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• U.S. Students Not Engaging in Healthy Diet, Exercise, Sleep Behaviors

  17-01-2025 23:09 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- U.S. high school students do not engage in adequate levels of healthy dietary, physical activity, and sleep behaviors, according to a report on data pulled from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Youth Risk...
  
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• CDC: Another Human Bird Flu Case Brings Total to 67

  17-01-2025 23:04 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- On Thursday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed another case of avian influenza A(H5N1), or bird flu, in California, bringing the nationwide total of cases to 67.California has been hit hardest...
  
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• Smoking Tied to Lower Earnings, Labor Market Participation

  17-01-2025 23:01 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- Adverse consequences of tobacco smoking include reduced earnings and labor market participation, according to a study published online Jan. 14 in Nicotine & Tobacco Research.Jutta Viinikainen, Ph.D., from the University...
  
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• Antipsychotics at Doses >75 mg a Day Linked to Risk for Tardive Dyskinesia

  17-01-2025 22:59 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- Antipsychotics at doses >75 mg/day are associated with an increased risk for tardive dyskinesia (TD), according to a study recently published in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology.Maki Gouda, from the Mitsubishi...
  
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• Tea Consumption Can Lower Mortality in Chronic Kidney Disease

  17-01-2025 22:55 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- Tea consumption offers protective effects on mortality among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study published online Jan. 13 in Renal Failure.Jin Li, Ph.D., from the Guangzhou University of Chinese...
  
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• These Lifestyle Moves Help Ease Low Back Pain, Study Shows

  17-01-2025 18:33 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- Suffering from low back pain?Addressing your unhealthy lifestyle habits could help ease your pain better than traditional care, a new study says.Back pain sufferers who got lifestyle coaching functioned better and had...
  
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• FDA Approves Marketing of Nicotine Pouches

  17-01-2025 18:18 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- Following an extensive scientific review, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the marketing of 20 ZYN nicotine pouch products. Nicotine pouches -- small synthetic fiber pouches containing nicotine -- are...
  
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• Integrated Care Boosts Smoking Cessation When Undergoing Lung Cancer Screening

  17-01-2025 18:09 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- Integrated care (IC) involving medication and intensive counseling provides the best opportunity for smoking cessation in the context of lung cancer screening (LCS), according to a study published online Jan. 13 in JAMA...
  
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• New Criteria Developed for Appropriate Use of Amyloid, Tau PET

  17-01-2025 18:04 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- Appropriate use criteria (AUC) for the use of amyloid and tau positron emission tomography (PET) have been issued by the Alzheimer's Association and the Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and published...
  
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• Binge Drinking in Retirement Tied to More Depressive Symptoms

  17-01-2025 18:01 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- Heavy alcohol use is associated with depression among U.S. retirees, according to a study published online Jan. 10 in Aging & Mental Health. Antonia Diaz-Valdes, Ph.D., M.S.W., from Universidad Mayor Chile in Santiago...
  
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• AI Can Guide Acquisition of Diagnostic-Quality Lung Ultrasound Images

  17-01-2025 17:59 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- Trained health care professionals (THCPs), including medical assistants, respiratory therapists, and nurses, with artificial intelligence (AI) assistance can achieve lung ultrasound (LUS) images with diagnostic quality that...
  
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• Pandemic Led to Rapid Adoption of Telemental Health for Those With Schizophrenia

  17-01-2025 17:56 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- For Medicaid beneficiaries with schizophrenia, delivery of mental health care through telehealth (telemental health care) diffused rapidly after onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published online Jan. 16...
  
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• Drop in Episiotomy Not Tied to Increase in Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury for Most Women

  17-01-2025 17:52 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- A significant overall reduction in the prevalence of episiotomy in France from 2010 to 2021 has not been followed by an overall increase in obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASI), according to a study published online Jan...
  
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• 2011 to 2022 Saw Increasing Prevalence of Poor Mental Health

  17-01-2025 17:47 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- Poor mental health was increasingly prevalent from 2011 to 2022, with inequities discernible by age, sex, and racial and ethnic group, according to a research letter published online Jan. 15 in JAMA Network Open.Emily...
  
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• Racial, Sex Disparities Seen in Discussion of, Progression to Weight Loss Surgery

  17-01-2025 17:44 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- There are racial and sex disparities in the discussion of and progression to metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) among eligible patients, according to a study published online Jan. 15 in the Annals of Surgery...
  
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• Director of the National Institutes of Health Steps Down

  17-01-2025 17:27 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- The current director of the National Institutes of Health, Monica M. Bertagnolli, M.D., has announced that she will step down from the position on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. The move comes 14 months after she took the position...
  
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• CDC Confirms Another Human Bird Flu Case, Bringing Total to 67

  17-01-2025 16:15 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed another human H5N1 avian flu case -- otherwise known as bird flu -- in California on Thursday, bringing the nationwide total of cases to 67.California has...
  
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• CDC Urges Faster Testing for Bird Flu Amid Growing Outbreak

  17-01-2025 15:58 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging health care workers to accelerate bird flu testing for patients hospitalized with flu symptoms, as the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak continues to grow in...
  
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• Drug Lowers Fracture Risk in Early Postmenopausal Women

  17-01-2025 15:31 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- Women past menopause can protect themselves from future fractures through infrequent, cheap IV infusions of a bone-strengthening drug.Women 50 to 60 who got two IV infusions of zoledronate (Reclast) within five years had a...
  
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• Why Some Families Consider Brain Donation for Autism Research

  17-01-2025 15:28 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- Brain tissue samples are essential for scientific research, especially when it comes to brain disorders such as autism spectrum disorder.Not surprisingly, samples are hard to get.Despite the great need for brain tissue...
  
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• Zolendrate (Reclast) Lowers Fracture Risk in Early Postmenopausal Women

  17-01-2025 15:01 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025 -- Women past menopause can protect themselves from future fractures through infrequent, cheap IV infusions of a bone-strengthening drug.
  Women 50 to 60 who got two IV infusions of zoledronate (Reclast) within five years had a...
  
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• Tourette Syndrome Often Overlooked in Girls

  17-01-2025 14:39 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- Tourette syndrome is not being diagnosed promptly in women with the condition.Women with Tourette syndrome are less likely to receive a diagnosis for the disorder, researchers reported in a study published Jan. 15 in the...
  
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• Cancer Deaths Dropping Despite Rise in New Cases

  17-01-2025 14:05 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2024-- The cancer death rate continues to decline in the U.S. but new cases are rising among women, potentially undermining progress against the nation’s second-leading killer, according to a new report from the American Cancer S...
  
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• Sewer Sludge Is Dangerous to Health, EPA Says of Biosolids and PFAS

  17-01-2025 13:00 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- Sewer sludge from wastewater treatment plants appears to expose farmers and nearby neighbors to toxic “forever” chemicals, a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) draft risk assessment says.This sludge -- which is s...
  
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• AI Helps Predict Memory Issues, Cognitive Decline During Menopausal Transition

  17-01-2025 12:55 via drugs.com
  FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025-- Artificial intelligence might be able to more quickly and affordably identify menopausal women who are having problems with memory or cognition.AI effectively identified women with severe subjective cognitive decline (SCD)...
  
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• ACIP Immunization Schedules Issued for Children, Adults

  17-01-2025 00:14 via drugs.com
  THURSDAY, Jan. 16, 2025-- The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)-approved immunization schedules for children and adolescents and for adults for 2025 have been published in the Jan. 16 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...
  
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• Many Health Care Providers With Psychopathology Are Not Seeking Care

  17-01-2025 00:12 via drugs.com
  THURSDAY, Jan. 16, 2025-- More than one-quarter of U.S. health care providers reported meeting diagnostic criteria for psychopathology during the pandemic, but only 38 percent of these reported seeking care, according to research published in the...
  
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• FDA Approves Omvoh for Moderately to Severely Active Crohn Disease

  17-01-2025 00:08 via drugs.com
  THURSDAY, Jan. 16, 2025-- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Omvoh (mirikizumab-mrkz) for the treatment of moderately to severely active Crohn disease in adults, according to a press release from Eli Lilly and Company.Omvoh targets...
  
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• Odds of Opioid Misuse Lower in States With Medical Cannabis Laws

  17-01-2025 00:07 via drugs.com
  THURSDAY, Jan. 16, 2025-- For individuals reporting cannabis use, the odds of opioid misuse are reduced among individuals in states with medical cannabis legalization (MCL), according to a study published in the February issue of the International...
  
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• Psychological Distress in Teen Years Tied to Later Economic Outcomes

  17-01-2025 00:04 via drugs.com
  THURSDAY, Jan. 16, 2025-- Psychological distress in adolescence is tied to economic outcomes 10 years later, according to a study published online Jan. 16 in PLOS Medicine.Nathaniel Z. Counts, J.D., from the Kennedy Forum in Brigantine, New...
  
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