World Obesity Day 2024: Fasting and obesity prevention
4 March 2024, Cairo, Egypt – Today, World Obesity Day 2024, is a chance to highlight the need to talk about obesity and youth. Obesity is a major health issue in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region. More than half of women (53%), nearly half of men (45%) and an alarming 8% of school-aged children and adolescents are obese, while 20.5% are overweight.
If no action is taken to address obesity, these figures are expected to rise.
World Obesity Day this year coincides with the holy month of Ramadan. The daily fasting period, from dawn to sunset, offers a structured way to reset one’s relationship with food. It’s a cha...
Source: WHO EMRO News - March 3, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
The Unique Hell of Getting Cancer as a Young Adult
When I got diagnosed with Stage 3b Hodgkin Lymphoma at age 32, it was almost impossible to process. Without a family history or lifestyle risk factors that put cancer on my radar, I stared at the emergency room doctor in utter disbelief when he said the CT scan of my swollen lymph node showed what appeared to be cancer—and lots of it. A few days away from a bucket list trip to Japan, I’d only gone to the emergency room because the antibiotics CityMD prescribed to me when I was sick weren’t working.I didn’t want to be sick in a foreign country. So when the doctor told me of my diagnosis, the on...
Source: TIME: Health - February 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Maria Yagoda Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Women, Girls Equal Partners in HIV Responses, Says Activist
Tendayi Westerhof was one of the first celebrities in Zimbabwe to disclose their HIV-positive status. By Ed HoltBRATISLAVA, Feb 14 2024 (IPS) UNAIDS Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima, recently made an impassioned call for governments to support women and girls from marginalized communities at the frontlines of the defence of human rights, to help ensure, among others, that global health is protected.
This comes as the latest data from UNAIDS shows that:
Globally, 46% of all new HIV infections were among women and girls in 2022
In sub-Saharan Africa, adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) accounted for more than 77% of ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 14, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ed Holt Tags: Africa Aid Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Zimbabwe Source Type: news
Higher risk of cerebral palsy, seizures/epilepsy, visual- and hearing impairments, cancer, injury and child abuse in children with congenital anomalies: data from the EUROlinkCAT study - Urhoj SK, Morris J, Loane M, Ballardini E, Barrachina-Bonet L, Cavero-Carbonell C, Coi A, Gissler M, Given J, Heino A, Jordan S, Neville A, Santoro M, Tan J, Tucker D, Wellesley D, Garne E, Damkjaer M.
AIM: The aim is to examine the risk of cerebral palsy, seizures/epilepsy, visual- and hearing impairments, cancer, injury/poisoning and child abuse in children with and without a congenital anomaly up to age 5 and 10 years. METHODS: This is a popul... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 9, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Unfavorable Colon Cancer Trends in Young Adults Seen Across the Pond, Too
(MedPage Today) -- Colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality rates in the European Union (EU) and the U.K. have declined since 2018, a new study showed, but trends among younger adults are raising concern.
Using data from the WHO and Eurostat databases... (Source: MedPage Today Gastroenterology)
Source: MedPage Today Gastroenterology - January 30, 2024 Category: Gastroenterology Source Type: news
Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Experts Unite to Form First-of-its-Kind Consortium
World-Renowned Hematologist/Oncologists to Lead Executive Committee Dedicated to Improving the Field of Adolescent and Young Adult Lymphoma Research and Patient Care NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF) – the nation's largest non-profit... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - January 30, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Risk of suicide in patients with thyroid cancer: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis - Li C, Zhang M, Wang Q, Jiang K, Ye Y.
INTRODUCTION: In recent years, the incidence of thyroid cancer has increased manyfold and young adults, who have a greater financial burden and occupational stress, comprise a large number. Previous studies have shown mixed results, even distinct results, ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 26, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news
Menopause Is Finally Going Mainstream
Kathryn Clancy wrote an entire book about menstrual cycles. But even she was surprised by some of the pre-menopausal symptoms she recently began to experience at age 44.
“A lot of things that have to do with my uterus, ovaries, and breasts, I have been massively underprepared for as a Ph.D.-level expert in this field,” says Clancy, a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. “That should tell you how even more underprepared most people are.”
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Most people who menstruate will experience symptoms including hot flashes, brain fog, and ch...
Source: TIME: Health - January 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
ACS: Cancer mortality declines, but incidence rates rise
Overall cancer mortality continues to decline, but incidence rates are up, according to a January 17 report by the American Cancer Society (ACS).
The report shows that there have been more than four million fewer deaths from cancer in the U.S. since 1991. However, it also showed increased incidence for six of the top 10 cancers as the projected number of new diagnoses is over two million for the first time.
“I think we’re all grappling with what the environmental factor that is changing the cancer incidence and mortality among the young," said ACS chief scientific officer William Dahut, MD, at a press conference.
AC...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - January 17, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Subspecialties CT Breast Imaging Source Type: news
A Surgeon General Report Once Cleared the Air About Smoking. Is It Time for One on Vaping?
NEW YORK — Sixty years ago, the U.S. surgeon general released a report that settled a longstanding public debate about the dangers of cigarettes and led to huge changes in smoking in America.
Today, some public health experts say a similar report could help clear the air about vaping.
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Many U.S. adults believe nicotine vaping is as harmful as — or more dangerous than — cigarette smoking. That’s wrong. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and most scientists agree that, based on available evidence, electronic cigarettes are far less danger...
Source: TIME: Health - January 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe / AP Tags: Uncategorized wire Source Type: news
COVID Vax and Blood Clots; Cancer Rise in Young Adults; Corpse-Abuse Charge Dropped
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Last year's COVID-19 booster reduced... (Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology)
Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology - January 12, 2024 Category: Hematology Source Type: news
More Adults Sought ADHD Drugs During the Pandemic
Prescriptions for ADHD treatments surged among adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, helping to fuel lingering shortages that frustrate parents and doctors.
New prescriptions for stimulants used to treat the condition jumped for young adults and women during a two-year window after the pandemic hit in March 2020, according to a study published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry.
Prescriptions also soared for nonstimulant treatments for adults of all ages, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration researchers found.
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is one of the ...
Source: TIME: Health - January 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: TOM MURPHY and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH/AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Researchers Develop Method That Converts Aggressive Cancer Cells into Healthy Cells in Children
If further research confirms these findings, clinical laboratory identification of cancer cells could lead to new treatments for certain childhood cancers Can cancer cells be changed into normal healthy cells? According to molecular biologists at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in Long Island the answer is, apparently, yes. At least for certain types of […]
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Source: Dark Daily - January 5, 2024 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Jillia Schlingman Tags: Digital Pathology Laboratory News Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Resources Laboratory Testing adolescent cancer aggressive cancer anatomic pathology bone cancer cancer attributes childhood cancer Chinese Journal of Cancer Christop Source Type: news
Pathways linking parental care and control to loneliness in breast cancer patients with a history of childhood maltreatment: exploring the mediating roles of ambivalence over emotional expression and self-discrepancy - Heshmati R, Kheiriabad M, Azmoodeh S, Ghasemi A, Pfaltz M.
Childhood maltreatment is a risk factor for loneliness and is linked to breast cancer. Parental bonding experienced during one's childhood also plays a significant role in increasing or decreasing the risk of loneliness later in life. Previous research has... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
6 Myths About IBD, Debunked
Michelle Pickens’ symptoms escalated in college. At the time, she was throwing up at least once a day, and experiencing frequent nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and constipation. Juggling classes with work at a design studio became an extreme exercise in perseverance. She knew in her gut that something was wrong.
Yet three different doctors “wrote it off as stress,” says Pickens, now 32, who lives in Annapolis, Md. Lab work and procedures to see inside her gastrointestinal tract showed nothing abnormal. “No one wanted to dig deeper,” she recalls. In a final act of desperation, Pickens sa...
Source: TIME: Health - December 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lindsay Lyon Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
