All posts by LadyLively

  • Growing Up Poor May Rewire a Child’s Brain: Study

    Growing up in poverty may harm the structural wiring of a child’s brain, a new study claims. Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found a link between both neighborhood and household poverty and...

    • Posted June 28, 2023
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  • Reversing a Trend, Sicker Americans Are Staying With Medicare Managed Care Plans

    A new study shows that older Americans with health issues are now staying with their Medicare Advantage managed plans, rather than swapping them for traditional plans through a health insurer. Although Medicare Advantage has been criticized in...

    • Posted June 28, 2023
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  • Infectious Disease Experts Update Rules on ‘Superbug’ Spread in Hospitals

    “Superbug” infections are increasing in U.S. hospitals, and a coalition of medical groups has now issued a set of updated recommendations to protect patients. These guidelines are meant to prevent the spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, also...

    • Posted June 27, 2023
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  • Wildfire Smoke Could Cause More Than 9,000 U.S. Deaths Each Year

    Clouds of smoke continue to drift over the Eastern United States and Europe from wildfires in Canada, and experts are predicting a longer and more destructive wildfire season due to rising temperatures and drier conditions. Now, new...

    • Posted June 27, 2023
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  • Singer Lewis Capaldi Sidelined From Touring by Tourette Syndrome

    After appearing to lose his voice at a Saturday appearance, singer Lewis Capaldi is canceling his tour. Capaldi, who has Tourette syndrome, cited the need to adjust to the impact of the condition, the Associated Press reported....

    • Posted June 27, 2023
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  • The Age When People Seek Help for Gender Dysphoria Is Falling

    Growing numbers of young people are expressing a sense of a “mismatch” between the gender on their birth certificate and the one that they “feel” inside, particularly those assigned female at birth. And the age when these...

    • Posted June 27, 2023
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  • New Competitor to Wegovy Shows Promise in Clinical Trials

    An experimental drug appears to outperform the trendy medications Wegovy and Ozempic for both weight loss and diabetes control, a pair of early clinical trials shows. Retatrutide helped people with obesity drop about one-quarter of their starting...

    • Posted June 27, 2023
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  • AHA News: Teen With Gene Mutation Gets Rare Heart Operation

    TUESDAY, June 27, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — At school dismissal one sunny October day in Pineville, Louisiana, then-9-year-old Anniston Fairbanks was headed toward her ride home when she realized she’d left her hoodie in her...

    • Posted June 27, 2023
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  • Fasting Diets vs. Cutting Calories: Which Works Best?

    A trendy form of intermittent fasting does seem to help people lose some weight — though it may be no better than old-fashioned calorie counting, a new clinical trial suggests. Researchers found that the tactic — called...

    • Posted June 27, 2023
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  • Malaria Cases in Florida, Texas Are First U.S. Spread in 20 Years

    (HealthDay News) – Public health officials are warning doctors, especially those in southern states, to be on the lookout for local spread of malaria after five cases have been reported in the United States in the past...

    • Posted June 27, 2023
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