Irked residents across Southern California have recently complained to their vector control districts about an onslaught of mosquito activity, many sporting ankle bites to prove it. Local mosquito experts blame the unseasonable weather pattern…
Category: 8. Health
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Mosquitoes are back with a bite in SoCal: Why they're nibbling in the winter
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CDC reports on prevalence of obesity, severe obesity in U.S. adults, children
The prevalence of obesity and severe obesity markedly increased among adults and children in the United States from the 1970s and 1980s until now, according to two reports published in the February Health E-Stats, a publication of the National…
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Chocolate male supplement recalled over hidden erectile dysfunction drug
A chocolate male enhancement product is being pulled from store shelves after federal health officials found it contains a hidden prescription drug. The company—USALESS.COM, based in Brooklyn, New York—is recalling its product called Rhino…
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U.S. tops 1,100 measles cases this year as outbreaks grow
Measles cases are climbing rapidly across the United States, with more than 1,100 infections reported in the first two months of this year, data shows.
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FDA is removing the 'black box' warning on hormone treatments for women in menopause
For years, Cathleen “Cat” Brown, a Philadelphia obstetrician and gynecologist, would listen to patients complaining of hot flashes, brain fog, and painful sex and prescribe estrogen as a safe option for easing their menopausal symptoms. But when…
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Cell-free DNA offers early warning for bloodstream infections in kids with leukemia
Researchers have identified a promising way to predict bloodstream infections in children with high-risk leukemia days before the infection would be diagnosed using current standards of care. The test, named plasma microbial cell-free DNA…
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AI analysis finds no clear brain-structure link to navigation in young adults
Steven Weisberg, a researcher at the University of Texas at Arlington, found that advanced artificial intelligence tools could not uncover a clear link between brain structure and navigation ability in healthy young adults—challenging…
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Where are the doctors? Patients leading the conversation on TikTok about hidradenitis suppurativa in skin of color
A new study published in JMIR Dermatology shows that TikTok has become a major source of education and support for people with skin of color living with hidradenitis suppurativa—a chronic, painful inflammatory skin disease that…
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Improve education and transitional support for autistic people to prevent death by suicide, say experts
Suicide in autistic people originates in the inequalities they face across their lives, starting in childhood, and spanning education to employment, and health and social care, a new study by a team at Cambridge and Bournemouth Universities has…
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Discordance in gender role attitudes between spouses and its relationship with the risk biomarkers of cardiovascular diseases: a couple-level analysis
WHO. Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) key facts (2021). https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cardiovascular-diseases-%28cvds%29
Tsao, C. W. et al. Heart disease and stroke statistics—2023 update: a report from the American Heart…
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