(HealthDay)—Worse atopic dermatitis (AD) severity is associated with increased odds of learning disorders in pediatric patients, according to a study published online April 14 in JAMA Dermatology. Joy Wan, M.D., from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, and colleagues used data from 2,074 participants (aged 2 to 17 years) in the Pediatric...
FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO IMAGE: A STUDY REINFORCES THE NEED FOR PREVENTION AND FOLLOW-UP TREATMENT STARTING IN EARLY CHILDHOOD TO AVOID DEVELOPMENT OF THIS INFLAMMATORY DISEASE OF THE GUMS CREDIT: MABELLE DE FREITAS MONTEIRO By Luciana Constantino | Agência FAPESP– Adults with periodontitis transmit bacteria that can cause the...
by Lancet Credit: CC0 Public Domain Two new studies, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases and The Lancet Public Health, found no evidence that people with the B.1.1.7. variant experience worse symptoms or a heightened risk of developing long COVID compared with those infected with a different COVID-19 strain. However, viral load and R number were higher for...
PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE Oakland, CA-In the first study to report on the health effects of exposure to a toxic environmental chemical over three human generations, a new study has found that granddaughters whose grandmothers were exposed to the pesticide DDT have higher rates of obesity and earlier first menstrual periods. This may increase the granddaughters’...
If you’ve ever worked in a school, you know how sleepy some teens are. Why is that? Why aren’t they sleeping well when they are supposed to be sleeping? Well, there are some factors but one of them is probably social media. Scientists at the University of Glasgow have now developed a tool to measure...
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Older adults with more harmful than healthy bacteria in their gums are more likely to have evidence for amyloid beta–a key biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease–in their cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), according to new research from NYU College of Dentistry and Weill Cornell Medicine. However, this imbalance in oral bacteria was not associated with another Alzheimer’s...
by Rae Lynn Mitchell, Texas A&M University Melanoma in skin biopsy with H&E stain — this case may represent superficial spreading melanoma. Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 Although risk for melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, is often associated with ultraviolet light exposure, genetic factors are also at play, with some families being more prone...
by University of Birmingham Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Stroke risk for patients with traumatic brain injuries is at its highest in the four months following injury and remains significant for up to five years post-injury, finds a new systematic review led by a team at the University of Birmingham. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a global...
by European Society of Cardiology Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Nearly 30% of patients with coronary artery disease have diabetes, according to a large study published on World Health Day in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). That compares to a diabetes prevalence of around 9% in the general...
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY IMAGE: DATA SOURCE: ESTIMATES ARE THE PUBLISHED STUDY. DATA WERE COLLECTED IN 2019. CREDIT: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY LERNER CENTER FOR PUBLIC HEALTH PROMOTION. Syracuse, N.Y. – Emergency medical service (EMS) workers face triple the risk for significant mental health problems such as depression and posttraumatic stress disorder compared to the general population, according to...
