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Four Years on, the Mysteries of Covid are Unraveling When the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, nearly everything about the novel coronavirus was an open question: How was it spreading so quickly? How sick would it make people? Would a single bout buy you ...
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Want to quiet your snoring bed-partner? We asked sleep experts for their recommendations Like a lot of other health issues, snoring exists on a spectrum. This can range anywhere from mild snoring that is so soft and light, your bed partner might not even notice any noise, to severe, sleep-disrupting snoring often associated with sleep ...
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Chlamydia-like 'parrot fever' won't be the next bird flu pandemic, experts say Psittacosis often shows up after someone has had contact with parrots, parakeets or mynah birds, explains Patrick McHugh, an emergency medicine physician at Cleveland Clinic Akron General who specialises in wilderness medicine.
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Weight-loss drug Wegovy can be marketed for heart benefits after FDA label update The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved drugmaker Novo Nordisk's application to add cardiovascular benefits to the medicine's label, making it the first weight-loss drug to also be cleared to reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke or heart- ...
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Obesity drug Wegovy is approved to cut heart attack and stroke risk in overweight patients The popular weight-loss drug Wegovy, which has helped millions of Americans shed pounds, can now be used to reduce the risk of stroke, heart attacks and other serious cardiovascular problems in patients who are overweight or who have obesity, ...
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Time to finally stop worrying about COVID? The key change reduced the recommended isolation time for those with COVID from five days to one after a fever breaks or other symptoms start improving. The Gazette asked Associate Professor of Epidemiology William Hanage, who is ...
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Your Risk of Having Obesity in Middle Age May Depend on Your Parents Genes play a role, but other factors are also involved, such as a family's dietary and physical activity habits and racism and discrimination. Your risk of living with obesity in middle age is ...
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Microplastics Linked to Heart Attack, Stroke and Death Now the first data of their kind show a link between these microplastics and human health. A study of more than 200 people undergoing surgery found that nearly 60% had microplastics or even smaller nanoplastics in a main artery.
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Chicago reports 2 measles cases The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) has reported two measles cases, one at a center for new migrants and another in a person who had interactions with domestic and international travelers, on a day that US officials raised the national tally ...
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Measles case involving migrant child highlights gaps and challenges in providing health care Chicago public health officials confirmed Friday that a child at the city's largest migrant shelter had contracted and since recovered from a case of measles, raising questions about when the child became infected and when city officials – and the ...
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Colon cancer among young adults may be different than older patients, new research finds Scientists are just beginning to unlock why more Gen X'ers and even millennials are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Dr. Alok Khorana and his team at Cleveland Clinic discovered something unexpected in the guts of young patients.
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What is measles? Is it dangerous? What to know about symptoms, vaccines amid recent outbreak The widespread use of vaccines eradicated measles − a highly contagious virus that primarily affects children − in 2000 in the U.S., and most current cases have originated outside the country and occur in unvaccinated people.
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Obesity Drugs Like Wegovy Are Meant for Long-Term Use, but Some Want to Stop Millions of Americans who have dropped pounds and boosted their health using popular obesity drugs like semaglutide (Wegovy) are facing a new dilemma: What happens if they stop taking them? Many worry, rightly, that they'll regain weight and revert to ...
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Hundreds possibly exposed to measles at UC Davis medical center, officials warn The Sacramento County and El Dorado County public health departments said a child with a confirmed case of measles visited the emergency department at UC Davis in Sacramento on Tuesday. Advertisement.
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Can AI Tool Improve Dx of Ear Infections? METHODOLOGY: The developers relied on otoscopic videos of the tympanic membrane captured on smartphones connected to scopes. Their analysis focused on 1151 videos from 635 children, most younger than 3 years old, ...
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What is measles? What to know as cases reported in Chicago According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, measles is considered "one of the most congtagious diseases". By NBC Chicago Staff • Published 4 hours ago • Updated 4 hours ago. NBC Universal, Inc. A second case of measles has been ...
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Can you inherit obesity from your parents? New research says it's possible The children of parents who had obesity in midlife are significantly likely to also have obesity at the same age, according a new study. The research follows two generations of families to investigate the transmission of obesity from parents to their ...
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SARS-CoV-2 RNA can persist in blood, tissue, may play role in long COVID, research suggests Because viral RNA was found in connective tissue where immune cells are located, the study authors said the RNA may have been causing an immune response. "These two studies provide some of the strongest evidence so far ...
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UKHSA data shows continued increase in whooping cough cases These infants, who are too young to be fully vaccinated, are at greater risk of severe disease, including death. UKHSA is strongly encouraging expectant mothers to take up the maternal vaccine. Vaccination of pregnant women is 97% effective at preventing ...
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Look to Your Parents for Your Odds of Obesity: Study Further, having just one obese parent more than triples a person's odds of middle-aged obesity, researchers found. These findings demonstrate that the established association between childhood obesity and parental weight doesn' ...
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FDA Approves First Treatment to Reduce Risk of Serious Heart Problems Specifically in Adults with Obesity or ... Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new indication for use for Wegovy (semaglutide) injection to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack and stroke in adults with cardiovascular disease and either obesity or overweight ...
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"Nobody had it." Nationwide drug shortage impacting people in the Chattahoochee Valley Many of these patient' ...
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NJ mumps cases: Where the 2024 cases were reported "Mumps can be dangerous," it said. "Swollen glands can include swelling of brain, testicles, ovaries or breast tissue. This can cause complications such as brain inflammation (encephalitis), deafness or infertility later in life.".
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How effective are measles vaccines and do you need a booster? What to know "Anyone who is not vaccinated against measles should do so," CDPH said in a release. "MMR vaccine is available at most doctor's offices and pharmacies. Illinois children as young as 10 years-old can get vaccinated at pharmacies under Illinois law.
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Michigan confirms first child flu death of 2023-2024 season LANSING, Mich. — Michigan's Department of Health and Human Services, or MDHHS, confirmed Friday a child has died from the flu; the first of the 2023-2024 flu season. The child was reported to have contracted Influenza A, or H1N1, according to health ...
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Spring COVID-19 booster shots. Should you get one? And what's the best timing? It's spring, the season for sweet strawberries, colorful tulips, crisp vegetables — and a COVID-19 booster shot. What? A spring dose of the COVID-19 vaccine? Yes. Health experts with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently ...
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Junk Food Is Killing Us. Here's How To Fight Back A British Medical Journal study examined evidence from 2009 to 2023 and found that eating more ultra-processed food—ostensibly junk food— leads to a 50% increase in cardiovascular death and a 12% jump in Type 2 diabetes.
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Child dies from influenza, marking season's 1st pediatric death in Michigan LANSING, MI - Health officials confirmed Friday that a child died of influenza, marking the virus's first pediatric death of the 2023-24 flu season. The child contracted Influenza A(H1N1), said Michigan Department of Health and Human Services in a ...
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Spring is here – and so are allergies For parents, it's a relief that children can go outside more and have more time to play before dark. But for families battling allergies, springtime can also come with sniffles and congestion. And some children can face allergy challenges no matter what ...
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Mo. Independent: Health professionals push to reduce congenital syphilis infections killing Missouri babies The mothers of babies born with this infection hardly had prenatal care. Health departments across the state and country have been sounding the alarms for the past few years as congenital syphilis cases rose and community health workers ...
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First influenza-linked child death reported in Michigan this season, MDHHS says The child contracted influenza A, H1N1, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said. At least 93 flu-related pediatric deaths have been reported this season. "These are tragedies that ...
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Odds of obesity derived from parents, study finds Further, having just one obese parent more than triples a person's odds of middle-aged obesity, researchers found. These findings demonstrate that the established association between childhood obesity and parental weight doesn't fade ...
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55% of Native teens have high cholesterol, says study that included Arizona tribal communities Heart disease rates among American Indians and Alaska Natives are much higher than their white peers. They also develop cardiovascular diseases at younger ages.
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Measles outbreak threatens US status of 'eliminating' virus The rash of measles outbreaks around the country has sparked concerns that the U.S. risks losing its status as a country where the disease has been eliminated, a distinction held since 2000. As of last week, 41 measles cases have been confirmed across ...
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How long will long COVID last? Many battling symptoms years later March 9 marks four years since Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency in Ohio. It was one of the first big signs that COVID-19 would change our world. The pandemic has also changed the lives of people who got ...
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Four children achieve treatment-free HIV remission for 1 year The remission "was likely due to the very early drug treatment, which she received at 30 hours of age," Deborah Persaud, MD, director of pediatric infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center, said during a press conference at this year's ...
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Blog: Supporters find hope for the future at our Centres of Excellence Also placing a tile was brain tumour patient Lisa Sharrock, who was accompanied by her husband Mick and daughter Beth Davies. Lisa, 55, from Leek, has inspired a wave of fundraising since she was diagnosed with a glioblastoma (GBM) in June 2022 and even ...
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North West's new parents and mums-to-be urged to protect their babies, as whooping cough infections rise The region has the lowest uptake of pertussis vaccine in pregnant women outside of London, with NHS England data showing the proportion of mums to be having the vaccine has fallen dramatically since before the COVID-19 pandemic, from 70.9% in April 2019 to ...
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Invasive Group A strep deaths and infections continue to climb in NB New Brunswick recorded another 20 confirmed cases of invasive group A streptococcal infections in February and of these, two more people died, figures obtained from the Department of Health show. The latest deaths include a person aged 10 to 59 and a ...
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Scientists identify the earliest biomarker of Alzheimer's disease University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign scientists have made an important discovery in Alzheimer's disease research, identifying a neural-specific protein, PSD-95, as the earliest biomarker yet for the condition. This finding, derived from studies on a ...
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Children with amblyopia have increased risk of serious diseases as adults British investigators from University College London (UCL) reported that children with amblyopia have a higher likelihood of developing hypertension, obesity, metabolic syndrome and myocardial infarction in adulthood. 1. First author Emily Upton, PhD, ...
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Child at Pilsen shelter diagnosed with measles CDPH says A Chicago measles case was diagnosed in a child staying at a shelter in Pilsen, Chicago Department of Public Health officials said. CHICAGO ( ...
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David Staples: Alarm blaring on obesity, the single greatest public health threat for Albertans The alarm has sounded loudly for many on a personal level. Maybe our blood pressure or blood sugars are too high or we have excess fat around the middle, all strong signals of metabolic disease, that cluster ...
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Being overweight could depend on your parents People whose parents were both obese in middle age are six times more likely to be obese at that age too, new research has found. Having just one parent living with normal weight and one with obesity would treble the odds of a child being overweight, ...
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Be Kind to Your Kidneys To mark World Kidney Day, we are raising awareness Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), a condition that affects one in ten adults in the UK. This is where kidneys do not work as well as they should. CKD can be present without any symptom, but even then it ...
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Avian flu is adapting to spread to marine mammals In a study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers used genomic testing to characterize the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 in marine wildlife in South America. They found the virus was nearly identical in samples of four sea ...
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Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust told it requires improvement A West Yorkshire hospital trust has been told by the health regulator it requires improvement. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspected the urgent and emergency care departments at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield and Dewsbury and District ...
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American Heart Association celebrates heart survivors at Go Red for Women luncheon The Friday event brought together community health leaders and philanthropists for a day of giving and celebration. By Alanna Quillen • Published 2 hours ago • Updated 2 hours ago. Alanna Quillen NBC 5. Friday afternoon, the American Heart Association ...
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Scientists move step closer to making IVF eggs from skin cells The radical procedure, which may take a decade to perfect and approve in humans, would also enable male couples to have genetically related children, since the men's DNA could be combined in the fertilised egg and carried to term by a surrogate mother.
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