For most people, Alzheimer’s disease is the first condition they think of when they hear the word dementia—and for understandable reasons. The degenerative brain disease is the most common type of dementia, an umbrella term for loss of memory, language, and other thinking abilities that become severe enough to interfere with a person’s daily life. However, Alzheimer’s is far from […]
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Autistic adults, adults with intellectual disability, and adults with mental health diagnoses have multiple risk factors for infection with COVID-19 and for experiencing more severe disease if they contract COVID-19, according to research from the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute at Drexel University. Identifying risk factors for COVID-19 among autistic adults, adults with intellectual disability and adults with psychiatric diagnoses is […]
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Childhood sensitization to tree nut storage protein is a stronger predictor of tree nut allergy symptoms than sensitization to tree nut extract, according to data from 2215 young adults. The prevalence of tree nut allergy ranges from 0.05% to 4.9% worldwide. It remains a significant health problem for those affected, write Jessica Bager, MD of the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, […]
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We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info The cash will go to the NHS Op Courage, a mental health service with a team of care coordinators – […]
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A telephone-delivered nursing care strategy that combined heart failure care management with depression treatment improved patients' clinical outcomes, discovered clinicians from the University of Pittsburgh. The findings of the clinical trial, called Hopeful Heart, were published today in JAMA Internal Medicine. The Hopeful Heart Trial is the first study to apply a 'blended' collaborative care approach to treating heart failure […]
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FILE PHOTO: People protest against the school mask mandate, enacted to help slow the spread of COVID-19, outside a Hillsborough County School Board meeting in Tampa, Florida, U.S. May 18, 2021. REUTERS/Octavio Jones/File Photo(Reuters) – The Florida Department of Education said on Monday it has withheld funds from two school districts that made masks mandatory in classrooms this fall. “Commissioner […]
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CHICAGO — An Illinois judge on Monday reversed a decision to bar a divorced mother from seeing her 11-year-old son because she isn’t vaccinated against COVID-19. Rebecca Firlit’s lawyer had said the judge, not Firlit’s ex-husband, raised the issue during an Aug. 10 child support hearing. They have been divorced for seven years and share custody of the boy, the […]
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High cholesterol: Nutritionist reveals top prevention tips We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance that your liver produces. Although vital for […]
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(Reuters Health) – Expanding access to lung cancer screening for Black people who are current or former smokers is associated with a larger reduction in mortality than previously thought, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers examined data on 53,452 participants in the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), a randomized clinical trial that compared lung cancer and all-cause mortality with low-dose computed […]
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FILE PHOTO: Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are pictured in a vaccination centre in Geneva, Switzerland, February 3, 2021. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse(Reuters) -There have been no reported deaths among young U.S. adults who developed a rare heart inflammation known as myocarditis after getting the Pfizer Inc/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday. It is known […]
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