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Rats are extremely playful creatures. They love playing chase, and they literally jump for joy when tickled. Central to this playfulness, a new study finds, are cells in a specific region of rats’ brains.
Neurons in the periaqueductal gray, or PAG, are active in rats during different kinds of play, scientists report Ju... | Mental Health Treatments |
Without other pandemic precautions, hospital mask rules didn’t stop COVID spread, study finds
In a world moving on from the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and medical offices have been the last bastions of mandatory masking. But new research finds that in communities where pandemic precautions have been largely abandoned... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
Introduction
Diabetes and hypertension are two chronic conditions that affect millions of people worldwide. They require careful management, especially when it comes to making healthy food choices. However, navigating the world of food can be challenging, especially during holidays or family gatherings where social pre... | Nutrition Research |
Surgeons in New York say they have performed the world's first complete eye transplant on a man, although it is not certain he will regain vision.
Aaron James, who survived a high-voltage electrical accident, underwent 21 hours of surgery that replaced half of his face.
Surgeons have been able to transplant corneas suc... | Medical Innovations |
The disgraced former Health Secretary decided only to make it mandatory to test those entering care homes from hospital but not those coming from the community.
He said he did not think committing to testing those from the community - including care home staff - added anything and “muddies the waters”.
This was despite... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
By Kristen Shifflett, OT, as told to Keri Wiginton
âWill I go completely blind from this?âÂ
Thatâs the question everyone with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) always asks. And they melt upon themselves with calmness when I say, no, youâll just need to do some things differently.
If you have geographic atrophy (GA... | Medical Innovations |
Weight management is a sensitive topic. Nevertheless, the measurement is often used as a marker to inform medical decisions or for someone's personal interest. But for many wheelchair users, accessing scales has proved near impossible.
"The last time I was weighed was about 22 years ago, " Lizzie tells the BBC podcast,... | Nutrition Research |
Keeping track of everything you eat and drink in a day is a tedious task that is tough to keep up with over time. Unfortunately, dutiful tracking is a vital component for successful weight loss, however, a new study in Obesity finds that perfect tracking is not needed to achieve significant weight loss.
Researchers fro... | Nutrition Research |
The NHS is 'not serving its purpose' and needs to 'cooperate with private sector', says Tony Blair
The NHS is 'not serving its purpose' and needs to 'cooperate with private sector', says Tony Blair The former PM told Sky News the health service needed to do things "completely differently" if it was going to improve it... | Health Policy |
Entrepreneur and bestselling author Peter Diamandis today announced a new XPRIZE—a $101 million global competition for technologies that combat aging and extend health span.
Diamandis, founder of the XPRIZE Foundation, which creates incentives for technological and health innovation, introduced the first competition of... | Longevity |
No matter how old you are, it's never too late to start eating in a way that gives you the best possible chance of staving off dementia as you age and making sure that you feel focused and sharp every day.As a nutritional psychiatrist, faculty member at Harvard Medical School and author of "This Is Your Brain on Food,"... | Nutrition Research |
A school principal has told a committee of MPs that a quarter of her students are estimated to be vaping, with older pupils apparently bulk buying to sell to younger children.
Laranya Caslin, from St George's Academy in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, said lessons are being disrupted as alarms are set off in the toilets by pu... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the country in the summer of 2021, another virus—an endemic one spread by mosquitoes—thrashed residents of one Arizona county, causing a record-shattering outbreak that left 101 people dead, according to a study published today by Arizona health officials.
The virus is West Nile, w... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
More than 20% of American adults say they "rarely or never" wake up feeling well-rested, according to a new survey from U.S. News & World Report.
Nearly half (43%) of survey respondents said they have experienced insomnia in 2023, and 17% said they've suffered from sleep apnea.
The survey, which polled 1,200 adults abo... | Stress and Wellness |
Laura Winham: Council failed to follow up on police concerns for vulnerable woman who lay dead in flat for years, says family
Laura Winham's remains were found by her brother in her flat in Woking, Surrey, in May 2021 - three-and-a-half years after her death.
Monday 30 January 2023 17:12, UK
A 38-year-old vulnerable wo... | Mental Health Treatments |
A new organoid model of the dopaminergic system sheds lights on its intricate functionality and potential implications for Parkinson's disease. The model, developed by the group of Jürgen Knoblich at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, replicates the dopaminergic system'... | Disease Research |
Ministers tried to remove the head of the NHS just five days after the first Covid-19 case was detected in the UK.
The Lockdown Files reveal the animosity shown towards Lord Stevens of Birmingham, the chief executive of NHS England.
Six months into the pandemic, Matt Hancock, the then health secretary, declared “removi... | Health Policy |
Hospitals in Wales "didn't want to know" about the additional needs of disabled staff, according to a doctor who was looking for work after being paralysed in a car crash.
"They wanted someone that could easily and quickly fill the post without them having to do anything," Dr Georgina Budd, who qualified as an A&E medi... | Health Policy |
The UK’s top civil servant vented that Boris Johnson “cannot lead” amid pandemic-era frustration with the prime minister’s leadership, according to WhatsApp messages shared with the Covid-19 inquiry.
Simon Case, who remains Cabinet Secretary, told Mr Johnson’s then-chief adviser Dominic Cummings that the prime minister... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
I started pole dancing in 2015. It’s my happy place, and makes me feel free and empowered. But the sport I adore so much nearly cost me my life.I was learning a new move in 2016, an upside down arch that is just about as hard as it sounds. It involves hanging, inverted, with your hands above your head; only the back of... | Medical Innovations |
When predicting the function of microbial communities, simpler may be better
As biologists learn more about how microbial communities work together, a major goal is understanding how their composition determines function. What combination of strains and species makes the best team for breaking down pollutants, for exam... | Disease Research |
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This is the third in a three-part series on the obesity crisis. Part one asks a complicated question: Why has the obesity rate continued to rise despite our efforts to stop it? Part two examines whether new weight loss drugs will finally end the crisis.Â
July 5, 2023 â After Mia OâMalley gave birth in 2018, she retai... | Nutrition Research |
Funding for drug treatment centers in Oregon, financed by the state's pioneering drug decriminalization policy, stood at over a quarter-billion dollars Friday as officials called for closer monitoring of where the money goes.
That need for oversight was demonstrated Wednesday when state officials terminated a $1.5 mill... | Drug Discoveries |
Often life introduces one to new experiences, and people find a different way to their sociability, a new reason to explore. For people who have undergone a life-changing incident losing their sense of hearing, hearing aid devices greatly help. Enabling these special souls to communicate and reciprocate to thoughts aro... | Medical Innovations |
Obese and overweight people brains have different appetite control centres in their brains to those of normal weight, a new study suggests.
Researchers say their findings add further evidence to the relevance of brain structure to weight and food consumption.
According to the Office for Health Improvement and Dispari... | Nutrition Research |
Pricing In The End of Obesity
The world is about to radically change and Wall Street is frantically trying to figure out who the winners and losers will be.
The world is about to radically change and Wall Street is frantically trying to figure out who the winners and losers will be.
Everyone from Walmart to Nestle and ... | Drug Discoveries |
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“Mechanochemical Activation of Silicone for Large-Scale Fabrication of Anti-Biofouling Liquid-like Surfaces”
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When entering public restrooms, it’s hard not to dwell on what germs previous users have left behind in the toilet bowl. Imagine, instead, a self-cleaning... | Medical Innovations |
A grassroots organization continues to sell illegal drugs in Vancouver and the police seem to be looking the other way -- and that isn't because they have been keeping their dealings a secret.
Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) co-founder Jeremy Kalicum says that the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) doesn't view the me... | Drug Discoveries |
More than 14 percent of the world’s population may have had Lyme disease, an analysis released on Monday revealed.The research, published in BMJ Global Health, is the result of an examination of nearly 90 studies. It offers an unprecedentedly robust picture of how common the tick-borne illness may be."As far as I’m awa... | Disease Research |
Oregon lawmakers spent the 2023 legislative session nibbling at the edges of the state’s addiction crisis — then many returned home to find streets lined with open drug use, soaring overdoses and polling that makes clear voters are fed up.
Now top Democrats have concluded far more urgent action is needed.
As lawmakers ... | Drug Discoveries |
A Nova Scotia woman says her mother-in-law died after she left an emergency room where she waited for seven hours before giving up.
Now she’s gathering stories from Nova Scotians with similar experiences to spark change in the province’s health-care system.“I did not think I would be sitting in this chair yesterday mor... | Health Policy |
Your little one is congested. What should you do?
In a child age 3 or under, this can be a challenge. For starters, itâs not always obvious whatâs causing that stuffy nose. Infants and toddlers often catch colds because they are just starting to build up their immunity to common viruses. But there are many other potent... | Disease Research |
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio school districts could begin arming employees as soon as this fall under a bill signed into law Monday by GOP Gov. Mike DeWine.The law, as enacted, requires up to 24 hours of training before an employee can go armed, and up to eight hours of annual training. The training programs must be approved ... | Health Policy |
Kane Muskett, 27, from North Lincolnshire, has just months left to live, leaving behind his three young children.
The father had spent years being treated for gastritis but a devastating scan revealed that he, in fact, was battling liver cancer.
But in September 2022, Kane was told the heartbreaking news that he only h... | Disease Research |
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People who practice cognitively enhanced tai chi, significantly improved their scores on memory tests.
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People who practice cognitively enhanced tai chi, significantly improved their scores on memory tests.
PYMCA/Avalon/Avalon via G... | Mental Health Treatments |
Media caption, Imogen says people notice her feeding tube more than her wheelchairHow would you feel if the first question many strangers asked was "what's wrong with you?" or "what's that on your face?"That is the reality for 11-year-old Imogen from Caldicot, Monmouthshire, who said she has had enough after people sta... | Medical Innovations |
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To construct tissue-like prosthetic materials, soft electroactive hydrogels are the best candidate owing to their physiological mechanical modulus, low electrical resistance and bidirectional stimulating and recording capability of electrophysiological signals from biological tissues1,2. Nevertheless, until no... | Medical Innovations |
Drones enabled the use of defibrillators before ambulance arrival
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have evaluated the possibility of alerting drones equipped with automated external defibrillators (AED) to patients with suspected cardiac arrest. In more than half of the cases, the drones were ahead of the ambulance... | Medical Innovations |
Laura Winham, 38, had severe mental illnesses and was ‘abandoned’ by NHS and social services, family allegeA severely mentally ill woman whose dead body lay in her home unnoticed for more than three years was effectively “abandoned and left to die” by NHS and social services who missed repeated chances to save her, her... | Mental Health Treatments |
An elderly dementia patient was failed by the system put in place to protect Northern Ireland's most vulnerable adults.
Stanley O'Neill was not showered for three months and was found wrapping a cord around his neck.
Despite healthcare guidelines, those and other failings were not referred for adult safeguarding invest... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
The Covid pandemic may have impacted brain health in people in the UK aged 50 and over, according to a new study.
More than 3,000 volunteers completed yearly questionnaires and online cognitive tests to measure changes in memory, and other faculties, as the pandemic unfolded.
The results revealed a decline, irrespectiv... | Mental Health Treatments |
Tobacco giant Philip Morris wielded a vast pro-tobacco “propaganda” campaign that violated public health law, a new French lawsuit alleges.
Despite a ban on tobacco advertising in France, Philip Morris’s French subsidiary used its ‘smoke-free world’ slogan to mask its online promotion of its cigarette and heated tobacc... | Health Policy |
English bulldogs must be bred with less extreme features to improve their health and to prevent breeding from being banned in the UK on welfare grounds, veterinarians have said.A study by the Royal Veterinary College found that distinctive features of English bulldogs such as their flat faces, protruding lower jaws and... | Disease Research |
As a single woman with a chronic illness, Emma Postance always knew becoming a mother would be extra difficult for her. The 42-year-old has multiple sclerosis, a lifelong, incurable condition that can lead to sufferers needing a wheelchair. She also had ovarian cancer in her 30s. Despite her health issues, she was dete... | Disease Research |
Cocaine demand and supply are booming worldwide, and methamphetamine trafficking is expanding beyond established markets, including in Afghanistan where the drug is now being produced, a United Nations report said Sunday.
Coca bush cultivation and total cocaine production were at record highs in 2021, the most recent y... | Drug Discoveries |
- The Biden administration unveiled the first 10 prescription drugs that will be subject to price negotiations between manufacturers and Medicare.
- The announcement kicks off a controversial process under the Inflation Reduction Act that aims to make costly medications more affordable for older Americans.
The Biden ad... | Health Policy |
Sydney — Australia will ban imports of disposablefrom January 1, the government said Tuesday, slamming the devices as recreational products addicting children. The block on single-use vapes is aimed at reversing a "disturbing" increase in vaping among young people, Health Minister Mark Butler said.
Australia first reve... | Health Policy |
"As an amputee, you avoid hills, you avoid rocks," says Milly Pickles. "Because you can't feel your foot and you don't know what's going to happen."
Milly's just returned from Slovenia, where she competed in the Red Bull 400.
Known as the "world's steepest race", it's an all-out 400m (1,310ft) sprint up a ski slope wit... | Aerobics & Cardio |
1 in 3 American adults are at risk for developing Chronic Kidney Disease during their lifetime, a devastating condition currently affecting an estimated 37 million Americans. 15% of adults are estimated to have CKD, but 90% do not know they have it. Racial and ethnic minority populations in the U.S. shoulder a dispropo... | Disease Research |
As we head into another winter, Covid numbers have been ticking up. But how worried should we be about Covid these days – can we treat it like a cold, or have we become blase about an illness that could still pose a threat to elderly and clinically vulnerable people?
How does Covid compare to a cold or seasonal flu?
Se... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
Image source, Hudgell SolicitorsImage caption, Laura Winham, of Woking, had schizophreniaThe family of a woman who lay dead in her flat for more than three years have told how they were unable to have any contact because of privacy laws, and how they eventually found her body.Laura Winham, 38, had schizophrenia and had... | Mental Health Treatments |
A team of European researchers has developed a new test that can accurately measure biological aging in a clinical setting. The discovery was made while studying patients for the aging effects of chronic kidney disease.
The new test is an epigenetic clock -- a type of biochemical assessment that looks at DNA to underst... | Medical Innovations |
Alison Snyder reports via Axios: For more than 15 years, scientists have worked to build a complex cell with an entire genome built from scratch. This week they announced a major milestone: They've created synthetic versions of the 16 chromosomes in a yeast cell and successfully combined some of them in one cell. The f... | Medical Innovations |
Single mother Debra Hamilton blames vaccine mandate for daughter Natalie Boyce's 'brutal, unnecessary' death
The devastated mother of 21-year-old Natalie Boyce has spoken out for the first time since her daughter's "horrific" death which she claims was caused by the once-mandated COVID-19 vaccine and "misdiagnosis by m... | Vaccine Development |
The father of a junior doctor who took her own life says action must be taken to change a "toxic environment" at the hospital where she worked.
Dr Ravi Kumar, who also works for the NHS, was speaking ahead of the publication of a report into allegations of bullying at the University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Trus... | Mental Health Treatments |
Larese Jones, 9, of East Garfield Park, plays in the Crown Fountain on Michigan Avenue as temperatures spike Tuesday afternoon in Chicago.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Temperatures at Midway Airport reached 100 degrees for the first time in a decade Tuesday as a heat wave belted the Chicago area, according to the National Wea... | Stress and Wellness |
More than 90% of women who are trying for a baby may have marginal or low levels of vitamins that are essential for a healthy pregnancy, according to researchers who say the problem will likely worsen as vegetarian diets become more popular.
Tests on more than 1,700 women in the UK, New Zealand and Singapore who planne... | Women’s Health |
A growing number of kids and teens are turning to weight loss surgery amid rising rates of pediatric obesity, according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics.
Between 2020 and 2021, there was a nearly 19% increase in weight loss surgeries among U.S. youths aged 10 to 19 years, as discovered by researchers from th... | Weightlifting & Bodybuilding |
A new Covid variant that is causing concern among scientists due to its large number of mutations has been detected in London.
The variant, dubbed BA.2.86, has been detected through genetic sequencing, although only a handful of such sequences have so far been reported. The first was reported in Israel, with the varian... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
Cheryl Wilson went from running 5K races to struggling to walk a few blocks.
When it happened, Wilson, a 63-year-old wellness coach from Chesapeake, VA, shrugged it off as a charley horse. But the pain persisted for weeks and made walking unbearable. So Wilson finally went to see her doctor.
âAnytime I walked a short d... | Disease Research |
Ingestible electronic device detects breathing depression in patients
Diagnosing sleep disorders such as sleep apnea usually requires a patient to spend the night in a sleep lab, hooked up to a variety of sensors and monitors. Researchers from MIT, Celero Systems, and West Virginia University hope to make that process ... | Medical Innovations |
Revealing structural secrets of a key cancer protein
Scientists have breathed new life into the study of a protein with an outsized link to human cancers because of its dangerous mutations, using advanced research techniques to detect its hidden regions.
The Ras family of proteins are enzymes that set in motion the gro... | Disease Research |
The World Health Organization said it has confirmed sexual transmission of mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the first time as the country experiences its biggest outbreak, a worrying development that African scientists warn could make it more difficult to stop the disease.
In a statement issued late Thursda... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
For more than 20 years, the National Eating Disorders Association has operated a phone line and online platform for people seeking help for anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders. Last year, nearly 70,000 individuals used the help line.
NEDA shuttered that service in May, saying that, in its place, a chatbot cal... | Mental Health Treatments |
Increasing Threat of Spread of Antimicrobial-resistant Fungus in Healthcare Facilities
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Candida auris (C. auris), an emerging fungus considered an urgent antimicrobial resistance (AR) threat, spread at an alarming rate in U.S. healthca... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
CBS Mornings June 14, 2022 / 1:11 PM / CBS News Instagram head on new tools for parents Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri on new parental control options 06:16 Instagram's parent company Meta is giving parents new tools to watch over teens. The company announced that starting on Tuesday, parents will have more power to su... | Mental Health Treatments |
More than a quarter of ambulance patients in England waited more than an hour to be admitted to A&E in the last week of 2022, amid “one of the most difficult” winters in NHS history.Of all those arriving by ambulance in the week to 1 January, 26.3% waited with crews for more than 60 minutes.This affected 18,720 patient... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
Congress can lower health care costs by holding hospital systems accountable
These are real stories of patients charged exorbitant prices for services. There are numerous examples like this across the country. Far from being fluke occurrences, the hospital industry has institutionalized anti-competitive practices that ... | Health Policy |
More than 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci became fascinated by his anatomical dissection of the womb of a pregnant woman who had died and intended to uncover the secrets behind conception and pregnancy complications. But da Vinci was stumped. Shockingly, in 2023, there’s still so much left to unravel, as women’s healt... | Women’s Health |
Researchers from several U.S. institutions are collaborating "to develop and test an implantable device able to sense signs of the kind of inflammation associated with cancer," reports CBS News, "and delivery therapy when needed." Northwestern said the implant could significantly improve outcomes for patients with ovar... | Medical Innovations |
Sleep and Rising Temperatures: The Hidden Impact of Climate Change on Older Adults
Amir Baniassadi, PhD, researches environmental health, and in particular, the health and well-being of older adults within the built environment.
As we strive to better understand the multi-layered intricacies of aging, one issue coming ... | Global Health |
A patients group representing several British victims has launched legal action against the Spanish government over claims it failed to safeguard people against the potentially fatal side effects of one of the country’s most popular painkillers, involved in a series of serious illnesses and deaths.
The drug metamizole,... | Drug Discoveries |
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Kylie Jenner got real about battling postpartum depression twice as she offered advice to new mothers who are also struggling with the same condition.
Jenner, 25, who has daughter Stormi, five, and son Aire, one, with her ex Travis Scott, referred to her first bout with the condition as 'very difficult' in a candid in... | Mental Health Treatments |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — As covid-19 devastated communities across the nation in spring 2020, a group of Black ministers in this racially divided city made an urgent plea for more testing in their neighborhoods.
Testing at the time “was outside of communities of color,” said the Rev. Jordan Boyd, pastor of Rockwell AME Zion C... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
From hospitals to schools, courts to trains – Britons think the state of public services are ramshackle
YouGov asked Britons about 12 key public services, with a majority thinking that most are in a bad state. At 86%, the NHS is the service people are most likely to describe as being in a bad state, including almost ha... | Health Policy |
At the centre of the UK's response to Covid-19 was a small cast of politicians and officials tasked with steering the country through the crisis.
But private messages aired during the public inquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic have laid bare the strained relations between key players - and in some in... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
Prices for gas, food and housing have skyrocketed in the last year. Less noticeable, to some, is the rising cost of health care. Medicare, the U.S. government's national health insurance program for Americans age 65 and over, imposed a 14.5% increase in premiums for Part B (outpatient care coverage) for 2022, a record ... | Health Policy |
BURLINGTON, Vt. — “You can’t inject a horse tranquilizer and think nothing bad is gonna happen” to you, said Ty Sears, 33, a longtime drug user now in recovery.
Sears was referring to xylazine, a sedative used for animal surgeries that has infiltrated the illicit drug supply across the country, contributing to a steady... | Drug Discoveries |
The last few years have seen a significant rise in drug overdose deaths caused by counterfeit prescription pills, new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found. The percentage of overdose deaths linked to fake drugs has more than doubled between 2019 to 2021, according to the study. Many of... | Drug Discoveries |
Youâve probably heard that âgetting your steps inâ can help you stay healthy. But for people with peripheral artery disease (PAD), walking even a few blocks might feel as challenging as a 10-mile run.
This common circulatory condition, which affects an estimated 8.5 million Americans, happens when the blood vessels tha... | Disease Research |
Do you want a bigger penis? In one large survey a few years ago, about 45% of men said they did. And you can buy plenty of over-the-counter and even medical treatments that promise a larger penis. But do any of them really work?
Some of the things men use to try to increase penis size include:
- Vacuum penis pumps
- Pe... | Men's Health |
Adam Merritt had a very close bond with his father Rob, who was also his carer after he was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teenager. But in June last year, Adam called 999 to confess he had killed him. Adam's sister says she is trying to move forward but will always wonder whether more could have been done to help t... | Mental Health Treatments |
You probably know that a good diet (less saturated fat, less sodium, more fruits and veggies) is important to heart health. But research is increasingly finding that eating the right foods can protect mental health, as well. A 2019 meta-analysis, the first study to evaluate the existing data on the effects of diet on d... | Mental Health Treatments |
A woman who lost the tip of her nose in a grisly dog attack is experiencing some hurdles in her recovery.
Trinity Rowles was attacked by her dad’s rescue dog in September of last year.
Rowles, 20, has had four surgeries so far and has to get up to six more on her face. But one operation — a skin graft — left her with a... | Mental Health Treatments |
Most of us have had that unsettling sensation when our heart seems to flutter or "skip" a beat — but when heart palpitations start happening more frequently, you may wonder if it’s something to get checked out.
Dr. Bradley Serwer, a cardiologist and chief medical officer at VitalSolution, a Cincinnati, Ohio-based compa... | Disease Research |
June 12, 2023 -- Teresa Stull swears by her multivitamin formulation. Tired of taking pills, the 62-year-old esthetician and business owner in Frederick, MD, turned to a daily liquid formulation for skin health and inflammation. She was attracted to the product (which she also carries for her clients) because of its hi... | Nutrition Research |
By Natalie Brown, as told to Kendall Morgan
When I was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer at age 33, I had to make a lot of tough decisions quickly, including whether to freeze my eggs before treatment started or not be able to have kids. We decided to go ahead with treatment immediately. In the beginning of treatment... | Disease Research |
When it comes to managing your rheumatoid arthritis (RA), things can turn complicated pretty quickly. Trying to keep track of the pain (when, where, and how badly it hits), the many medicines you may need, and the triggers that cause your RA to flare -- all information thatâs crucial to your care -- can feel overwhelmi... | Disease Research |
Obesity is a medical condition thatâs found everywhere. Itâs nearly three times as common worldwide as it was in 1975, according to the World Health Organization.Â
In the U.S., almost 42% of U.S. adults have obesity, CDC data show. But itâs less common among Asian Americans. Some experts have suggested that the standar... | Nutrition Research |
President Joe Biden is facing opposition from both sides of the aisle as his administration nears a decision on a proposed menthol ban, with several arguing such a move would negatively affect the economy and disproportionately affect communities of color.
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to release its dec... | Health Policy |
- The drug company Danco Laboratories has asked the Supreme Court to take up the case challenging the legality of the abortion pill mifepristone.
- Danco, the distributor of the pill, wants the justices to reverse a lower court ruling that would impose restrictions on the pill.
- The company said the case is of "indisp... | Women’s Health |
On May 11, the U.S. will no longer officially be in a COVID-19 emergency for the first time since the pandemic began three years ago.
While hundreds of COVID-19 deaths are still reported each day in the U.S. -- adding to a toll of more than 1 million -- public health experts say the Biden administration is likely looki... | Health Policy |
July 13, 2023 -- About 20 out of every 100 adults with epilepsy may also have attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, and new research shows the more un-controlled seizures a patient has, the higher risk that patient has of having ADHD as well.
Both conditions often begin early in life â itâs estimated tha... | Disease Research |
Image caption, Victoria Andrews had to take daughter Niamh to hospital when she had a seizureA mum was forced to rush her child to hospital by car during a seizure because of uncertainty about when an ambulance might arrive.Niamh Andrews, five, had a seizure while practicing gymnastics. But when her mother, Victoria An... | Health Policy |
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PITTSBURGH — Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and KU Leuven have discovered a suite of genes that influence head shape in humans. These findings, published this week in Nature Communications, help explain the diversity of human head shapes and may also offer important clues about the genetic basis... | Disease Research |
Tricia Terao-Murphy said her daughter Emma, who will turn 1 on March 17, appeared healthy at birth but was soon after diagnosed with biliary atresia, a condition in which the ducts, or tubes, that carry bile from the liver are blocked and bile continues to build up, according to the National Institutes of Health.
The c... | Medical Innovations |
Dr Ola Abbass takes a deep breath before telling the story of her last shift as an NHS consultant.
"It was a night shift. Intensive care," she says. "It felt empty. Walking down that corridor felt very alien. I put my coat on and took my bag.
"Removing my name sticker from my draw was like erasing my existence. I ope... | Health Policy |
A research team has discovered antibodies that could lead to a new approach to treating acute and chronic infections with the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Due to its numerous resistance mechanisms, P. aeruginosa is associated with high morbidity and mortality and can cause complicated infections and dangerous case... | Disease Research |
There are many creatures on our planet with more advanced senses than humans. Turtles can sense Earth's magnetic field. Mantis shrimp can detect polarized light. Elephants can hear much lower frequencies than humans can. Butterflies can perceive a broader range of colors, including ultraviolet (UV) light.
Inspired by t... | Medical Innovations |
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