Category: 4. Health

  • School dinners may encourage picky teenagers to eat better, says new study

    School dinners may encourage picky teenagers to eat better, says new study

    Having school dinners rather than packed lunches could encourage picky eating 13-year-olds to eat a wider variety of foods, according to a new University of Bristol-led study. The findings are published in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics today [15 May].

    The research showed when children who were picky eaters as preschoolers got to choose their own food (school dinners) at lunchtime, they were less picky in what they ate, compared with a packed lunch. To the research team’s…

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  • Expert In Achilles Tendon Repair Optimistic About Jayson Tatum Returning To All-NBA Form

    Expert In Achilles Tendon Repair Optimistic About Jayson Tatum Returning To All-NBA Form

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  • Broken Heart Syndrome Has High Risk of Death, Complications

    Broken Heart Syndrome Has High Risk of Death, Complications

    A new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association has shown that the risk of death and complications due to Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as broken heart syndrome, is high and has remained high in recent years.

    The study used information from a database of nearly 200,000 adults in the United States. Using this data, trends, mortality, and complications were evaluated for patients admitted for broken heart syndrome between…

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  • Rite Aid To Sell Pharmacy Assets From More Than 1,000 Stores To CVS, Walgreens And Grocers

    Rite Aid To Sell Pharmacy Assets From More Than 1,000 Stores To CVS, Walgreens And Grocers

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  • Legal Cannabis and Workers’ Compensation: A Policy Perspective

    Legal Cannabis and Workers’ Compensation: A Policy Perspective

    What impact does cannabis have on workers’ compensation benefits? This is what a recent study conducted by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a connection between the legalization of cannabis and work-related injuries, along with the compensation benefits that are typically associated with those injuries. This study has the potential to help researchers, medical professional,…

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  • Lack of Sleep Increases Cardiovascular Disease Risk

    Lack of Sleep Increases Cardiovascular Disease Risk

    A new study published in the journal Biomarker Research has shown that insufficient sleep, even over relatively short time periods, can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.

    The study, which had a crossover design, included 16 healthy young men of normal weight who reported healthy sleep habits. The participants spent time in a sleep laboratory over two different sessions where their diet, activity levels, and sleep times were carefully…

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  • FDA plan to ban fluoride supplements baffles and alarms dental experts

    FDA plan to ban fluoride supplements baffles and alarms dental experts

    A decades-old dental health treatment may soon vanish in the United States. Access to fluoride supplements, prescribed to prevent cavities in children without access to fluoridated water, is now under threat from a controversial move by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

    The agency announced May 13 that it plans to remove fluoride products that can be ingested by children from the market, citing concerns about potential harm to gut microbes, links to thyroid disorders,…

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  • Two HIV vaccine trials show proof of concept for pathway to broadly neutralizing antibodies

    Two HIV vaccine trials show proof of concept for pathway to broadly neutralizing antibodies

    A decades-long scientific challenge in HIV vaccine development has been finding a way to train the immune system to produce antibodies that can target many variants of the virus. Traditional approaches haven’t worked — largely because HIV mutates rapidly and hides key parts of itself from the immune system.

    Now, a new study combining data from two separate phase 1 clinical trials shows that a targeted vaccine strategy can successfully activate early immune responses relevant to HIV, and, in…

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  • Particles carrying multiple vaccine doses could reduce the need for follow-up shots

    Particles carrying multiple vaccine doses could reduce the need for follow-up shots

    Around the world, 20 percent of children are not fully immunized, leading to 1.5 million child deaths each year from diseases that are preventable by vaccination. About half of those underimmunized children received at least one vaccine dose but did not complete the vaccination series, while the rest received no vaccines at all.

    To make it easier for children to receive all of their vaccines, MIT researchers are working to develop microparticles that can release their payload weeks or months…

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  • World’s largest bat organoid platform paves the way for pandemic preparedness

    World’s largest bat organoid platform paves the way for pandemic preparedness

    Did you know that more than 75% of new infectious diseases affecting humans originally come from animals? Bats, in particular, are natural hosts to some of the world’s most dangerous viruses, including those responsible for COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), MERS-CoV, influenza A, and hantavirus outbreaks. Yet, despite their importance, scientists have long struggled to study how these viruses behave inside bats, simply because the right biological tools didn’t exist.

    Until now, most research has used…

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