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If We Are What We Eat, We Don't Know Who We Are In "Ultra-Processed People," Chris van Tulleken takes a close look at the franken-snacks that barely resemble what they're imitating.
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PURE Healthy Diet Sees Advantage by Promoting Whole-Fat Dairy for Heart Health By counting whole-fat dairy as a protective food, the new PURE Healthy Diet score strengthened the relationship between healthy eating and heart disease in a large study. For individuals with and without cardiovascular disease (CVD), higher intake of ...
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Understanding Latent Tuberculosis LTB happens when you have TB bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) in your body, but you don't have symptoms of an infection. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ...
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New Heart Implant Monitors, Treats -- and Then Dissolves Away By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, July 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental implant now under development could serve as a temporary monitor and pacemaker for ailing heart patients -- then dissolve away when it's no ...
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Rapid Dementia Onset Linked to Atrial Fibrillation in Women July 7, 2023 – Women with a common heart rhythm problem called atrial fibrillation are more likely to develop dementia, and the severity of their dementia progresses more quickly for women than it does for men, according to a new study.
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2 more locally acquired cases of malaria found in Florida, bringing recent US total to 7 The illness is caused when a person is bitten by a mosquito carrying malaria parasites, the CDC said. Malaria isn't contagious and can't be spread person-to-person. According to ...
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Tick season nears peak as experts report rise of tick-borne diseases Diagnoses of Lyme disease - a bacterial infection spread by bites from blacklegged ticks, or deer ticks - were 17% higher in the first week of June than they were a year earlier, according to data from athenahealth, a health care technology company.
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Is it the flu or malaria? What to know as Florida sees more mosquito-transmitted illness Common malaria symptoms are similar to flu, cold and COVID-19 symptoms, and can include chills, fever, headache, nausea, muscle aches and diarrhea. Malaria can also cause anemia, jaundice, and ...
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Malaria cases on the rise in Florida At the end of June, the Florida department issued a statewide mosquito-borne illness advisory following the initial four cases of malaria. The Texas Department of State Health Services said on Friday that it is still ...
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West Nile virus detected in Brookline mosquitoes Mosquitoes trapped in Brookline tested positive for the disease. Health officials warn that the warm weather mixed with recent rain will likely increase the threat of the virus. However, there are steps you ...
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Viruses and bacteria frequently interact in man-made environments, study shows By understanding these virus–bacteria interactions and identifying the possible spread of antibiotic resistance genes, the research team hopes its latest findings can help derive effective control strategies to minimize human exposure to harmful ...
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Children with mitochondrial disorders have weaker immune response to infection "There are many recognized differences between mouse and human immunology," Gordon-Lipkin and colleagues wrote. "Therefore, including humans as the 'highest order experimental system' is an imperative for translational immunometabolism studies.".
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Study finds ticks could be agents in the spreading of CWD in deer MADISON (WKOW) -- A new study finds ticks could be possible agents in the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease between deer in Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers found that ticks can harbor transmissible amounts of the protein particle ...
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New HIV case linked to 'vampire facial' at shuttered New Mexico spa The Department of Health said it has reopened its investigation into the spa and is recommending former clients who received injection-related services – including vampire facials or Botox – be tested for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.
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Triple combination therapy shows promise in long-term treatment of cystic fibrosis The mucus in the airways is not as sticky, inflammation in the lungs significantly reduced: Triple combination therapy can achieve these positive, lasting effects in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). Researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin ...
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Tick season is here: How to avoid ticks It's tick season now and researchers from the University of Agder in Norway shed light on the myths and facts about these parasites. The tick is a parasite that feeds on blood. The good news is that a tick feeds only three times in its lifetime.
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How Much Water Should You Drink in a Day? So how much water should we be drinking? Is there science behind aiming for eight glasses a day? To help understand the importance of hydration and how to determine the amount of water we should be taking in ...
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AI Tool Decodes Brain Cancer's Genome During Surgery Real-time tumor profiling can guide surgical, treatment decisions · New AI tool enables in-surgery genomic profiling of gliomas, the most aggressive and most common brain tumors. · This information offers critical clues about how aggressive a cancer is, its ...
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First Mass. mosquito pool tests positive for West Nile virus Most people bitten by infected mosquitoes experience no symptoms, while about 20% of those who become infected can experience symptoms like fever, headache, body aches, nausea, vomiting and sometimes swollen lymph glands.
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More steps just a couple of times a week can improve heart health, UCLA study shows Thus, adults who find it challenging to exercise regularly can still achieve meaningful health benefits by doing one of the simplest exercises - walking. "What we were trying to figure out is ...
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Bat tests positive for rabies in Montezuma County Check your pet's rabies vaccination status to reduce risks of exposure to rabies. Stay away from wild animals and take other precautions to keep pets safe, the news release urged. Rabies are spread through bites of ...
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Hope spreads as 18 million doses of the first malaria vaccine are allocated to 12 African countries Irene Mideva from Vihiga County in western Kenya lost two children in the space of three months in 2004. The cause of death in both cases was malaria, a mosquito-transmitted parasitic infection that killed 1.8 million people worldwide that year, ...
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How to reduce your risk of mosquito outbreaks and West Nile exposure TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — Cases of the West Nile Virus are slowly starting to emerge from around the Gem State. On Thursday, Canyon County reported its first confirmed case of the virus. Thankfully so far, the West Nile Virus has not made its way ...
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The American Medical Association acknowledges BMI's weighty problems, including racism For adults, measuring BMI along with waist circumference may be a better way to predict weight-related risk, AMA advised. "We've been waiting for this because BMI is only a screening tool ...
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Projected rise in cancer cases in France Particularly worrying now is the rise in lung cancer in women caused by smoking and pancreatic cancer. Also on the rise are breast, liver, colorectal, and lip, mouth, and pharynx cancer cases. By contrast, cervical cancer cases dropped by 20% over the same ...
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Ticks may be able to spread chronic wasting disease between Wisconsin deer Date: July 7, 2023; Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison; Summary: A new study finds that ticks can harbor transmissible amounts of the protein particle that causes Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), implicating the parasites as possible agents in the ...
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Brownsea Island: Bird flu confirmed after 600 birds found dead The results from the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) confirmed it was avian flu. Dorset Wildlife Trust said it would "potentially have a serious impact on future populations ...
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How a Harvard scientist reversed his biological age by 10 years: 'I don't exercise every day' David Sinclair's age on paper might be 54, but he doesn't feel a day over 44. The Harvard genetics professor claims he has managed to reverse his biological age by a decade with a consistent regime of good diet and exercise. Sinclair is among a small ...
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Mpox (monkeypox) outbreak: epidemiological overview, 6 July 2023 This epidemiological overview provides an update to the number of confirmed and highly probable mpox cases in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Mpox is a zoonotic infection, caused by the monkeypox virus, that occurs mostly in West and ...
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West Nile detected in mosquitoes trapped in Brookline Most people infected with West Nile will not experience serious symptoms, though in rare cases it can cause serious or even fatal illness. By Thea DiGiammerino • Published 12 mins ago • Updated 11 mins ago. Mosquitoes trapped in Brookline, ...
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AI Tool Shows Promise For Treating Brain Cancer, Study Finds (Bloomberg) -- An artificial-intelligence tool has shown promise at helping doctors fight aggressive brain tumors by identifying characteristics that help guide surgery. The tool — called the Cryosection Histopathology Assessment and Review Machine, ...
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Climate change is helping this new deadly virus to spread across Europe Warmer temperatures are transforming Europe into the perfect habitat for ticks carrying CCHF, a deadly virus which in the worst cases results in death. A deadly disease spread by ticks and usually found in the Balkans, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East ...
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Base Editing Beats Other Genome Editing Strategies for Treating Sickle Cell Disease Base editing—the genome editing technique that alters base pairs using a nuclease-deficient Cas9 fused to a deaminase—was found to restart fetal hemoglobin expression in sickle cell disease (SCD) patient cells. This result stems from work that compared ...
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Keytruda Plus Chemotherapy Improved Survival in Hodgkin Lymphoma Keytruda (pembrolizumab), when administered in conjunction with chemotherapy, resulted in total overall survival improvement among patients with untreated classic Hodgkin lymphoma (CHL) in what study authors have said is the first study of this ...
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Former OSHA chief: Agency should prepare for next pandemic In a June 16 viewpoint article in JAMA, David Michaels, former assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health, wrote the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) should take steps to better protect workers in future ...
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Eating Healthy Every Day It is especially important that you are aware of making healthy food choices and developing healthy eating habits each day. The keys to eating healthy include enjoying more plant-based meals and snacks, purchasing foods with minimal packaging, ...
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Public health must go 'back to basics' to build trust, says COVID response coordinator Former White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha, right, says goodbye to Dr. Anthony Fauci, center, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, alongside White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, left, at the ...
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Researchers uncover how a genetic mutation can cause individuals with normal cholesterol levels to develop coronary ... A novel molecular pathway to explain how a mutation in the gene ACTA2 can cause individuals in their 30s – with normal cholesterol levels and no other risk factors — to develop coronary artery disease has been identified, according to researchers with ...
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