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2021

Early Responders to 9/11 Now Face Higher Odds for COPD

Early Responders to 9/11 Now Face Higher Odds for COPDTHURSDAY, Sept. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, researchers report that early recovery workers and volunteers have a high risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). A study of nearly 18,000 workers and volunteers found that those who arrived soon after the Twin Towers collapsed in 2001 face the greatest risk of COPD."We know that emergency workers who arrived in the aftermath of the World Trade Center disaster face higher risks of airway diseases, such as asthma, chronic non-specific bronchitis and bronchiolitis, probably caused by the smoke and toxic dust that persisted in the air days and weeks after the attacks," said researcher and pulmonologist Dr. Rafael de la Hoz, from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount...

Few Kids Get Dental Fluoride Treatments, Though...

9 September 2021
Few Kids Get Dental Fluoride Treatments, Though Insurance Will PayTHURSDAY, Sept. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Very few privately insured young children get recommended dental fluoride treatments at health wellness visits, even though insurance typically covers them, a new study finds."Medical providers are not required to do this; it's like a mammogram," said lead author Kimberley Geissler, an associate professor of health policy and management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. "It's recommended and it's good and they should do it, and the questions we were looking at were: Do they do it and how often?"Tooth decay affects nearly 25% of 2- to 5-year-olds and more than half of 6- to 8-year-olds in the United States, previous studies have shown. Fluoride varnish helps prevent decay and is recommended by the U.S. Preventive Task Force and the...

Mom-to-Be's 'Leaky' Heart Valves May Pose More Danger...

9 September 2021
Mom-to-Be`s `Leaky` Heart Valves May Pose More Danger Than ThoughtTHURSDAY, Sept. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Leaky heart valves can put pregnant women at serious risk, according to a large study that runs counter to established practice.The condition used to be considered relatively harmless during pregnancy. But this analysis by Johns Hopkins University researchers of more than 20,000 individual medical records reveals that heart valve disease puts women at risk for bleeding, high blood pressure, organ damage and other complications during childbirth."Our study focused on something that perhaps doesn't get a lot of attention," senior author Dr. Erin Michos said in a Hopkins news release. She directs women's cardiovascular health and is an associate professor at the university's School of Medicine in Baltimore.Michos said the new findings call for...

Eczema Can Take Toll on Child's Mental Health

8 September 2021
Eczema Can Take Toll on Child`s Mental HealthWEDNESDAY, Sept. 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Eczema doesn't just irritate kids' skin. The often disfiguring condition may also be tied to depression, anxiety and sleep difficulties, new research warns.A study of more than 11,000 British children and teens found that those with severe eczema were twice as likely to become clinically depressed as eczema-free kids."Eczema is an itchy red skin disease," said study author Dr. Katrina Abuabara, an associate professor of dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco. But it's complex."The disease course and severity can be quite variable," explained Abuabara. "It often presents in early childhood, but can occur at any age. It tends to be episodic, flaring up, then remitting, but these cycles can be chronic over years."For many...

AHA News: How a Simple Tape Measure May Help Predict Diabetes in Black Adults

8 September 2021
AHA News: How a Simple Tape Measure May Help Predict Diabetes in Black AdultsWEDNESDAY, Sept. 8, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- Measuring waist circumference may be an essential way to help predict who will develop diabetes among Black people with normal blood sugar levels, according to a new study. The problem is, researchers say, waist size often is overlooked at health visits.The study, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association, focused on how to best determine the risk of diabetes in Black populations. The condition causes blood sugar to rise and can damage the eyes, kidneys, nerves or heart.About 1 in 10 people in the U.S. have diabetes, but the numbers are higher for Black men (14.7%) and Black women (13.4%), American Heart Association statistics show. According to federal data, Black people are twice as likely as...

AHA News: Neurologist Wakes Up in the Hospital Where She Works – As a Stroke Survivor

8 September 2021
AHA News: Neurologist Wakes Up in the Hospital Where She Works – As a Stroke SurvivorWEDNESDAY, Sept. 8, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- Dr. Dipika Aggarwal sat in a Kansas City, Kansas, diner on a Tuesday afternoon two years ago sipping coffee and enjoying a mushroom omelet and toast.Only a month before, the neurologist had returned to work after going through surgery, radiation and chemotherapy for stage 4 colon cancer. She chose to ease back in and started taking care of people admitted to the hospital after stroke, seizures and other neurological diseases. The new work schedule had alternate weeks off.That day in September came during her first week off, and Dipika – who was then 38 – wanted to pamper herself with a meal out.At the table, Dipika's head started to pound. She chalked it up to a migraine, finished her meal, paid her check and made her...

Why Aren't COVID Vaccines Getting to People Globally?

8 September 2021
Why Aren`t COVID Vaccines Getting to People Globally?WEDNESDAY, Sept. 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The highly transmissible Delta variant of COVID-19 has highlighted a fear shared by infectious disease experts worldwide: That increasingly dangerous mutations will continue to crop up until most people around the globe are vaccinated. "There are going to be more variants and they may eventually be variants of concern or variants that pose problems for the vaccine," said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Baltimore."The best way to guarantee against that is getting the world blanketed with vaccine," Adalja said in an interview with HealthDay Now.How to achieve that goal is what divides health experts, politicians and many others.What about suspending the drug company patent protections...

U.S. COVID-19 Cases Now Top 40 Million

8 September 2021
U.S. COVID-19 Cases Now Top 40 MillionWEDNESDAY, Sept. 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- There have now been more than 40 million cases of COVID-19 recorded among Americans, according to a database maintained by The New York Times. That's nearly one-fifth of the global total of cases.With the Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus cutting a swathe through the United States, and about 47% of the eligible population still not fully vaccinated, COVID-19 has roared back over a summer that began with Americans hopeful that the worst was behind them.According to the Times, as of Sunday there have been an average 161,000 new cases of COVID-19 in the United States each day. Hospitalizations are topping 102,000 each day, and the daily COVID-19 death toll is now at 1,560.The vast majority of people hospitalized and dying are unvaccinated,...

Pet Dogs Can Alert Owners to Epileptic Seizures

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Sit. Fetch. Stay.Detect seizure.Yes, you read that correctly.While many dogs are adept at following basic instructions such as "sit" and "roll over"...

Here's How COVID-19 Can Affect Your Mouth

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A lost or altered sense of taste, dry mouth and sores are common among COVID-19 patients and those symptoms may last long after others disappear,...
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