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New Obesity Drugs Come With a Side Effect of Shaming Eileen Isotalo was always able to lose weight, but always gained it back. Now 66, her first diet was with Weight Watchers at age 14. She went on to try one diet after another and bought so many books on weight loss that she thinks she has more than the ...
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What Is Breast Cancer? Types, Symptoms, Causes, Stages And More When it comes to treating breast cancer, the earlier you're diagnosed, the better your odds of eliminating the disease. That's why following the United States Preventive Services Task Force's guidelines for breast cancer screening–mammograms every two ...
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Super-engineered vaccines created to help end polio Scientists have "super-engineered" polio vaccines to prevent them mutating into a dangerous form that can cause outbreaks and paralysis. The oral vaccines contain weakened live polio viruses and the genetic redesign locks them into that weakened state.
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Alzheimer's vs. Other Dementias: What's the Difference? By Ann Schreiber HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, June 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Imagine struggling to remember your loved ones, the places you've been or even your own name. The haunting reality of Alzheimer's disease and dementia is a ...
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Vaccine Candidate for Chikungunya Virus Safe and Effective A single dose of the live-attenuated vaccine candidate VLA1553 for the prevention of disease caused by chikungunya virus produced a strong immune response, a phase III randomized trial showed. At 28 days post-vaccine, 98.9% of participants in the ...
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Most Women With Early Breast Cancer Will Become Long-Term Survivors, New Study Shows By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, June 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Most women diagnosed with early breast cancer will become long-term survivors, according to new research that finds a substantial reduction in the risk of death ...
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Teens Rarely Get Anti-Addiction Meds When Treated for Opioid Misuse By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, June 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The medication buprenorphine normalizes brain function in people addicted to opioids, but teens rarely receive it at U.S. treatment centers, a new study finds.
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When Insurance Doesn't Cut It, Diabetes Patients Turn to Crowdfunding Even with insurance, some people with diabetes are turning to crowdfunding to keep up with high medical costs, researchers reported. Looking at 313 crowdfunding campaigns posted in recent years, only 6% specifically requested money for insulin costs, ...
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What to Know About Eclampsia The autopsy report for the track star Tori Bowie lists this rare and sometimes fatal complication of pregnancy. Give this article.
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Buprenorphine rarely available for adolescents at US addiction treatment centers More treatment facilities offer equine therapy than buprenorphine treatment. Only one-quarter of residential addiction treatment centers caring for adolescents in the United States offer buprenorphine to patients with opioid use disorder, according to ...
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The best drug combos to prevent COVID recurrence That the data came from China is significant for two reasons. First, when patients are treated for COVID-19 in the U.S, it is normally with one or two drugs. Early in the pandemic, doctors in China could prescribe as many as eight different drugs, enabling ...
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Chikungunya Vaccine Shows Promise in Phase III Trial Chikungunya virus is spread through infected Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes—the same mosquitoes that transmit dengue and Zika virus. Endemic in Africa and parts of Asia, outbreaks of the virus have occurred more recently in Europe and ...
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Light to Moderate Drinking May Help Relieve Stress, Help Your Heart Study could explain past research finding better health outcomes for light-to-moderate drinkers. Researchers examined data on more than 50,000 people enrolled in the Mass General Brigham Biobank. Light to moderate alcohol ...
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Obesity Weighs on the Brain, Impairing Nutrient Responses and Foiling Diets Brain responses to specific nutrients are diminished in individuals with obesity and are not improved after weight loss, according to a study in human volunteers, led by researchers at Amsterdam UMC and Yale University. The overall findings may ...
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What Is Leukemia? Symptoms, Causes And Treatment Cancer is a disease caused by abnormal cellular growth and proliferation that can occur in any part of the body. Some types of cancer form tumors, while others, such as leukemia, a term used to describe cancers of the blood cells, do not.
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Daily multivitamin may enhance memory in older adults A large clinical trial found that daily multivitamins led to modest improvements in memory over a three-year period in older adults. The greatest increase was seen in those who had underlying cardiovascular disease. Additional research is needed to ...
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Anticipating Needs of Patients Diagnosed with RSV Laurene Mascola, MD, MPH: The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices [ACIP] isn't a governmental agency, but it sets the standard for how vaccines are given with respect to timing, dosing, and age. That comes months before the MMWR [Morbidity and ...
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Infected mosquitos could bring viruses through bites. How to protect yourself We finally get rain, and the little buggers are out in force biting and breeding. And they could spread West Nile Virus, Eastern equine encephalitis or Jamestown Canyon virus. In fact, Jamestown Canyon virus was detected in mosquitoes recently ...
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Many more women now beating early breast cancer Most women with early breast cancer now beat the disease thanks to huge improvements in treatments in recent years, a BMJ analysis has found. Their risk of dying within five years of diagnosis is estimated to be around 5% - down from 14% in the 1990s.
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'Nature's Ozempic': Can Berberine Really Help You Lose Weight? Berberine activates a gene known as the master regulator of mitochondrial biogenesis and also lowers glucagon release. Studies show that supplementing with berberine may aid in weight loss, but more research is still needed. Berberine ...
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Weight-Loss Surgery May Weaken Bones of Teens and Young Adults Sleeve gastrectomy, a common weight-loss surgery, may result in loss of bone density in teens and young adults. However, experts say it's still unknown if this can eventually lead to increased health risks later in life. Health experts also say that ...
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DDX39B seen as 'guardian' in autoimmune attacks that drive MS The protein DDX39B is a master regulator of immune tolerance, or the immune system's ability to distinguish self from potentially harmful nonself molecules, and helps to control the development of immune cells that are key for this process, ...
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A Dietary Supplement That Might Really Work What did the new Science paper show? Well, first the authors (from Columbia University, India's National Institute of Immunology, and the Sanger Institute in the UK) describe how taurine levels clearly decline with age in humans and other mammals.
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What is calcium? Calcium 101: Bone Up on Your Knowledge · Helps blood to clot · Regulates nerve function · Contracts muscles · Keeps teeth and gums healthy · Helps regulate blood pressure · Reduces the risk of some cancers · May lower cholesterol · Is calcium related to kidney ...
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Rabid bat found in King County Rabies is a viral disease that infects the brain and spinal cord. It is found in the saliva of an infected animal and usually spreads by a bite or scratch. A rabies infection is almost ...
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Wiltshire cancer patient urges men to get prostate tested A man diagnosed with prostate cancer is urging others to get tested after admitting he put off going to see his doctor. Mark Johns, from Chippenham, was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer last year, aged 70. He said he now wishes he had known more ...
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Most early-stage breast cancer patients will be long-term survivors – study Research from the University of Oxford reveals that the risk of death within five years of diagnosis was 14.4% for women diagnosed between 1993 and 1999. This fell to 4.9% for women ...
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Rabid bat found in King County: What you should know to protect yourself, your family, and your pets In early June, an eastern King County resident and their unvaccinated puppy were exposed to rabies after potentially coming in contact with a bat in the bushes near their home. The bat was collected and sent to the Washington State Public Health Lab ...
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Unmasking COVID-19's Impact on the Brain Summary: A revolutionary MRI technique, known as Correlated Diffusion Imaging (CDI), has been utilized to uncover previously unseen changes in the brain caused by COVID-19. The study revealed distinct changes in the diffusion of water molecules within ...
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The Nutrient Taurine Shown to Slow Aging in Animal Studies Taurine, a nutrient found naturally in fish and meat and added as a supplement to many popular energy drinks, appears to help promote healthy aging — at least in mice and monkeys. Low taurine levels are associated with accelerated aging in many animal ...
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Antihistamine Sparks Hope for Myelin Repair in Multiple Sclerosis Summary: A new study paves the way for potential treatments for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) by identifying the OTC antihistamine, clemastine, as an effective drug for brain repair. Utilizing a newly-developed MRI scan technique, scientists were able to ...
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Rabid bats discovered in Lyons A resident discovered the infected bat on their deck and contacted Boulder County Public Health (BCPH) who conducted a risk assessment and collected the dead animal for rabies testing. This is the first animal to test positive for rabies in Boulder County ...
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Women diagnosed with early breast cancer today are much less likely to die from the disease than 20 years ago Image of a woman holding up a pink ribbon. A study conducted by researchers at Oxford Population Health has found that women who are diagnosed with early stage breast cancer today are 66 ...
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Can a blood clot cause a stroke? A stroke can occur when a blood clot blocks a blood vessel carrying nutrients and oxygen to the brain, resulting in brain cell death. Doctors refer to this as an ischemic stroke. A blood clot may cause an ischemic stroke due to obstruction in a blood ...
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Brain Wave Recordings Could Predict Cognitive Outcomes in Parkinson's A brief period of data collection using a head-mounted electrode could be enough to predict whether people with Parkinson's disease will develop thinking problems such as dementia during the course of their disease. That's the conclusion of a new study ...
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Peru battles deadly dengue fever outbreak Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels.
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Whole Breast Ultrasound Screening: Is There Adequate Utilization in Patients at Higher Risk for Breast Cancer? For women between the ages of 35 to 74 with intermediate BCSC five-year invasive breast cancer risk, 27.2 percent had screening ultrasound exams and 19.6 percent only had mammography exams, according to the study. Among ...
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Daily briefing: Taurine makes animals live longer — but don't binge on Red Bulls yet Big doses of an amino acid that is commonly used in energy drinks seem to help mice, worms and monkeys to live longer, healthier lives — but its effect is still unclear in people. Plus, reformatting papers is costing scientists millions. Flora Graham.
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Could bird flu spark the next pandemic - and are we prepared if it does? Scientists always knew a deadly virus was going to jump from animals to humans: COVID was not the first time it has happened, and it won't be the last. Should we be worried about frequent news reports of flu being detected in birds and other animals?
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Nature's Ozempic: how effective is berberine for weight loss? With rising rates of obesity, more and more people are turning to medication to help them lose weight. Among them is Ozempic, a drug used for diabetes that contains semaglutide also leads to weight loss. The popularity of Ozempic led to shortages of the ...
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More Clinical Events Occur in COVID-19 Pneumonia vs Other Viral Pneumonias SARS-CoV-2 viral pneumonia (PNA) may be associated with a higher incidence of clinical events than H3N2/H1N1 viral PNA, and race/ethnicity does not affect PNA inpatient mortality outcomes, according to study findings published in Heart & Lung.
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Host nasopharyngeal transcriptome dataset of a SARS-CoV-2 positive Italian cohort Host transcriptomics profiling provides comprehensive understanding of how the virus interacts with host cells and how the host responds to the virus. COVID-19 disease alters the host transcriptome, affecting cellular pathways and key molecular functions.
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Childhood vaccine rates show signs of recovery after pandemic backslide - Gavi LONDON, June 13 (Reuters) - Childhood immunisation rates began to recover last year in the world's poorest countries after being badly hit by COVID-19 disruptions, according to the global vaccine alliance Gavi. Last year, 80% of children got their ...
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Peru is enduring its worst dengue outbreak ever. Is El Niño making it worse? Dengue is a virus carried by Aedes mosquitoes, the same species responsible for the transmission of other diseases including yellow fever, Zika and chikungunya. While those mosquitos are present on every continent, except Antarctica, ...
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Traveling abroad? Health experts share the shots to get and meds to take to stay healthy Now that post-pandemic travel is booming, the Northwestern Medicine Travel Clinic is busy too. "This week has been honeymoon week already and it's only Tuesday," said Helen Bedross, a registered nurse ...
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Officials struggle to track down patients at risk of fungal meningitis: 3 updates The CDC updated clinicians on the outbreak June 8 and recommended that infected patients be treated with a combination of two fungal medications: liposomal amphotericin B and voriconazole for a suggested minimum of three to six months. After ...
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'Heart-in-a-Box' Device Revolutionizes Organ Transport When organ transplants became a more frequent procedure in the 1950s and 1960s, the standard method of transporting the organs was to pack them on ice in a cooler no fancier than what you might use to pack drinks for a picnic.
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Lab mice go wild: making experiments more natural in order to decode the brain Armed with technologies to track a creature's every move, neuroscientists are gaining insights into animal — and human — behaviour. ... Conceptual illustration showing a mouse being observed in natural environment. Illustration by Piotr ...
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Weight loss drugs are popular, but do they work? The growing popularity of weight loss drugs like Wegovy is causing traditional weight loss brands, like WW (Weight Watchers) and Noom, to get on board. But what do we know about this drug? FOX News Medical Team's Deena Centofani has more.
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Busting the 10-steps a day myth | 7NEWS 31 views 5 minutes ago #7NEWS #BREAKINGNEWS. New health research is prompting a re-think of the recommended 10,000 steps a day. Scientists now say we should take fewer steps at a faster pace for the ideal benefit. … Show more. Show more. Show less.
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