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2022

4 in 10 U.S. Adults Who Need Mental Health Care Can't Get It: Survey

4 in 10 U.S. Adults Who Need Mental Health Care Can`t Get It: SurveyWEDNESDAY, June 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- There is a "staggering" gap between the number of Americans who need care for anxiety, depression and other mental health conditions and those who can actually get it, a new survey shows.In all, 42% of U.S. adults who needed care in the previous 12 months did not get it because of costs and other barriers, according to the online survey from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. Nearly one-quarter said they needed help for substance use. "Unfortunately, I think the data around the challenges to accessing care are not surprising," said CEO Chuck Ingoglia. "We're in an environment where there is increased attention to these issues at the federal level and state level, there have been efforts to require insurance companies to provide...

Bad Sleep May Be Bad News for People With COPD

8 June 2022
Bad Sleep May Be Bad News for People With COPDWEDNESDAY, June 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- If you have COPD, new research suggests you might want to pay close attention to getting good sleep.Poor slumber significantly increased the risk of life-threatening flare-ups of breathing problems in people with the incurable, progressive lung disease, investigators reported."Among those who already have COPD, knowing how they sleep at night will tell me much more about their risk of a flare-up than knowing whether they smoked for 40 versus 60 years," said study lead author Dr. Aaron Baugh. He is a clinical fellow at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School and a practicing pulmonologist."That is very surprising, and is not necessarily what I expected going into this study. Smoking is such a central process to COPD that I...

COVID Might Raise Odds for Psychiatric Disorders Later:...

8 June 2022
COVID Might Raise Odds for Psychiatric Disorders Later: StudyWEDNESDAY, June 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- People who've been through a bout of COVID may be more vulnerable to mental health disorders in the months following their infection, a new study warns.Researchers analyzed data on more than 46,000 people in the United States who tested positive for COVID-19 and an equal number of people with other types of respiratory infections. None had a previous known psychiatric disorder. COVID-19 patients were about 25% more likely to be diagnosed with a mental health condition in the four months after their infection than those with other types of respiratory infections (3.8% vs. 3%), the study found.When they focused on anxiety and mood disorders, the investigators discovered a minor but significant increase in risk for anxiety disorders among...

Nightmares Can Sometimes Warn of Parkinson's Onset

8 June 2022
Nightmares Can Sometimes Warn of Parkinson`s OnsetWEDNESDAY, June 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Nightmares can be unsettling for anyone, but new research from Britain suggests that bad dreams may signal the start of Parkinson's disease in some older adults."Although it can be really beneficial to diagnose Parkinson’s disease early, there are very few risk indicators and many of these require expensive hospital tests or are very common and nonspecific, such as diabetes," explained study author Abidemi Otaiku, from the University of Birmingham's Centre for Human Brain Health."While we need to carry out further research in this area, identifying the significance of bad dreams and nightmares could indicate that individuals who experience changes to their dreams in older age -- without any obvious trigger -- should seek medical advice,"...

Surviving Childhood Cancer Can Take Toll on Adult Heart

8 June 2022
Surviving Childhood Cancer Can Take Toll on Adult HeartWEDNESDAY, June 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Adult survivors of childhood cancer have a higher risk of heart problems than other adults, but are much less likely to be treated for heart disease risk factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol, new research shows.The findings highlight the need for greater awareness among both doctors and patients of the increased risk of heart disease among the estimated 500,000 adult survivors of childhood cancer in the United States, according to the study authors. Treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation mean that childhood cancer survivors may have up to a fivefold higher risk of heart disease and death than the general population, the researchers noted."Serious heart disease is uncommon in young adults in the general...

Gene Test Lets Some Colon Cancer Patients Safely Skip Chemo

7 June 2022
Gene Test Lets Some Colon Cancer Patients Safely Skip ChemoTUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A blood test could save some colon cancer patients from getting unnecessary chemotherapy following surgery, while making sure that those who would benefit from the treatment get it, researchers report.The circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) test looks for minute amounts of genetic material that are released by cancerous tumors, explained co-researcher Dr. Anne Marie Lennon, director of gastroenterology and hepatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in Baltimore.The presence of cancer DNA in the blood is a sign that someone likely needs follow-up chemotherapy, Lennon said.The test nearly halved the number of people with stage 2 colon cancer who got follow-up chemotherapy after surgery – 15% versus 28% for a control group that...

AHA News: Tiny Sprouts Provide Big Nutrition

7 June 2022
AHA News: Tiny Sprouts Provide Big NutritionTUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Move over baby carrots and petite peas. Even tinier vegetables are catching on as go-to healthy foods.Microscale vegetables, a growing food category that includes sprouted seeds, are miniature in size yet big in nutrition. Eating sprouts well before they become full-blown plants can crank up certain nutrient levels considerably, said Emily Ho, nutrition professor and director of the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University in Corvallis."Five- to seven-day-old seed sprouts can often offer more nutrition benefits than the mature plants," said Ho, who's known around campus as the "broccoli lady" due to her research on the health benefits of broccoli sprouts.Mung bean and soybean sprouts, familiar to most as just bean...

Some Younger Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancers Might Skip Radiation

7 June 2022
Some Younger Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancers Might Skip RadiationTUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Tens of thousands of breast cancer patients could safely go without radiation therapy after their tumor has been removed, a new study argues.Gene testing helped doctors identify a group of women who skipped radiation therapy because their cancer showed very low risk of coming back following surgery, according to findings presented Tuesday at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), held in Chicago.Forgoing radiation therapy worked out well for them, it turned out.The patients had a little more than 2% risk of their breast cancer returning, said study leader Dr. Timothy Joseph Whelan, chair of breast cancer research at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.Between 10% to 15% of breast cancer patients in the...

Will Medical Marijuana, CBD Ease Chronic Pain?

TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Use of medical marijuana has surged across the United States, but a new analysis finds that evidence supporting its use in treating chronic pain remains...

Veterans at Higher Risk of Deadly Skin Cancers

TUESDAY, June 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. veterans are at higher risk for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, than most Americans, and new research finds they are also more likely to...
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