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Researchers Dispute High-Profile Discoveries of Cancer Microbes A scanning electron micrograph of pancreatic cancer cells, which are blue colored and splotchy on. A scanning electron micrograph of pancreatic cancer cells. Several research teams have cast doubt on the science of tumor ...
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Mental Health Spending Surged During the Pandemic Use of mental health care increased substantially during the coronavirus pandemic, as teletherapy lowered barriers to regular visits, according to a large study of insurance claims published Friday in JAMA Health Forum. From March 2020 to August 2022, ...
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In the US, West Nile virus is leading cause of viral disease spread by insects, CDC study says This summer has brought a flurry of warnings about cases of mosquito-borne illnesses, including malaria, dengue and Eastern equine encephalitis. But West Nile virus, transmitted primarily through the bite of an infected mosquito, continues to be the ...
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Early testing suggests variant BA.2.86 has been detected in US wastewater, CDC report says Preliminary testing of wastewater in the United States has detected the new highly mutated coronavirus variant BA.2.86, according to a risk assessment posted Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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AHA News: Here's the Latest on Dietary Cholesterol and How It Fits In With a Healthy Diet Because it was often associated with saturated fat, limiting dietary cholesterol – especially by restricting egg consumption – seemed to benefit heart-health efforts. More recently, accumulating data has ...
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Sedentary time as a kid could mean heart problems as an adult, research shows Childhood inactivity may be increasing risk for heart disease later in life, according to new research. The time kids spend being sedentary may be correlated with an increase in the mass of the heart's left ventricle — ...
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CDC Sets New Standards for Hospitals to Combat Sepsis The road map, a 35-page document outlining the "core elements" of a hospital sepsis program, is meant to help administrators bring together experts from various medical disciplines to detect and treat sepsis faster.
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New COVID variant BA.2.86 spreading in the US in August 2023. Here are key facts experts want you to know. Health authorities and scientists say they are now racing to study BA.2.86, a new strain of the virus that causes COVID-19, after the highly mutated variant was spotted spreading in multiple countries around the world and at least three different U.S. ...
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Wegovy May Be Valuable New Option for Heart Failure Patients By Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, Aug. 25, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Weight-loss drug Wegovy (semaglutide) and its diabetes-focused cousin, Ozempic, have already upended the treatment of both obesity and diabetes, with sales of ...
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Several people fall ill with mysterious rashes, fever after Tough Mudder event California health officials have issued an advisory after several people who competed in a Tough Mudder run and obstacle course competition last weekend fell ill with as-yet unexplained symptoms. The Sonoma County Department of Health Services (SDHS) ...
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Gut Troubles Could Be Early Signal of Parkinson's Disease By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, Aug. 25, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- It might not seem like constipation or difficulty swallowing could signal a neurological problem, but new research suggests that these gut conditions could be an ...
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Do Fish Oil Supplements Really Boost Your Health? By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Aug. 24, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Stroll past the supplements in any drugstore and you'll find broad claims about fish oil helping everything from heart and brain health, to joints, ...
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Gut problems may be early sign of Parkinson's disease Gut problems including constipation, difficulty swallowing and an irritable bowel may be an early warning sign of Parkinson's disease in some people, a new study suggests. The findings in the journal Gut add more evidence to the idea that brain and ...
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US Kids' HPV Vaccination Rate Has Stalled By Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Aug. 24, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For the first time in a decade, the rate at which American adolescents received the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has not increased, new data show.
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COVID hospitalizations climb 22% this week — and the CDC predicts further increases as new variants spread The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now forecasting an acceleration in new COVID-19 hospitalizations over the coming month, the agency said this week, replacing a previous projection that admissions would "remain stable or have an ...
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Naked Mole Rat Longevity Gene Lengthens Lifespan of Mice Naked mole rats, known for their long lifespans and resistance to age-related diseases, have long captured the attention of the scientific community. By introducing a specific gene responsible for enhanced cellular repair and protection into ...
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New-onset inflammatory diseases 'may be triggered' by COVID-19 infection, vaccination The possible new-onset manifestations include inflammatory joint diseases, polymyalgia rheumatica, connective tissue diseases and vasculitis. The researchers added that it is "highly plausible" that the risk from SARS-CoV-2 infection remains the ...
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What We're Reading: New Sepsis Guidelines; Mask Mandates Return; Tech-Supported Public Health Program Raymond Dantes, MD, a CDC medical advisor and one of the specialists who designed the new strategies said they were planned to "complement clinical guidelines." Sepsis is a factor in 1.7 million hospitalizations in the country each year.
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Spanish Fort football fans advised to take bug spray to game due to deadly EEE virus Two confirmations of deadly Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) within the same neighborhood in Spanish Fort is prompting a vector control specialist to warn residents to take immediate precautions. And that includes during tonight's football game ...
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CDC Launches a New Sepsis Guide for Hospitals This new guide aims to aid hospitals in implementing, monitoring, and optimizing sepsis programs and improving survival rates. According to the latest CDC survey of 5,221 hospitals, 73% of them have sepsis teams, but only 55% provide dedicated time to ...
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MUSC sees uptick in COVID hospitalizations, doctors predict early flu season CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Officials with the Medical University of South Carolina are seeing a rise in hospitalizations related to COVID-19. COVID hospitalizations at MUSC are up 43%, according to the hospital. For three years in a row, COVID has ...
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University of Sheffield researching new drugs for breast cancer Led by Professor Penelope Ottewell, the team will investigate investigate whether the drug radium-223, which is used to treat prostate cancer, could also be used in breast cancer cases.
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US Wastewater Tests Spot Highly Mutated Variant of COVID-19 By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Aug. 24, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Public health officials have detected the new BA.2.86 variant of COVID-19 in U.S. wastewater, giving rise to concerns about the highly mutated variant in the ...
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New COVID Strain May Evade Vaccines, Alarming Health Officials Aug. 24, 2023 – A new strain of COVID-19 that was only identified a week ago in the U.S. has prompted the CDC to take the rare step of issuing a formal message that it could evade vaccines or the protection of natural immunity.
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Immunization Update: 2024 Vaccine Schedules for Infants, Children, and Adolescents The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes updated immunization schedules annually in mid- to late February. Further updates are published as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) reviews and accepts new best available ...
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Shared decision-making improves equitable prostate cancer screening Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening is more common among white men than Black and Hispanic men, Nicola Frego, MD, a researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital's division of urological surgery and center for surgery and public health, and colleagues ...
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Some People With Long COVID Tested Negative for COVD-19 Aug. 24, 2023 -- Some cases of long COVID-19 might be going unidentified because the patient's initial infection wasn't detected. ADVERTISEMENT. That's according to a small, new study published in Neurology, Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation.
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FDA Approves First Maternal Vaccine Aimed at Preventing RSV in Infants This article first appeared on our sister brand, Contemporary Pediatrics ®. The FDA has approved the first vaccine for use in pregnant individuals to prevent lower respiratory tract disease (LRTD) and severe LRTD as a result of respiratory syncytial ...
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Coventry MP demands inquiry into 1960s radioactive study on south Asian women The Coventry MP Taiwo Owatemi has called for a statutory inquiry into medical research in the 1960s on south Asian women in the city, who were given chapatis containing radioactive isotopes. A total of 21 Indian-origin women, identified through a ...
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Record Broken: Decoding Words From Brain Signals While this BCI uses a machine learning approach similar to Stanford's to map brain activity patterns to speech reconstructions, it differs by using ECoG electrodes placed on the brain's surface (instead of the implanted electrode arrays used by the other ...
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CDC launches effort to bolster hospital sepsis programs In a typical year, at least 1.7 million adults in the US develop sepsis, and at least 350,000 die in the hospital or are moved into hospice care, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On top of that, about a third people who ...
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Lockdown, social distancing and face masks 'unequivocally' reduced Covid-19 spread The report looked at the international evidence for six non-pharmaceutical interventions used in the pandemic, including test and trace, and found they were clearly effective, particularly when used in combination.
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Wastewater testing in Republic, Mo., shows rise in COVID-19 viral numbers In addition, the Sewershed Surveillance Project said they have not seen the most recent variant of COVID-19 in Missouri. The state is monitoring. Lisa Cox, Communications Director with the Missouri Department of Health ...
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Funding from Breast Cancer Now supports research into new drugs for secondary breast cancer in the bone The charity has awarded £142,714 to Professor Penelope Ottewell at the University of Sheffield, to investigate whether a drug called radium-223, which is used to treat prostate cancer that's spread to the bone, could be combined with other treatments to ...
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Slightly unhealthy middle aged traits linked with earlier heart attacks and strokes Those classed as having metabolic syndrome – with a slightly high waist circumference, and marginally increased blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose levels – but who otherwise feel well are generally unaware of the risk, the researchers said.
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Vaccination Coverage Among Adolescents Aged 13–17 Years — National Immunization Survey–Teen, United States ... Tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis vaccine, meningococcal conjugate vaccine, and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine are routinely recommended for children at age 11–12 years. What is added by this report?
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First confirmed human case of West Nile Virus detected in Shasta County According to HHSA, symptoms of West Nile Virus can include severe headache, high fever, worsening confusion or a stiff neck. People with symptoms are urged to contact their healthcare provider and tell them if they have had recent mosquito bites.
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Genetics and environment influence immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 They show that latent cytomegalovirus infection and human genetic factors, driven by natural selection, contribute to population differences in immune response to SARS-CoV-2 and the severity of COVID-19. Understanding the factors ...
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Biomarkers may help detect prostate cancer risk in Black men Black men have a higher mortality rate from prostate cancer than any other ethnic group. City of Hope researchers have recently discovered biomarkers related to diabetes that may lead to better screening, testing and treatments for this population.
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Is masking coming back? As new COVID variants emerge, here's what experts say. "People 65-plus and people who are immunocompromised should strongly consider masking during flu, RSV, COVID season while in indoor public spaces," said Dr. Céline Gounder, a CBS News medical contributor and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health ...
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New dementia risk score 'outperforms' existing tools UK researchers have developed a new and more accurate dementia scoring tool that can predict the risk of people in middle age going on to develop dementia within 14 years, according to a new study. If validated in further studies, the UK Biobank ...
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ADHD medication shortage prevalent in tri-state region HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Doctors and parents across the country have growing concerns as a new school year begins and the shortage of ADHD medicine grows. There's been a nationwide shortage of stimulant medication for ADHD, and doctors in our region ...
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Weight-loss drug can reverse heart failure symptoms, study finds In the randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial – the gold standard of medical studies – researchers used semaglutide to treat patients suffering from heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). This is when the heart pumps normally ...
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Digestion issues could be warning sign of Parkinson's disease, research suggests Both comparisons found a higher risk of a Parkinson's disease diagnosis for patients with gut issues. Those with constipation, difficulty swallowing (dysphagia) and gastroparesis, where food takes longer to move from the stomach into the ...
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Dementia risk study finds 11 key factors behind condition A new dementia risk score, drawing on 11 mostly modifiable risk factors, can identify people at risk – from mid-life onwards – of developing the disease within the next 14 years. The findings were published in the open access journal BMJ Mental Health.
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Social circuits and their dysfunction in autism spectrum disorder Rodents display various social behaviors, and many different behavioral paradigms have been used for investigating their neural circuit bases. Social behavior is highly vulnerable to brain network dysfunction caused by neurological and neuropsychiatric ...
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UBC researchers receive nearly $5 million for cancer research The teams each received $2.4 million from the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI), with additional co-funding from the Lotte & John Hecht Memorial Foundation. The projects aim to improve outcomes for cancer patients by ...
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Antinucleocapsid Antibody Response Can Help Diagnose Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2, Improve Treatment ... A total of 29 patients with PVS associated with a suspected COVID-19 infection participated in assessments between June 2020 and April 2022 at Northwestern Medicine's Neuro COVID-19 clinic. Their cases were age- and sex ...
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Semaglutide in Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Obesity Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction is increasing in prevalence and is associated with a high symptom burden and functional impairment, especially in persons with obesity. No therapies have been approved to target obesity-related heart ...
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NMDOH says there is a slight increase in hospitalizations In the latest report on Aug. 14, there were 643 cases. The most recent data shows that people over 65 years old are the most at risk. Parajon says most cases are due to lower ...
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