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20Dec
2022

In Face of Tripledemic, CVS and Walgreens Limit Purchases of Kids' Pain Meds

In Face of Tripledemic, CVS and Walgreens Limit Purchases of Kids` Pain MedsTUESDAY, Dec. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- As a tripledemic of the flu, COVID and RSV continues to spread across the United States, customers at two major pharmacy chains will now be limited as to how much children’s pain relievers and fever-reducing medications they can buy for their sick child. Both CVS and Walgreens confirmed the limits Monday, CNN reported, though they’ve approached it in different ways.Walgreens is only limiting children’s pain medications purchased online. The limit is six per transaction. Meanwhile, CVS is limiting both in-store and online purchases to two products per transaction.This happens as high numbers of young children are sickened by a string of respiratory viruses, including RSV, COVID-19 and flu. More than four of every 1,000 young children...

Vaping May Affect Lungs' Lubricant, Making Breathing Tougher

20 December 2022
Vaping May Affect Lungs` Lubricant, Making Breathing TougherTUESDAY, Dec. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have uncovered another health hazard associated with vaping. Inhaling vape products may damage a critical layer of the lungs called surfactant. Made of lipids and proteins, surfactant makes it possible to breathe with minimal effort by reducing surface tension. Researchers say breathing would require more effort and possibly mechanical help without this layer."Vaping continues to be popular, but not much is known about what happens with the aerosol when it enters the lungs," said researcher Ruud Veldhuizen, a scientist at the Lawson Health Research Institute in Ontario, Canada."We realized that the first thing the vapor aerosol comes in contact with in the lungs is pulmonary surfactant, which is an area our team specializes in," he...

Doctors & Their Families Less Likely to Follow Medical...

20 December 2022
Doctors & Their Families Less Likely to Follow Medical Guidelines Than OthersTUESDAY, Dec. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors are notorious for criticizing patients who don't take medications as prescribed.But physicians and their families are themselves less likely than everyone else to comply with medication guidelines, a new, large-scale study has found.People tend to adhere to medication guidelines about 54% of the time, while doctors and their families lag about 4 percentage points behind that, according to findings published recently in the American Economic Review journal."There's a lot of concern that people don't understand guidelines, that they're too complex to follow, that people don't trust their doctors," said co-researcher Amy Finkelstein, a professor with the MIT Department of Economics. "If that's the case, you should see the most adherence...

Avoiding 'Wine Teeth' This Holiday Season

20 December 2022
Avoiding `Wine Teeth` This Holiday SeasonTUESDAY, Dec. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Red may be a traditional holiday color, but no one wants to wear it on their teeth.An expert offers some tips for keeping “wine teeth” at bay during your holiday parties.“When you drink red wine, you’re encountering a triple threat to your teeth’s whiteness: anthocyanins, which are the pigments in grapes that give red wine its rich color; tannins, which help bind the pigment to your teeth; and the acidity found in wine, which etches your enamel, making it more porous and it easier for the stain to stick,” said Dr. Uchenna Akosa. She is a dentist who heads Rutgers Health University Dental Associates in New Brunswick, N.J.“The strength of your enamel and how prone you are to plaque build-up is key to how much your teeth might...

Holiday Toys: Fun, But Remember Safety, Too

20 December 2022
Holiday Toys: Fun, But Remember Safety, TooTUESDAY, Dec. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Keeping an eye on safety will let the joy from holiday toys last longer, without a trip to the emergency room, experts say.Last year, more than 200,000 people were treated in emergency departments for toy-related injuries, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).Dr. Roopa Thakur, a pediatrician at Cleveland Clinic Children's in Ohio, recommends keeping toy safety in mind safety when choosing a gift.Toys that shoot objects into the air may cause bodily injury, Thakur noted."They can cause eye injury, especially," she said in a Cleveland Clinic news release. "So, if you have kids that are running around and shooting things at each other, make sure that there is good supervision."Small toys and pieces can be choking...

People in Open Relationships Face Stigma, Research Shows

19 December 2022
People in Open Relationships Face Stigma, Research ShowsMONDAY, Dec. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Even though roughly 1 in 5 Americans has been involved in an “open” relationship at some point in their lives, new research cautions that many end up bearing the brunt of stigmatizing and stressful disapproval.The finding stems from a pair of fresh investigations: The first found that roughly 40% of men and women who participate in “consensually non-monogamous” relations report being judged negatively or even threatened by others. And 70% of those who say they don’t experience stigma admit taking pains to keep the less traditional nature of their relationships under wraps.In turn, a follow-up study found that being on the receiving end of such stigma exacts a significant emotional toll, causing anxiety not only when disapproval is...

1 in 4 Kids With Type 2 Diabetes Isn't Obese

19 December 2022
1 in 4 Kids With Type 2 Diabetes Isn`t ObeseMONDAY, Dec. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- It’s easy to blame the childhood obesity epidemic for growing cases of type 2 diabetes, but a new study finds nearly one-quarter of all diagnoses are not related to obesity.“The finding was somewhat surprising,” said Dr. Constantine Samaan, an associate professor in the department of pediatrics at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. “The findings highlighted to us that there is significant heterogeneity [diversity] in type 2 diabetes risk in children. We clearly do not understand all the factors that drive its occurrence.”The researchers set out to study the issue because it wasn’t clear if obesity was universal in these patients, Samaan said. Screening has been driven by body-mass measures, so the investigators also wanted to...

FDA Approves Gene Therapy for Tough-to-Treat Bladder Cancer

19 December 2022
FDA Approves Gene Therapy for Tough-to-Treat Bladder CancerMONDAY, Dec. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with a high-risk bladder cancer now have a new option to treat it.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a gene therapy called Adstiladrin, which is designed to work for patients who have what’s called high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) that hasn't responded to the standard treatment, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), but hasn’t spread. BCG is a vaccine typically used for tuberculosis. "This approval provides health care professionals with an innovative treatment option for patients with high-risk NMIBC that is unresponsive to BCG therapy," Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said in an agency news release. "Today's action addresses an area of...

AHA News: Heart Failure More Common in Heart Defect...

MONDAY, Dec. 19, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- People born with heart defects may face a nearly ninefold higher lifetime risk for heart failure and develop it decades earlier than...

America Facing Shortage of Infectious Disease Doctors

MONDAY, Dec. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The COVID-19 pandemic. Dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The current waves of influenza and RSV ripping through schools and workplaces.America has...
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