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TUESDAY, Dec. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Imagine living day-to-day with one hand that feels like it's a baseball mitt, or another that feels like a small clutching claw.That’s the experience of many stroke survivors who suffer from chronic pain, according to a new study in the journal Brain Sciences.Stroke survivors living with chronic pain are almost three times as likely as pain-free survivors to experience altered body perception, researchers found.Specifically, their pain-afflicted brain tricks them into believing that a stroke-affected hand is either bigger or smaller than it actually is, results showed."These remarkable findings show us that we are perhaps more complex creatures than we previously thought," study co-author Lorimer Moseley, an international pain expert with...

TUESDAY, Dec. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Many young U.S. adults are estranged from their parents, at least temporarily -- with the father/child bond being especially fragile.Those are among the findings of a new national study that tracked thousands of parent-child relationships from the 1990s to recent years.Researchers found that one-quarter of young adults were estranged from their fathers at some point -- four times the number who reported broken ties with their mother.Often, those relationships got back on track to some degree, but reconciliation was less likely with fathers: Of adults who were estranged from their mother at some point, 81% got back in contact; that compared with 69% of people who were estranged from their father.One of the messages from the findings is that...

TUESDAY, Dec. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Deaths of teens from drug overdoses soared starting in late 2019, and though they appear to be on the decline, they remain much higher than in 2019, U.S. health officials report.Most of these deaths are due to illegally made fentanyl mixed with other drugs, said study author Lauren Tanz, an epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."Adolescent overdose deaths increased substantially between 2019 and 2021; however, these deaths are preventable, and overdoses do not have to end in death," Tanz said. "We all play a role as parents, family members, friends and communities to prevent overdoses and save lives."Using data from the CDC’s State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System, the researchers found that...

TUESDAY, Dec. 20, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Even now, years later, Linda Jara's voice resonates with notes that can only be fully appreciated by certain people – people like her who carry someone else's heart.Her tone is filled with gratitude. Awe. Contemplation. Thoughtfulness. Sorrow. Exuberance. The overwhelming feeling that someone else – a total stranger – made the ultimate sacrifice of allowing their own heart to beat in someone else's chest."It's an emotional process to wrap your head around the idea of losing your heart, all the things associated with the heart," said Jara, who lives in Philadelphia. "But it's more of what's in our brain. I'm still going to love the same people; it was just the idea of losing the organ that represents all the love I've had...