Reviewed Suicide and mental health distress disproportionately affect veterans in the United States. According to a report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, more than 5 million veterans suffered from these adverse behavioral health issues in 2020. That same year, after adjusting for age and sex differences…
Children as young as 4 eat more when bored, study shows
A new study carried out at Aston University has shown that children as young as 4 years old eat 79% more calories when they are bored, compared to when they are in a neutral mood. Despite boredom being a common emotion experienced by many children, no research to date has…
Clinical trial suggests fecal transplants may protect transplant patients against multi-drug-resistant organisms
A team of infectious disease researchers at the Emory University School of Medicine, working with colleagues from the Georgia Institute of Technology, has found via clinical trial that fecal transplants after kidney transplantation reduce the susceptibility of patients to infections by multi-drug-resistant organisms (MDROs). In their study, reported in the…
Azerbaijan women behind global average for thalassemia screening and genetic counseling: Report
Most don’t know much about thalassemia: 70.5% of women did not know much about thalassemia symptoms and the associated health risks, with another 14.4% indicating they never heard about thalassemia. Greater willingness to undergo thalassemia screening with more information: After learning about the health risks and high lifetime treatment costs…
Oral Therapy Shown to Preserve Retina in Stargardt Disease
SAN FRANCISCO — A modified form of vitamin A designed to be taken orally has been found to slow the rate of retinal degeneration in patients with Stargardt disease, a rare genetic eye disease that can cause vision loss in adults and children. The TEASE trial, which investigator Christine Kay,…
Healthy gut microbiome: Fruit, veg may provide bacterial diversity
The gut microbiome plays an important role in the body’s overall health. A healthy gut microbiome has a diverse range of microorganisms. A new study from Graz University of Technology says eating fruits and vegetables helps provide some of this bacterial diversity in the human gut. Over the past few…
Its as safe to get your prescription from a nurse practitioner as from a doctor
Nurse practitioners are just as good as primary care doctors at avoiding potentially harmful prescriptions for older patients—but both need to do better, a large, new study suggests. Nurse practitioners (NPs) are registered nurses with advanced training in doing many of the same things doctors do, including diagnosing diseases and…
A Long COVID Clinics Fight to Meet Crushing Patient Needs
Janna Friedly was thrilled, hopeful — and relieved — by the email that had landed in her inbox: After years of fighting an uphill battle to treat patients with long COVID, her Seattle clinic, one of the first and longest-running facilities in the US, was finally getting a much-needed financial…
Surgery-free brain stimulation could provide new treatment for dementia
Scientists at Imperial College London are leading on the development and testing of the new method of stimulating the brain, which could provide an alternative treatment for brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s, and its associated memory loss. Known as temporal interference (TI), the non-invasive method works by delivering electrical fields…
FDA Approves Fruquintinib for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved fruquintinib (Fruzaqla, Takeda) for the treatment of certain adults with metastatic colorectal cancer who experience disease progression during or after prior treatment. More specifically, the approval extends to adult patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who received prior fluoropyrimidine-, oxaliplatin-, and irinotecan-based chemotherapy,…