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CRC Awareness Roundup: Lower screening age, effort to break stigma in Black community For the entirety of March, the gastroenterology community has celebrated National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month to encourage individuals to learn more about the highly preventable cancer and to increase screening. Thus far in 2023, there have been ...
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Disparities persist in CVD mortality rates by state, race and ethnicity Cardiovascular health disparities by state, race and ethnicity are getting worse in the U.S.; Policy changes and commitment to health equity are among the factors needed to reverse the trends. CVD mortality trends vary by ...
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Saint Joseph Hospital using new 'smart' tool for colorectal cancer screenings LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - The medical world has seen so many advances thanks to technology. Now, artificial intelligence or AI, is helping in a new way when it comes to preventing colorectal cancer. With more and more younger Kentuckians being diagnosed ...
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Sniffing body odour is tested as an anxiety therapy The scientists have been using armpit sweat in their experiments. Their hunch is the smell activates brain pathways linked to emotions, offering a calming effect - but it is far too soon to ...
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Why health departments are concerned about the spread of potentially deadly fungus While most healthy people are not at risk, vulnerable populations -- including those with weakened immune systems -- are prone to drug-resistant infections. In addition, nursing home patients or hospital patients who have or ...
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Cancer Overwhelmed Me, But It Didn't Overtake Me It is such an honor to share my breast cancer journey as I enter my 10th year of survivorship. November 2012. I had just lost my husband to an aggressive form of prostate cancer. His long military days and nights in Vietnam had meant much opportunity ...
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Avian flu threat fades on farms but may be back in the fall The worst of the bird flu epidemic on Canadian poultry farms seems to be over, but the highly contagious and deadly disease continues to spread among wild birds and farmers are worried spring and fall migrations will bring further outbreaks.
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NIH Scientists Find That Breast Cancer Protection From Pregnancy Starts Decades Later According to senior author Dale Sandler, Ph.D., head of the Epidemiology Branch at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of NIH, a few prior studies reported an increase in breast cancer risk after childbirth.
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Health officials: Candida Auris is not a concern for healthy individuals Wright attributed the spread of the fungus to infrequent hand washing and the overuse of high dosage antibiotics, which can harm good bacteria instead of the bad. When that happens, he said, unhealthy fungi and ...
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Fit and Well Idaho: Kidney health is important to your overall health TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — Keeping your kidney's healthy is vital to your overall health. Your kidney's are responsible for removing waste and extra fluid from the body. They also help maintain a healthy balance of water, salts and minerals ...
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Unusual parasite strain killing sea otters Four sea otters that stranded in California died from an unusually severe form of toxoplasmosis, according to a study from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and UC Davis. The disease is caused by the microscopic parasite Toxoplasma gondii.
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NEA Launches National Dengue Prevention Campaign Early To Urge Continued Vigilance And Avert A Dengue ... Dengue risk drivers – high Aedes aegypti mosquito vector population, high baseline of dengue cases at start of the year, and continued prevalence of Dengue virus serotype 3 (DENV-3) – could lead to another dengue outbreak in 2023.
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Wildlife officials say 4 sea otters have been killed by a parasite known as Toxoplasma gondii Though there are no confirmed human cases of Toxoplasma gondii, veterinary specialists with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife say the parasite can be passed onto humans through cats and they are monitoring the situation closely.
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Vision 2023: New CDC opioid guidelines: Too little, too late for chronic pain patients? Jessica Layman estimates she has called more than 150 doctors in the past few years in her search for someone to prescribe opioids for her chronic pain. "A lot of them are straight-up insulting," said the 40-year-old, who lives in Dallas.
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