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	health Daily update ⋅ March 4, 2023
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	CNN 20000 people may have been exposed to measles during religious gathering in Kentucky, CDC says CNN The CDC alert was sent to clinicians and public health officials after the Kentucky Department for Public Health identified a confirmed case of measles in an unvaccinated individual on February 24. The individual had a history of recent international ... Flag as irrelevant
	Cancer Therapy Advisor Preventing and Treating COVID-19 in Cancer Patients: Challenges in the Omicron Era Cancer Therapy Advisor Vaccine development has not kept pace with the emergence of new variants, and monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) that were previously used for COVID-19 prevention and treatment are ineffective against the omicron subvariants currently in circulation. Flag as irrelevant
	The Washington Post What to know about shigella, the drug-resistant stomach bug on the rise The Washington Post Shigella infections, known as shigellosis, usually cause diarrhea that can be prolonged and bloody, along with fever and abdominal cramps. Most people recover without treatment with antibiotics. But people who have weakened ... Flag as irrelevant
	Nature.com Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM) reveals spatial-metabolic changes in 3D breast cancer spheroids Nature.com We used multiphoton FLIM to investigate the changes in cellular metabolism of 3D breast spheroids derived from MCF-10A and MD-MB-231 cell lines embedded in collagen with varying densities (1 vs. 4 mg/ml) over time (Day 0 vs. Day 3). Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Long Covid is associated with significantly increased risk of death, heart and lung problems, study finds CNN Those with long Covid were also roughly two times more likely to experience cardiovascular events including arrhythmias, stroke, heart failure and coronary artery disease. Pulmonary conditions were also common. The risk of pulmonary embolism more than ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Focused Ultrasound Ablation Reduces Dyskinesia in Parkinson's Medscape The technique requires no sedation or brain implants. Surgeons use MRI to identify the globus pallidus internus, a part of the basal ganglia involved in movement disorders, and a focused ultrasound beam to heat and destroy the tissue. Flag as irrelevant
	IEEE Spectrum E-Bandages Lightly Zap—and Heal—Wounds IEEE Spectrum Not only can electricity drive electronics, it can help people heal. The first electronic bandage the body can absorb can apply electric signals to speed the healing of wounds by 30 percent, a new study finds. In the body, electricity helps the heart ... Flag as irrelevant
	USC Press Room Largest known genetic study of prostate cancer in men of African descent could improve screening USC Press Room The new USC-led analysis of genetic data fills an urgent research gap for a population that faces a higher risk of prostate cancer than white men. Until now, most big data studies of prostate cancer were focused on populations of European ancestry. Flag as irrelevant
	Healthline A Good Night's Sleep Can Help You Maintain Diet, Exercise Goals Healthline New research found that people who slept well were more likely to stick to other health goals. When you think about healthy sleep, the first organization that comes to mind may not be the American Heart ... Flag as irrelevant
	Globalnews.ca 'They're probably tired of vaccinations': Flu shot rates down in Saskatchewan Globalnews.ca Saskatchewan's flu shot campaign started Oct. 11 and as of Jan. 31, only 27 per cent of the population had received the influenza shot. Kingsley Chukwu at Pharmasave's Riversdale Pharmacy said people just aren't as enthusiastic about it as they used to ... Flag as irrelevant
	Everyday Health How to Tell the Men in Your Family That You've Got Breast Cancer Everyday Health Sofia Perez will never forget her husband's reaction two years ago to the news that she had stage 2 breast cancer. "Although he could sense something wasn't right as soon as we sat down in our living room, he didn't ask any questions until after I told ... Flag as irrelevant
	Curetoday.com HPV-Related Cancer: Why Risk It? Curetoday.com Vaccines have been a hot-button issue for several years now, but are cancer survivors putting their health at risk by avoiding the HPV vaccine? Advertisement. Flag as irrelevant
	NOLA.com Tulane study reveals the best diets for your body and the environment NOLA.com The keto diet (high fat, low carbs) generates almost 3 kilograms of carbon dioxide for every 1,000 calories consumed and was ranked last for nutritional quality. Similar to keto, the paleo diet, also ... Flag as irrelevant
	KRIS Corpus Christi News March 4, World Obesity Day: Is weight loss surgery a good option for you? KRIS Corpus Christi News "Most people get that confused and think obesity is a lack of willpower and just fat. But no, it's a medical problem, a medical disease." Dr. Jegam Gopal, a bariatric surgeon for Corpus Christi Medical Center said. Flag as irrelevant
	CBS News FDA Says No Flu And Covid Combination Shots This Year Kaiser Health News The FDA's top vaccines official, Dr. Peter Marks, said this week the effort to produce a combo shot for late this year has proved "too heavy a lift." The federal Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, meanwhile, expects commercial ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR A man dies of a brain-eating amoeba, possibly from rinsing his sinuses with tap water NPR A man in southwest Florida died after becoming infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba, which state health officials say was "possibly as a result of sinus rinse practices utilizing tap water." The Florida Department of Health in Charlotte County ... Flag as irrelevant
	Nature.com Machine learning classifiers for screening nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in general adults Nature.com This study included 14,439 adults who took health examination. We developed classification models to classify subjects with or without NAFLD using decision tree, random forest (RF), extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) and support vector machine (SVM). Flag as irrelevant
	Nature.com COVID pill is first to cut short positive-test time after infection Nature.com The antiviral ensitrelvir, which is not approved in the United States, shortens symptoms in people with mild COVID and might reduce risk of long COVID — but more data are needed. ... COVID-19 first phase UK variant. Flag as irrelevant
	CBC.ca Fungi may not zombify you, but they can be deadly pathogens CBC.ca The scenario where a fungus infects and zombifies people depicted in the HBO television series, The Last Of Us, might be a work of fiction, but we are far from ready from the very real and increasing threat of a fungal pandemic, according to biologist ... Flag as irrelevant
	Inside Precision Medicine Lipid-Lowering Drug Repurposed for Parkinson's Inside Precision Medicine The application of artificial intelligence (AI) to the language used in research papers has revealed a lipid-lowering drug that could have value in Parkinson's disease. The findings demonstrate how natural language processing can evaluate "semantic ... Flag as irrelevant

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