Expert describes the health benefits of ‘Dry January’
A growing number of people are participating in what's known as "Dry January," taking a month-long break from alcohol after the indulgences of the holiday season. Dr. Rotonya Carr, head of gastroenterology at the University of Washington School of Medicine, joins John Yang to discuss.#rotonyacarr #johnyang (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Is Good Sleep Tougher to Find in Winter? Morning Light May Help
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 14, 2022 -- If you want to get some good sleep at night, be sure to get outside for a bit during the day, even if it ' s cloudy.
That ' s the advice of researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle, where overcast skies are... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - December 14, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Who is Nick Szabo and how important is he in the development of Bitcoin? \ stacker news
1 - Nick Szabo, is an American of Hungarian descent. So far, we don't know the date or place of his birth. He graduated in computer science in 1989 from the University of Washington. 2 - Recently, in 2017, he received an Honorary Doctorate in Social Sciences from Francisco Marroquín University. It…#7bitgold #btc #lightningnetwork #nickszabo #trustedthirdparties #universityofwashington #socialsciences #satoshi #anhonorarydoctorate #franciscomarroquínuniversity (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 11, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Alzheimer's blood test may detect disease years in advance
University of Washington researchers have developed a test that can detect the presence of amyloid beta - a protein strongly believed to be a cause of the memory-robbing disorder. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New TREMFYA ® (guselkumab) Post-Hoc Analysis Reveals Early Efficacy Predicted Longer-Term Efficacy And Sustained Achievement Among A Diverse Active Psoriatic Arthritis Patient Population
SPRING HOUSE, PENNSYLVANIA, November 11, 2022 – The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced a new post-hoc analysis of the Phase 3 DISCOVER program (DISCOVER-1 and DISCOVER-2) evaluating TREMFYA® (guselkumab) in adult patients with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA), which showed that early skin and enthesitis responsesa,b predicted longer-term clinical response,c including disease remission, at week 52.1 TREMFYA is the first fully human selective interleukin (IL)-23 inhibitor therapy approved in the U.S. for adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis (PsO) and adults with active PsA...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - November 11, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
In a First, Doctors Treat a Fatal Genetic Disease Before Birth
A toddler is thriving after doctors in the U.S. and Canada used a novel technique to treat her before she was born for a rare genetic disease that caused the deaths of two of her sisters.
Ayla Bashir, a 16-month-old from Ottawa, Ontario, is the first child treated as fetus for Pompe disease, an inherited and often fatal disorder in which the body fails to make some or all of a crucial protein.
Today, she’s an active, happy girl who has met her developmental milestones, according to her father, Zahid Bashir and mother, Sobia Qureshi.
“She’s just a regular little 1½-year-old who keeps us on our toes,...
Source: TIME: Health - November 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: JONEL ALECCIA/AP Tags: Uncategorized Disease healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
New TREMFYA ® (guselkumab) Post-Hoc Analysis Reveals Active Psoriatic Arthritis Patients With Early Efficacy Had Meaningful Long-Term Improvement in Health-Related Quality of Life
SPRING HOUSE, PENNSYLVANIA, November 10, 2022 – The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced a new post-hoc analysis of the Phase 3 DISCOVER-2 study that show early (week 8) clinical improvementsa of most measures (joint and skin disease, enthesitis and dactylitis) in adult patients with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) treated with TREMFYA® (guselkumab) were associated with meaningful improvements in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) (measured by EQ-5D)b from year one (week 52) through year two (week 100).1 TREMFYA is the first fully human selective interleukin (IL)-23 inhibitor th...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - November 10, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Study pinpoints neurons that may help paralyzed people walk again
It seems like something out of science fiction: People paralyzed from a motorcycle or other accident are suddenly able to walk again when doctors jolt their spinal cord with electricity. Now, scientists have pinpointed the nerve cell population that’s responsible—at least in injured mice—potentially opening the door to new treatments for paralysis.
This work “is finally getting at the important contributors to recovery,” says Sarah Mondello, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, who was not involved with the study.
A bad fall or car accident can sever nerve connections in the spin...
Source: ScienceNOW - November 9, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Marijuana does NOT make you more creative, says study that disproves common myth
Researchers at the University of Washington put cannabis users through a creativity test either 15 minutes after smoking the drug or 12 hours later when they were sober. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Model Predicts COVID Deaths Will Flatline This Winter
(MedPage Today) -- The U.S. probably won't see a major surge in COVID deaths this winter, according to new models from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in Seattle.
By Feb. 1, 2023, daily deaths... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - October 26, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
News at a glance: LGBTQ+ Nobel laureates, a statistics prize, and the return of the snail darter
CONSERVATION
Once-controversial fish delisted
A small fish famous for drawing the first U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Endangered Species Act was removed last week by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from the list of species under threat of extinction. In 1975, the agency declared the snail darter (
Percina tanasi
) endangered, concluding that construction of a dam on the Little Tennessee River would doom the 9-centimeter-long animals. Although the court upheld the listing in 1978, Congress allowed the dam to go ahead. The darter’s outlook improved after some were moved to other stre...
Source: ScienceNOW - October 13, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Secrets of Tibet ’s hot-spring snakes revealed
Jia-Tang Li knows firsthand how tough life can be on the Tibetan Plateau. The air at 4500 meters is so thin that just a few steps take one’s breath away. Despite bitter cold, the Sun is intense enough to quickly burn the skin. Yet the small grayish-brown snakes this herpetologist at the Chengdu Institute of Biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences studies have been thriving in the plateau’s northern reaches for millions of years. The Tibetan hot-spring snake,
Thermophis baileyi
, keeps from freezing to death by hanging around the region’s geothermal pools, feasting on frogs and small fish living there.
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Source: ScienceNOW - October 11, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
West Africa: Children With Clefts in Sahel Region At High Risk of Malnutrition-Related Deaths, New Study Shows
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The World Smile Day, Smile Train and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington's School of Medicine have released a new report showing that one in three children in Africa and South Asia is malnourished, and that number is exponentially higher for children with clefts in those regions. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 10, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Your medicine works better if you BELIEVE it will, study finds
Researchers at the University of Washington said their results revealed the powers of the mind and the placebo effect. This is the idea that your brain can convince you treatment is working. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Oregon Will Be The First State To Cover Health-Related Climate Expenses Under Medicaid
(PORTLAND, Ore.) — Oregon is set to become the first state in the nation to cover climate change expenses for certain low-income patients under its Medicaid program as the normally temperate Pacific Northwest region sees longer heat waves and more intense wildfires.
The new initiative, slated to take effect in 2024, will cover payment for devices such as air conditioners and air filters for Medicaid members with health conditions who live in an area where an emergency due to extreme weather has been declared by the federal government or the governor’s office, according to the Oregon Health Authority.
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Source: TIME: Health - September 30, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: CLAIRE RUSH/AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
