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Tweak of shape clinches discovery of nonrepeating tiling
This time it’s final: Mathematicians have found a single shape for an abstract 2D tile that, in theory, can cover an infinite plane without leaving any gaps and without producing a repeating pattern. The first such “aperiodic tiling” was discovered in the 1960s and comprised 104 different shapes. In 1977, famed British mathematician Roger Penrose discovered two shapes that could do the trick. Then in March, David Smith, a hobbyist in England, and colleagues produced an aperiodic tiling using a single 13-sided shape they called a “h...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 8, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Risk factors for suicidal ideation in a chronic illness - Elliott MK, Jason LA.
Suicide is an urgent concern for people with chronic illnesses, particularly for those with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Prior work has examined suicide risk in this illness, but few studies have examined specific risk facto... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news
This Molecule Is The Key To Stopping Autoimmune Disease
I’m seeing an epidemic of autoimmune diseases in my practice. My patients come to me when doctor after doctor has ignored their symptoms or given up on them.
You see, the problem is that most doctors still don’t understand these diseases.
I’m talking about things like lupus… rheumatoid arthritis… fibromyalgia… chronic fatigue syndrome… inflammatory bowel disease… and multiple sclerosis (MS).
Of course, there are many more. About 80 conditions affecting organs throughout the body are known as autoimmune disorders. They affect around 50 million Americans.
These are all conditions where your immune system beco...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - May 25, 2023 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jacob Tags: Anti-Aging Health Natural Cures Source Type: news
The Pandemic Didn ’ t Really Change How Americans Think About Sickness
Thomas McDade, a biological anthropologist at Northwestern University, still remembers an advertisement for cold medicine he saw in late 2019. The ad showed a visibly sick businessman walking through an airport, “and the message was, ‘You can solider through this. You can make it,'” McDade says.
That message didn’t age well. Only a few months later, the virus that causes COVID-19 began spreading across the globe, prompting health officials to beg people to stay home no matter what—but especially if they felt sick. Suddenly, soldiering through an illness wasn’t seen as admirable, but irre...
Source: TIME: Health - May 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Long COVID Is Making Some People Choose Not to Have Kids
For a long time, Tessa thought about freezing her eggs once she turned 30, so she and her partner could have a child when they felt ready. But her 30th birthday came and went in March, and she’s made no moves to act on her plan.
Tessa, who lives in Massachusetts and asked to be identified by only her first name to protect her privacy, developed Long COVID after a case of COVID-19 last May. Long COVID brought on intense fatigue, made it virtually impossible to exercise without crashing afterward, and worsened a preexisting nervous-system disorder that causes her to feel faint. Tessa is still able to work from home, bu...
Source: TIME: Health - April 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
DR MARTIN SCURR: Is severe tiredness 'chronic fatigue' or something else?
DR MARTIN SCURR: Fibromyalgia typically causes fatigue, poor sleep patterns, problems with memory and persistent chronic pain. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Researchers Are Getting Closer to Learning How to Treat and Prevent Long COVID
Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, with millions of people around the world suffering from long-term complications of the virus, there is still no proven way to treat or prevent Long COVID—besides not getting infected in the first place.
Recently, however, there’s been reason for cautious optimism. Researchers have found promising (though preliminary) signs that certain drugs may reduce the risk of developing Long COVID, and possibly even ease symptoms among people who are already sick.
The latest hopeful news relates to metformin, an accessible and affordable drug that’s been U.S. Food and Drug Admi...
Source: TIME: Health - March 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Face Blindness After COVID; T Cells and Tau; Why Do Great Apes Spin?
(MedPage Today) -- A report described the case of a patient with persistent prosopagnosia -- face blindness -- after SARS-CoV-2 infection. (Cortex)
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and long COVID patients both had... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - March 14, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Africa: We Can Learn a Lot About Long Covid From Years of Diagnosing and Treating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
[The Conversation Africa] Long COVID reportedly affects about 10% of post-COVID patients, and describes a range of ongoing or new symptoms three months post-infection. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 24, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gut Microbiomes Offer Insights into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Levels of health-promoting gut bacteria are linked with severity of fatigue symptoms, a study finds. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - February 22, 2023 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news
Design of fatigue driving behavior detection based on circle hough transform - Huang AC, Yuan C, Meng SH, Huang TJ.
Chronic fatigue symptoms of jobs are risk factors that may cause errors and lead to occupational accidents. For instance, occupational injuries and traffic accidents stem from overlooking long-term fatigue. According to statistics for fatigue driving, it w... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news
The struggle to live a normal life with long Covid | Letters
Julia Fahrenkamp has been unable to work since getting Covid. PlusRobert Saunders on the link with chronic fatigue syndrome and the need for better researchI have been suffering from long Covid since April 2020, so I read Joanna Herman ’s article with great interest (Why those of us with long Covid finally have reason to feel hopeful, 27 December). Ever since I contracted Covid, I have been unable to work and am struggling to maintain social connections and fitness because of post-exertional malaise: any exertion, physical or mental, above a certain threshold can leave me exhausted for days.In November, my daughter perfo...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 5, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Guardian Staff Tags: Long Covid ME / Chronic fatigue syndrome Health Society Coronavirus Infectious diseases Medical research Science Source Type: news
Long COVID Has Helped Kill More Than 3,500 Americans
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 14, 2022 -- Long COVID is a collection of symptoms -- brain fog, chronic fatigue, shortness of breath, stomach pain -- that can torment people for months and even years on end.
Worse, long COVID can also be is a killer.
More than... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - December 14, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
It Isn ’ t Just Long COVID. Post-Viral Illnesses Are More Common Than You Think
In the 1980s, many people in the medical community treated chronic fatigue syndrome as a punchline. Some doctors dismissed patients’ debilitating symptoms, including crushing fatigue and crashes after exercise, as figments of their imaginations. Media outlets even dismissively nicknamed the condition “yuppie flu,” since many cases were reported among affluent white women.
In the infectious-disease clinic where Dr. Lucinda Bateman was at the time finishing her medical training, some doctors didn’t want to bother treating chronic-fatigue patients. When Bateman left to go into private practice, she rem...
Source: TIME: Health - December 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Disease healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Long Covid: the patient who ’s made an app to track symptoms
The app Visible is also geared towards people living with conditions such as chronic fatigue syndromeWhen Harry Leeming developedsymptoms of long Covid, he found the lack of understanding of the condition alarming. “They became so severe that I went to A&E and I was turned away, being told that I had anxiety or that it was deconditioning, ” he said. “It’s been very frustrating to not be taken seriously as a patient.”Now, he ’s hoping to help those living with the condition by creating tools to track symptoms and manage activity.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 28, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science correspondent Tags: Long Covid Science Coronavirus Source Type: news
