North Texas Fracking Zone Sees Growing Health Worries
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DALLAS—Propped up on a hospital bed, Taylor Ishee listened as his mother shared a conviction that choked her up. His rare cancer had a cause, she believes, and it wasn’t genetics.
Others in Texas have drawn the same conclusions about their confounding illnesses. Jana DeGrand, who suffered a heart attack and needed both her gallbladder and her appendix removed. Rebecca Williams, fighting off unexplained rashes, sharp headaches and repeated bouts of pneumonia. Maile Bush, who needed...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - December 11, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Weekend Wellness: Children can get hand-foot-and-mouth disease more than once
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: What are the best ways to treat a toddler who has hand-foot-and-mouth disease? Does she need to be seen by a doctor? Does having it once mean she will not get it again? ANSWER: Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is caused by a virus. It usually leads to mild illness and discomfort that does not [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - November 8, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYb7t_jHiTE With schools back in session, many parents are again on the alert for easily transmissible childhood diseases. Hand, foot and mouth disease is one of them. Pediatric dermatologist with the Mayo Clinic Children's Center, Megha Tollefson, M.D., says it's usually not a big concern. But, in certain circumstances, hospitalization may be required. Here’s Dennis Douda for [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - September 22, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Enterovirus D68: What Parents Need to Know
A fast-spreading virus related to hand, foot, and mouth disease is hospitalizing kids across the Midwest and parts of the South. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - September 9, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Novel mechanism for invasion of EV71 virus demonstrated
A novel mechanism for EV71 entry mediated by its receptor SCARB2 has been reported by scientists. These findings make a significant conceptual advance in the understanding of non-enveloped virus entry, to which EV71 belongs. Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is the major causative agent of hand, foot and mouth disease in the Asia-Pacific region. Unlike other enteroviruses, EV71 can cause severe aseptic meningitis, encephalitis, myocarditis and acute flaccid paralysis, thus leading to significant fatality rates. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - July 18, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Hand Foot and Mouth Disease
Title: Hand Foot and Mouth DiseaseCategory: Diseases and ConditionsCreated: 9/5/1998 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 7/11/2014 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General)
Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General - July 11, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease
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Source: MedlinePlus Health News - June 7, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How Smart Is That Doggy in the Window?
The Duke Canine Cognition Center is one of the world’s most prestigious dog laboratories, but you’d never know it from the looks. Located at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, it’s just three small rooms in the subbasement of the school’s Biological Sciences Building, a faded red-brick structure that stands in a clump of similarly nondescript buildings on the west end of campus. My tour of the facility — a modest lounge, a barren rectangular room, and a narrow alcove filled with cabinets — took all of about thirty seconds. It turns out you don’t need much to probe the secrets of the dog’s mind.
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Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - April 13, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Mackenzie Yang Tags: Uncategorized animals cats Dogs psychology Science Source Type: news
Ethiopia: Children Prone to Hand-Foot-and-Mouth Disease
[Reporter]Hand-foot-and-mouth disease, or HFMD, can send your child to bed in perfect health only to wake with sore bright red blisters erupting all over the body. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 17, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
What Are the Complications of Measles?
Discussion
Measles was first described in the 9th century by an Arab physician. In 1757, Francis Home, a Scottish physician showed that measles was an infectious disease found in patient’s blood. The virus was isolated by Drs. John Enders and Thomas Peebles in Boston in 1954. In 1963, the first live virus vaccine for measles was licensed in the US.
Measles is caused by a paramyxovirus that replicates in the oral pharynx and lungs and is spread by respiratory secretions. The incubation period is 8-12 days. Clinically measles causes erythematous macules and papules that first appears on the lateral and posterior neck,...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - January 6, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
UCLA sleep apnea study uncovers more hidden dangers for women
There's more bad news for women with sleep apnea. A new study from the UCLA School of Nursing shows that the body's autonomic responses — the controls that impact such functions as blood pressure, heart rate and sweating — are weaker in people with obstructive sleep apnea but are even more diminished in women.
Women with obstructive sleep apnea may appear to be healthy — having, for instance, normal resting blood pressure — and their symptoms also tend to be subtler, which often means their sleep problem is missed and they get diagnosed with other conditions.
"We now know that sleep ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - October 23, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Nail Shedding Following Hand, Foot and Mouth DiseaseNail Shedding Following Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease
Nail shedding may following hand, foot and mouth disease. Archives of Disease in Childhood (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - September 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics Journal Article Source Type: news
Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease: CVA6 Diagnostic Clues FoundHand, Foot, and Mouth Disease: CVA6 Diagnostic Clues Found
Distinguishing coxsackievirus-A6-generated hand, foot, and mouth disease. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - June 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics News Source Type: news
Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Related MedlinePlus Page: Viral Infections (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - June 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
EV71: Vaccine Prevents Hand-Foot-Mouth, Associated DiseaseEV71: Vaccine Prevents Hand-Foot-Mouth, Associated Disease
The first vaccine against enterovirus 71 helps prevent hand, foot, and mouth disease, as well as EV71-associated disease, according to phase 3 trial results. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - May 30, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
