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BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — A Hudson County child with measles — a highly contagious and sometimes fatal virus — visited various spots in Bergen, Essex, and Hudson counties since July 4, including a mall and two restaurants, New Jersey officials said. They are urging people who visited the same locations to watch for symptoms. The state has announced such cases …

Iowa family’s experience highlights the lesser-known consequences of a measles exposure  AOL.com Day care measles exposure forces Iowa family to take weeks off work for baby: ‘It only takes one’  NBC News As ‘the most infectious virus’ roars back to life, the first measles treatment remains a pipe dream  Fierce Biotech Navigating vaccine skepticism amid rising measles outbreaks  Deseret News Can US Measles Outbreaks …

An ancient killer has become all the more dangerous with time, mutating often to better sidestep medications. The bacterium that causes typhoid fever, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S Typhi), has evolved to resist common antibiotics. In 2022, a group of researchers from around the world identified more than 4,000 strains obtained from blood samples from over 70 countries as extensively …

Summary: New research shows that elevated glutamate-glutamine (Glx) levels in the anterior insular cortex (AIC) make people more sensitive to mistakes and more prone to anxiety and depression. Using functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy and reinforcement learning tasks, scientists found that high AIC Glx predicted both a general internalizing symptom score and heightened error sensitivity, which mediated this relationship. During reward …

Walking 14 More Steps Per Minute Can Fight Off Frailty Effects For Seniors  Study Finds Increasing your walking cadence can improve mobility  CNN Walking slightly faster could help older adults stay fit, study suggests  Medical Xpress Walking at THIS pace could keep older adults fit  Times of India A New Study Finds That Walking 14 More Steps Per Minute Can Support Healthy Aging  CNET Source …

The brain fog that can linger after a bout with COVID is not a new discovery. In fact, much research has linked this long-COVID symptom to the neuroinflammation that often accompanies an infection. However, scientists are now finding that this brain damage might be much more permanent, even leading to an increased risk of Alzheimer’s. RELATED: Doctors Reveal the #1 …

By leveraging a person-centered computational approach to phenotypic data from more than 5000 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), researchers have identified four biologically and clinically distinct subtypes of autism and their underlying genetic signals. These four subtypes are: Social and Behavioral Challenges, Mixed ASD with Developmental Delay, Moderate Challenges, and Broadly Affected. “It’s important for families to have groups …

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Revolution in medicine: A molecule produced by gut bacteria causes atherosclerosis, responsible for millions of deaths  EL PAÍS English Imidazole propionate is a driver and therapeutic target in atherosclerosis  Nature A gut microbiota metabolite linked to atherosclerosis could revolutionise diagnosis and treatment  European Research Council (ERC) Tanshinone regulated gut microbiota and TMAO to improve high-fat diet induced atherosclerosis in APOE−/− mice  BMC Microbiology Gut …

A severe lack of vitamin D could dramatically raise your chances of developing dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, according to a groundbreaking new study. Researchers analyzed data from 16 major studies involving thousands of people and found that those with low vitamin D levels faced a significantly increased risk of cognitive decline. The study revealed that people with levels below 20 …