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WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, FBI data shows that people of Asian descent increasingly have been targets of racially motivated attacks."Hate crimes have spilled over to affect the community in dramatic ways. People feel scapegoated and blamed for the pandemic," said Dr. Howard Kyongju Koh, the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.That has fueled a rise in anxiety and depression in a population that is already one of the least likely to access much-needed mental health services, according to the nonprofit Mental Health America.Koh, who is a former U.S. assistant secretary for health and of Korean descent, has...

WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Many COVID-19 patients who didn't wind up in the hospital continue to battle lingering health issues more than a year later, a new study finds. These long-haulers continue to suffer neurologic symptoms, fatigue and a compromised quality of life long after their initial infection."We were surprised by the persistence of most of the debilitating neurologic symptoms of our patients, and by the late appearance of symptoms that suggest dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system," said Dr. Igor Koralnik, who oversees the Neuro COVID-19 Clinic at Northwestern Medicine, in Chicago.For the study, his team studied the development of neurologic symptoms in non-hospitalized COVID-19 long-haulers at the clinic. It has treated nearly 1,400 long-haul...

WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- It's tempting to binge-watch TV shows, and it might be hard to get off the couch after just one or two episodes.But it could be worth it.Researchers calculated that if people committed to watching just under an hour of TV a day, 11% of coronary heart disease cases could be eliminated.Though sedentary behavior or sitting for long stretches has previously been linked to coronary heart disease, this study turned the lens on screen-based sitting, including watching TV and leisure-time computer use. The team also factored in a person's DNA, creating scores for the risk of developing coronary heart disease based on 300 genetic variants known to influence this common health condition."Our study provides strong evidence on the potential role that...

WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Beginning June 4, Abbott Nutrition will restart producing baby formula at a shuttered factory that's been central to the ongoing shortage of infant formula in the United States, the company announced on Tuesday. The factory in Sturgis, Mich., has been closed since February for what the U.S. Food and Drug Administration called "insanitary conditions." In the first three months of the year agency inspectors detected Cronobacter sakazakii bacteria in several locations inside the plant, CNN reported.However, the recent infant formula shortage has led to a push to quickly clean and re-open the plant. A federal judge in May issued a consent decree that outlined steps Abbott needed to take to resume production, and after fulfilling those steps the...