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2021

In Your Sights: How Eye Contact Enhances a Conversation

In Your Sights: How Eye Contact Enhances a ConversationTUESDAY, Sept. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Seeing eye to eye -- literally -- makes conversations more appealing, a new study finds."Eye contact is really immersive and powerful," said researcher Sophie Wohltjen, a graduate student in psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth College."When two people are having a conversation, eye contact signals that shared attention is high -- that they are in peak synchrony with one another," Wohltjen said in a college news release.And while deep in conversation, their pupils dilate in synchrony, the researchers noted."As eye contact persists, that synchrony then decreases. We think this is also good because too much synchrony can make a conversation stale. An engaging conversation requires at times being on the same page and at times saying...

9/11 First Responders Face Higher Cancer Risk 20 Years Later

13 September 2021
9/11 First Responders Face Higher Cancer Risk 20 Years LaterMONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Twenty years on, responders to the World Trade Center attacks in New York City are showing increased risks of certain cancers, two new studies confirm.Researchers found higher-than-average rates of prostate cancer among firefighters, medics and other workers who toiled at the disaster site on and after Sept. 11, 2001.And compared with firefighters from other major U.S. cities, those exposed to the 9/11 disaster had higher risks of both prostate and thyroid cancers.It's been known that World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers have above-average rates of certain cancers.But the new studies help clarify the picture further, experts said.In one, researchers found that increased risks of prostate cancer began showing up surprisingly early —...

Data Doesn't Support Need for COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters:...

13 September 2021
Data Doesn`t Support Need for COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters: ExpertsMONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 vaccine booster shots might not be needed for most people, according to a large international review.The review -- conducted by a team that included scientists from the World Health Organization and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration -- concluded that current vaccines are effective enough against severe COVID-19, even from the Delta variant, and that booster shots are unnecessary.The findings, published Sept. 13 in The Lancet, are based on a review of all available published literature and results of clinical trials. "The vaccines that are currently available are safe, effective, and save lives," said study co-author Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist at the WHO."Although the idea of further reducing the number of COVID-19...

Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion Helped Americans' Blood...

13 September 2021
Obamacare`s Medicaid Expansion Helped Americans` Blood PressureMONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- With the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare, fewer Americans are uninsured and more are getting their blood pressure and blood sugar under control, a new study finds.The gains are especially strong among Black and Hispanic patients, according to Boston University researchers."Our results suggest that over the longer-run, expanding Medicaid eligibility may improve key chronic disease health outcomes for low-income, marginalized populations, which is an important consideration for the 12 states that have not yet adopted Medicaid expansion," said researcher Megan Cole Brahim, an assistant professor of health law, policy and management.Her team found that Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act has resulted in better care and service...

Your State's Laws Might Save Your Life If Breast Cancer Strikes

13 September 2021
Your State`s Laws Might Save Your Life If Breast Cancer StrikesMONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- When Nancy Cappello was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer in 2003, she was stunned.How could this have happened? She went for her annual screening mammogram every year and was always told that all was fine.It wasn't. Cappello had dense breasts, but no one had ever told her. "The tumor was likely growing for five to seven years," said her husband, Joseph Cappello. "At the time, no one knew what a dense breast was, and no one was talking about it." As many as 40% of women have dense breast tissue, which increases risk for breast cancer. What's more, mammograms often miss these cancers, leading to later diagnoses when the breast cancer has already started to spread. Nancy passed away at age 66 in 2018 due to complications related to her...

AHA News: Since Her Stroke, Her Southern Drawl Turned Into a Foreign Accent

13 September 2021
AHA News: Since Her Stroke, Her Southern Drawl Turned Into a Foreign AccentMONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- Most people Pamela Anderson Bowen meets wonder about her accent. Sometimes they try to guess the origin. Maybe Russia? What about Sweden?"I'm from here," the North Carolina resident will answer. Then she waits for the inevitable follow-up question about where she grew up and developed the unusual lilt in her voice.Pam has lived in North Carolina most of her life, except for a few years in Michigan for work. It was the accent itself that arrived nearly a decade ago.In 2012, Pam was in the shower. When she went to turn off the knob with her right hand, she couldn't move her arm. She felt the muscles on the right side of her face droop and she couldn't speak. Pam, then 58, knew she was having a stroke.Her husband, Larry, happened...

Death From COVID 11 Times More Likely If You're Unvaccinated: Study

13 September 2021
Death From COVID 11 Times More Likely If You`re Unvaccinated: StudyMONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- There's more sobering news for anyone still unvaccinated against the new coronavirus: Your odds of dying from COVID-19 are 11-fold higher than someone who's fully immunized, new research shows.The data comes from one of three studies published Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."Looking at cases over the past two months when the Delta variant was the predominant variant circulating in this country, those who were unvaccinated were about four and a half times more likely to get COVID-19, over 10 times more likely to be hospitalized, and 11 times more likely to die from the disease," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said at a briefing held Friday, CBS News reported.Although vaccinated people remain largely shielded from...

Diets That Lower Brain Iron Could Keep You Sharp

13 September 2021
Diets That Lower Brain Iron Could Keep You SharpMONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Older adults who regularly eat foods like fish, nuts and olive oil may have less iron accumulation in their brains, as well as sharper memories, a small study suggests.The brain requires a certain level of iron to function normally, but the aging brain can accumulate an excess amount. And that excess iron has been linked to cognitive decline — a slow deterioration in memory and thinking skills that can lead to dementia.It's not yet clear that the extra iron actually causes mental decline, or that limiting its buildup will stave off dementia, said Valentinos Zachariou, the lead researcher on the new study.But diet stands as one potential way to do that, said Zachariou, a neuroscience researcher at the University of Kentucky, in Lexington.His...

Anxious? Maybe You Can Exercise It Away

MONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Anxiety prevention may be just a snowy trail away.New research suggests cross-country skiers -- and perhaps others who also exercise vigorously -- are...

Fatal Opioid ODs Keep Rising in Black Americans

MONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The decades-long U.S. opioid epidemic could be hitting Black people harder than white folks as the crisis enters a new phase.Opioid overdose death rates...
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