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CDC identifies bacteria that cause rare melioidosis in domestic environmental samples

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified for the first time in domestic environmental samples the bacteria that causes a rare and serious disease called melioidosis.

8 Aug 2022

College nutrition course increases healthier eating among students

Fast food and away-from-home meal consumption is associated with increasing obesity in adults; often an unhealthy dietary behavior established in the critical time frame of young adulthood.

8 Aug 2022

Prolonged loneliness in older adults may be an important risk factor for accelerated memory aging

Prolonged loneliness in adults over 65 may be an important risk factor for accelerated memory aging, according to a new study led by University of Michigan School of Public Health researchers.

8 Aug 2022

Suicidal ideation may have increased significantly during COVID-19 lockdown

The lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant effect on levels of suicidal ideation, a new study finds.

8 Aug 2022

Tribe embraces recreational marijuana sales on reservation where alcohol is banned

In a growing number of U.S. states, people can both drink alcohol and legally smoke recreational marijuana. In others, they can use alcohol but not pot. But on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the opposite is true: Marijuana is legal, but booze is banned.

8 Aug 2022

Patients and doctors trapped in a gray zone when abortion laws and emergency care mandate conflict

Each week, Dr. Kim Puterbaugh sees several pregnant patients at a Cleveland hospital who are experiencing complications involving bleeding or infection.

8 Aug 2022

Researcher creates a portable, wearable device for rapid gas analysis

A University of Texas at Arlington electrical engineering researcher is creating a portable, wearable device for rapid gas analysis that could detect illness immediately.

8 Aug 2022

Varenicline and cytisine not more efficacious than nicotine to treat risky drinking and smoking, study says

A clinical trial to test whether three proven smoking cessation treatments could also reduce alcohol intake found no differences between the medications, but the rates of behavior change for alcohol consumption and smoking were high in all treatment groups. Results suggest these medications could play an important role to reduce alcohol use and smoking at the same time. Unexpectedly, nicotine replacement therapy performed as well as the prescription drugs varenicline and cytisine.

8 Aug 2022

Nivolumab approved for combination with fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-based combination chemotherapy

Nivolumab has recently been approved both in combination with fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-based combination chemotherapy and in combination with ipilimumab for the first-line treatment of adults with unresectable advanced, recurrent or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma with PD-L1 expression of at least one percent. The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) now examined in two early benefit assessments whether these two combinations have an added benefit for patients in comparison with chemotherapy alone.

8 Aug 2022

Study reports the effects of gender and age on both 'state' and 'trait' fatigue

To study the relationship between age and fatigue, Kessler Foundation researchers conducted a novel study using neuroimaging and self-report data.

5 Aug 2022

Studying wellbeing science could benefit university students’ own wellbeing

Studying wellbeing science as part of their courses could be a key way of improving how today's students cope with the barrage of stressors they face, according to research.

5 Aug 2022

NHS Golden Jubilee orthopedic surgeons perform the first meniscal transplant in Scotland

Orthopedic surgeons at NHS Golden Jubilee have performed the first meniscal transplant on a patient in Scotland.

5 Aug 2022

A GOP talking point suggests birth control is not at risk. Evidence suggests otherwise.

Republicans who oppose abortion have new talking points — birth control will remain easily available in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision overturning the federal right to abortion, and when Democrats say otherwise, they are just trying to scare voters.

5 Aug 2022

Cognitive rehab may help older adults clear covid-related brain fog

Eight months after falling ill with covid-19, the 73-year-old woman couldn't remember what her husband had told her a few hours before. She would forget to remove laundry from the dryer at the end of the cycle. She would turn on the tap at a sink and walk away.

5 Aug 2022

In California, abortion could become a constitutional right. So could birth control.

Californians will decide in November whether to lock the right to abortion into the state constitution.

5 Aug 2022

Skin cancer is a risk no matter the skin tone. But it may be overlooked in people with dark skin.

Brykyta Shelton found herself standing in a checkout line of a big-box retailer, uncomfortably aware as a woman ahead of her stared at her sandaled feet.

5 Aug 2022

What does the future look like for TB care?

In this interview, we speak to Charles Wells from Gates MRI about their current research into tuberculosis (TB) as well as the recent updated guidelines for TB care.

5 Aug 2022

38% of Americans make tradeoffs as inflation hits non-healthcare expenses, West Health-Gallup poll reveals

Higher healthcare prices drove 38% of American adults – representing an estimated 98 million people – to either delay or skip treatment, cut back on driving, utilities, and food, or borrow money to pay medical bills in the last six months, according to a new survey conducted by West Health and Gallup. The survey was conducted in June 2022, the same month inflation reached 9.1%, a new 40-year high.

5 Aug 2022

New transparency policies that enable greater data sharing will advance global health

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) generated large amounts of data through their review of pandemic-related tests, medications, and vaccines.

4 Aug 2022

Twitter scraping tool reveals an “infodemic” of misinformation during the first year of COVID pandemic

More than 225,000 tweets with the hashtags #scamdemic and #plandemic led to an "infodemic" of misinformation and disinformation on Twitter during the first year of the pandemic, according to a study by UT Southwestern researchers published in PLOS ONE.

4 Aug 2022

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CDC identifies bacteria that cause rare melioidosis in domestic environmental samples

College nutrition course increases healthier eating among students

Prolonged loneliness in older adults may be an important risk factor for accelerated memory aging

Suicidal ideation may have increased significantly during COVID-19 lockdown

Tribe embraces recreational marijuana sales on reservation where alcohol is banned

Patients and doctors trapped in a gray zone when abortion laws and emergency care mandate conflict

Researcher creates a portable, wearable device for rapid gas analysis

Varenicline and cytisine not more efficacious than nicotine to treat risky drinking and smoking, study says

Nivolumab approved for combination with fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-based combination chemotherapy

Study reports the effects of gender and age on both 'state' and 'trait' fatigue

Studying wellbeing science could benefit university students’ own wellbeing

NHS Golden Jubilee orthopedic surgeons perform the first meniscal transplant in Scotland

A GOP talking point suggests birth control is not at risk. Evidence suggests otherwise.

Cognitive rehab may help older adults clear covid-related brain fog

In California, abortion could become a constitutional right. So could birth control.

Skin cancer is a risk no matter the skin tone. But it may be overlooked in people with dark skin.

What does the future look like for TB care?

38% of Americans make tradeoffs as inflation hits non-healthcare expenses, West Health-Gallup poll reveals

New transparency policies that enable greater data sharing will advance global health

Twitter scraping tool reveals an “infodemic” of misinformation during the first year of COVID pandemic

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