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Under 50 and Overweight? Your Odds for Dementia Later May Rise

Under 50 and Overweight? Your Odds for Dementia Later May RiseTHURSDAY, July 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Need fresh motivation to lose some weight? New research suggests that young adults who are overweight or obese face a higher risk for dementia in their golden years. For the study, the researchers looked at just over 5,100 older adults who were involved in two long-term studies. The investigators found that women who were overweight between 20 and 49 years of age had nearly twice the risk of dementia after age 70. And older men and women who were obese in those earlier years saw their risk jump 150%. The finding builds on prior studies that have linked excess weight during middle age to an increased risk of dementia among seniors. But the new research does not prove excess weight causes dementia, only that the two are linked, said lead...

Could Botox Injections Relieve Depression?

30 July 2020
Could Botox Injections Relieve Depression?THURSDAY, July 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Botox injections used to fight wrinkles and prevent migraines may also help relieve depression, a new study suggests. Patients who received Botox injections for any of six conditions reported suffering depression 40% to 88% less often when compared to patients who received different treatments for the same conditions. "This finding is exciting because it supports a new treatment to affect mood and fight depression, one of the common and dangerous mental illnesses -- and it's based on a very large body of statistical data, rather than limited-scale observations," said Tigran Makunts, who worked on the study as a pharmacy student at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He's now a research fellow at the U.S. Food and Drug...

Double Lung Transplants Save Lives of Sickest COVID Patients

30 July 2020
Double Lung Transplants Save Lives of Sickest COVID PatientsTHURSDAY, July 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Two coronavirus patients who became so sick that double lung transplants were their only chance for survival are now recovering from their harrowing journeys, their doctors report. Mayra Ramirez, 28, and Brian Kuhns, 62, are the first known COVID-19 cases in the United States where such a drastic procedure was tried, according to their doctors at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. "Mayra and Brian wouldn't be alive today without the double lung transplants. COVID-19 completely destroyed their lungs and they were critically ill going into the transplant procedure, making it a daunting undertaking," said Dr. Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery and surgical director of the Northwestern Medicine Lung Transplant Program. "When we opened...

AHA News: What's It Like to Get a New Heart During the...

30 July 2020
AHA News: What`s It Like to Get a New Heart During the Pandemic? This Texas Pastor Can Tell YouTHURSDAY, July 30, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- On the Friday before Mother's Day, the Rev. Eddie Woods did his best to hide his discomfort. Short of breath and lightheaded, he didn't want his wife, Julie, to notice. He hoped she'd be distracted by getting ready to host dinner for her parents, a gathering that would mark the first time they'd had guests over since the coronavirus pandemic hit. But Julie knows Eddie too well. High school sweethearts whose bond tightened further by starting and growing a church in the Dallas suburb of Allen, she could tell his complexion was too pale and his body looked puffy. They'd had a scare two years earlier, when a severe flu weakened Eddie's heart. But he'd recovered and had recently been fit and energetic. Was this another flu? Or...

AHA News: Are Virtual Doctor Visits Safe for Discharged Heart Failure Patients?

30 July 2020
AHA News: Are Virtual Doctor Visits Safe for Discharged Heart Failure Patients?THURSDAY, July 30, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- Follow-up visits for heart failure patients leaving the hospital can be done just as safely via telehealth as they can in person, according to a new study that also found making virtual visits an option doesn't prevent missed appointments. "There are still a substantial number of people who don't show up," said Dr. W.H. Wilson Tang, research director for Heart Failure and Transplant at the Cleveland Clinic's Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute. He coauthored the study published Thursday in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Heart Failure, with Dr. Eiran Gorodeski. They examined whether troubling no-show rates could be reduced by giving heart failure patients the option of meeting with a physician without...

Gynecological Cancers Not a Risk for Severe COVID-19: Study

30 July 2020
Gynecological Cancers Not a Risk for Severe COVID-19: StudyTHURSDAY, July 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Despite rampant fears that cancer patients are at higher risk of having severe cases of COVID-19, a new study suggests gynecologic cancers do not boost the chances of hospitalization or death. "Our study should be reassuring for women with gynecologic cancers who are worried that having cancer increases their risk of becoming seriously ill if they go to the hospital because of COVID-19," said lead investigator Olivia Lara, an oncology fellow at NYU Langone's Perlmutter Cancer Center. For the study, Lara's team reviewed the medical records of 121 women, aged 51 to 63, being treated simultaneously for gynecologic cancers and COVID-19 in New York City between March and April. The results, published online July 31 in the journal Cancer,...

11 States Could Face ICU Doc Shortages as Coronavirus Cases Surge

30 July 2020
11 States Could Face ICU Doc Shortages as Coronavirus Cases SurgeTHURSDAY, July 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- As COVID-19 infections surge across the United States, 11 states could find themselves with too few doctors to treat non-COVID patients in intensive care units, a new report finds. Arizona and Texas already have a shortage of such doctors, the researchers added. "This week's update shows that Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and Washington all could face a shortage of intensivists," said researcher Patricia Pittman, director of George Washington University's Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity in Washington, D.C. "In these states, less than 50% of intensivists are available for non-COVID patients." This is affecting states currently seeing a surge of...

Will the Telemedicine Boom Outlast the Pandemic?

30 July 2020
Will the Telemedicine Boom Outlast the Pandemic?THURSDAY, July 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Telemedicine has exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the United States on track to log more than 1 billion virtual doctor visits by the end of 2020, experts say. But how important will telemedicine remain to U.S. health care after the pandemic becomes just a bad memory? These sort of technology-based visits are expected to assume a permanent place moving forward, said Dr. Ateev Mehrotra, an associate professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School, during a HealthDay Live! interview. "The genie's out of the bottle. We can't go back," Mehrotra said, noting that debate now centers around how much to pay for different types of telemedicine visits. Mehrotra said the growth of telemedicine this year was "really remarkable,"...

America's Progress Against Early Cardiovascular Death Is...

WEDNESDAY, July 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- From the 1960s to the 2010s, the United States experienced a major reduction in heart disease-related deaths among younger adults -- often called...

Wildfire Pollution Puts Kidney Patients at Risk

WEDNESDAY, July 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Air pollution caused by forest fires can be deadly for people with kidney failure, a new study suggests. The tiny particles of air pollutants --...
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