 | |||||||
| health | |||||||
| NEWS | |||||||
Study finds link between 'free sugar' intake and cardiovascular disease Eating a lot of free sugars — also known as added sugars — might feel harmless in the moment, but it could increase your risk for getting cardiovascular disease, a new study has found. Free sugars ...
| |||||||
Paxlovid Reduced Risk for Hospitalization, Death During Omicron Wave For every 62 people treated with nirmatrelvir–ritonavir, the medication prevented one case of severe COVID-19. Dr Kevin Schwartz. "A number of studies now support the effectiveness of Paxlovid ...
| |||||||
How Climate Change Is Spreading Malaria in Africa A new study offers a glimpse of the future by looking to the past. Mosquitoes that transmit malaria in sub-Saharan Africa have moved to higher elevations by about 6.5 meters (roughly 21 feet) per year and away from the Equator by 4.7 kilometers (about ...
| |||||||
Bird flu spreads to new countries, threatens non-stop "war" on poultry CHICAGO, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Avian flu has reached new corners of the globe and become endemic for the first time in some wild birds that transmit the virus to poultry, according to veterinarians and disease experts, who warn it is now a year-round ...
| |||||||
Why Have Congenital Syphilis Cases Risen 900% in Mississippi? The disease occurs when a mother who has syphilis passes the bacteria to their baby during pregnancy. Congenital syphilis is caused by a bacteria, called Treponema pallium, that can be transmitted from a pregnant person to ...
| |||||||
Talk Therapies Take On a Vital Role in Treating Schizophrenia Findings from decades of research and clinical practice support the crucial role of antipsychotic medications, which interfere with the transmission of the brain neurotransmitter dopamine, in the attenuation of delusions, hallucinations and other symptoms ...
| |||||||
How a Consistent Sleep Schedule Might Protect Your Heart Flip-flopping between wake-up times — jolting awake at 7:30 on a Friday morning and then dozing until the afternoon on Saturday — wreaks havoc on our internal body clocks. Sleep experts refer to ...
| |||||||
Bird Flu Is Already a Tragedy Stallknecht, a wildlife biologist at the University of Georgia, was already fearing the worst. For months, wood ducks had been washing up on shorelines; black vultures had been teetering out of tree tops. But ...
| |||||||
Climate change may already be spreading malaria mosquitos As temperatures rise, many tropical species once confined to the warmest parts of the globe are expected to climb to higher altitudes and creep farther from the equator. That already may be happening with mosquitoes carrying malaria, one of the world's ...
| |||||||
COVID-19 Vaccination Appears to Reduce Diabetes Risk After Virus However, it hasn't been clear if those risks have persisted with the more recent predominance of the less-virulent Omicron variant or whether the COVID-19 vaccine influences the risk. This new study suggests that both are the case.
| |||||||
New childhood obesity guidance raises worries over the risk of eating disorders In addition to therapy, the AAP now says doctors should offer weight loss drugs to adolescents diagnosed with obesity at age 12 or older and should evaluate teens who are 13 and older with severe obesity for bariatric surgery.
| |||||||
Heart Disease, Stroke Linked To Specific Kinds of Sugars: Study Consuming foods that have a lot of "free sugars" significantly raised the risk of heart disease and stroke, according to researchers from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. They found that the risk increased based on how much more free sugar ...
| |||||||
Long COVID or Functional Neurological Disorder? The hypothesis that long COVID might be related to a functional neurological disorder (FND) remains untested, a systematic review showed. Across 102 long COVID studies, neurologic symptoms were insufficiently characterized to support or refute a ...
| |||||||
New study reveals pancreatic rates are rising fastest in young women. It's unclear why Pancreatic cancer rates are rising among Americans, with the sharpest increases in younger women, a new study finds. The new nationwide analysis of nearly two decades of data revealed that rates in women below 55 rose 2.4% more than in their male ...
| |||||||
Stewardship Programs May Reduce Antibiotic Prescriptions, Consumption "ASPs appeared to be effective in reducing antibiotic consumption in both hospital and nonhospital settings," the study authors wrote. "Reducing antimicrobial consumption through ASPs should thus contribute toward reducing the risk of AMR.".
| |||||||
Risk of developing diabetes after Covid-19 continued in Omicron period, study says They looked to see how likely it would be for these people to get a new diagnosis of diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol in the three months after their Covid-19 infection compared with the three months before it.
| |||||||
Many Face Months of Lingering Symptoms After COVID Hospital Discharge By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, Feb. 15, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Most people hospitalized for COVID-19 are taking months to bounce back, a new study confirms. More than 70% of patients reported experiencing lingering symptoms ...
| |||||||
CBD Counters Hippocampal Hyperactivity in Epilepsy A study by researchers in the U.S. and U.K. has revealed a previously unknown mechanism by which cannabidiol (CBD)—a non-psychoactive component of cannabis—reduces seizures in many treatment-resistant forms of pediatric epilepsy.
| |||||||
Delivering a Plus-Sized Baby Could Be Sign of Diabetes Risk Venkatesh said that women who deliver large babies most likely suffer from glucose intolerance that causes high blood sugar during pregnancy. "Even if you don't have gestational diabetes, there's probably still glucose ...
| |||||||
Evolving Considerations for Choice of Hepatitis B Vaccine All 4 HBV vaccines are equally recommended as options for the prevention of HBV infection by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. This article provides an overview of emerging considerations based on CDC recommendations and new clinical data ...
| |||||||
Amid outbreaks, Marburg vaccine shows promise in human trial An experimental vaccine against Marburg virus showed promise in a first-in-human phase 1 trial and could one day be used to stop outbreaks of the disease, the NIH said. Data from the trial were published recently in The Lancet, in between outbreaks of ...
| |||||||
COVID Vaccination Reduces Risk of Type 2 Diabetes After Infection Early in the pandemic, people who recovered from a COVID infection faced a higher likelihood of developing diseases such as diabetes for the first time. This study confirmed those observations and found that the higher risk continued throughout the ...
| |||||||
Task force reaffirms 2016 ruling on screening for genital herpes The recommendation said: "Although serologic tests can detect the presence of HSV-1, seropositivity for HSV-1 does not indicate the site of infection, limiting usefulness of serologic testing to identify asymptomatic genital herpes.".
| |||||||
USPSTF reaffirms recommendation against routine serologic screening for genital herpes The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force still does not recommend serologic screening for genital herpes infection in adults who do not exhibit signs or symptoms, according to a final recommendation statement published in JAMA.
| |||||||
USPSTF Advises Against Routine Serologic Screening for Genital Herpes Infection Pregnant individuals also show increased estimated seroprevalence (22%), with the disease posing risks for potential neonatal infection, which is uncommon but can result in substantial morbidity and mortality. Antiviral medications may provide clinical ...
| |||||||
Study Confirms Increased Risk of New-Onset Type 2 Diabetes After COVID-19 Infection Investigators from Cedars-Sinai purport the results of their new study confirm people who have had COVID-19 were at an increased risk for new-onset diabetes. An analysis of electronic medical record data from more than 20,000 adults with a documented ...
| |||||||
Poor Sleep Health Linked to Subclinical Atherosclerosis, Increased Coronary Calcium Burden New research from investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is highlighting the impact of poor sleep health on cardiovascular risk. AN analysis of more than 2000 patients from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Sleep Ancillary ...
| |||||||
Poorer Schools Could Bring Higher Dementia Rates Many Decades Later By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, Feb. 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- What do race and early education have to do with dementia risk among seniors? Quite a bit, a new study suggests. Researchers spent decades tracking the onset of ...
| |||||||
What Do We Know About Marburg Virus Disease? Marburg virus disease affects both people and non-human primates, and is caused by a genetically unique animal-borne RNA virus of the filovirus family (the same family as the Ebola virus). Cases.
| |||||||
Eating Table Scraps and Raw Food May Help Protect Dogs Against Stomach Issues In addition to kibble, the findings also linked rawhides—or dog chews made from dried animal skins—with stomach issues. "Commercial dog foods are presented as providing a complete and balanced diet—they ...
| |||||||
Low-Concentration Atropine Eyedrops Linked to Lower Myopia Incidence in Children Results of the LAMP2 trial indicate a delay of myopia onset and progression, rather than prevention, with 0.05% atropine eyedrop use, leading study investigators to call for further research. Advertisement.
| |||||||
Cutting Calories Could Slow the Pace of Aging: Study The findings "are intriguing in that caloric restriction seemed to show a slower pace of aging in healthy adults," says Vandana Sheth, a registered dietitian nutritionist and owner of a nutrition consulting firm in Los Angeles. "This can have a significant ...
| |||||||
Eyedrops Could Prevent Nearsightedness in Kids Feb. 14, 2023 -- Eye drops commonly used before eye exams could delay nearsightedness from developing in children, according to new research. Atropine drops are used to relax eye muscles and dilate the pupils. Using a low concentration could prevent ...
| |||||||
Cameroon detects two suspected cases of Marburg virus near Eq. Guinea YAOUNDE/GENEVA, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Cameroonian authorities detected two suspected cases of Marburg disease on Monday in Olamze, a commune on the border with Equatorial Guinea, the public health delegate for the region, Robert Mathurin Bidjang, ...
| |||||||
The UK's most expensive drug saved one sister, but it is too late for the other A toddler with a rare inherited condition has become the first child to be treated by the NHS with a new life-saving gene therapy. Teddi Shaw was diagnosed in time because her older sister Nala showed symptoms - but it was too late to treat Nala, ...
| |||||||
Childhood Maltreatment Has Significant Implications for Mental Health Outcomes Childhood maltreatment was defined as physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, physical or emotional neglect, harsh physical discipline or corporal punishment, deprivation, institutional neglect, victimization, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
| |||||||
Prominent hospital seeing a rise in cancer patients under age 50 According to Harvard Medical School, the global incidence of early onset cancers — including breast, colon, esophagus, kidney, liver, and pancreas — has dramatically increased. These results were published in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology in 2022.
| |||||||
Not Allergic to Penicillin After All? Your Pharmacy May Not Know "Many patients carrying a penicillin allergy label can safely take penicillin, but even after allergy testing we're finding those allergy labels aren't always being removed." To study this, ...
| |||||||
Heart disease kills more women in the US than all forms of cancer. One big reason: Delayed care HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Heart disease kills women in the U.S. more than any other medical condition, including all forms of cancer ― combined. And women are diagnosed later than men, often because the symptoms are different.
| |||||||
Rheumatoid arthritis drug may help slow the effects of aging on blood production When blood-forming hematopoietic stem cells that reside in the bone marrow age, the production of blood cells is altered, and the body's ability to regenerate lost cells is impaired. A recent study in mice shows that aging is linked to the inflammation ...
| |||||||
How a pioneering diabetes drug offers hope for preventing autoimmune disorders Teplizumab is a type of antibody therapy. It blocks T cells, the 'attack dogs' of the immune system, stopping them destroying insulin-producing islet cells in the pancreas. Mikayla received a two-week course of treatment in July 2016, as part of a clinical ...
| |||||||
Cardiac Issues Twice as Likely With COVID Plus High Troponin The causes were diverse, myocarditis prevalence was lower than previously reported, and myocardial scar emerged as an independent risk factor for adverse cardiovascular outcomes at 12 months. "We know that multiorgan involvement in hospitalized patients ...
| |||||||
Identifying Visceral Kaposi Sarcoma (KS): A Responsibility to Avoid Anchoring on the Diagnosis of a Crohn's Flare The initial evaluation of reported inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) should include an assessment for immunosuppression which can broaden the differential diagnosis to include opportunistic infection as well as other processes.
| |||||||
Ozempic and Mounjaro diabetes medications: Should they be prescribed for weight loss? Despite the chatter online, obesity is a legitimate medical diagnosis. When appropriately medically supervised, medications can potentially help people with this diagnosis to lose weight. Here are three things to know about medication types and ...
| |||||||
When Night Sweats Aren't Actually Menopause One day, one of the parents at gymnastics noticed Duda struggling to keep up with her students and urged her to get checked out by a doctor. The doctor's verdict: What she thought might be menopause was actually congestive heart failure. And she needed a ...
| |||||||
Radiologic Findings after COVID-19 and the Correlation with Lung Function Radiology has been at the forefront of the clinical evaluation of patients with COVID-19 and has helped to improve the knowledge about this viral disease by demonstrating pathophysiologic imaging patterns. From the earliest days of the pandemic ...
| |||||||
New NICE quality standard identifies improvements in UTI diagnosis for women Adults with indwelling urinary catheters do not have dipstick testing to diagnose UTIs. Men and non-pregnant women are not prescribed antibiotics to treat asymptomatic bacteriuria. Non-pregnant women with an uncomplicated lower UTI ...
| |||||||
Drug-Resistant Bacterial Pathogens Collaborate to Boost Virulence The two opportunistic pathogens, Acinetobacter baumannii and Klebsiella pneumoniae, are frequently isolated together from polymicrobial infections. The infections that contain both bacteria can be more severe and recalcitrant to therapy when compared ...
| |||||||
Statement from Africa CDC on the Pandemic Fund Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15 February 2023 – Africa CDC welcomes the call by the Pandemic Fund on 3rd February 2023, seeking Expressions of Interest (EOI) for potential projects to be funded under its first Call for Proposals.
| |||||||
Using radiomics to predict future cardiac events Coronary artery disease is linked with fatty deposits of plaque that build up inside the artery walls. Large, lipid-rich plaques are vulnerable to rupture. The rupture of these plaques causes most heart attacks. However, predicting which plaques will ...
| |||||||
| You have received this email because you have subscribed to Google Alerts. |
 Receive this alert as RSS feed |
| Send Feedback |
No comments:
Post a Comment