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TUESDAY, May 3, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For some children with autism, there's a connection between gastrointestinal problems and stress, anxiety and social withdrawal, a new study suggests.The findings could help efforts to develop personalized treatments for autism patients with gastrointestinal problems such as stomach pain and constipation, the University of Missouri researchers suggested. Such problems tend to occur more often in children with autism than in those without the disorder."Research has shown gastrointestinal issues are associated with an increased stress response as well as aggression and irritability in some children with autism," said Brad Ferguson, an assistant research professor at the university's Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders."This...

MONDAY, May 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Adults who suffer from asthma often need to take corticosteroids to open up their airways, but the medications may have an unintended side effect: New research shows the treatment, particularly when taken in pill form, raised the risk of patients becoming obese."Oral corticosteroids are often given to asthma patients, particularly those who had a long history of asthma, and oral corticosteroids were found to have a direct effect on the development of obesity among those asthmatic people," said lead researcher Subhabrata Moitra. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Moitra noted that patients using inhaled corticosteroids weren't at increased risk for obesity. "Often oral corticosteroids are prescribed...

MONDAY, May 2, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- While a worker cleaned out the septic system at John Cathey's house in Murray, Kentucky, John was down in the crawl space checking the pipes. When it came time to exit, he pushed his legs to scoot out. His left leg wouldn't move.His wife, Paula, was cleaning the bathroom. Through a slightly raised window, she thought she heard someone cry out.Several minutes later, the worker knocked on the front door. He was looking for John. Remembering the possible cry for help, she ran outside. She found John lying on the grass. He was unable to move his left side. The same side of his face drooped. His speech was slightly slurred, but he could still talk."Call 911," the worker said. "It looks like he's had a stroke."For years, Paula had been...

MONDAY, May 2, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Federal guidelines geared toward curbing the overprescription of opioids have modestly reduced their use after medical procedures to implant pacemakers and other heart devices, new research shows.But researchers say more needs to be done in the face of the nation's continuing opioid crisis."While we have seen some response, we still need to increase awareness and push harder on this," said the study's senior author Dr. David Frankel, an associate professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.The study, published Monday in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, looked at opioid prescriptions for pain after procedures for pacemakers and implantable...