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2020

Roll Over, Fido. You're Hogging the Bed

Roll Over, Fido. You`re Hogging the BedTHURSDAY, Dec. 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Forget buying a dog bed. New research shows that nearly half of pet parents say their pooches co-sleep in their owner's bed.More than 1,000 Australian dog owners participated in the study conducted by Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y.About 49% of participants, who ranged in age from 18 to 78, said their dog sleeps in their bed. Another 20% said their dog sleeps in the same bedroom, though not in the bed. The remaining 31% said their dog sleeps outside the bedroom."Studies of humans' relationships with their companion animals have almost exclusively focused on the ways people engage with their pets during their waking hours, yet people commonly spend their sleeping hours with pets in their beds or bedrooms," said study author Christy Hoffman,...

Which Exercise Regimen Works Best to Ease Lower Back Pain?

30 December 2020
Which Exercise Regimen Works Best to Ease Lower Back Pain?WEDNESDAY, Dec. 30, 2020 (HealthDay) -- Chronic lower back pain can make the most routine tasks difficult. But a new study suggests patients can learn new, practical and less painful ways to move through individualized "motor skills training," or MST.A two-year study of nearly 150 patients found that MST appears to better relieve disability from lower back pain than a more common but less-tailored exercise regimen broadly focused on improving strength and flexibility."Our findings suggest that motor skill training in functional activities is an effective and efficient treatment that results in important short-term and long-term improvement in function in people with chronic low back pain," said study lead author Linda Van Dillen. She's a professor of physical therapy at Washington...

Surgery Could Boost Survival for Women With Advanced...

30 December 2020
Surgery Could Boost Survival for Women With Advanced Breast Cancers: StudyWEDNESDAY, Dec. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Women with advanced breast cancer who undergo surgery to remove the tumor after chemotherapy or another type of systemic treatment may live longer than those who don't have surgery, a new study suggests.The findings challenge a long-held belief that surgery confers little benefit for women with stage 4 breast cancer unless the cancer is causing pain, bleeding or other symptoms. Stage 4 is the point at which the cancer has spread beyond the breast and nearby lymph nodes to other parts of the body."As our systemic therapies to treat breast cancer get better and better, we have to always rethink the paradigms that we have lived by, and we may have been very right to say that surgery added very little for these patients a decade ago, but it's...

With Pot Rules Relaxed, More U.S. Teens Driving While...

30 December 2020
With Pot Rules Relaxed, More U.S. Teens Driving While High: StudyWEDNESDAY, Dec. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- America's roads are notoriously unsafe on New Year's Eve, and a new study shows that marijuana legalization could be making the situation even worse.Almost half of teenagers who regularly use pot admit they've gotten behind the wheel while stoned, a new study in JAMA Network Open reveals.Overall, twice as many teens report driving under the influence of marijuana than admit to drinking and driving, according to results drawn from a federal survey on youth risk behaviors.Nearly 13% of teen drivers said they'd operated a vehicle while stoned within the past month, compared with 5% who said they drove drunk, the study says."Marijuana can impair cognitive abilities that are critical for safe driving," said lead researcher Dr. Motao Zhu, an...

AHA News: Ring In the New Year With a 'Mocktail'

30 December 2020
AHA News: Ring In the New Year With a `Mocktail`WEDNESDAY, Dec. 30, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- At a time when many people are stress-drinking, a New Year's Eve sangria that's alcohol-free is a healthy way to say farewell to 2020.Filled with vitamins and fiber, this fresh fruit "mocktail" recipe is a nutritious alternative to what people usually drink before and after singing "Auld Lang Syne.""It's got benefits that make it a better choice than a glass of wine or beer or a mixed drink," said Catherine Champagne, a professor of nutritional epidemiology at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.Sipping an alcoholic drink or two is a time-honored holiday tradition. But excessive drinking can weaken the immune system and increase the risk of liver disease, certain cancers and heart damage,...

Giving Back: Once a Lung Transplant Recipient, Now a Surgical Nurse

30 December 2020
Giving Back: Once a Lung Transplant Recipient, Now a Surgical NurseWEDNESDAY, Dec. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Nurses are known for being kind, caring and sympathetic, but Brianna Fogelman brings an uncommon empathy to her nursing job at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.Fogelman, 27, underwent a double lung transplant last year to treat a rare lung disease and returned this fall to work in the same hospital where she received her life-changing surgery."I understand how it feels to have your ability to breathe taken away from you in just a couple of days," she said. Though she had always planned to become a nurse, it wasn't until after her transplant that it felt like more of a calling, Fogelman said. "My interest and passion spiked tremendously after I became a patient," she said.The former high school track and field athlete was in her third year...

Masks Do Make Faces Harder to Recognize, Study Shows

30 December 2020
Masks Do Make Faces Harder to Recognize, Study ShowsWEDNESDAY, Dec. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A new study confirms what you likely already know from experience -- it can be hard to recognize people when they're wearing masks during the COVID-19 pandemic."For those of you who don't always recognize a friend or acquaintance wearing a mask, you are not alone," said researchers Tzvi Ganel and Erez Freud."Faces are among the most informative and significant visual stimuli in human perception and play a unique role in communicative, social daily interactions," they noted. "The unprecedented effort to minimize COVID-19 transmission has created a new dimension in facial recognition due to mask wearing."Ganel is head of the Laboratory for Visual Perception and Action at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel. Freud is an...

How to Make Your New Year's Resolutions Stick

30 December 2020
How to Make Your New Year`s Resolutions StickWEDNESDAY, Dec. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- If you find it difficult to keep New Year's resolutions, try rephrasing them.Reformulating a resolution from "I will quit/avoid" to "I will start to" could improve the chances of success, researchers in Sweden say.They looked at more than 1,000 people who made resolutions at the end of 2017 and followed them for the next year.Participants were divided into three groups that received different amounts of support throughout the year to keep their resolution: no support at all, some support and extended support."It was found that the support given to the participants did not make much of a difference when it came down to how well participants kept their resolutions throughout the year. What surprised us were the results on how to phrase your...

NBA's COVID 'Bubble' Reveals Home Court Advantage

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The protective "bubble" that allowed National Basketball Association teams to keep playing during the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the magic of the home...

Saying 'I Understand' Makes a Real Difference, Study Shows

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) – Showing support for a person's upset over something they've experienced can actually help boost their positive feelings, new research shows.Just...
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