Healthcare

Look Out for These Symptoms! A Deadly Kind of Bacteria Has Been Found in US Soil and Water

Times 5 magnification of colonies of Burkholderia pseudomallei on Ashdown's agar after 4 days' incubation. Credit: wikipediaFor the first time, a possibly fatal strain of bacteria has been identified within the United States's soil and water, causing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to ask healthcare professionals to look out for signs and...

CDC Warns of Unusually Large Number of Newborns Infected with Potentially Life-Threatening Virus

Credit: Guido Mieth/Getty ImagesDoctors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say an abnormally high number of harmful viral infections have been detected among infants throughout the United States this year, including one uncommonly large cluster of almost two dozen cases at a single hospital in Tennessee.The infections- a result of a typical...

Operation Nasal Vaccine Lightning Speed to Counter COVID-19

Simply ten months after the initial genome sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, two mRNA vaccines were shown to provide 95% effectiveness against symptomatic infections through randomized, placebo-controlled trials of more than 74,000 individuals.That unprecedented success was partially sustained by the $10 billion governmental investment in Operation Warp Speed (OWS) in March 2020 to accelerate...

Getting More Sleep Lowers Caloric Intake, a Game Changer For Weight Loss

A new research study examines how getting sufficient sleep affects caloric intake in a real-world setting.Understanding the fundamental causes of obesity and how to stop it is the best means to fight the obesity epidemic, according to Esra Tasali, MD, Director of the UChicago Sleep Center at the University of Chicago Medicine. "The present...

Access to Campus Food Pantry Improves Students’ Health

While access to food is a nationwide worry, college students go through food insecurity four times more often than the general public. A study article featured in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, released by Elsevier, goes over how students' use of a campus food pantry can favorably affect their physical and mental...

Midwifery Education in Bangladesh Increased Women’s Access to Safe Childbirth

In association with the British High Commission in Bangladesh, the Directorate General of Nursing and Midwifery (DGNM) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) arranged a dissemination seminar on Wednesday 1 June 2022, at the auditorium of DGNM in Dhaka to share findings of two studies on midwifery in Bangladesh.Those two independent pieces of...

4 Answers to Key Questions About the Monkeypox Outbreak

More than 300 people in 21 nations outside Africa have been infected with the illness.Monkeypox (orange), shown infecting monkey cells (green) in this colorized electron micrograph, has spread to multiple countries outside Africa. The large outbreak is unusual for the virus, which is transmitted by close contact. NIAID/FLICKR (CC BY 2.0)An outbreak of monkeypox...

A Toxic Chemical Utilized in Hair Products for Black Women Can Fuel Breast Cancer, Research Finds

Credit: IStockHair-care and beauty items marketed to Black women commonly contain a class of hormone-disrupting chemicals called parabens. According to new research. Those chemicals are not only connected to increased breast cancer threat. But can also uniquely sustain the spread of cancer cells in Black ladies. Compared to white women.Parabens are a team of...

Ageism and Health: Research Reveals Close Links

Credit: Dimitri Otis/Getty Images.Nearly all older grownups have experienced some type of ageism in their everyday lives; a new study finds whether it is seeing ageist messages and photos on television or the web, encountering individuals who mean that they are less capable just because they are older, or believing stereotypes concerning aging.However, older...

Height Increases Risk of Certain Diseases

A multi-population phenome-wide organization research of genetically predicted elevation in the Million Professional Program.In a current research study published in the Journal PLoS Genetics, scientists checked out just how elevation established a number of typical professional traits in grownups by contrasting organizations of those traits with real- as well as genetically-predicted-height. They utilized the...