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How swapping unhealthy foods can significantly reduce your heart risk
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: More than half of adults and about 60% of children in the U.S. have unhealthy diets, which can contribute to higher rates of health factors such as high blood pressure and obesity, and lead directly to poor health outcomes…
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HIV, AIDS infections up in Chicago after years of decline as cases rise among Latinos
Ricardo Jiménez feels like he’s going crazy. The leader of public health initiatives at Chicago’s Puerto Rican Cultural Center is desperately trying to find a way to keep his HIV prevention programs afloat. But amid funding cuts and a backlash against diversity and equity efforts, he worries his Humboldt Park-based health programs could be wiped out by this summer unless…
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Dropped implants in OR: A hidden contamination threat
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: The “five-second rule” doesn’t hold in the operating room, where even brief contact with the floor contaminates implants and challenges surgeons’ real-time responses. Study: The “five-second” rule for dropped food: does it apply to dropped medical…
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Collaboration advances EMA601 as potential first-in-class stroke therapy
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: Boehringer Ingelheim and the Lower Franconian biotech company EMFRET Analytics have signed a cooperation and license agreement for the preclinical development program of the GPVI‑blocking antibody EMA601. University Hospital Würzburg has supported the development of this…
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United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, Texas Health Resources CEOs to Step Down
Send your company’s executive hires and promotions to D CEO associate editor Layten Praytor at [email protected] United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Jennifer Sampson, President and CEO Jennifer Sampson is stepping down as president and CEO of United Way of Metropolitan Dallas. She has spent 25 years with the organization, including 15 years as CEO. Under her tenure, the organization has sharpened its…
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A Doctor Claimed He Knew Why I Got Cancer. When He Told Me, I Was Horrified And Embarrassed.
As a cancer survivor, watching Netflix’s show “Apple Cider Vinegar” felt like a gut punch. The show captures the exhaustion and desperation many cancer patients feel, and the seductive allure of ditching traditional medicine for the promise of a “natural” cure. It also exposes the dark underbelly of the alternative health industry — a world where quacks and influencers prey…
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Rethinking what it means to age — Harvard Gazette
An American born in 2024 can expect to live to 79. That’s up 0.6 years from 2023 and the longest life expectancy in U.S. history. But living longer and living well are not the same thing. About 93 percent of the nation’s 58 million adults over 65 live with at least one chronic health condition, such as hypertension, high cholesterol,…
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Benefits from food fortification, yet global nutrient gaps persist
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: Fortifying staple foods can dramatically reduce global nutrient deficiencies at minimal cost, but gaps persist, and the risk of excess intake underscores the need for smarter, more balanced nutrition strategies. Study: Impact of large-scale food fortification…
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Mobile technology for just-in-time prediction of depression: a scoping review
World Health Organization. Depressive disorder (depression). WHO Fact Sheets. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/depression (2024). Bockting, C. L., Hollon, S. D., Jarrett, R. B., Kuyken, W. & Dobson, K. A lifetime approach to major depressive disorder: the contributions of psychological interventions in preventing relapse and recurrence. Clin. Psychol. Rev. 41, 16–26 (2015). Article PubMed Google Scholar Monroe, S. M. & Harkness, K. L. Major…
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Parasites trigger a gut-to-brain signal that cuts food intake during infection
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: A new Nature study shows how parasite-driven inflammation in the gut activates a tuft cell to serotonin to vagus nerve pathway, helping explain why infection can suppress appetite. Study: Parasites trigger epithelial cell crosstalk to drive…
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