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Pinkeye cases rise in allergy season. It might be a covid symptom too. Pinkeye — an inflamed, itchy and painful eye — is common during allergy season. But now some doctors are concerned the ailment may also be associated with a new coronavirus subvariant. Health experts say they have not conclusively linked the condition, ...
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He Began Feeling Depressed. He Didn't Realize It Was an Early Symptom of Parkinson's Up to 50% of people with Parkinson's disease will experience depression and up to 40% will experience anxiety. Despite the prevalence of mental health conditions in those living with Parkinson's, only 2% receive referrals to mental health professionals ...
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Currently Available Drug May Help Delay Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms The researchers found that the drug can help even if people affected are not yet manifesting symptoms of the disease. MS is a disease that affects the brain and spinal cord. In MS, the immune system ...
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Neighborhood disadvantage linked to shorter breast cancer-specific survival The finding persisted even after controlling for several individual patient and disease factors and National Comprehensive Cancer Network guideline-concordant treatment characteristics, researchers wrote. Mammogram snapshot of breasts ...
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People With Type 2 Diabetes May Live Longer by Giving Up Sugary Drinks Switching drinks with added sugar for beverages like tea, coffee, and water, reduced mortality risk for those with type 2 diabetes, according to new research; The study used data from over 15,000 people over the course of 38 years; Experts suggest that ...
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Will the Human Microbiome Yield Improvements to Cancer Radiotherapy? There is evidence that some microbiomes are associated with reduced cancer risk, whereas dysbiosis and specific microbial species can be carcinogenic.2. Dysbiosis facilitates tumor formation, progression, and metastasis; immune system responses ...
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Research Suggests Dexamethasone Could Benefit Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19 Early administration of dexamethasone in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 was found to reduce a composite outcome of in-hospital mortality or discharge to hospice for patients receiving supplemental oxygen, mechanical ventilation, or extracorporeal ...
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Sleep Health Varies Among Residential, Outpatient Schizophrenia Patients The new data from a multinational team of investigators also noted greater abnormalities in sleep rhythms among residential patients with schizophrenia than outpatients or healthy controls, which could contribute to more severe symptoms associated with ...
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Stress is making your biological age older than it actually is. Recovering could make you younger again If your driver's license says one age, but you feel older than that then stress may be to blame. According to a new study published in the journal of Cell Metabolism, severe stress causes an increase in biological age, while recovery tends to reverse ...
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Insomnia Med Tied to Lower Alzheimer's Pathology The researchers note that sleep disturbances are thought to increase the risk for AD "by increasing the concentrations of Aβ and tau, potentially promoting amyloid plaque formation and the spreading of tau pathology.".
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Pediatricians urge watching for these less-known strep throat signs as cases stay high Although the winter respiratory virus season is ending in the United States and summer is quickly approaching, doctors are still seeing an alarming level of strep infections around the country. Strep has been surging in the U.S. since last fall and ...
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NC veterinarians warn of outbreak in dog flu cases in Durham, Moore counties DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- Veterinarians are warning dog owners about a rise in canine influenza cases in Durham and Moore counties. So far, all of the cases involve dogs that had been boarded or stayed at a day care facility within the past two weeks.
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Artificial Intelligence Continues to Assist in Cough Detection April 21, 2023 - A new artificial intelligence algorithm is making it possible to detect coughs in more real-world settings, according to a paper recently published in the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
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Why strength training can control your high blood pressure Strength training encourages the generation of a molecule known as nitric oxide that helps dilate blood vessels and improves blood flow in the body. Consequently, the blood flow pressure in the arteries decreases, reducing blood pressure, says functional ...
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'Missing' cancer cases: New diagnoses dropped more than 14% early in pandemic An experimental therapeutic cancer vaccine has led to ''significant tumor regression in mice' a new study finds. During the first year of the COVID pandemic, as people were stuck at home ...
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COVID-19 Surveillance Strategies Prove Useful for RSV Results of a review show that lessons learned from the pandemic apply to the respiratory syncytial virus. Advertisement. The COVID-19 pandemic affected the ...
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How Long Can You Keep Medication Past Its Expiration Date? A Doctor Weighs In Loofa: Replace once a month. Medications: Do expiration dates matter? We've all been there: We're cleaning out our medicine cabinet and wonder, do I really have ...
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Surgery most effective treatment of metabolic liver disease Newswise — Metabolic (bariatric) surgery is more effective than medications and lifestyle interventions for the treatment of advanced non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. A new paper, published today in The Lancet by King's College London and the ...
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OHSU coronavirus (COVID-19) response OHSU: 12; Hillsboro Medical Center: 1; OHSU Hospital and OHSU Health Hillsboro Medical Center hospitalization details: 4 Not Fully Vaccinated/Unvaccinated; 6 Fully Vaccinated; 3 Fully Vaccinated with Booster. 0 de-isolated; 13 infectious.
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Novel Methylation-Based Platform Shows Promise for Multicancer Early Detection A genome-wide methylome enrichment platform demonstrated efficacy in detecting early-stage, low-shedding cancers with limited circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), according to a poster presentation at the 2023 AACR Annual Meeting.
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Study Reveals High Rates of Prescription Stimulant Abuse Among Middle and High School Students A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that up to 25% of middle and high school students are abusing prescription stimulants such as Adderall, amidst a nationwide shortage of ADHD drug.
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Canada and PAHO collaborate to strengthen vaccine manufacturing in Latin America and the Caribbean Washington D.C., 21 April 2023.- The Government of Canada and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) are collaborating to strengthen manufacturing capacities to increase the safe and timely access to vaccines in countries of Latin America and the ...
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Sugary drink tax improves health, lowers health care costs Oakland residents have bought fewer sugary beverages since a local "soda tax" went into effect, and that is likely improving their health and saving the city money, a new study by UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley found.
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Childhood Trauma Associated With Reduced Vascular Function, Worse Sleep Quality Additionally, the study found that poor sleep efficiency may contribute to vascular dysfunction with increasing exposure to adverse childhood experiences. However, improving sleep quality could offset some of these harmful effects of childhood trauma.
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Study finds causes of long COVID symptoms A few months after the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the United States in early 2020, some people who appeared to have recovered from the SARS-CoV-2 viral infection began reporting that they had a constellation of persistent symptoms.
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Stress Can Cause Serious Health Issues. Know the Symptoms. Occasional stress is a normal coping mechanism. But long-term or chronic stress requires an immediate visit to your primary care doctor. Almost every day, Dr. Namrata Singhi at Atrium Health Primary Care Steele Creek Family Medicine says she treats a ...
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Beadle County has avian flu case Before the April 19 case, the most recent case of bird flu was in a domestic flock of 570 pheasants in Spink County on March 22. The flu has been detected in 98 wild birds in South Dakota, according to the USDA. The state had its last case before March on ...
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Testicular cancer awareness month: 4 risk factors men should know The cancer that begins in the nonseminomas germ cell tumors of the testicles spread faster than the seminomas tumors. The occurrence of testicular cancer is less common. As per the Narayana Health, the incidence of this form of cancer in India is less than ...
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6 Dietitian-Approved Snacks That Taste Great Too April 21, 2023. Tired of tasteless food, calorie counting and intermittent fasting? We are too. So we asked a dietitian – how can you reach your weight loss goals while still enjoying the occasional snack or two. Here's what BreAnn Erickson, RDN, ...
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New Study Shows Promise of Test to Detect Parkinson's Disease Early In an encouraging development for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, a new study found that a laboratory test was able to detect the neurological disorder in people at high risk for developing it, even if they were not yet showing symptoms.
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Message by the Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals at WHO - April 2023 This was a major topic at our 1st meeting of 2023 of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) in March and was a theme of the Global Vaccine and Immunization Research Forum (GVIRF) biannual convening in Seoul, South Korea in April.
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Stress Rapidly Increases Biological Age, but Recovery Turns Back the Clock Summary: Stress can cause rapid and transient increases in biological age, which can be reversed upon recovery, according to a new study. Using DNA methylation clocks, researchers found that stress triggers short-term fluctuations in biological age in ...
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Rep. O'Day introduces bill focused on postpartum mental health BOSTON — It happens to one in seven parents. Postpartum depression is incredibly common in the first year after a baby is born, and is caused by a major chemical change in the body. What You Need To Know. Postpartum depression impacts one in seven ...
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Fungal Outbreak at Michigan Paper Mill Claims Life, Infects Nearly 100 A deadly fungal outbreak at the Billerud Paper Mill in Escanaba, Michigan, has claimed the life of a contract worker and left nearly 100 employees infected with blastomycosis, according to a press release from Public Health Delta & Menominee Counties ...
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Excision Surgery: Treatment for Endometriosis You've Probably Never Heard About By the time patients visit the office of gynecological surgeon Nicole Donnellan, MD, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Magee-Womens Hospital, they've often been seeking care for their intense pelvic pain for a decade or longer.
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USask pediatric infectious disease specialist to participate in national vaccine conference He said topics like respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, will be discussed, as well as what is happening with COVID-19, and what is going on with the anti-bacterial vaccine for pneumococcal pneumonia.
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Middlemore Hospital involved in global RSV vaccine trial for pregnant mothers The Aotearoa Clinical Trials team took part in the study and clinical director Dr John Baker said the results are important in areas like south Auckland, which are hit hard by the virus every year. Respiratory syncytial ...
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Collaborative trial set to prove the effectiveness of treating alcohol use disorder and PTSD It's a one-two punch whose time has come. No integrative treatment combining Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for PTSD and relapse prevention (RP) for AUD currently exists. A substantial proportion of ...
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Reality or Illusion? The Human Battle with Distinguishing Imagination from Reality Summary: The more vividly we imagine something, the more likely we are to believe it's real, a new study reports. Researchers found the brain encodes the vividness of perceived and real stimuli in a similar manner, resulting in a confusion between ...
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Rethinking the Goal of 10000 Steps a Day April 21, 2023 – Brian Smith has always been an active guy. · What Smith has found interesting is that he feels almost as fit and healthy as a walker as he does with his other activities.
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Weekly COVID deaths hit new record low, CDC data shows An estimated 1,160 Americans died from the virus this week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The next lowest point was the week of March 18, 2020, with 169 deaths.
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Tracking rapidly changing patterns of suicidal thought In a new study, Harvard researchers took a granular approach to measuring the duration and frequency of suicidal thinking. With the help of a smartphone app, they were able to monitor participants multiple times a day over several weeks.
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Arrowhead to seek OK later this year to test RNA therapy for ALS These gene mutations lead to the production of an abnormal version of the SOD1 protein that's prone to clumping up in nerve cells, where it is thought to drive cellular toxicity and neurodegeneration. Herbal ...
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Ice cream might actually be good for you, according to science An article in the May issue of The Atlantic goes deep on the unreported link between ice cream and better health. According to writer David Merritt Johns, it began with a tip he got, ...
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YouTube rolls out updated policy for eating disorder-related content Under the policy, the social media platform will prohibit content on its site about eating disorders that features imitable behavior that they deem can lead "at-risk viewers" to imitate. This content may be defined ...
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Day care waitlists are so long, moms are quitting their jobs or choosing to stop having kids Erica Manoatl got on waitlists for child care when she was about 12 weeks pregnant with her daughter. It should have been enough time, she thought then. Now, her daughter is almost a year and a half old. Manoatl is still waiting.
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JSO searching for missing 66-year-old The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office is looking for a missing endangered adult. Tristan Smith was reported missing at 9:30 pm on Friday night. He was last seen earlier that evening by an employee at his residential facility on Southbrook Drive.
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North Bay mother fights for better access to cancer care for her daughter A North Bay mother is back from Ottawa where she met with MPs this week to advocate for better access to cancer care as part of the Canadian Cancer Society's annual daffodil campaign. Renee Meyer's daughter, Ava Sevier, now 12, was diagnosed with ...
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YOUR DIETITIAN: Upping the flavor with Mediterranean herbs for improved brain and heart health In place of large amounts of salt, Mediterranean dishes use flavorful herbs (such as oregano, thyme and rosemary), onions, garlic, citrus juices (such as lemon or orange juice) and/or wine. This results in being able to use less salt.
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