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What you need to know about ticks However, only a handful in the US bite and transmit diseases to humans. The most common ones are blacklegged ticks (also known as deer ticks, but they feed on lots of animals besides deer), lone star ticks, American dog ticks and brown dog ticks.
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Study Finds New Way to Stop Nail Biting, Other Repetitive Habits July 21, 2023 -- A strategy called habit replacement helped more than half the people in a research project ease repetitive habits such as nail biting, hair plucking, and skin scratching, according to a new study. Researchers worked over 6 weeks with ...
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Hepatitis C Rates Soar Among Pregnant Women By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, July 21, 2023 (HealthDay News) – In the two decades since the opioid epidemic took off, the addiction crisis has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
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Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine is Leading to Major Increase in Fatal Overdoses Drug overdose deaths involving cocaine and methamphetamine in the United States have continued to rise over the past decade, but it is the presence of opioids that are driving these deaths, according to a new CDC report.
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2-year-old in Nevada dies from rare brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri A Las Vegas toddler passed away from a rare brain-eating amoeba called Naegleria fowleri, The Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health (DPBH) said in a statement. Woodrow Bundy, 2, died Wednesday morning after being treated at Sunrise Children's ...
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MS Treatment Within 6 Months of First Symptoms May Lower Disability Risk A new study finds getting treatment early for MS may help reduce risk of disability. In MS, the cells of the immune system mistakenly attack myelin, the protective sheath that insulates and protects the nerve fibers, or axons.
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Special Considerations in Treating Women With Schizophrenia This hypothesis is consistent with the observation that schizophrenia symptoms can be exacerbated during other times of estrogen withdrawal not only at perimenopause, 4 but also postpartum 5 and during the premenstrual phase of the menstrual cycle.
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Omega-3s May Preserve Lung Health By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, July 21, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A new study offers strong evidence that eating fish or supplements containing omega-3 fatty acids supports lung health. The finding underscores the importance of ...
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2-year-old Nevada boy dies from brain-eating amoeba likely contracted at natural hot spring A handout Centers for Disease Control and Prevention image depicts the characteristics associated with a rare brain infection due to Naegleria fowleri parasites, a brain-eating amoeba. CDC/Reuters.
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Mosquito sample in Palm Springs tests positive for West Nile virus Mosquitoes collected in Palm Springs tested positive for West Nile virus near Patencio Road and Hermosa Place, according to the the Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District. This is the first sample from the valley to test positive for the ...
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Northwestern Medicine Study Suggests Multidisciplinary Care Best for Long COVID Patients Dr. Marc Sala, pulmonologist and assistant professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, said the study's aim was, in part, to begin identifying patterns in the people who presented with long COVID.
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West Nile Virus found again in Jarrell WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — On Friday, the Williamson County and Cities Health District, or WCCHD announced that a mosquito trap sample taken from the Sonterra Community has tested positive for West Nile Virus. In response, the Sonterra Municipal ...
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'Brain fog' of long Covid comparable to ageing 10 years, study finds In a study by King's College London, researchers investigated the impact of Covid-19 on memory and found cognitive impairment highest in individuals who had tested positive and had more than three months of symptoms.
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OHSU coronavirus (COVID-19) response OHSU: 6; Hillsboro Medical Center: 4; OHSU Hospital and OHSU Health Hillsboro Medical Center hospitalization details: 1 Not Fully Vaccinated/Unvaccinated; 6 Fully Vaccinated; 3 Fully Vaccinated with Booster. 0 de-isolated; 10 infectious.
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Why You Might Be a Magnet for Mosquito Bites Summer is in full swing, and so is mosquito season — the buzzing, the bites, the stinging, and the itching have arrived. While we all try our best to ward off mosquitoes, some people seem to be mosquito magnets. Why are mosquitoes attracted to some ...
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"EMDR Therapy Helps People Heal From Experiences That Haunt Them" EMDR can be especially beneficial for adults with ADHD or comorbid conditions, such as anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), because it targets underlying traumatic experiences (i.e., childhood abuse, shame, neglect, bullying, etc.) ...
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Houston man loses hands, parts of his feet after flea bite On June 19, Kohlhof was admitted to the emergency room. By the next day, he was on a ventilator and his organs were failing. Doctors diagnosed him with a severe case of typhus, which is a bacterial infection spread by fleas.
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Geneva HIV patient cured? Can stem cell transplant help? Besides, stem cell transplantation comes with its own risks. The patient could reject donor cells and the virus may learn to infect cells through other mechanisms. Antiretroviral therapy is still effective. Advertisement.
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Newly approved drug may protect many babies and young children from RSV by this fall, UH doctor says A drug that could prevent seasonal respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, in babies and infants could be in Northeast Ohio hospitals by this fall. About 75 percent of children get RSV in their first year of life, but the virus can lead to hospitalization ...
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Single flea bite leads to amputation of man's hands, toes, family says SAN ANTONIO (Gray News) – What started as a single flea bite has now left a Texas man without hands or toes. Michael Kohlhof, 35, believed he had flu-like symptoms until his feet went numb. According to a GoFundMe post from Kohlhof's family, he went to ...
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Cataracts: Signs, symptoms and surgery A cataract is a cloudy area in the lens of your eye – the clear part of the eye that helps to focus light. Dr. Michael Yablick. SSM Health Davis Duehr ...
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Protein imbalance during middle age linked to dementia risk 25 years later Early diagnosis and intervention benefit people with dementia and their carers, so the search is on for early markers of the disease. Now, a long-term study in middle-aged people has identified 32 ...
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Dementia risk linked to blood-protein imbalance in middle age Visualization showing a brain affected by Alzheimer's disease. A slice through the brain of a person with Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia.Credit: Anatomical Travelogue/Science Photo ...
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Dengue fever cases could reach record high due to global warming, says WHO Climate change could help mosquitoes, and dengue, multiply faster; Dengue is the world's fastest-spreading tropical disease; The world is on track for "4 million plus" cases in 2023 ...
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Getting Answers: Local experts weigh in as West Nile virus detected in Hampden County AMHERST, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - Exactly one week ago, a batch of mosquitos were sampled from the West Springfield area. One of them tested positive for West Nile virus. Western Mass News spent some time getting answers on whether or not the community ...
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Towards new antibiotics with the first artificial synthesis of tanzawaic acid b Date: July 19, 2023; Source: Tokyo University of Science; Summary: Drug-resistant bacteria represent a major threat to public health worldwide, and scientists are constantly searching for novel antibiotic compounds. In a recent study, a research team ...
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Study reveals weekend-only workouts can also boost heart health Participants in the study were divided into three groups, and they wore exercise wrist devices for a week, and researchers tracked their movements for an average of over six years. The UK Biobank is a biomedical ...
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2-year-old boy dies after being infected with rare brain-eating amoeba, officials say Naegleria fowleri is a microscopic single-celled living amoeba that occurs naturally in the environment. This amoeba can cause a very serious rare infection that destroys brain tissue and is almost always fatal, according to the ...
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West Nile Virus found in Millcreek Township mosquitos The group of mosquitos was collected in Millcreek back on Tuesday, July 18 and marks the third group to test positive for the virus in Erie County this year, although no human cases have been reported.
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A single flea bite sent him to the hospital. One month later, he's lost his hands and toes. Doctors said Michael Kohlhof, a volunteer and handyman, was infected with a rare form of Typhus. Now, he needs help. Author: Alicia Neaves. Published: ...
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Increased interregional virus exchange and nucleotide diversity outline the expansion of chikungunya virus in Brazil The establishment of the CHIKV in the Brazilian territory was followed by several outbreaks reported across the country, accounting for more than 200 thousand confirmed cases in only the last two years. Viral genomic data ...
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Artificial sweeteners: When 'zero' is not the way to go Almost 15 years ago, a strange experiment was carried out in two Swiss zoos. Captive wild animals from the Zurich and Rapperswil zoos, including a lion, were given access to sugary water containing six natural sugars and six artificial sugars for 24 hours.
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Black, Hispanic liver disease patients face transplant disparities, study says (copy) Black and Hispanic patients with a serious liver-scarring condition are less likely to receive transplants than their White peers in the U.S., according to researchers arguing for greater equity in providing the lifesaving procedure.
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The association of maternal overweight on long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes in premature infants (< 29 weeks ... Preterm infants have an underlying risk of neonatal complications and neurodevelopmental disabilities which maternal pre-pregnancy BMI may compound. It has been shown that infants of mothers who are overweight or obese before pregnancy are at increased ...
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