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US focuses on limiting spread amid record bird flu season, but vaccines could be a possibility in the future The Biden administration said it has also been watching the situation carefully. "As a part of the administration's focus on addressing any infectious disease with urgency and preparedness, we continue to monitor the avian flu outbreak ...
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CDC Says All US Adults Should Get Hepatitis B Test March 10, 2023 – Two-thirds of people in the U.S. who have the hepatitis B virus do not know they have it, raising the risk of developing incurable liver disease. Now, the CDC recommends that all U.S. adults get tested for the virus at least once ...
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Zombie Viruses: Fascinating and a Little Frightening March 10, 2023 – Of all the consequences of climate change, here's one nobody counted on. A team of European researchers digging into Siberian permafrost discovered and revived 13 types of prehistoric viruses. As the ancient frozen ground slowly loses ...
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Osteoporosis: Symptoms, Causes And Treatments While the loss of some bone mass is normal with age, certain factors can make bone loss occur at a faster rate, which can lead to osteoporosis. Subsequently, the disease can often result in weaker bones that are more prone to fractures and injuries, ...
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For Seniors on Antidepressants, Adding a Drug May Work Better Than Switching By Denise Mann HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, March 10, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Many older adults with depression don't respond to their first antidepressant, so doctors will switch them to another one to see if that does the trick.
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How artificial intelligence is being used to detect breast cancer More and more breast imaging centers across the country are now using a type of AI called computer-assisted detection, or CAD, to help reduce the number of breast cancer cases that are missed by the traditional mammogram.
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Concussions Pose Particular Risks for Older Adults Concussion is the most common form of traumatic brain injury, and, while attention often focuses more on effects in young athletes, older adults are at higher risk for severe outcomes following one, neurologists and health experts said.
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Exposure to Air Pollution Linked to Risk of Long COVID in Young Adults Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution was associated with an increased risk of long COVID among young adults, according to a Swedish population-based cohort study. For each increase in interquartile range (IQR) in exposure to particulate matter ...
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Black People Less Likely to be Prescribed Dementia Medications March 10, 2023 – Black people who are diagnosed with dementia are significantly less likely than white people to be prescribed medications for the disease, according to a new study. Among five types of medications commonly used to treat dementia, ...
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FDA to require mammogram reports include breast density information Newly updated US Food and Drug Administration regulations will require mammography facilities to notify patients about the density of their breasts. Women with dense breasts are at higher risk for breast cancer, and dense tissue can make cancer harder ...
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What's Bird Flu, Why Is It Killing Chickens, and Should We Be Worried? Most of the avian flu viruses circulating don't make the birds they infect very sick. Some strains however, tend to kill farmed poultry very quickly. H5N1, the virus now spreading in wild birds, is one of those more deadly strains, and has been causing ...
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COVID-19 Infection Linked to Higher Cytomegalovirus Response in People With HIV Receiving ART This suggests potentially increased susceptibility or a consequence of persistent inflammation, the authors said. View next. Study Finds Moderate to Good Performance in Externally Validated HIV Risk Models.
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Machine Learning Accurately Identifies iRORA, cRORA Lesions in AMD A new investigation aimed to evaluate a deep learning algorithm to automatically detect incomplete retinal pigment epithelial and outer retinal atrophy (iRORA) and complete retinal pigment epithelial and outer retinal atrophy (cRORA) in eyes with ...
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The fungus from 'The Last of Us' does live in WA — but it's rare A Seattle mushroom hunter snapped a photo in a northern Washington forest several years ago, capturing a striking image: a group of orange, spotted stems reach toward the sky, each shorter than an inch tall. They're growing out of a butterfly larva, ...
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Complex Association Among Diet Styles, Sleep Patterns, and Obesity in Patients with Diabetes Background: Health risk factors (HRFs), including the adjustment of disturbed sleep patterns (including disorders and duration) and improvement of dietary intake, have become relatively novel and critical strategies to prevent the development of diabesity ...
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Wearable Sensor Assists Process of Diagnosing Heart Attacks March 10, 2023 - Presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session Together With the World Congress of Cardiology, new research describes a wearable sensor worn on the wrist that can determine troponin-I levels and obstructed ...
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Endometriosis is common, incredibly painful—and often misdiagnosed. Why? It can take years to get a diagnosis for this poorly understood disease—which is then often mistreated. But a powerful treatment may offer relief to many women. By ...
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Preventing Hepatitis B: We Have Vaccines, But Not Implementation H. Nina Kim, MD, MSc, a professor and hepatologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, gave a presentation titled "HBV Prevention: Newer Vaccines and the Boundaries of HBV Protection" at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections ...
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Quantifying heterogeneity to drug response in cancer–stroma kinetics We develop a computational method that requires solely time-lapse fluorescence microscopy to quantify effectively these interactions and their effects on cellular dynamics. We compute interactions among stroma cells and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma ...
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Effects of culling vampire bats on the spatial spread and spillover of rabies virus Controlling pathogen circulation in wildlife reservoirs is notoriously challenging. In Latin America, vampire bats have been culled for decades in hopes of mitigating lethal rabies infections in humans and livestock. Whether culls reduce or exacerbate ...
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OHSU coronavirus (COVID-19) response OHSU: 15; Hillsboro Medical Center: 3; OHSU Hospital and OHSU Health Hillsboro Medical Center hospitalization details: 4 Not Fully Vaccinated/Unvaccinated; 9 Fully Vaccinated; 5 Fully Vaccinated with Booster. 0 de-isolated; 18 infectious.
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Zeroing in on zero-calorie study Erythritol is used to add bulk or sweeten stevia, monk fruit and keto reduced sugar products. It's a sugar alcohol that can be naturally found in many fruits and vegetables. The study found those with risk ...
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Why Sleep Is So Important for a Healthy Immune System Research has shown that people who don't get enough sleep are at greater risk for both infectious and inflammatory diseases. Here, Dr. Swirski and other experts explain why sleep is so crucial to your body's immune functioning.
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New discoveries made regarding autism onset in mouse models Main points · The researchers analyzed BTBR/J, a widely used mouse model of autism, and its subspecies BTBR/R using MRI. · Genome and transcription analysis showed that BTBR mice have increased levels of endogenous retrovirus genes.
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Looking for risky viruses now to get ahead of future pandemics Most of what scientists know about viruses in animals is the list of nucleotides that compose their genomic sequence – which, while valuable, offers very few hints about a virus's ability to infect humans. Rather than let the next outbreak take the ...
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Nutrition Smack Down: Natural vs. Artificial Sweeteners March 10, 2023. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but you can't avoid the fact that sugar is bad for you. Also, it's everywhere. "Sugar comes into our diet through a variety of ways," says Jamie Allers, a registered dietitian with Hartford HealthCare's ...
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Southern orca hunting may explain their decline Research finds that northern and southern resident orcas hunt differently, which may help explain the decline of the southern population. In the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, scientists have been sounding the alarm about the plight of ...
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My Breast Cancer Support Group Offered Me Advice, Camaraderie A few months later in early 2009, I had my yearly physical and my primary doctor felt a lump in my left breast. A diagnostic mammogram showed what appeared to be a cancerous tumor, and a follow-up biopsy confirmed that the tumor was cancerous. During the ...
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This Artificial Sweetener Can Raise Your Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke March 10, 2023. Zero calorie claims on food labels seem like a huge win, but new research shows one ingredient may be hiding a dangerous secret. New research from the Cleveland Clinic links Erythritol - an artificial sweetener without the calories of ...
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After 3 years of COVID-19, here's how Canada's 'endemic' future may look "I think we are seeing that point," explained Dr. Zain Chagla, infectious disease physician and associate professor at McMaster University in Hamilton. "We are seeing death rates lower since the beginning of ...
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H3N2 flu claims two lives: Health Ministry At least two persons have succumbed to the H3N2 subtype of seasonal influenza, which has infected rising numbers of people since mid-December last year, the Health Ministry has confirmed. After a country-wide surveillance exercise, the Ministry said ...
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Aging may hamper the neural processing of facial expressions of emotion, study finds Knowing that human faces are ubiquitous stimuli in our daily lives and an important source of social information, accurately inferring others' emotions from their faces could be the first step towards successful social interactions. At any ...
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Provincial health officer's, minister's statement about spring COVID-19 boosters Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.'s provincial health officer, and Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, have issued the following statement about spring COVID-19 boosters: "As we enter spring and the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is crucial that we continue ...
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Dim lights before bedtime to reduce gestational diabetes risk: Research Growing evidence suggests exposure to light at night before bedtime may be linked to impaired glucose regulation in non-pregnant adults. However, little is known about the effect of evening light exposure during pregnancy on the risk ...
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Be on alert, closely monitor H3N2 influenza situation, Union Health Minister tells states In a tweet, Mandaviya said, "Held a meeting to review rising cases of #H3N2 Influenza virus in the country. Advisory issued to states to be on the alert and closely monitor the situation. Government of India is working with states and extending support for ...
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Detected influenza cases in October, two active cases, no death: Kerala health minister Amid a rise in the cases of influenza and two confirmed deaths from H3N2, an influenza A subtype, the health minister of Kerala Veena George said that the state detected influenza cases during October and currently only two cases are active in the ...
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Colorectal Cancer Awareness: Don't put off your colonoscopy Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Due to an increasing number found in individuals developing colorectal cancer at a younger age, the American Cancer Society changed the screening guidelines from 50 ...
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Colorectal cancer rates in younger adults are on the rise At Valley, our team makes it easy for you to schedule your colonoscopy screening. If you're healthy and at low risk for colon cancer or rectal cancer, we can fast-track your procedure.
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Antibody Response to Omicron Variant Reduced 8 Months After COVID-19 Vaccination A study of Navy sailors and Marines from the United States found that only 7.7% of participants had neutralizing antibodies for the Omicron variant 8 months after vaccination. Advertisement.
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'Face blindness is a thing': What it is and how people adapt Michael Furman, 22, works as a production assistant at WOOD TV8. He's full of compliments. His colleagues will tell you he's always commenting on something they're wearing. Furman's compliments are sincere but his kind words also serve another purpose.
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Shared genetic architecture between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and lifespan Since ADHD and lifespan are heritable, we used data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of ADHD and parental lifespan, as proxy of individual lifespan, to estimate their genetic correlation, identify genetic loci jointly associated with both ...
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Efficacy of ceftazidime in a murine model following a lethal aerosol exposure to Burkholderia pseudomallei Melioidosis is an endemic disease in numerous tropical regions. Additionally, the bacterium that causes melioidosis, Burkholderia pseudomallei, has potential to be used as a biological weapon. Therefore, development of effective and affordable medical ...
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Mediating role of depressive symptoms on the relationship between sleep duration and cognitive function The current study aims to explore it among Chinese population. A cross-sectional study of 12,589 participants aged 45 or over was conducted, cognition was assessed by three measures to capture mental intactness, episodic memory, and visuospatial abilities.
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Hunting may be a factor in declining Southern Resident orca population Scientists at the University of Washington and NOAA Fisheries found that while Southern Resident orcas are struggling to survive, the Northern Resident orca population is steadily growing. There are 73 known Southern Residents and more than 300 Northern ...
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Does 'The Last of Us' zombie fungus exist? WVU expert weighs in MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WBOY) — West Virginia University (WVU) posted a video on their Facebook page Friday, exploring the real world equivalent of the apocalyptic zombie fungus seen on HBO's hit series "The Last of Us." In the video, Dr. Matt Kasson, ...
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How is that New Year's Resolution coming? Time to re-commit! BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - We are 69 days into 2023, and according to Forbes, only 14 percent of us have held on to New Year's Resolutions we made back in January. Even though the crowds and classes at some gyms may have thinned out, it's not too late to ...
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In search of inflammatory Achilles heel Microbes and cancer cells may manipulate this permissive microenvironment to favor their survival. A lung granuloma model in guinea pigs demonstrates the specific accumulation of Neutrophil S100A9 deep in the cores of granulomas. Share:.
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BC health officials to provide spring COVID-19 booster update B.C.'s provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix will be providing the update at 1:30 p.m.. Global News will stream the press conference live in this story.
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Prevalence and factors associated with reported adverse-events among patients on multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis ... Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment involves toxic drugs that cause adverse events (AEs), which are life-threatening and may lead to death if not well managed. In Uganda, the prevalence of MDR-TB is increasingly high, and about 95% of the ...
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Correlation Between Biomarkers and Age-Adjusted Charlson Comorbidity Index in Patients With COVID-19: A Cross ... Coronaviruses, generally known to cause a mild degree of respiratory illness have in the recent past caused three serious disease outbreaks. The world is yet to be released from the grip of the most recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic ...
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