Tag Archives: disease

4 habits may help lower heart disease risk during menopause  AOL.com Menopause: 4 factors may be essential for long-term heart health  Medical News Today The One Thing Midlife Women Can Do Tonight to Protect Their Hearts  SciTechDaily Why sleep is the single most important way to protect your health post-menopause  Women’s Health The sleep-heart link doctors are urging women over 45 to know  ScienceDaily Source …

CMS Proposes Physician Payment Rule to Significantly Cut Spending Waste, Enhance Quality Measures, and Improve Chronic Disease Management for People with Medicare  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would increase quality care for Medicare recipients while significantly reducing unnecessary spending. The calendar year (CY) 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule would …

More than 37,000 years of infectious diseases in humans have been mapped by scientists, with academics pointing to one particular behaviour from our ancestors as playing a “key role” in their spread. Involving researchers linked to British; Danish; Swedish; German; Italian, and Australian universities, the study saw them analyse DNA from more than 1,300 prehistoric humans dating back as far …

Pennsylvania health officials are on alert after testing identified West Nile virus in mosquitoes living there.  The mosquitoes were collected came from Wilkinsburg, Schenley Park, Mt. Washington, Beltzhoover, Mt. Oliver, and Hazelwood, areas around Pittsburgh.  While no infections have been detected in Pennsylvania in people, the virus has cropped up in 14 states already.  Health officials across the US, including …

Emergency vaccination during outbreaks of diseases like cholera, Ebola and measles have over the past quarter-century reduced deaths from such illnesses by nearly 60 percent, according to a new study. A similar number of infections are also believed to have been prevented, while billions of euros have been generated in estimated economic benefit. The Gavi vaccine alliance, which backed the …

The details of the first IAMD, which has been developed using locally available anti-inflammatory ingredients, were published in the BMC Nutrition last week. Detailing their work, the researchers noted that while traditional Indian diets have several anti-inflammatory ingredients similar to a Mediterranean diet, current Indian dietary analysis reveals high consumption of cereals with low legume, nut, fruit, and vegetable intake. As part …

Rethinking Inflammation: Is Everything We Know About Aging and Disease Wrong?  SciTechDaily Living more like a hunter-gatherer may ward off ageing  The Times Living like Tarzan is key to avoiding agonising deaths in tech and takeaway-addicted cities  Daily Star HEALTH: Inflammaging vs arthritis  Idaho State Journal One Major Feature of Aging Might Not Be Universal After All  ScienceAlert Source link

Heart Disease: What Causes It—How to Prevent It  Barron’s Heart attacks aren’t as fatal as they used to be  vox.com Mortality from Chronic Heart Disease Increases as Heart Attack Mortality Falls  HCPLive Long term heart health study finds good news and bad news  WSJM Deaths From Heart Attacks Are Down; Here’s What Can Kill You Instead  Times Now Source link

When Dr. Brittany Clayborne’s 13-year-old son Micah came home from school in December 2023, she asked him if he wanted to play football outside. It was one of his favorite hobbies. But Micah said he couldn’t.  “He said, ‘My chest hurts,'” Clayborne recalled. “I was like, ‘What do you mean your chest hurts?'”  The words were terrifying to Clayborne, who …

A man in New South Wales (NSW) caught the state’s first known case of Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV), a rabies-like infection that can’t be treated once symptoms appear. It was the fourth human case of the infection ever documented. The man, who was in his 50s and from northern NSW, was in critical condition and being treated at a hospital …