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17Apr
2023

Bird Flu in Chilean Man Shows Virus Adapting to Human Spread

Bird Flu in Chilean Man Shows Virus Adapting to Human SpreadMONDAY, April 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Tests done on a Chilean man infected with bird flu showed signs that the virus has partially adapted to spread between mammals. However, the public health risk still remains low, U.S. health officials say.“Those genetic changes have been seen previously with past H5N1 infections, and have not resulted in spread between people,” Vivien Dugan, acting director of the influenza division at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told the New York Times.“Nevertheless, it’s important to continue to look carefully at every instance of human infection, as well as other mammalian spillover events, and to track viral evolution in birds,” Dugan added. “We need to remain...

Regular Sleep May Be Crucial for People Living With...

17 April 2023
Regular Sleep May Be Crucial for People Living With SchizophreniaMONDAY, April 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Consistently good sleep is important for everyone, but it is particularly important for patients with schizophrenia, a new study suggests.Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, along with collaborators in Italy, used wrist monitors to measure activity and rest in 250 people, including 150 patients with schizophrenia, in both outpatient settings and in psychiatric hospitals. The investigators found that the schizophrenia patients had erratic sleep patterns, dysregulated transitions between sleep and wake cycles, and excessively rigid daily routines that were predictive of worse symptoms. “Regulating sleep and wake cycles is important for your overall health and our findings can also be extended to people without underlying mental...

What Are the Major Types of Arthritis?

17 April 2023
What Are the Major Types of Arthritis?MONDAY, April 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Arthritis strikes millions of Americans, leaving them with aching, inflamed joints that make it hard to move around without pain.It is the leading cause of disability and most common in women, but is it the same for everyone?Absolutely not. There are over 100 different forms of arthritis and they aren't all treated the same, according to the Arthritis Foundation. Here are the four main types of arthritis, and more about their differing symptoms and treatments:OsteoarthritisAutoimmune inflammatory arthritisInfectious (reactive) arthritisGout (metabolic arthritis) OsteoarthritisThe National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) states that osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis, especially in older...

Mouse Study Points to New Way to Shrink Pancreatic Tumors

17 April 2023
Mouse Study Points to New Way to Shrink Pancreatic TumorsMONDAY, April 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- New research in mice shows promise for a potential therapy for pancreatic cancer, which can be aggressive and hard to treat.Researchers from Houston Methodist tested a device that, while smaller than a grain of rice, could deliver immunotherapy directly into a pancreatic tumor. It's called a nanofluidic drug-eluting seed (NDES).The scientists invented the implantable device to deliver CD40 monoclonal antibodies at a sustained low-dose.Tumors shrank at a dose that was four times lower than traditional systemic immunotherapy, the study authors reported. However, the findings are early and research done in animals is often different when repeated in people.“One of the most exciting findings was that even though the NDES device was only...

Why Spring Allergies Happen and How to Ease Them

16 April 2023
Why Spring Allergies Happen and How to Ease ThemSUNDAY, April 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- It may be hard to believe as you reach for yet another tissue, but you don't have to suffer with the itchy eyes and stuffy noses that seasonal allergies bring.Some simple steps can make a big difference, according to an allergies expert.“Predisposition combined with westernized changes in living and diet and overuse of antibiotics is what probably helps determine our chances of acquiring allergies,” said Dr. Timothy Craig, director of allergy, immunology and respiratory clinical research at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey.Many variables can cause someone to become allergic, Craig noted.“It’s not like some diseases that are just based on one gene,” he said in a center news release. “It’s definitely...

Know Your Boundaries: Tips to Teach Kids About Body Safety

15 April 2023
Know Your Boundaries: Tips to Teach Kids About Body SafetySATURDAY, April 15, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- It’s important for children to learn about body safety and boundaries.Empowering them with information can help them recognize unsafe situations and may help protect them from abuse.“Children and teens who feel in control of their bodies are less likely to fall prey to sexual abusers,” said Dr. Shalon Nienow, a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). “And if they do suffer abuse, they are more likely to tell a trusted adult -- which can make all the difference in stopping the events and subsequently helping them recover from this painful experience," she said in an academy news release.About 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 20 boys will experience sexual abuse or sexual assault by age 17.Nienow is featured in a video that explains...

Some Bear Facts That Could Help Prevent Human Strokes

14 April 2023
Some Bear Facts That Could Help Prevent Human StrokesFRIDAY, April 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Long periods of immobility can put people at risk of dangerous blood clots — yet hibernating bears lie around for months without any problem. Now scientists think they've figured out why.The researchers hope the insight can eventually lead to new drugs for preventing life-threatening blood clots — the kind that begin in the legs but can travel to the brain and cause a stroke, or to the lungs and cause a pulmonary embolism.In their new study, the researchers found that in hibernating bears, a particular protein — called heat shock protein 47 (HSP47) — is substantially dialed down from its normal activity level. And that appears to prevent blood clots from forming while the animals are in months-long slumber.Even more importantly, the...

U.S. Prison Inmates Aren't Getting Medical Care They Need: Report

14 April 2023
U.S. Prison Inmates Aren`t Getting Medical Care They Need: ReportFRIDAY, April 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. prison inmates may be severely undertreated for common chronic health conditions, such as asthma, type 2 diabetes, HIV and mental illness, new research suggests.While researchers lacked complete inmate data, they reached this conclusion through a variety of sources, including national health survey data from 2018 to 2020 and a commercial prescription database.They found that recently incarcerated individuals with type 2 diabetes accounted for about 0.44% of U.S. cases. Yet they received about 0.15% of oral anti-hyperglycemic medications. That’s a nearly threefold difference.Jailed individuals with asthma made up 0.85% of the U.S. asthma population, the study found, but only 0.15% of asthma treatment volume, a more than fivefold...

Black Cancer Patients Much More Prone to Chemo-Linked...

FRIDAY, April 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Sometimes cancer, and the treatments meant to eradicate it, can damage the heart and blood vessels. Now, a new analysis finds that damage may be much...

AHA News: Help Others, Help Yourself? Why Volunteering...

FRIDAY, April 14, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Marcia Trenholm doesn't need a scientific study to understand why volunteering is good for her.Two days a week, the retired insurance...
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