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After Tragedy of Stillbirth, She Set Out to Help Others Every year at least 21,000 babies are stillborn in the United States. That’s about one in every 175 births, according to the CDC. Elizabeth O'Donnell wants to see that number fall.- One in 10 People Who Had Omicron Got Long COVID: Study About 10% of people infected with Omicron reported having long COVID, a lower percentage than estimated for people infected with earlier strains of the coronavirus, says a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
- Can a Saliva Test Predict the Best Way to Manage Obesity? Mayo Clinic researchers are working on saliva tests that may help figure out the type of obesity a person has and, based on the results, decide what may be the best course of action to treat it.
- Daily Multivitamin Improves Memory in Older Adults: Study Older people who took a daily multivitamin for 1 year appeared to stave off the equivalent of 3 years of age-related decline in mental skills, according to a new study.
- Hi-Tech Implant Helps Paralyzed Man Walk More Naturally The man was paralyzed 11 years ago from a bike accident. He can now walk 100 to 200 meters (up to about 660 feet) at a time, and can stand without using his hands for two or three minutes.
- Exercise Might Boost Your Tolerance for Pain A new study finds physically active people have greater pain tolerance compared to sedentary people. And, those with higher levels of activity also had higher pain tolerance.
- Tick-Borne Powassan Virus Can Kill -- How to Protect Yourself Powassan virus is a rare and untreatable infection transmitted by ticks that can have fatal complications.
- Amid Therapy Waitlists, New AI Coach May Be Quicker Option Researchers from the University of Illinois Chicago and their colleagues have found that their AI app appears to be useful in treating anxiety and depression.
- Researchers Discover Brain Abnormalities in Babies Who Had SIDS Researchers have discovered specific brain abnormalities in babies who died of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.
- New HIV Cases Decline, But Prevention Still Falls Short: CDC The number of people diagnosed with HIV each year in the U.S. continues to decline, according to new CDC data released Tuesday.
- Do Weight Loss Drugs Like Ozempic Cause Hair Loss? Experts consider claims that new weight loss medications cause hair loss. They find that hair loss is unlikely and actually more common with bariatric surgery.
- Standard Tests May Underestimate Severity of Sleep Apnea in Black Patients New research suggests current screening methods for sleep apnea may put Black patients at a disadvantage.
- Less Invasive Procedure for 'Leaky' Heart Valves Proves Successful A large study finds the minimally invasive intervention known as TEER (transcatheter edge-to-edge repair) effective for fixing tears in heart valves.
- Mental Health Issues for Adolescents Spiked During Pandemic During the COVID-19 pandemic, young people experienced spikes in mental health difficulties, with girls taking a harder hit, particularly adolescents developing eating disorders, according to a report this week in JAMA Network.
- Mouth 'On Fire': Help for the Often Misdiagnosed Condition TMD There's a type of pain in the mouth and face that includes over 30 types of temporomandibular disorders, called TMDs, and they're hard to diagnose, leaving some patients on a long quest to find relief.
- PTSD, Other Mental Health Ills Haunt Gunshot Survivors A new study finds the trauma gunshot survivors experience can get worse as time goes by.
- Surgeon General Issues ‘Urgent’ Social Media Warning for Kids Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, called on policymakers and technology companies to fund more research and make social media safer.
- Pill Version of Wegovy Achieves Similar Weight Loss In a trial of 667 people who were overweight or obese, those who took the daily semaglutide pill lost 17% of their body weight after 68 weeks.
- FDA Approves New Nasal Spray to Reverse Overdoses The FDA has approved a second nasal spray for reversing an opioid overdose.
- The Weird World of Hydrogels: How They’ll Change Health Care It’s a liquid, it’s a solid – no, it’s hydrogel! And it’s poised to transform everything from dentistry to brain implants.
- Donor Hearts From Patients With COVID Tied to Lower Survival Heart transplantation centers need to thoroughly evaluate and continue to weigh the risks and benefits of using hearts from active COVID-19 donors because they may offer worse outcomes for the recipients, researchers say.
- Researchers Locate Signals in Brain Related to Chronic Pain Using surgical implants inside the brain, scientists have recorded for the first time electrical patterns that occur when a person is feeling chronic pain, a new study in Nature Neuroscience concludes.
- Study Finds COVID-19 Boosters Don’t Increase Miscarriage Risk COVID-19 boosters are not linked to an increased chance of miscarriage, according to a new study in JAMA Network Open.
- Severe Asthma and Lung Cancer: What’s the Link? Cutting-edge research is highlighting the link between heavily symptomatic asthma and lung cancer. Here's what to know.
- New Moms Breastfed Longer During Pandemic New research shows new moms tended to breastfeed their babies about two weeks longer than usual during the shelter-in-place period early in the COVID pandemic.