasound imager for the heart that is roughly the size of a postage stamp, can be worn for up to 24 hours, and works even during exercise may one day help doctors spot cardiac problems that current medical technology might miss, ...
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Xylazine reaches Minnesota: officials concerned by fentanyl contaminated with animal sedative MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Public health officials in Minnesota are growing increasingly concerned about a powerful animal sedative that is being mixed in with the local illicit fentanyl supply. Xylazine, known by the street name tranq, is FDA-approved for ...
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Stroke risk algorithms don't work as well for Black patients You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. ... Current medical standards for accessing stroke risk perform worse for Black Americans than for white Americans, research finds. The study, published in ...
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Using artificial human skin to block invasive growth in a skin cancer model The study has been published in Science Signaling and looks at what actually happens when a cell turns into a cancer cell. We have been studying one of the cells' signalling pathways, the so- ...
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Will a new wave of RSV vaccines stop the dangerous virus? Last week, the pharmaceutical company Moderna announced promising results from a trial of over-60s for its vaccine against a potentially fatal disease: respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and GSK announced ...
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Ontario through worst of respiratory virus season, chief medical officer says Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore "strongly" recommended people wear masks in indoor public settings in mid-November, as the flu, respiratory syncytial virus and COVID-19 were circulating and straining children's hospital capacity.
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Response to Hypoglycaemia in Diabetes In addition to being at increased risk for hypoglycaemia, insulin-treated diabetic patients often have impaired neurohumoral responses to low blood glucose levels, with the number and severity of early hypoglycaemic symptoms decreasing over time.
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Virus triple threat Early in the COVID pandemic, surges of other seasonal respiratory viruses like influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) were far below normal levels, likely because of masking and other precautions that were in place to try and stifle the spread ...
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Periods: Include These 6 Foods To Your Diet For A Healthy Menstruation Cycle Papaya contains carotene, a nutrient that supports estrogen levels. This tropical fruit can also help with uterus contraction. 2. Carom Seeds (Ajwain). Carom seeds water is known to regulate your menstrual ...
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Flu, MERS and Ebola — the disease outbreaks most frequently reported Globally, influenza has been responsible for more outbreaks than any other infectious disease over the past 23 years, followed by Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and Ebola, finds an analysis of disease reports by the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
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New APH Campaign Encourages Families To Vaccinate Against COVID-19 & Flu "I'm concerned about the low vaccine uptake we're seeing among our children," said Dr. Desmar Walkes, Austin-Travis County Health Authority. "We want to do everything we can to help empower parents to protect their families from these vaccine-preventable ...
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Keep your sweetheart safe from allergy and asthma triggers on Valentine's Day "Some traditional Valentine's gifts can cause an allergic response, which can halt any romantic moment fast," said allergist Dr. Kathleen May, M.D., president of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI).
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COVID booster vaccines: how a third dose may help vulnerable people 'level up' their immunity COVID vaccines call our immune systems to action, generating antibodies which fight against any contact we have with the virus. Antibodies help to reduce the effects of an infection or even prevent it altogether. Scientists have estimated that ...
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What Is Ozempic Face? Some Using Diabetes Drug for Weight Loss Report This Side Effect Type 2 diabetes patients have been using Ozempic for years. It's semaglutide, the same FDA-approved drug contained in weight loss medicine Wegovy, but at a lower dose. Here's why you're hearing about it now ...
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The fight against cervical cancer As cervical cancer is primarily caused by the HPV virus, WHO emphasises the importance of HPV vaccination programmes. In the UK and Ireland, girls and boys aged between 12 and 13 are offered the vaccine which ...
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Early influenza cases higher among children than adults In November 2022, high rates of hospitalizations were reported in pediatric patients. Following this rise in cases, data was evaluated from surveillance networks, patient surveys, and whole genome sequencing of influenza virus specimens.
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Hospital visits for respiratory illnesses on the decline, says medical officer of health Dr. Piotr Oglaza told KFL&A Public Health's newest Board of Health members during a meeting on Jan. 25 that respiratory-related emergency department visits in hospitals in Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Public Health's catchment area are on the ...
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