Digital health tools may help identify early indications of hearing loss and avoid additional damage, a new study highlights. Virtual care, combined with newly available over-the-counter hearing aids, could help people residing in rural areas and far from experts to maintain their hearing on point. “We can really meet people where they are,” states Samantha […]
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Your ancestors from centuries back may have had genetic diseases that could affect you today– particularly if you have Ashkenazi Jewish roots. A new study carried out by international scientists suggested that a team of Ashkenazi Jews– victims of antisemitic violence during the 12th century– had a diseased genome that might affect modern day Ashkenazi
For 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 symptoms in patients. The bacteria, known as Burkholderia pseudomallei, causes a rare disease named melioidosis that has
Doctors 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 parechovirus- can set
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
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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
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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 health
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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
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More than 300 people in 21 nations outside Africa have been infected with the illness. An outbreak of monkeypox has some individuals fretted that the world is on the brink of another pandemic. That is not likely, experts say. The problem has been fueled by more than 300 confirmed or suspected disease cases cropping up
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Hair-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 chemicals