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Too Little Sleep Destroys DNA?
I talk to my patients about the danger of not sleeping all the time. Unfortunately, it’s a common problem that affects 75 million Americans. People who don’t sleep, or sleep poorly, have up to 400% more accidents that those who get a good night’s rest. Not getting enough sleep also increases your risk of developing chronic diseases. Studies, including a large meta-analysis of 470,000 adults, found that those who slept less than six hours developed a:1,2,3,4,5 48% increase in the incidence of coronary heart disease 30% increased risk of dementia 15% increase in the incidence of stroke 50% cancer risk 17% higher risk ...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - August 25, 2023 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jacob Tags: Anti-Aging Health Source Type: news

7 Ways to Bring a Dead Friendship Back to Life
It might sound obvious, in the midst of a loneliness crisis, that having friends matters. But many of us “underestimate the very real impact our friendships can have on our life,” says Marisa Franco, a psychologist and author of Platonic: How The Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends. “Connection is the most important factor predicting our health, both physical and mental.” A growing body of research supports that point: Healthy, stable friendships can protect against depression and anxiety, increase life satisfaction, extend longevity, and improve health metrics li...
Source: TIME: Health - August 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Angela Haupt Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

U.S. Adult Smoking Rate Hits New All-Time Low
NEW YORK — U.S. cigarette smoking dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 9 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released Thursday. Meanwhile, electronic cigarette use rose, to about 1 in 17 adults. The preliminary findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are based on survey responses from more than 27,000 adults. Cigarette smoking is a risk factor for lung cancer, heart disease, and stroke, and it’s long been considered the leading cause of preventable death. In the mid-1960s, 42% of U.S. adults were smokers. The rate has been gradually d...
Source: TIME: Health - April 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe/AP Tags: Uncategorized Addiction healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news

Tramadol ‐induced intracerebral hemorrhage: A rare case report
AbstractA previously healthy middle-aged man with no vascular risk factors developed a hemorrhagic stroke. He had been using tramadol due to erectile dysfunction for 2  years. So, the patient developed right basal ganglia due to tramadol addiction.
Source: Clinical Case Reports - April 13, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Nor Osman Sidow, Mohamed Farah Osman, Mohamed Sheikh Hassan, Abdulkadir Ahmed, Abdiwahid Ahmed Ibrahim Tags: CASE REPORT Source Type: research

The 5 Best Ways to Control High Cholesterol, According to People With the Condition
There are a variety of factors that influence cardiovascular risk—but cholesterol is one of the first things that doctors pay attention to. Having high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is “definitely a variable we try to manage, because it’s been shown to be problematic for heart health,” says Dr. Adriana Quinones-Camacho, a cardiologist at NYU Langone Health. Though it’s often called the “bad” kind of cholesterol, LDL cholesterol makes up most of your body’s cholesterol stores. That means it’s not a villain on its own, but when levels start creeping ...
Source: TIME: Health - January 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Millard Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news

The final puff: Can New Zealand quit smoking for good?
Smoking kills. Ayesha Verrall has seen it up close. As a young resident physician in New Zealand’s public hospitals in the 2000s, Verrall watched smokers come into the emergency ward every night, struggling to breathe with their damaged lungs. Later, as an infectious disease specialist, she saw how smoking exacerbated illness in individuals diagnosed with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. She would tell them: “The best thing you can do to promote your health, other than take the pills, is to quit smoking.” Verrall is still urging citizens to give up cigarettes—no longer just one by one, but by the thousands. As New...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 9, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news

14 Saving Adam from the apple: using transcranial magnetic stimulation as a transdiagnostically relevant tool to decrease cue-reactivity
Professor Hanlon’s scientific research has been to map neural circuit irregularities in substance dependent populations and then modulate these circuits using brain stimulation techniques or neurofeedback. She is leading NIH-funded research directed at longitudinal investigations of neural connectivity in cocaine & alcohol dependent individuals undergoing substance abuse treatment, & developing patient-tailored brain stimulation protocols which may either enhance cognitive control or attenuate craving in treatment seeking individuals. Her trainees & collaborators are pioneering non-invasive neuromodulator...
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - November 14, 2022 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Hanlon, C. A. Tags: Speakers Short Biographies and Abstracts Source Type: research

Bilateral carotid artery dissection associated with Eagle syndrome in a drug-addicted young adult with stroke: a case report
Source: Neurological Sciences - September 15, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Smoking cessation for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease
CONCLUSIONS: There is moderate-certainty evidence that smoking cessation is associated with a reduction of approximately one-third in the risk of recurrent cardiovascular disease in people who stop smoking at diagnosis. This association may be causal, based on the link between smoking cessation and restoration of endothelial and platelet function, where dysfunction of both can result in increased likelihood of CVD events. Our results provide evidence that there is a decreased risk of secondary CVD events in those who quit smoking compared with those who continue, and that there is a suggested improvement in quality of life...
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - August 8, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Angela Difeng Wu Nicola Lindson Jamie Hartmann-Boyce Azizia Wahedi Anisa Hajizadeh Annika Theodoulou Elizabeth T Thomas Charlotte Lee Paul Aveyard Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 9336: & ldquo;What Do You Need? What Are You Experiencing? & rdquo; Relationship Building and Power Dynamics in Participatory Research Projects: Critical Self-Reflections of Researchers
IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 9336: “What Do You Need? What Are You Experiencing?” Relationship Building and Power Dynamics in Participatory Research Projects: Critical Self-Reflections of Researchers International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph19159336 Authors: Doris Arnold Andrea Glässel Tabea Böttger Navina Sarma Andreas Bethmann Petra Narimani Participatory approaches create opportunities for cooperation, building relationships, gaining knowledge, rethinking, and eventually changing power structures. From an international perspective, the article...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - July 30, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Doris Arnold Andrea Gl ässel Tabea B öttger Navina Sarma Andreas Bethmann Petra Narimani Tags: Article Source Type: research

Scientists develop blueprint for turning stem cells into sensory interneurons
Key takeaways:Just like the real thing.The stem cell –derived interneurons, which play a role in sensations like touch and pain, are indistinguishable from their real-life counterparts in the body.Tomorrow ’s therapies. In addition to potential treatments for injury-related sensation loss, the discovery could lead to new methods for screening drugs for chronic pain.Moving forward. While stem cells from mice were used in the research, scientists are now working to replicate the findings with human cells.Researchers at the  Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have develop...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - July 19, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Paul Nicholls health: EastEnders star faced ‘deep depression’ and addiction after stroke
FORMER EastEnders star Paul Nicholls has shared how he fell into a "deep depression" after a stroke a few years ago. The star also suffered a drug addiction relapse and sought professional help.
Source: Daily Express - Health - July 11, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

They Were Cigarette Smokers. Then a Stroke Vanquished Their Addiction.
Patients whose brain injury coincidentally relieved their nicotine cravings may help unravel the neural underpinnings of addiction, a new study suggests.
Source: NYT Health - June 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Benjamin Mueller Tags: Brain Stroke Nature Neuroscience (Journal) Smoking and Tobacco Addiction (Psychology) your-feed-science Source Type: news

Systemic Administration of a Brain Permeable Cdk5 Inhibitor Alters Neurobehavior
Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5) is a crucial regulator of neuronal signal transduction. Cdk5 activity is implicated in various neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative conditions such as stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease. While constitutive Cdk5 knockout is perinatally lethal, conditional knockout mice display resilience to stress-induction, enhanced cognition, neuroprotection from stroke and head trauma, and ameliorated neurodegeneration. Thus, Cdk5 represents a prime target for treatment in a spectrum of neurological and neuropsychiatric conditions. While intracranial...
Source: Frontiers in Pharmacology - May 12, 2022 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research