The Health Care Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

Spring migrations are now taking place earlier, with age classes, species and flyways significantly altered. Extreme climatic events, more common in an age of “global weirding” of weather, are also more common. Both spell greater mixing and exchange of viruses across avian species.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Now, one of those leading the breakthrough research, Dr Emmanuelle Logette, reveals as part of the Frontier Scientists series how even at a very young age she knew she wanted to be a researcher in the fascinating world of genetics. For many years, fat was the enemy of health, before realizing that the actual ‘devil’ is probably sugar.

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Gideon

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The exact makeup of the gut microbiome varies greatly from individual to individual and is influenced by variables that include diet, exercise, medication use, sleep, stress, hormonal changes, aging, and disease. What About Diabetes and Gut Health? 2006 Dec 21;444(7122):1027-31. 2006 Dec 21;444(7122):1022-3. Gut Microbes.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 3, 2025

Its unlikely any of us who attended AHCJs Health Journalism 2012 conference in Atlanta will ever forget hearing from former President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. They spoke about the work they had done and continued to do to improve health nationally and internationally. 29, 2024, at his home in Plains, Ga.,

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Mercola

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Among their many functions is a remarkable process called biohydrogenation, 1 in which these microbial "workers" convert normal levels of unsaturated fats from the cows diet into stable, health-promoting saturated fats. Research repeatedly shows that dairy fats benefit our health. With an astonishing 1.2

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Mercola

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Another important health concern, known as hyperparathyroidism, involves your parathyroid glands producing too much parathyroid hormone (PTH). 1 If you have eczema, its worth learning about this connection, because understanding it helps you make wiser decisions for better long-term health. Age also raises your risk.

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Gideon

JUNE 30, 2021

Pulmonary Tuberculosis ( TB ): Chest x-ray shows alveolar infiltration at both lungs due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection Global Burden of the Disease The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported a 22% decrease in TB-related mortality between 2000-2015, with a gradual 1.5% decrease in the annual rate.

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Frontiers

APRIL 11, 2022

Sharing the household and lifestyle of children of long-lived parents might lead to these marked health benefits for spouses, but it’s also possible that people tend to pick their partners through ‘assortative mating’, matching phenotypes and genotypes for healthy aging and longevity. Read origina l article ?

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The Hill

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Health care workers stress that the disease is almost entirely preventable if the right steps are taken. The release of the first HPV vaccine in 2006, along with more robust screening efforts, has helped drive a generally steady decline in cervical cancer rates for decades. After that age, the vaccine offers less protection.

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Mercola

MARCH 6, 2025

a 2006 Cochrane review) 12 shows it does not reduce mortality or disability but increases the likelihood of C-sections by 66% and instrumental births by 16%. Other risks such as maternal age, obesity, illness, or preeclampsia. While it can reveal if a baby is in distress, data (e.g., Incorrect fetal positioning (e.g.,

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BU School of Public Health Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Many experts attribute this decline to educational, economic, and social factors that have slowed teen birth rates and prompted a growing trend in delayed childrearing until older ages. The web-based preconception cohort study is the largest of its kind worldwide, following thousands of individuals ages 21-45 who are trying to conceive.

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HEALTHBEAT

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here. New HIV diagnoses ticked slightly upward in New York City in 2023, but the estimated number of new infections fell, suggesting possible progress in HIV testing efforts, city health officials said Wednesday.

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The Health Care Blog

JANUARY 2, 2025

The first was an editorial in the New York Times with the self-explanatory title, My Last Column: Finding Hope in an Age of Resentment by Paul Krugman. He is the author of CODE BLUE: Inside Americas Health Industrial Complex. On December 9, 2024, in my early morning survey of the news, two articles demanded my attention. Grove/2020)

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Black Health Matters

JANUARY 31, 2025

So hes set out on a mission to connect the culture, the people, and his vocation: health. In 2006, he teamed up with legendary rapper Doug E. Fresh to launch Hip Hop Public Health , a nonprofit that promotes health education messages through hip hop culture and interacting with the community, meeting them where they are.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 29, 2025

The past two weeks have been a dizzying whirlwind of executive orders, halting all health agencies public-facing communications and freezing all federal funding until a federal judges temporary restraining order paused that order. as Health and Human Services Secretary. Kennedy, Jr.

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KFF Health News

MARCH 13, 2025

She rushed to check on him at a hospital run by Denver Health, the city’s safety-net system, but she was unable to get information from emergency room workers, who complained that she was creating a disturbance. “It’s critical we address the social determinants of health and then try to change the equation.”

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The Hill

JANUARY 20, 2025

Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood, died at the age of 67 on Monday after a battle with cancer. The longtime activist joined Planned Parenthood in 2006 and led the nonprofit organization for 12 years. Our hearts are broken today but no words can do justice to the joy she brought to our lives.

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