If you’re a man age 50 or older and haven’t had a prostate exam, you should talk to your doctor about scheduling an appointment. Many men put off getting a prostate exam, either because they think they’re not old enough to have it or because they’re afraid to have one. But there’s no reason you [...]
The brain waves generated during deep sleep appear to trigger a cleaning system in the brain that protects it against Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. Electrical signals known as slow waves appear just before a pulse of fluid washes through the brain, presumably removing toxins associated with Alzheimer’s, researchers reported Thursday in the journal Science. Read and listen [...]
Abstract Since 2000, many countries have achieved considerable success in improving child survival, but localized progress remains unclear. To inform efforts towards United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3.2—to end preventable child deaths by 2030—we need consistently estimated data at the subnational level regarding child mortality rates and trends. Here we quantified, for the period 2000–2017, [...]
GENEVA — Walk into Mike Ryan’s office here on the orderly campus of the World Health Organization and you are in a train station. Staff members rush in to see the agency’s ruddy, fast-talking emergencies chief to seek guidance on the various disease outbreaks they are trying to end. People crowd into the office where a [...]
Asthma–COPD overlap (ACO) has recently been recognised as a separate phenotype of obstructive airway diseases and is included in several guidelines of asthma and COPD [1–5]. ACO patients have previously been shown to have lower diffusing capacity of the lung, higher blood neutrophil counts and higher interleukin-6 levels compared with asthma patients [6]. In COPD, [...]
What’s It Mean? It’s when you lose more water than you take in. That makes it harder for your body to do some basic jobs, like keep your temperature steady and clear out waste. You lose water in your sweat, tears, and every time you go to the bathroom. Even breathing takes a little out [...]
All three recent cases were fully vaccinated, county official says The county health department is warning the public to be on the lookout for mumps symptoms as the region’s largest number of cases tallied in the past 25 years continues to grow. On Tuesday, the county Health and Human Services Agency notified the public that [...]
The food plan Wesley Milks, MD, adopted to cut his LDL without meds As a cardiologist, patients often ask me for ways to lower their cholesterol without taking statins. They wonder how effective and viable alternatives can be and what strategies they can use to lower their cholesterol in other ways. I often tell my [...]
A record-high level of food incidents and recalls have been recorded in Australia, according to the annual report of Food Standards Australia New Zealand. The food safety team at Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) coordinated 106 incidents and recalls from July 2018 to June 2019, which was the highest number of recalls in a 12 [...]
Abstract To determine the seroprevalence and seroconversion of avian influenza virus (AIV) antibodies in poultry workers, we conducted a seroepidemiologic study in 7 areas of China during December 2014–April 2016. We used viral isolation and reverse transcription PCR to detect AIVs in specimens from live poultry markets. We analyzed 2,124 serum samples obtained from 1,407 [...]
