All research at a Fort Detrick laboratory that handles high-level disease-causing material, such as Ebola, is on hold indefinitely after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found the organization failed to meet biosafety standards. No infectious pathogens, or disease-causing material, have been found outside authorized areas at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of [...]
While LDL threatens your heart, HDL protects it You mean cholesterol can actually be good for you? The answer is yes, when it’s high-density lipoprotein (HDL). That’s one of two types of cholesterol you’ll find on your lipid panel test results. The other is low-density lipoprotein (LDL). “Think of HDL as the good, or ‘helpful,’ cholesterol, and of LDL [...]
Health officials on Thursday examined a school in the southwestern German town of Bad Schönborn where a tuberculosis outbreak has infected dozens of children and adults. A total of 109 students, teachers and other school employees have been infected, the district administration of Karlsruhe said. Four people, including at least two students, have active cases of [...]
A study of more than 12,000 telemedicine encounters involving children with respiratory ailments has found that antibiotics were prescribed in more than half of the visits, and that patient satisfaction was strongly linked to receiving an antibiotic. Providers who prescribed antibiotics were more than three times a likely to receive a 5-star rating from patients, [...]
Abstract Introduction Although vaccination against influenza is recommended for pregnant women in France because it exposes them to a risk of death and severe respiratory complications, their vaccination coverage in 2016 was estimated at 7%. This study’s principal objective was to assess the association between the availability of influenza vaccination at prenatal care visits and [...]
Abstract Humans impact indoor air quality directly via emissions from skin, breath, or personal care products, and indirectly via reactions of oxidants with skin constituents, or with skin that has been shed. However, separating the influence of the many emissions and their oxidation products from the influence of outdoor-originated aerosols has been a challenge. Read more… The post Human [...]
The acoustic properties of our houses, offices and public spaces can have a major impact on how comfortable we find them and may even affect the way we behave. Step into the underground concourses of New York’s Penn Station and you might just feel an uneasy sense of claustrophobia that’s hard to explain. Stroll [...]
Among patients with asthma, those with chronic cough vs. without chronic cough had worse respiratory symptoms, more health care use, lower lung function and higher levels of inflammatory biomarkers, according to a Danish study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice. Specifically, patients with asthma and chronic cough, as compared with those with [...]
Are you due for an ‘oil change’? Americans eat too much of the wrong kind of fat and too little of the right kind. “It’s time for an oil change,” says functional medicine specialist Mark Hyman, MD. Follow his tips below: See infographic at healthessentials… The post The Right Fats Can Keep You Lean appeared first on Healthier Environment Living [...]
MONTREAL—The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is exposing the public to unnecessary risk by allowing deer and elk meat from farms affected by a contagious disease to end up on consumers’ plates, a group of experts and advocates say. Chronic wasting disease or CWD, an infection of the central nervous system similar to mad cow disease [...]
