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CDC Releases Death Rate Estimates for Seven ConditionsCDC Releases Death Rate Estimates for Seven Conditions
Death rates have risen for influenza/pneumonia, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, and diabetes; death rates have dipped slightly for HIV and have stayed the same for falls among older adults. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - August 21, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news

Kids and flu shots: Two common myths
As a pediatrician, I am really passionate about the flu shot. Influenza can be a nasty illness; every year, thousands of people are hospitalized with influenza and its complications, and some of those people die. The flu shot can protect my patients and their families, and I enthusiastically recommend it to all of them. And yet many of them refuse, despite my best efforts. What is particularly frustrating is that many of them refuse because of misunderstandings about the flu shot. There is all sorts of misinformation out there, but here are the two most common myths: 1. The flu shot can make you sick. This is the one I hea...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - October 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Cold and Flu Vaccines flu vaccine Source Type: news

A Health Profile of Arab Americans in Michigan: A Novel Approach to Using a Hospital Administrative Database
This study supports previous findings that health disparities exist for Arab Americans, who are classified as “white” in health statistics. Standard inclusion of Arab American as a separate ethnicity category will aid researchers in assessing the health care needs of this growing minority community.
Source: Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health - October 15, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research

Do statins interfere with the flu vaccine?
Statins are powerful, unusual, and, like El Niño and Tom Cruise, not well understood. Statins have a huge upside. They improve survival after heart attacks and lower the risk of recurrent strokes. They are also the only cholesterol-lowering medications that have been clearly shown to reduce heart attacks and deaths in high-risk patients without heart disease. In addition to reducing cholesterol, statins also lower levels of inflammation in the body. Reducing inflammation probably helps statins to prevent heart attack and stroke. However, evidence is emerging that these statin effects may also have a downside, hindering th...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - November 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Ross, MD, FIDSA Tags: Cold and Flu Drugs and Supplements Health Heart Health Vaccines flu vaccine statins Source Type: news

How Terrified Should We Be?
After every terrorist attack we go through a period of overwhelming fear that we will individually be the target of terrorism. Recently a man told me that he will avoid going to crowded areas of the city because he fears being killed by a terrorist. A woman fears flying because she fears the plane will be blown up by a terrorist. Years ago, after 9/11, a woman told me that she feared "Arab-looking men" in the subway. And, after 9/11, years ago, a family moved to Colorado from New York City because of their fear of terrorism. Fear pervaded the lives of many people and, once again, after the attack in San Bernardino, Califor...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - December 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Mortality Among Centenarians in the United States, 2000-2014.
Authors: Xu J Abstract KEY FINDINGS: Data from the National Vital Statistics System, Mortality ● Death rates for centenarians increased from 2000 through 2008 and then decreased through 2014 for both males and females. ● Death rates for centenarians increased from 2000 through 2006 for the Hispanic population and from 2000 through 2008 for the non- Hispanic white and black populations, and subsequently decreased through 2014 for all racial and ethnic groups examined. ● The top five causes of death among centenarians in 2014 were heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, stroke, cancer, and influenza and pneumonia. ...
Source: NCHS data brief - February 3, 2016 Category: American Health Tags: NCHS Data Brief Source Type: research

Medical Research: The Best Investment We Can Make in Our Future
While the cure for cancer has been elusive, President Obama's National Cancer Moonshot initiative offers renewed hope that we could see breakthroughs in prevention, detection, and treatment for a disease that affects millions of Americans and their families. The cancer moonshot is the latest demonstration that Washington understands the potential for medical research to change lives and improve the health of all Americans. It builds on the bipartisan support we saw last fall when House and Senate negotiators agreed on a $2 billion budget increase for medical research through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Today,...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 18, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

Neurological injuries and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: the challenge of the new ECMO era
We present a case series of six neurological injuries that occurred in 1 year during the ECMO run or after the ECMO weaning. In each case the neurological complication had a dramatic effect: ranging from brain death to prolonged ICU stay and long term disability. This case series has an informative impact for the multidisciplinary teams treating ECMO patients because of its heterogeneity in pathogenesis and clinical manifestation: cerebral hemorrhage, ischemic stroke due to cerebral fat embolism, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis due to H1N1 Influenza. In our ECMO hub we started strict neurological monitoring involving...
Source: Neurological Sciences - February 19, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Flu Shot Could Prevent a Heart Attack
The flu vaccine protects against more than just influenza ― it also reduces the risk of heart attack and stroke by about one-third, according to studies published by the British Medical Journal Heart and the Journal of the American Medical Association. This February during American Heart Month, Texas physicians urge everyone who hasn’t yet received an annual flu shot to get vaccinated.
Source: TMA News Room - February 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

A bummer for kids: Nasal flu vaccine not effective
Follow me at @drClaire Every year, many of my patients have been able to skip the needle — and still get vaccinated against the flu. That was the great thing about the nasal spray version of the flu vaccine, known as the LAIV (live attenuated influenza vaccine): kids scared of needles could get a squirt up each nostril and be all set. This coming flu season, everyone is getting the shot. It turns out that the nasal spray just didn’t work that well. Despite studies from the 2002-2003 and 2004-2005 flu seasons that seemed to show that the nasal spray actually worked better than the shot in children ages 2-8 years, over t...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - June 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Cold and Flu Infectious diseases Parenting Prevention Source Type: news

Flu vaccine may reduce risk of death for type 2 diabetes patients
( Imperial College London ) The flu vaccine may reduce the likelihood of being hospitalized with stroke and heart failure in people with type 2 diabetes, according to new research. The study, from scientists at Imperial College London, also found patients who received the influenza vaccination had a 24 per cent lower death rate in the flu season compared to patients who weren't vaccinated.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - July 25, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Well: Flu Vaccine Has Added Benefits for People With Diabetes
People with Type 2 diabetes who got the flu vaccine had a lower risk of stroke and heart failure.
Source: NYT Health - July 27, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: NICHOLAS BAKALAR Tags: Diabetes Influenza Vaccination and Immunization Featured Live Source Type: news

CDC: US Death Rates Inch Down for Many Leading Diseases CDC: US Death Rates Inch Down for Many Leading Diseases
Provisional estimates show declines in the first quarter of 2016 for some top causes of death, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, kidney disease, and pneumonia/influenza.Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - August 11, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news

Functional Food and dietary supplements For Lung Health
Conclusions This plant metabolites benefits lung health by anti-inflammatory, immune-modulatory, and antioxidant effects. Many pungent flavor components in edible plants activate the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract to help fight microbes and remove undesirable agents. These flavor and aroma compounds can behave as expectorants, decongestant, antitussive, and antimicrobial agents. They enhance mucous membrane secretion, kill pathogens, reduce inflammation and decrease mucous viscosity by weakening the hydrogen bonds in the mucous. For lung cancer, certain plant metabolites help induce apoptosis, suppress angiogene...
Source: Trends in Food Science and Technology - August 17, 2016 Category: Food Science Source Type: research