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16Nov
2021

AHA News: Is 10,000 Steps Really a Magic Number for Health?

AHA News: Is 10,000 Steps Really a Magic Number for Health?TUESDAY, Nov. 16, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- It's a worthy, healthy goal to take 10,000 steps each day, but that magic number didn't come from doctors or physical trainers.In the mid-1960s, Japanese marketers trying to sell a pedometer named it manpo-kei, which generally translates to "10,000 step meter" in English. The Japanese character for "10,000" roughly resembles a person walking."It's a nice clean number and it makes a good marketing message," said Amanda Paluch, assistant professor in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. "You can see why it stuck. But there was not a lot of science behind it."Paluch is the lead researcher of a new meta-analysis looking at the link between how many steps people take and...

A Woman May Have Rid Herself Naturally of HIV -- But How?

16 November 2021
A Woman May Have Rid Herself Naturally of HIV -- But How?TUESDAY, Nov. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have identified a second HIV-positive person whose body might have naturally cleared the infection -- sparking hope that studying such exceedingly rare events will help lead to a cure.The researchers cautioned that they cannot prove the woman has fully eradicated the virus from her body, in what's known as a "sterilizing" cure.But in exhaustive tests of over 1.5 billion cells from her body, the scientists could not find any HIV genetic material that is capable of spurring infection.The woman, whom the researchers call the Esperanza patient (after her birthplace of Esperanza, Argentina), is the second known person to have potentially cleared HIV infection naturally.The first case, a woman dubbed the San Francisco patient, was...

Breast Cancer Diagnosis Linked to Higher Odds for...

16 November 2021
Breast Cancer Diagnosis Linked to Higher Odds for Dangerous A-FibTUESDAY, Nov. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Women with breast cancer are known to have heart problems related to treatment, and now a new study shows their odds of developing an abnormal heart rhythm known as atrial fibrillation (a-fib) may increase in the wake of a breast cancer diagnosis.Women who develop a-fib within a month of a breast cancer diagnosis are more likely to die from heart- or blood vessel-related problems within a year, the new research suggests.A-fib occurs when the upper chambers of the heart quiver chaotically, causing a fast and irregular heartbeat. Symptoms may include heart palpitations, breathlessness, dizziness, and/or extreme fatigue. When left undiagnosed or untreated, a-fib dramatically raises the risk for stroke and heart failure.Exactly why these two...

Pot Use in Pregnancy May Harm the Fetus

16 November 2021
Pot Use in Pregnancy May Harm the FetusTUESDAY, Nov. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Marijuana use in pregnancy may increase your child's risk for stress and anxiety, a new study suggests.Although some moms-to-be use pot hoping to relieve morning sickness and anxiety, they should know it may cause genetic changes in the uterus that result in children becoming anxious, aggressive and hyperactive, researchers say."People are saying that cannabis is benign, and take it for your anxiety and your nausea, but you need to know that it may have long-term effects on your child," said senior researcher Yasmin Hurd. "We found that the children, starting at age 3, had changes in their hormone levels, elevated anxiety, aggression and hyperactivity, and even physiological measures of a stress response in the heart," said Hurd. She's chair...

Study Suggests a Better Blood Thinner Could Be Near

16 November 2021
Study Suggests a Better Blood Thinner Could Be NearTUESDAY, Nov. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For decades, doctors have struggled with the fact that the benefit of any blood-thinning pill came with the added risk of excess bleeding. Now, an experimental anti-clotting pill called milvexian has been found to be effective in patients who had knee replacement surgery — without adding any excess risk for bleeding. The study focused on these patients because they're known to be at high risk for blood clots after surgery and their clots can be readily detected with X-rays of the veins of the legs, the Canadian researchers explained."The major side effect of current oral anti-clotting drugs is bleeding, and the fear of bleeding leads to their underuse. This sets the need for safer oral anticoagulants and that is where milvexian comes in,"...

CDC Warns of E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Baby Spinach

16 November 2021
CDC Warns of E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Baby SpinachTUESDAY, Nov. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Ten people in seven states have been sickened in an E. coli outbreak linked to baby spinach, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.The agency said people should not eat, sell or serve Josie's Organics prepackaged baby spinach that has a "best by" date of 10/23/2021 and was sold nationwide.Cases of illness have been reported in Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, South Dakota. Two hospitalizations but no deaths have been reported, the CDC said in a statement.The outbreak has likely affected more people and states than the reported number because some people recover without medical care and are not tested for E. coli, the agency added.Consumers with the recalled baby spinach should throw it away and use...

Cases of Children's Severe COVID-Linked Illness Were Worse in Second Wave

16 November 2021
Cases of Children`s Severe COVID-Linked Illness Were Worse in Second WaveTUESDAY, Nov. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A rare inflammatory condition associated with COVID-19 in children was more severe in the second wave of patients than in the first, researchers report.For the study, investigators examined the cases of 106 patients with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) who arrived in two waves at Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C.In the first wave, patients were hospitalized between March 2020 and October 2020, and in the second wave, patients were hospitalized between November 2020 and April 2021. Each wave came four to six weeks after COVID-19 surges in the community.In both waves, there were far more Black (54%) and Hispanic (39%) patients than white patients, and 75% of the patients were otherwise healthy with no...

A Little Coffee May Be Healthy in Pregnancy

16 November 2021
A Little Coffee May Be Healthy in PregnancyTUESDAY, Nov. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Many women dread having to give up coffee during their pregnancy, but new research suggests that consuming a little caffeine while expecting might not necessarily be a bad thing."While we were not able to study the association of consumption above the recommended limit, we now know that low-to-moderate caffeine is not associated with an increased risk of gestational diabetes, preeclampsia or hypertension for expecting mothers," said study author Stefanie Hinkle. She is an assistant professor of epidemiology at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.For the study, the researchers looked at prospective data from over 2,500 pregnant participants who were enrolled in a U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development study...

As Countries Become More Tolerant, Suicides Among Gay...

TUESDAY, Nov. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A new study confirms that when a country is more accepting of people who are LGBTQ, fewer gay or bisexual men take their own lives.In a new study,...

Certain Antidepressants Appear to Curb Severe COVID-19

MONDAY, Nov. 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Certain commonly prescribed antidepressants appear to substantially lower the risk of dying among seriously ill COVID-19 patients, a large new study...
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