Public health officials are reporting that Southern California is seeing a a spike in the number of cases of a wind-borne disease that inflames blood vessels and can cause heart failure.
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| 2/19/2019
| Mary Kekatos Health Reporter For Dailymail.com
Women who exercise have a drastically reduced risk of heart disease compared to those who sit for long periods, a new study finds. Cutting sedentary time by just one hour a day decreased a woman's...
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| 2/19/2019
| Jennifer Smith For Dailymail.com
Charo has revealed why her husband killed himself, explaining that he shot himself on Monday after battling a rare skin disease for several years. Kjell Rasten died from a self-inflicted gunshot...
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| 2/20/2019
| Peter Lloyd for MailOnline
Eating a high-fat diet in your 20s and 30s heightens the risk of ill-health later on - and not just because of weight gain. According to researchers at Qingdao University, China, fatty foods cause a...
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| 2/19/2019
| Mary Kekatos Health Reporter For Dailymail.com
Imagine having a constant itch over your entire body that no amount of scratching will ever satisfy. That is a reality for six-year-old Clara Peterson, due to an extremely rare liver disease.
In "Symptom Subtypes of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Predict Incidence of Cardiovascular Outcomes," Diego R. Mazzotti, PhD, and co-authors report on a study of adults with moderate to severe OSA who were...
MICPCH has only affected a total of 53 females and seven males worldwide so far. It is characterized by several developmental symptoms including small head size, slowed growth, cognitive delays,...
Group A streptococcus is an organism that causes more than 700 million cases of human infection every year globally. While most of those cases are strep throat, which most people have had, it's also...
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| 2/18/2019
| Natalie Rahhal Deputy Health Editor For Dailymail.com
A tick bite that she doesn't even remember has all but ruined 31-year-old Laura MacLeod's life. She has likely had Lyme disease since she was a child, but it wasn't until she was a young...
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| 2/18/2019
| Mary Kekatos Health Reporter For Dailymail.com
A woman who contracted a rare autoimmune disorder after a vaccine has slammed anti-vaxxers for suggesting that we should all fear shots. In 2004, when Tiffany Yonts was 14 years old, she received a...
"Our findings provide evidence that push-up capacity could be an easy, no-cost method to help assess cardiovascular disease risk in almost any setting. Surprisingly, push-up capacity was more...
Being able to do more than ten push-ups slashes the risk of getting heart disease, heart attacks and strokes. Middle-aged men who can do over 40 push-ups in one go had a 96 percent reduced risk of...
Researchers at the NIHR Guy's and St Thomas' Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) developed the technique by studying white blood cells taken from patients who have Crohn's disease, and comparing them to...
Since the introduction of Diet Coke in 1982, artificially sweetened drinks have become increasingly ubiquitous in the American diet. In fact, according to a 2018 consumer survey, more than half of...
Despite widespread infection, some frog populations are surviving a deadly disease that is the equivalent of mankind's Ebola virus. The reason —genetic diversity.
That's the finding of a new study published this week in the journal Immunogenetics. Anna Savage, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Central Florida, is the lead author of the...
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| 2/15/2019
| Vanessa Chalmers Health Reporter For Mailonline
A nurse has undergone a procedure similar to a Brazilian bum lift where her fat was taken from her abdomen and transferred to her face and hands in an effort to combat her poor circulation.
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| 2/15/2019
| Natalie Rahhal Deputy Health Editor For Dailymail.com
Two cases of rat lungworm disease have been confirmed on the Big Island in Hawaii. The state's health department announced Thursday that, in recent months, one resident of the island and one visitor...
The most common PD treatment today is based on enhancing the activity of the nigro-striatal pathway in the brain with dopamine-modulating therapies, thereby increasing striatal dopamine levels and...
The heart's pumping ability is controlled by electrical activity that triggers the heart muscle cells to contract and relax. In certain heart diseases such as arrhythmia, the organ's electrical...
In a new study in the scientific journal Nature Neuroscience, an international team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen, National Institutes of Health and the University of Oslo among...
If you’ve heard of “zombie deer,” you’ve heard of the horrors of chronic wasting disease. CWD causes infected animals to stumble through the forest, sometimes drooling and becoming aggressive...
This permanent 'immunological scarring' lays the foundation for the disease to progress and could have long-term implications for gut health in affected patients.
But adenovirus, another common virus, was not associated with a risk of later coeliac disease. This preliminary finding adds new information on the role of viral infections as a potential underlying...
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| 2/13/2019
| Mary Kekatos Health Reporter For Dailymail.com
Sleeping at least seven hours every night can reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke, a new study finds. Research conducted on mice showed that rodents who didn't get enough shut-eye were more...
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| 2/14/2019
| Ben Spencer, Medical Correspondent For The Daily Mail
A condition which leaves victims unable to eat bread, pasta and other foods containing gluten could be triggered by a tummy bug in childhood, research suggests. Mystery has always surrounded the...
Thirty-one cats, ranging in age from 3-73 months, were enrolled in the study, and 26 completed the planned 12 weeks or more of treatment; the remainder died or were euthanized due to their severe...
A deadly ‘zombie’ deer disease could possibly spread to humans, experts are warning. A deadly disease that has affected the deer population in an estimated 24 states and two Canadian provinces could...
Researchers examined whether one, or a combination of heart disease risk factors common in those with PTSD, can explain the association between PTSD and cardiovascular disease.
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| 2/12/2019
| Erica Tempesta For Dailymail.com
A woman who opted to get breast implants to boost her confidence after a rare autoimmune disease left her with hollow cheeks has revealed that her boobs are now a misshapen nightmare.
Although smartphone camera technology today offers a wide range of medical applications such as microscopy and cytometric analysis, in practice, cell phone image tests have limitations that severely...
This study appears in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. According to the study, which was scaled up from the data sample provided by the 2013-2017 National Health Interview Survey,...
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| 2/12/2019
| Alexandra Thompson Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline
Doctors have been told to diagnose patients with Lyme disease immediately if they have the tell-tale 'bull's-eye' rash. Rather than waiting for the results of blood tests, new guidance issued by the...
Start sharpening your machetes. String up that crossbow. It’s time to wrap barbed wire around your Louisville Slugger. Go buy all the ammo. Zombies are pretty much real.
Surveillance is the cornerstone of public health practice, yet while disease surveillance has shifted toward greater use of electronically transmitted information to decrease the reporting burden on...
"Marijuana can be a useful tool for many patients, especially for pain and nausea relief. At the same time, like all other medications, it does carry risk and side effects.
"There are very few examples of people who use multiple '-omics' to investigate rare diseases ... (but) I think this is the future of personalized medicine," said senior author Christoph Klein, a...
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| 2/8/2019
| Natalie Rahhal Deputy Health Editor For Dailymail.com
The medication that kept Will Schuller running and playing soccer despite his rare nervous system and muscle disorder used to be free. Now, it costs his family upwards of $375,000 before insurance...
Results from a large, multi-center study suggest that cardiac magnetic resonance, or CMR, has potential as a non-invasive, non-toxic alternative to stress echocardiograms, catheterizations and stress...
There are three types of blood cell: white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. All three types are created from hematopoietic stem cells located in the bone marrow.
WHO officials have now urged humans to avoid eating any animal infected with the infection. While there has been a concern it could become a new mad-cow-disease-like epidemic, no evidence yet exists...
Human tissues experience a variety of mechanical stimuli that can affect their ability to carry out their physiological functions, such as protecting organs from injury.
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| 2/7/2019
| Natalie Rahhal Deputy Health Editor For Dailymail.com
The first human trial of gene editing technology to treat a rare disease in the US has returned disappointing results, researchers at Sangamo Therapeutics announced today.
In a study publishing February 7 in the journal Cell, researchers report that they have identified drugs that can reduce mosquito hunger for blood. These compounds act on the hormone pathways that...
Many neurodegenerative diseases are linked to protein aggregation, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease. We know that proteins can form toxic aggregates, but until now, the...
PD is a slowly progressive disorder that affects movement, muscle control, and balance. In the last 20 years it has become clear that PD is associated with a number of gastrointestinal symptoms...
A mother who was told she is 'too young to have cancer' has revealed she was reassured she was fine – until she found a tumour 'sticking out her bottom'. Beth Purvis, 37, was sure she had irritable...
When hamsters and other small mammals hibernate, their brains undergo structural and metabolic changes to help neurons survive low temperatures. A key event in this process appears to be the...
PD is a slowly progressive disorder that affects movement, muscle control, and balance. "Brilliant work of many in different scientific fields has paved the way for the concept of prodromal PD; that...
Reviewed by Kate Anderton, B.Sc. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have shed light on why women are more prone to developing Alzheimer’s than men. Study - Individuals - PET - Emission -...