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A Child's Pet Dog May Shield Them From Crohn's Disease

A Child`s Pet Dog May Shield Them From Crohn`s DiseaseTUESDAY, May 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Add a lower risk of Crohn's disease to the many benefits of having a dog during childhood, a new study suggests.Sorry, cat lovers, researchers didn't find a similar benefit for you."We did not see the same results with cats, though we are still trying to determine why," said senior author Williams Turpin, a research associate with Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and the University of Toronto. "It could potentially be because dog owners get outside more often with their pets or live in areas with more green space, which has been shown previously to protect against Crohn's," he said.The researchers also found that growing up in a large family may reduce future chances of developing this common type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).They...

Can Mindfulness Really Change Your Brain?

24 May 2022
Can Mindfulness Really Change Your Brain? TUESDAY, May 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Meditation and other mindfulness practices may improve your attention, but they won't lead to structural changes in your brain in the short-term, according to a new study. Previous studies have shown that learning new skills, aerobic exercise and balance training could trigger changes in the brain, and some research has suggested that mindfulness regimens could do the same. To find out if that's true, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Center for Healthy Minds conducted trials with more than 200 healthy people who had no meditation experience. The participants underwent MRI scans to assess their brains and were then randomly assigned to one of three groups: a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course; a well-being...

Annual Health Care Costs Rise by $2,000 for Americans...

24 May 2022
Annual Health Care Costs Rise by $2,000 for Americans Who VapeTUESDAY, May 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Think vaping is cheap?A study from the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing reports that annual health care costs for users of electronic cigarettes were $2,024 more per person than for those who use no tobacco products.That adds up to about $15 billion a year in the United States."Health care costs attributable to e-cigarette use are already greater than our estimates of health care costs attributable to cigar and smokeless tobacco use," said lead study author Yingning Wang, a health economist at the university's Institute for Health and Aging. "This is a concerning finding, given that e-cigarettes are a relatively new product whose impact is likely to increase over time."For the study, Wang and her team used the 2015 to...

Making U.S. Cities Greener Could Have Saved Thousands of...

24 May 2022
Making U.S. Cities Greener Could Have Saved Thousands of Lives TUESDAY, May 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Creating more parks and other green spaces could have prevented tens of thousands of deaths in dozens of large U.S. cities over the past two decades, a new study says. "We've known that living in greener areas can have a positive impact on our physical and mental health, but there is a lack of data on how changes in greenness distribution can affect death rates across the country," said lead study author Paige Brochu. She is a PhD student at Boston University School of Public Health. "Our study quantifies the impact of greenness expansion in urban areas and shows how increasing green vegetation could potentially add to a person's life expectancy. Policymakers and urban planners can use this information to support local climate action plans and...

Gay Community Most Vulnerable to Monkeypox Threat, Vaccines Available Soon: CDC

23 May 2022
Gay Community Most Vulnerable to Monkeypox Threat, Vaccines Available Soon: CDCMONDAY, May 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- At a Monday media briefing, U.S. public health officials said they are tracking a handful of travel-related monkeypox cases that have been reported across the country. Anyone can catch monkeypox, but at this time it appears to be "circulating globally in some parts of the gay community," Dr. John Brooks, a medical epidemiologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, said during the briefing.Contact tracing is being done for the first confirmed case, a Massachusetts man who recently traveled to Canada, added Capt. Jennifer McQuiston, deputy director of the Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology at the CDC.Four more presumed monkeypox cases have also been reported in various...

1 Dirty Pool, Many Cases of E. Coli: Summer's Swimming Danger

23 May 2022
1 Dirty Pool, Many Cases of E. Coli: Summer`s Swimming DangerMONDAY, May 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- As the weather warms and families flock to pools, dirty water may dampen the fun.Swimmers at a Pennsylvania community pool learned that the hard way when in June 2021 more than a dozen kids were seriously sickened by two types of bacteria, E. coli and C. difficile. "These are pathogens that can cause pretty significant gastrointestinal distress in all ages, but particularly in children," said researcher Molly Nace, an epidemiology research associate at the Pennsylvania Department of Health in Greensburg. "Some of the children who tested positive for E. coli also tested positive for C. difficile."The kids got sick after swallowing the pool water, she said.These bacteria usually find their way into pool water because someone swims while having...

Lower Incomes May Mean Lower Survival After Heart Attack

23 May 2022
Lower Incomes May Mean Lower Survival After Heart AttackMONDAY, May 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- If you're poor and have a severe type of heart attack, the chance you'll live through it is significantly lower than that of someone with more money, new research shows.The finding underscores the need to close a divide in health care that hits low-income people hard, said lead researcher Dr. Abdul Mannan Khan Minhas, a hospitalist at the Hattiesburg Clinic Hospital Care Service in Mississippi."A lot of work is being done in this area, but obviously, as has been shown in multiple studies, a lot more needs to be done," he said.The type of heart attack his team studied is an ST-elevation myocardial infarction, also known as STEMI.STEMI, which mainly affects the heart's lower chambers, can be more severe and dangerous than other types of heart...

Emergency Shipment of Baby Formula Arrives From Europe

23 May 2022
Emergency Shipment of Baby Formula Arrives From EuropeMONDAY, May 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A 35-ton shipment of hypoallergenic baby formula from Switzerland arrived in the United States on Sunday, the first delivery in what the Biden administration is calling "Operation Fly Formula" to deal with a nationwide shortage.The 132 pallets of formula arrived in Indianapolis on a military C-17 cargo plane from Germany, and will be fed to babies intolerant of the protein supplied by cow's milk, CNN reported.The shipment of Nestle Health Science formula is expected to provide enough formula for 9,000 babies and 18,000 toddlers for one week, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said as he greeted the delivery in Indianapolis."It is a large shipment of very specific and specialized formula. Formula for moms and dads who have children who have...

AHA News: Monitoring Blood Pressure at Home Can Be...

MONDAY, May 23, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Knowing your blood pressure is a basic part of good health. But monitoring it at home can get complicated."It sounds easy – you buy a...

What Is Monkeypox, and How Worried Should Americans Be?

MONDAY, May 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A worrisome international outbreak of monkeypox, a less harmful cousin of the smallpox virus, has now reached the United States and Canada. As of Saturday,...
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