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The More Protein, the Better? Nutrition experts in the United States recommend that most healthy adults eat at least 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight (or 0.36 grams per pound) every day. For a 150-pound adult, this translates to 54 grams per day — or the amount in an ...
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CDC study finds substantial US increase in invasive group A strep infections A surveillance study of 10 US states shows the incidence of invasive group A Streptococcus (GAS) infection more than doubled from 2013 through 2022, researchers reported yesterday in JAMA. The study, led by researchers from the Center for Disease ...
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Texas' measles outbreak isn't slowing down. How can that change? Slipping vaccination rates in West Texas have led to the state's largest measles outbreak in over 30 years, with more than 500 patients affected as of April 8 and cases spreading to New Mexico and Oklahoma. Last week, an unvaccinated Texas child died ...
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At least 6 children test positive for measles at Texas day care amid outbreak On Monday, Lubbock Public Health issued immunization recommendations for the whole county following the cases at Tiny Tots U Learning Academy on South University Avenue. The health agency advised infants get their first dose of the ...
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By re-creating neural pathway in dish, Stanford Medicine research may speed pain treatment Stanford Medicine scientists have rebuilt, in laboratory glassware, the neural pathway that sends information from the body's periphery to the brain, promising to aid research on pain disorders. Share ...
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Why You Suddenly Have Horrendous Allergies This Spring April 8, 2025 – Are you being hit this spring with coughing, sneezing, and itchy, watery eyes? If so-called hay fever is new to you, don't be surprised – doctors say we can develop allergies as adults. And if you've always had allergies but feel ...
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US cuts to HIV programs in Africa threaten to set progress back to 'dark ages,' experts say The reduction or elimination of funding from the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) could lead to the deaths of nearly 500,000 children in sub-Saharan Africa from AIDS-related causes in the next 5 years, according to an expert ...
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Rare virus behind death of Gene Hackman's wife kills 3 in California Actor Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa attend the 60th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly. Symptoms of a potentially fatal disease caused by the virus, Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, can appear one to eight ...
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Tiny Dissolving Pacemaker; Low-Risk TAVR in Real World; 'Fake' Cardiologist Arrested Engineers developed the smallest pacemaker yetopens in a new tab or window: a device smaller than a grain of rice, activated by light, and meant to dissolve after it has met the patient's need for temporary pacing. (Nature).
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Scientists May Have Finally Found the Mysterious Animal Hosts of Mpox And studies published in the past year have demonstrated that African outbreaks of mpox, the disease caused by the virus, have been fueled by several transmission events from animals to humans. Pinpointing ...
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What Do Federal Staffing Cuts and HHS Restructuring Mean for the Nation's HIV Response? On March 27th, the Trump administration announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would implement "a dramatic restructuring" in accordance with President Trump's Executive Order, "Implementing the President's 'Department of ...
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Why Social Media Screen Time Is So Bad for Sleep Young woman in bed scrolling on iphone. Social media use before bedtime can be stimulating in ways that screen time alone is not. SB Arts Media/Getty Images.
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Researchers uncover a link to autism—and it isn't vaccines The study, out of China and published in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal, is the latest to show a connection between diabetes during pregnancy, which affects up to 9% of U.S. pregnancies, and an increased risk not only of autism, but also other ...
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4 dangerous measles myths to know as US cases rise Up to 9 out of 10 susceptible people who come in close contact to someone with measles will get the disease, the CDC says. The virus is transmitted by contact with infectious droplets or by breathing the air an infected person breathed, coughed or sneezed ...
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All Federal Experts on HIV Prevention in Children Overseas Were Dismissed The Trump administration has dismissed the few remaining health officials who oversaw care for some of the world's most vulnerable people: more than 500,000 children and more than 600,000 pregnant women with H.I.V. in low-income countries.
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GLP-1 receptor agonist diabetes medications linked to reduced dementia risk Two undergraduate medicine students at University of Galway have led a major study examining how cardioprotective glucose-lowering therapies—medications that lower blood sugar and reduce the risk of heart disease in people with diabetes—affect the risk ...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he 'encourages' people to get the measles vaccine Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, said in an interview Tuesday that he encourages people to get vaccinated against measles after an outbreak killed two children in Texas. "We encourage people to get the ...
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Travel-related measles case confirmed in unvaccinated child on Oahu HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Gov. Josh Green confirmed a travel-related case of measles in an unvaccinated child on Oahu who is under the age of 5. Green said the child recently traveled internationally and is recovering at home.
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Study finds connection between hearing impairment and heart failure risk Hearing loss is linked to a heightened risk of developing heart failure, with the psychological distress caused by the impairment taking a key role in the observed association, finds a large long term study, published online in the journal Heart.
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Women should avoid all alcohol to reduce risk of breast cancer, charity says The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) has published a review of evidence on how diet and lifestyle factors can play a role in the development of the disease. Globally, there were ...
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Low Awareness of Heart Attack Symptoms Puts Irish Women in Danger GALWAY, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A recent survey conducted by Croí, the Heart & Stroke Charity in Ireland, and Global Heart Hub (GHH) has revealed alarming gaps in awareness of heart attack symptoms among women in Ireland.1. Heart disease is one of ...
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Lack of ceramides in blood vessels could lead to obesity-related heart diseases New research from Weill Cornell Medicine has uncovered a surprising culprit underlying cardiovascular diseases in obesity and diabetes-not the presence of certain fats, but their suppression. The study, published Feb. 25 in Nature Communications, ...
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Shingles vaccination associated with reduction in probability of new dementia diagnosis Dr. Min Xie identified the groundwork of what would represent a "natural experiment" created by the introduction of a herpes zoster vaccination program in Wales about two years ago. In the program, the eligibility to receive the vaccine was determined by ...
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Ontario schools begin suspending students who aren't fully vaccinated Toronto Public Health says about 10,000 students are not up to date on their vaccinations, and an initial group of 173 students in Grade 11 will be suspended Tuesday. A total of 574 students were sent suspension ...
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Research: Shingles vaccine may help fight dementia WASHINGTON — A vaccine to fight dementia? It turns out there may already be one — shots that prevent painful shingles also appear to protect aging brains. A new study found shingles vaccination cut older adults' risk of developing dementia over the ...
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Study links food additive mixtures to increased risk of type 2 diabetes Food additive mixtures are an everyday feature of our diets, especially through ultra-processed foods. Until recently, safety evaluations of these additives have been conducted substance by substance due to a lack of data on the effect of them ingested ...
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Neural Assembloids Recreate a Key Pain-Sensing Circuit in a Dish Researchers created an assembloid by integrating four organoids that represent the four components of the human sensory pathway, along which pain stimuli signals are conveyed to the brain. Pasca Lab.
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What is hantavirus? Illness that killed Gene Hackman's wife leaves 3 more dead in US After autopsies were performed, it was revealed that Hackman, 95, died from complications related to heart disease. However, 65-year-old Arakawa died from hantavirus pulmonary disorder, according to Chief Medical Examiner ...
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Beyond the Rash: The Hidden Toll of Measles Most measles patients can infect 12-18 unvaccinated people; Vaccination is the greatest tool to prevent measles; Measles has long-term health risks to unvaccinated people, including rare conditions that can lead to death; Symptoms can be extremely high ...
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Researchers Discover Way to Predict Treatment Success for Disfiguring Skin Disease The Leishmania parasite causes the devastating skin disease leishmaniasis. Photo by David Mosser. It's commonly said that the cure can be worse than the ...
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TB Treatment Development is Underway, But Research Interruptions Prioritize Therapy Compliance This is a medical illustration of drug-resistant, Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, presented in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publication entitled, Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2019 (AR Threats Report).
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43 cases of measles in Alberta, outbreak east of Edmonton prompts public alert Once declared eradicated in Canada in 1998, measles is now making a comeback, spreading rapidly in recent months due to declining vaccination rates. As of noon Tuesday, there were 43 measles cases across Alberta, ...
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Colorado health authorities confirm 2nd measles case According to the media release, the infant in Denver, who is under a year old, is too young to be vaccinated as part of a routine vaccine schedule. Babies normally get the routine dose of measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine at 12-15 months, CDPHE said ...
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Colorado officials warn of 'community transmission' risk after third confirmed measles case The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's warning comes after two previous measles cases in Pueblo and Denver. Unlike in those two cases, the Archuleta County resident, an adult whose vaccination status has not been confirmed, did not ...
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Could Restoring Forests Reduce Disease Risk? A Case Study of Hantavirus in Madagascar Forests and farmland meet in the SAVA region of northern Madagascar. New research suggests that wildlife-human interactions in such areas could spread disease. Credit: James Herrera, Duke Lemur Center. COVID-19 continues to plague us, ...
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Diabetes prevalence underestimated in Australia: Study Researchers used an algorithm to identify people with diabetes based on claims for dispensed insulin and glucose lowering medicines, as well as diabetes-related hospital admissions, and diabetes-specific Medicare claims. It found ...
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Rise in Prevalence of Obesity in Youth, Adults With T1DM Seen From 2008 to 2023 (HealthDay News) — From 2008-2011 to 2020-2023, there was an increase in the prevalence of obesity among youth and adults with type 1 diabetes, and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) prescriptions also increased for this group over ...
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expert reaction to study looking at food additives and type 2 diabetes incidence Dr Nerys Astbury, Associate Professor of Diet & Obesity, Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Sciences, University of Oxford, said: "This prospective study conducted in France explores the association between the amount of ...
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Inflammation and the Brain: How Immune Activity Can Alter Mood and Fuel Anxiety Research in mice shows that inflammatory molecules influence mood and behavior by acting on specific brain regions. The findings help explain why some people experience lasting mood changes after infections or autoimmune disease flare-ups.
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Doctor shares pro tips to save your kidneys if you are diabetic Health experts have previously pointed out that unmanaged blood sugar levels raise the risk of kidney disease in diabetic patients and there is approximately a 10% surge in diabetic patients suffering from kidney disease. Additionally, symptoms such ...
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'Why would you choose to get ill?': Doctor issues warning as Alberta measles cases soar With measles soaring in Alberta, more Albertans are at risk of serious side effects or even death from the highly infectious disease — and the government needs to tell a large number of unvaccinated Albertans to get immunized, said Dr. Richard Owen.
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Ontario schools start suspending students with incomplete immunization Ontario schools are starting to issue suspensions to some of the thousands of students who aren't fully vaccinated, as measles continue to spread and the outbreak breathes new urgency into a call for the province to digitize its immunization record ...
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LVHN Health Tips: What you need to know about colon cancer Many people were shocked when actor Chadwick Boseman died in 2020 from colon cancer at 43. His death brought awareness to colon cancer, the second most commonly diagnosed form of cancer and the third most deadly. Fortunately, colon cancer can be ...
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Mono County California Confirms Third Hantavirus-Related Death As of 2022, 864 cases of Hantavirus disease were reported in the United States. According to the U.S. CDC, Hantavirus is a serious and often fatal illness contracted through infected deer mouse droppings, urine, ...
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News Release – Measles Case Confirmed in Child on Oʻahu – DOH Notifies Public of Measles Exposure Locations JOSH GREEN, M.D. GOVERNOR. KE KIA'ĀINA. KENNETH S. FINK, M.D., MGA, MPH DIRECTOR. KA LUNA HO'OKELE. MEASLES CASE ...
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New data reveals diabetes prevalence in Australia may be 35% higher New research from the University of Sydney reveals that the number of Australians living with diabetes may be up to 35 percent higher than previously estimated. The findings raise critical questions about the size of one of Australia's most serious ...
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Meal timing could protect people from heart health risks of shift work, study finds Eating only during the day could help people who work in shifts, such as healthcare workers, avoid the health risks that are linked to shift work, a report shows. The findings were published Tuesday in Nature Communications.
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Measles found in unvaccinated Oʻahu child who returned from travel Measles is highly contagious, and with low vaccination rates against the virus, the risk of travel-related outbreaks continues to increase in Hawaiʻi, health officials said. Symptoms usually begin seven to 14 days after ...
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Hantavirus that killed Gene Hackman's wife linked to 3 deaths in California town In a statement Thursday, health officials in Mono County reported a third death from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the rural town in the Eastern Sierra region, calling the situation "tragic" and "alarming.".
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Parkinson's Awareness Week – Clinical Negligence Claims in Focus April 7th to April 13th marks Parkinson's Awareness Week, a time dedicated to raising awareness about Parkinson's disease (PD), a progressive neurological disorder that affects movement and can lead to significant challenges for those diagnosed and ...
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