Nigeria: Overcoming Barriers to Kidney Health in Nigeria - - World Kidney Day 2024
[Nigeria Health Watch] Salisu Hauwa, a 33-year-old woman in Gashau, a Local Government Area (LGA) in northern Yobe State, Nigeria was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD) at the Yobe State University Teaching Hospital (YSUTH) in Damaturu. This diagnosis came weeks after she had been experiencing headaches and continuous vomiting. According to her husband, Abubakar Mohammed, Hauwa's condition worsened, as she was constantly screaming, biting, and attempting to run away from the hospital leading some to believe that she (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 13, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
How Do I Calculate RMD in Year of Death?
Inheriting an IRA or 401(k) can add to your wealth but it can also bring some potential tax headaches. One tricky issue involves required minimum distributions or RMDs. IRA and 401(k) plan owners are required to take minimum distributions from their accounts beginning in the year they turn 72. The…#rbd #uniformlifetimetable #ira #tableii #rmd (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
House GOP panics over shrinking majority as another Republican sprints for the exits
House Republicans are panicking about their shrinking majority after Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) said he will resign at the end of next week, stunning GOP leadership. Why it matters: Republicans' razor-thin margins have created headaches throughout the 118th Congress — empowering hardliners, causing…#republicans #kenbuck #colo #118thcongress #kevinmccarthy #mikejohnson #stevescalise #democrats #billjohnson #ohio (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Viagra and Alzheimer's; Migraine Consensus Statement; FDA Updates Drug Guidance
(MedPage Today) -- More data supported links between the erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil (Viagra) and reduced Alzheimer's risk. (Journal of Alzheimer's Disease)
The American Headache Society issued a consensus position statement saying drugs... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - March 12, 2024 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Why Kate Middleton's photo manipulation is such a royal headache
A photo that Kensington Palace issued on Sunday to commemorate Mother’s Day in the United Kingdom shows Kate, Princess of Wales, smiling with her arms around the three children that she shares with Prince William. It seemed benign enough, but soon after the photo was issued, photo agencies spread…#kensingtonpalace #unitedkingdom #princewilliam #katemiddleton #buckinghampalace #charlesiii #queencamilla #charles #elizabethii #yougov (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Will safety issues at Boeing seriously impact air travel?
The headaches just keep piling up for Boeing: The Justice Department recently launched a criminal investigation into the January incident involving an Alaska Airlines flight, according to an exclusive by the Wall Street Journal. And string of safety incidents on Boeing planes over the last week…#boeing #justicedepartment #alaskaairlines #nickizink #mikegallinari #mintel #timleffel #marketplace (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Top reasons Americans end up in the emergency room REVEALED - as mental breakdowns enter top 10
While it is the place to go in the event of an emergency health issue, millions of Americans go for non-urgent complaints, such as mild headaches or mild burns, which overcrowd waiting rooms. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Man, 52, who suffered constant migraines is found to have a live WORM in his brain that had laid eggs under his skull - after catching parasite from undercooked bacon
An unnamed 52-year-old man in Florida was diagnosed with the rare parasitic infection neurocysticercosis, which caused a tapeworm from contaminated bacon to lay eggs in his brain. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Atogepant for Episodic Migraine Prevention: Phase 3 Data Atogepant for Episodic Migraine Prevention: Phase 3 Data
Results of the ELEVATE trial demonstrating the safety and efficacy of oral atogepant for the prevention of treatment-resistant episodic migraine prevention have now been published.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines - March 8, 2024 Category: Neurology Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery Source Type: news
Melatonin Overdoses Are Spiking In Young Kids
More adults are using melatonin to get to sleep at night. Unfortunately, that means more young children are finding their parents’ tablets and gummies and taking them by accident.
A new analysis in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which is published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, finds that melatonin was responsible for a surprisingly large share of emergency-department visits—7%—among infants and young kids who accidentally ingested a medication from 2019 to 2022. During that time span, melatonin caused about 11,000 such incidents.
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Source: TIME: Health - March 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized medicine Source Type: news
Daylight Saving Time Is the Worst
On Sunday, March 10 at 2 a.m., the U.S. and about a third of the world’s other countries will set their clocks forward by one hour, which will make the sun seem to rise later in the morning and hang in the sky longer in the evening. I am not alone in dreading it. Plenty of people want nothing to do with the whole hoary practice.
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It’s bad for health, bad for safety, bad for your mood, and just plain unpopular. But that doesn’t stop us from changing the clocks, pointlessly, twice a year.
The ridiculous history of Daylight Saving Time
The first push for ...
Source: TIME: Health - March 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
FIX EMEA 2024: Over two-thirds of attendees ready for T+1 in the US, but multiple concerns linger
Attendees at the FIX EMEA Trading Conference said T+1 is the greatest regulatory headache currently within financial markets, though 70% of the audience said they will be ready for the acceleration of settlement times come May. With markets just months away from North America moving to T+1…#northamericas #panellist #trade (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
TikTok Influencers Are Now Treating Ozempic Side Effects
Every day dozens of people come to Jennifer Witherspoon—a former dental office manager with zero medical training—for help managing nausea, headaches, and other side effects that can come with taking weight-loss shots. She even crafted a template response to help her quickly get through the messages.
“People have offered to pay me, begged me to start a podcast, asked me to call their sisters-in-law, wanted me to call their doctor,” she said. “One lady even invited me to her wedding.” Even Oprah’s production company reached out to feature one of her videos in a prime time specia...
Source: TIME: Health - March 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Madison Muller, Andre Tartar, and Tanaz Meghjani/Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Iron Gathers in Brain After Concussions
WEDNESDAY, March 6, 2024 -- Folks who ' ve suffered a concussion and then develop headaches show iron accumulation in their brains, new research discovers.
Excess brain iron stores are a hallmark of damage, noted a team led by Simona Nikolova, of the... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 6, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Migraine a Forerunner of Multiple Sclerosis? Migraine a Forerunner of Multiple Sclerosis?
A common comorbidity in multiple sclerosis migraine is not part of the 3- to 5-year disease prodrome, new research suggested.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines - March 6, 2024 Category: Neurology Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery Source Type: news
