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10Aug
2022

Smoking Still Ends 123,000 American Lives Each Year

Smoking Still Ends 123,000 American Lives Each YearWEDNESDAY, Aug. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Cigarettes are still responsible for far too many cancer deaths every year in the United States, a new study finds. In 2019, nearly 123,000 U.S. cancer deaths were from cigarette smoking (30% of all U.S. cancer deaths), leading to nearly $21 billion in annual lost earnings. These losses were much higher in states with weaker tobacco control laws, particularly in the South and Midwest, the researchers reported."Our study provides further evidence that smoking continues to be a leading cause of cancer-related death and to have a huge impact on the economy across the U.S.," said researcher Dr. Farhad Islami, senior scientific director of cancer disparity research at the American Cancer Society. "We must continue to help individuals to quit...

PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Are Linked With Liver Cancer

10 August 2022
PFAS `Forever Chemicals` Are Linked With Liver CancerWEDNESDAY, Aug. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A chemical called perfluooctane sulfate (PFOS) has been linked to the most common type of liver cancer, a new study indicates.PFOS are used in a wide range of consumer and industrial products, and are referred to as “forever chemicals” because they break down very slowly and accumulate both in the environment and in human tissue.Researchers at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine combed through human blood and tissue samples gathered as part of a large-scale study. They then compared samples from 50 liver cancer patients with 50 others who didn’t develop cancer.Researchers found several types of polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) -- the family of chemicals to which PFOS belongs -- in the blood samples of...

For Back Pain, Earlier Is Better for Physical Therapy

9 August 2022
For Back Pain, Earlier Is Better for Physical TherapyTUESDAY, Aug. 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- When people have backaches bad enough to send them to the doctor, prompt physical therapy may be a wise choice, a new study suggests.Researchers found that when those patients had "early" PT -- within a couple weeks of seeing a doctor -- they were less likely to need other, often pricey, types of medical care.Over the next month to year, they were less likely to see a specialist or a chiropractor, land in the emergency room, need imaging tests like MRI, or receive injection pain medication into the spine.Experts said the findings are in line with what they see in everyday practice."The sooner patients with acute low back pain get in to see the physical therapist, the sooner they get better and the less likely they are to need additional...

Climate Change Making 218 Infectious Diseases Even Worse

9 August 2022
Climate Change Making 218 Infectious Diseases Even WorseTUESDAY, Aug. 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Flooding, heat waves and drought have made 58% of infectious diseases worse, a new analysis claims.For the review of previous studies, published Aug. 8 in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers found that 218 of the known 375 infectious diseases have been made worse by climate change, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and anthrax.The researchers found that torrential rain and flooding made people sick through mosquitoes, rats and deer that carry germs. Also, warming oceans and heat waves taint seafood and other food, while droughts increase the number of bats that carry viruses."If climate is changing, the risk of these diseases are changing," study co-author Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the...

AHA News: What's New This Year For School Lunches?

9 August 2022
AHA News: What`s New This Year For School Lunches?TUESDAY, Aug. 9, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- In the past, school cafeterias might have served as a source for more punchlines than nutrition. But lunch is a more dynamic and, these days, healthy part of students' lives than many people realize.Some of its importance is obvious. "You really don't need to do a study showing that if kids are hungry, they're going to have a harder time in class," said Marlene Schwartz, director of the UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health in Hartford, Connecticut.This school year, changes are on the way regarding what students will be eating and who will have to pay for federally supported school meals.Students might not even notice the food-related changes, Schwartz said. But anything that affects school lunch programs matters, she...

B 8/10 -- FDA Warns Amazon, Other Vendors About Sale of Skin Tag Removal Products

9 August 2022
B 8/10 -- FDA Warns Amazon, Other Vendors About Sale of Skin Tag Removal ProductsWEDNESDAY, Aug. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued warning letters to three companies, including Amazon, for selling unapproved products for removing moles and skin tags.No over-the-counter medications have FDA approval for that purpose, and the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act prohibits interstate sale of unapproved drugs and cosmetics."It is the FDA's duty to protect public health from harmful products not approved for the U.S. marketplace," said Donald Ashley, director of the compliance office in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "This includes where online retailers like Amazon are involved in the interstate sale of unapproved drug products. We will continue to work diligently to ensure that online retailers do not...

Pot Users Less Likely to Think Cigarettes Are Unhealthy: Study

9 August 2022
Pot Users Less Likely to Think Cigarettes Are Unhealthy: StudyTUESDAY, Aug. 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Could cannabis end up being a gateway drug for cigarettes? Possibly, said researchers from Columbia University, who found that adults who use pot daily do not perceive smoking a pack a day as being as harmful as those who do not use pot do."In the context of recent findings that perception of risk plays a key role in predicting substance use, and that perception of risk associated with cannabis use has declined steadily along with legalization, these findings were somewhat of a surprise," said lead researcher Renee Goodwin. She's a professor in the department of epidemiology at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health. In the study, Goodwin and colleagues used data from over 21,000 adults in the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and...

Noses Might Be Kids' Secret Weapon Against COVID

9 August 2022
Noses Might Be Kids` Secret Weapon Against COVIDTUESDAY, Aug. 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- This discovery is nothing to sniff at.The linings of kids' noses are better able than those of adults to guard against SARS-CoV-2 infection, Australian researchers report. “Children have a lower COVID-19 infection rate and milder symptoms than adults, but the reasons for this have been unknown,” said study co-author Kirsty Short, of the University of Queensland. “We’ve shown the lining of children’s noses has a more pro-inflammatory response to the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 than adult noses.”She said researchers found major differences by age when comparing participants' response to COVID variants. They recently published their findings in the journal PLOS Biology.For the study, they exposed samples of nasal lining cells from 23 healthy...

Crohn's, Colitis Tied to Higher-Risk Pregnancies

TUESDAY, Aug. 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Women who have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) should work with a doctor to get it into remission before pregnancy, a new study indicates.Researchers...

B 8/9 -- Ashton Kutcher 'Lucky to Be Alive' After Battle...

TUESDAY, Aug. 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) --- Actor Ashton Kutcher is opening up about dealing with a rare condition called vasculitis that for a time left him seriously disabled.In an episode of...
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