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WEDNESDAY, July 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- From the ongoing pandemic and the monkeypox outbreak to the charged political landscape, New York City mom and entrepreneur Lyss Stern has been increasingly anxious.Stern worries that she will pass all of this fretting down to her 8-year-old daughter, and a new study suggests she just might. “Children may be more likely to learn anxious behavior if it is being displayed by their same-sex parent (i.e., sons learning their fathers' behavior and daughters learning their mothers’ behavior),” said study co-author Barbara Pavlova, a clinical psychologist in the mood disorders program at Nova Scotia Health Authority in Halifax, Canada.But this isn’t inevitable or irreversible, Pavlova said. “The results suggest that children learn anxious...

WEDNESDAY, July 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The potent influence of social media may include tobacco use.By analyzing 29 previously published studies, researchers found that people who viewed social media that contained tobacco content were more than twice as likely to report using tobacco and were more likely to use it in the future, compared to those who never viewed it. People who were exposed to the content were even more susceptible to future tobacco use if they had never used tobacco before.The study, published July 11 in JAMA Pediatrics, included an analysis of surveys from more than 139,000 participants across various studies, age groups, countries, social media platforms and content."We [cast] a wide net across the tobacco and social media literature and synthesized...

WEDNESDAY, July 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Had COVID? You might want to clean your freezer out. A new study suggests that cousins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus can survive on frozen meat and fish for up to 30 days.The research -- prompted by COVID outbreaks in Asia in which packaged meat was suspected as the virus' source -- was conducted on frozen chicken, beef, pork and salmon. The findings were published June 11 in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology."Although you might not store meat in the fridge for 30 days, you might store it in the freezer for that long," said first author Emily Bailey, assistant professor of public health at Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C.Her team conducted its research without use of the actual...

WEDNESDAY, July 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- People with lupus benefit from a COVID-19 booster shot after full vaccination, with a new study showing they are half as likely to experience a COVID infection afterward."Our study results offer people living with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) clinical confirmation that vaccines are highly effective at guarding against severe COVID-19, despite their increased risk of catching the disease," said study co-author and rheumatologist Dr. Amit Saxena. He's an assistant professor and lupus specialist at NYU Langone and NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City."COVID-19 vaccine boosters, or third shots, offered an added, doubled layer of protection from breakthrough infection. Even in cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection, cases were...