Health & Fitness

A Mediterranean The study is the finalized, peer-reviewed version of an abstract that the authors presented at the July 2023 annual meeting of the American Society for Nutrition. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, it was also the first to look into whether the staple of the Mediterranean diet …

A US panel believes  An prominent task force in the United States recommended that regular mammograms be started earlier, at age 40, in order to screen for breast cancer. The committee recommended screening for women between the ages of 40 and 74 every other year. The task group had previously …

releasing thousands More mosquitoes are being added to the armory of people in Los Angeles who are fighting mosquitoes. Tens of thousands of lab-raised, irradiated mosquitoes were released into the local environment on Thursday as part of a pilot initiative initiated by the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District. …

Rotavirus vaccines A recent study found that giving the rotavirus vaccine to infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) is safe and did not result in disease outbreaks. Infants and young children who suffer from diarrheal diseases are primarily caused by rotaviruses. Drops are used to give the vaccine, which …

Honoring Skin Given that over 5 million cases of skin cancer are identified in the US each year, dermatology physicians and Mohs surgeons play a critical role in the diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer.1. In honor of Melanoma and Skin Cancer Awareness Month, Dermatology Times met with a number …

Nine hospitalized Health officials said on Thursday that a TB epidemic among guests staying at a Long Beach motel with single rooms had claimed one life. There have been nine more hospital admissions. Fourteen cases in all had been linked to the epidemic as of April 29. 170 additional individuals …

Experts report Green Bay, Wisconsin — Although the American Cancer Society reports a decline in lung cancer-related mortality, medical professionals caution that the number of young people receiving cancer diagnoses is concerningly rising. A 42-year-old Wisconsin lady said that one life-saving deed had kept her alive. Finding Elizabeth Lulloff in …

”reports that” Reuters, May 1, Chicago, – The U.S. FDA Food and Drug Administration announced on Wednesday that tests on additional dairy products have yielded preliminary results indicating that pasteurization inactivates the bird flu virus. The FDA last week reported that preliminary test findings indicated pasteurization destroys the H5N1 virus …

longer obligated WAVY (Portsmouth, Virginia) — A significant post-pandemic milestone was reached this week when hospitals were released from their mandate to notify the government of COVID-19 admissions. In 2020, the federal government started tracking the COVID virus in communities almost immediately after the masks were put on. Reports of …

Cohabitation In commemoration of Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month during April, the Virginia branch of the American Parkinson Disease Association donated the content for the following commentary: There are more than one million people in the U.S., including 24,000 in Virginia, who are living with Parkinson’s disease, a chronic neurological ailment. …