Category: Health & Fitness
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Exposure to Household Chemicals May Stunt Language Development in Kids
Researchers found a link between use of toxic household chemicals and the language development in children from low-income families. Exposure to these household chemicals, as reported by the mothers, delayed language development of the children by age two. The study was published online in the journal Clinical Pediatrics. These children also exhibited delay in cognitive…
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People Who Have Weight Loss Surgery May Face Increased Risk of Bone Fractures
Undergoing weight loss surgery may have a negative effect – increased risk of bone fractures. The findings recently published by researchers in Sweden in the Journal of Internal Medicine. The study involved 2,007 obese Swedish patients who underwent weight loss surgery. The type of surgery included gastric bypass (to make the stomach smaller), gastric banding…
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Researchers Describe Chest CT Scans of COVID-19 Patients
A recent study compares the chest CT scans with the clinical conditions of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pneumonia in 101 patients. According to the findings, 86.1 percent of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia had a CT feature called ground-glass opacities (GGO), 64.4 percent had mixed GGO, and 71.3 percent had vascular enlargement in the lesion. They described…
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Flossing and Going to Dentist Regularly Decrease Pathogen in Your Mouth
Looking at microbes in people’s mouth, researchers find that flossing and regular dentist visits decrease a pathogen that causes periodontal disease. The findings were from Colorado State University microbiome researchers in conjunction with a crowd-sourced, citizen science-driven study at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The study was published in the journal Scientific Reports.…
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Brushing Your Teeth More Can Lower the Risk of Diabetes
Brushing your teeth three times or more a day can lower your risk of developing diabetes by 8 percent. However, if you have dental disease or are missing 15 or more teeth, you risk of developing cancer increases by 9 percent. These findings were by researchers from Seoul Hospital and Ewha Womans University College of…
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COVID-19 is a Challenge for the Entire World
The emergence of COVID-19, which started in China and is now spreading globally, is now a challenge for the entire world, when it comes to the threat of emerging infectious diseases. Infectious diseases like COVID-19 “pose complex challenges to the global public health, research and medical communities,” write federal scientists from NIH’s National Institute of…
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Diamond Princess Cruise Ship Quarantine Caused More COVID-19 Infections
More COVID-19 infections occurred because the cruise ship Diamond Princess was quarantined for two weeks, compared to if the passengers were allowed to disembark immediately. The quarantine, in effect, had the opposite and resulted in more infections. The conclusion came from a study by researchers at Umeå University in Sweden. The researchers said because the…
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Researchers Understanding How the Drug Remdesivir Can Treat COVID-19 Patients
Researchers are reporting their findings on how the drug remdesivir works to treat patients who have contracted the COVID-19 virus that is running rampant in China and spreading to other countries. The National Institutes of Health also announced that remdesivir is being used in the first clinical trial of an experimental treatment for COVID-19 in…
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CT Scan Most Effective in Detecting COVID-19
A study recently published in the journal Radiology showed that chest CT scan was the most effective screening method in detecting 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The study involved 1,000 patients. Based on the data, CT should be used as the primary diagnosis method to screen for COVID-19. The Chinese government has been screening its…