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The Truth About 'Nature's Ozempic' What experts know about berberine, the chemical compound purported to help induce weight loss. ... A white pill bottle pouring a handful of large yellow pills into the palm of a ... Sign up for the Well newsletter, for Times subscribers only.
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ChatGPT's responses to suicide, addiction, sexual assault crises raise questions in new study When asked serious public health questions related to abuse, suicide or other medical crises, the online chatbot tool ChatGPT provided critical resources – such as what 1-800 lifeline number to call for help – only about 22% of the time in a new study.
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Skin-to-skin contact significantly reduces death rates for preterm babies Researchers analyzed data from multiple studies that collectively included more than 15,000 infants worldwide. They found that, compared to conventional care, kangaroo mother care seemed to reduce mortality by 32 percent within the first 28 days of life.
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Can Some Cancer Patients Safely Skip Radiation Therapy? New Studies Say Yes By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, June 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Radiation therapy might not be necessary in treating some forms of rectal cancer and lymphoma, sparing patients from the toxic treatment, a pair of new ...
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This Common Sugar Substitute May Damage Your DNA and Increase Your Cancer Risk A study from researchers at North Carolina State University suggests that a chemical formed from one artificial sweeteners might also damage our DNA. The zero-calorie sweetener in question is sucralose, which is about 600 ...
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Study says AI better at predicting cancer risk 123 views 24 minutes ago #cancer #artificialintelligence #health. A new study claims that artificial intelligence is more accurate at predicting a patient's cancer risk than traditional methods. Janet Shamlian takes a look at how the emerging ...
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Nitroglycerin patch does not reduce hot flashes during menopause Nitroglycerin was linked to headaches, although this association did not persist. Continuous use of transdermal nitroglycerin did not result in sustained improvements in hot flash frequency or severity compared with placebo among peri- and postmenopausal ...
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Brain activity predicts chronic pain The participants had electrodes surgically implanted in two brain regions— the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC)—to study an approach called deep brain stimulation. These regions have been implicated in different aspects of ...
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Your Risk of COVID-Linked Smell Loss Is Much Lower Now: Study By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, June 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- One of the signature symptoms of COVID-19 infection in the early months of the pandemic was a loss of the sense of smell. Now, new research finds that is no ...
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Fighting Malaria Based on the Targeting of Biological Clocks Health officials warn that drug resistance could wipe out recent progress against malaria, particularly in Africa and Southeast Asia. Now, researchers looking for other ways to fight the mosquito-borne parasites that cause the disease have zeroed in on ...
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Biological Clocks of People and Malaria Parasites Tick in Tune The team of researchers at Duke University, Florida Atlantic University and the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences says the findings could pave the way to new anti-malarial drugs that throw malaria's internal clock out of step with its ...
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Birth control for cats? For the first time, researchers have isolated a hormone that can prevent cats from getting pregnant. A single dose of a viral vector containing anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), a naturally occurring hormone, prevented ovulation and conception in female ...
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How Flavanol-Rich Foods Could Help Boost Your Memory, Cognition Flavanol consumption may boost cognitive abilities in some older adults, according to research findings shared by a multinational team. Previous research has suggested a link between flavanol consumption and cognitive aging that may depend on diet ...
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Kids With ADHD, Behavior Issues Have Poorer Trajectories as Adults Researchers found that having attention and behavior problems in childhood was linked to less money, lower educational achievement and poorer health in adulthood when compared to those who could regulate their behavior as kids. " ...
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More US Kids, Teens Are Getting Weight-Loss Surgeries By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, June 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- As obesity rises among U.S. kids and teens, the number of weight-loss surgeries is growing, too. Metabolic and bariatric surgeries among 10- to 19-year-olds rose ...
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Gut microbiome immaturity and childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia The consistently observed deficiency in short-chain fatty-acid-producing bacterial taxa in children with ALL has the potential to promote dysregulated immune responses and to, ultimately, increase the risk of transformation of preleukaemic clones in ...
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Have a question about your mental health? How ChatGPT can — and can't — help Digital mental health technology has been around since the mid-1960s, said Dr. John Torous, a Harvard professor and the director of digital psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Massachusetts. There are reasons it hasn't replaced a human ...
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Two mosquito virus samples found in Kern County, public health gives safety warnings The West Nile Virus and the Saint Louis Encephalitis are serious illnesses that have been found in Kern County this year. According to Kern County Public Health, the virus is found in birds and gets passed when a mosquito feeds on a bird that is ...
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Low mpox immunity makes Tampa Bay possible site for outbreak, CDC warns Health officials recommend vaccines for at-risk groups as analysis shows roughly 50% chance of uptick of cases of virus formerly known as monkeypox.
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FDA approves letermovir to prevent CMV in kidney transplant recipients Letermovir was first approved in 2017 for high-risk stem cell transplant recipients. CMV is relatively common in adults but is normally dormant. The FDA on Tuesday approved letermovir for the prevention of cytomegalovirus disease in high-risk adult ...
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Plan for GPs to offer NHS patients Wegovy weight-loss jab But experts warn "skinny jabs" - widely used in the US and endorsed by many celebrities - are not a quick fix or a substitute for a healthy diet and exercise. In ...
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Does shingles vaccination cut dementia risk? Large study hints at a link With that in mind, epidemiologist Pascal Geldsetzer at Stanford University in California and his colleagues turned to a natural experiment: a shingles vaccination programme in Wales, which began on 1 September 2013. Shingles is caused by ...
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AI outperformed standard risk model for predicting breast cancer Researchers are reporting that artificial intelligence programs were more accurate in predicting breast cancer risk than traditional methods. They said the programs could help with earlier diagnosis and better preventive measures.
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How does attention dysregulation impact anxiety, cognition, and low mood among adolescents? The exact cause-and-effect connections between a possible C-factor and a P-factor remain uncertain. Fitting models that explore transdiagnostic characteristics of psychopathology and cognitive impairments may offer insight, but they do not explain specific ...
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County Public Health urges at-risk populations to get mpox vaccinations Although San Diego County has not seen a case of mpox — formerly known as monkeypox — since February, public health officials Tuesday urged at-risk people to get a vaccination against the virus, following a cluster of cases in the Chicago area.
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The DC area is on alert for Mpox as Pride starts. Here's what you need to know. There's a renewed risk of mpox outbreaks as people gather for summer festivals and Pride celebrations, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned. While overall reported cases in the U.S. remain low, a recent outbreak in Chicago led the ...
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Dopamine Plays Double Duty in Learning and Motivation In the study, male rats underwent Pavlovian or operant conditioning while their dopamine release was measured. It was found that in both conditioning types, rats released dopamine when exposed to a reward-predictive cue.
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COVID-19 Plus CMV Leads to Greater Cardiovascular Risks COVID-19 and CMV coinfection caused the premature aging of immune systems, leading to a greater risk of cardiovascular disease at an earlier age, the study authors said. Advertisement.
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Causal Relationship between Smoking Marijuana and Gynecomastia Remains Unproven Editor: In their study regarding chest CT findings in marijuana smokers, published in the April 2023 issue of Radiology, Dr Murtha and colleagues (1) reported that marijuana smokers had significantly more gynecomastia than ...
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Red meat, sugar may play a role in young adults getting colorectal cancer, research says (CNN) - More young adults are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer. In fact, it is estimated to become the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in those ages 20 to 49 in the United States by the year 2030. The factors driving the rise remain a ...
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Scientists set AI to work on finding vaccines to combat the next Disease X Artificial intelligence is being utilised to help develop a new generation of vaccines capable of protecting against new diseases with pandemic potential. AI created by researchers at Leipzig University, in Germany, will be used to build ...
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How your brain stays focused on conversations in a noisy room We now have a good explanation for how our brain keeps track of a conversation while we are in a loud, crowded room, a discovery that could improve hearing aids. The general idea for speech perception is that only the voice of the person you are paying ...
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Developing New Nanoparticle Treatments for Brain Tumors Glioblastoma, the most common type of primary brain cancer, is one of the most complex, deadly and treatment-resistant cancers, according to the National Brain Tumor Society. The five-year survival rate for glioblastoma patients hovers near 7 percent and ...
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Jab for obese adults set to become easier to obtain through NHS NICE, the body which rules on the cost-effectiveness of novel medicines, earlier this year approved the new drug, semaglutide, but said it should be available only through specialist weight-management services, most of which are in ...
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Biological Aging Increases Risk of Depression, Anxiety in Adults Advanced biological aging may increase the risk of depression or anxiety in midlife for older adults, according to a recent study published in Nature Communications. Depression and anxiety are two of the most common mental health disorders in U.S. ...
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Conditions predicted to worsen in Toronto as poor air quality, high levels of pollution confirmed Environment Canada has increased the air quality risk level for Toronto on Wednesday, up from Tuesday, as smoky conditions continue to swirl around the city and the smell of burning fills the air. The agency issued a special weather alert for the city ...
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| FDA approves new antibiotic combination for drug-resistant pneumonia The FDA has approved Innoviva's sulbactam plus durlobactam (Xacduro) for hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia caused by susceptible strains of Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus complex (ABC).
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Does COVID-19 vaccination affect the menstrual cycle? This has led to many expressing concern about whether these vaccines compromise female reproductive health. Biologically, a pathway whereby the immune response evoked by a vaccine produces a short-term effect on the endocrine master gland ...
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Power of Exercise: Countering High Genetic Risk of Type 2 Diabetes A University of Sydney study suggests high levels of physical activity can significantly lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, even for those with a high genetic risk. Over an hour of daily moderate- to vigorous-intensity exercise was linked to ...
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New drugs pilot to tackle obesity and cut NHS waiting lists Earlier this year, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommended the use of Semaglutide (Wegovy) for adults with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of at least 35 and one weight-related health condition – such as diabetes or high blood ...
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Red meat, sugar may play a role in young adults getting colorectal cancer, research says The factors driving the rise remain a mystery. However, a new study suggests dietary and environmental exposures may play a role. Dr. Suneel Kamath with Cleveland Clinic is the senior author of a new study ...
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NH moms, children among participants in study linking PFAS exposure to obesity risk While researchers said the rise in childhood and adolescent obesity in the U.S. is widely attributed to diet and lack of physical activity, fetal exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals, like PFAS, may predispose individuals to higher body fat and risk ...
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Can exercise help counteract genetic risk of disease? The researchers say the study demonstrates higher levels of physical activity should be promoted as a major strategy for type 2 diabetes prevention, which affects millions of Australians. The study involved 59,325 adults from the UK Biobank ...
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How the Brain Decodes Speech in Noisy Rooms Their study, leveraging neural recordings and computer models, demonstrates that when struggling to follow a conversation amidst louder voices, our brain encodes phonetic information distinctly from when the voice is easily heard. This could be pivotal in ...
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Mosquito tests positive for West Nile virus in Burbank Summer is typically the peak season for West Nile, which is spread among wild birds and transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected mosquito. What You Need To Know ...
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1st case of West Nile virus found in LA County mosquito this year BURBANK, Calif. (KABC) -- A mosquito has tested positive for the West Nile virus in Burbank. This is the first confirmed case of the virus in Los Angeles County this year. Summer and fall are peak seasons for the virus, which is spread to humans who ...
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Researchers Find a Greater Number of Pro-Inflammatory Cells in the Gut of Children With IBD Than in Adults Findings by Swedish team of investigators could help identify biomarkers that would predict the response to treatments. Advertisement. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) including ...
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Scientists may be able to help Alzheimer's patients by boosting memory consolidation STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: What happens when you sleep? While you're sleeping, the brain strengthens memories that it expects to use in the future. Now scientists say they've found a way to enhance that process. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on research that ...
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HMPV: the little known virus that's making its mark in intensive care A study in Lancet Global Health showed that hMPV is a common cause of acute respiratory disease in children in every country examined.4 Globally, in 2018 among children younger than 5 years there were an estimated 14 million hMPV infections, 600 000 ...
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Osteoporosis: How the 'silent' disease affects millions Typically considered a "silent" disease due to its lack of visible symptoms, osteoporosis affects roughly 10 million adults ages 50 and older in the United States, and can lead to weakened bones and an increased risk of fractures and injuries.
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