What to Know About Lead Toxicity and Kids’ Applesauce
While it’s not clear whether children exposed to recalled applesauce packets have suffered acute lead poisoning, pediatricians should take recent warnings seriously, experts told MedPage Today. Morri Markowitz, MD, director of the Lead Poisoning Prevention and Treatment Program at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx, New York, told MedPage Today that blood lead […]
CDC Backs Hepatitis C Screening for Kids Exposed in the Womb
The CDC released new recommendations for hepatitis C virus (HCV) screening among perinatally exposed infants and children. The four new recommendations detailed in the MMWR Recommendations and Reports are as follows: All perinatally exposed infants should be screened for HCV with a nucleic acid test (NAT) for detection of HCV RNA at ages 2 to […]
Discrimination alters brain-gut ‘crosstalk,’ prompting poor food choices and increased health risks
People frequently exposed to racial or ethnic discrimination may be more susceptible to obesity and related health risks in part because of a stress response that changes biological processes and how we process food cues. These are findings from UCLA researchers conducting what is believed to be the first study directly examining effects of discrimination […]
Red blood cells exposed to oxygen deficiency protect against myocardial infarction
Red blood cells exposed to oxygen deficiency protect against myocardial infarction, according to a new KI study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The study also shows that the protective effect is enhanced by a nitrate-rich vegetable diet. Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to all of the body’s cells and carbon […]
Across Borders, Worse COVID Outcomes Seen in Polluted Areas
During the pandemic, people exposed to more air pollution were at greater risk of COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and death, a nationwide study from Denmark showed. Based on the country’s COVID-19 surveillance system covering over 3.7 million residents, there were significant associations between local levels of inhalable particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and incident […]
Opinion | Gaslighting and Dismissal: The Consequences of Invalidating Patients’ Concerns
Social media has really exposed the trauma caused by gaslighting, dismissal, and misogyny by medical professionals. Chronic illness groups are rife with posts recounting the poor treatment they suffered at the hands of doctors. Imagine presenting with extreme fatigue, intermittent balance problems, and tingling in your hands and, after a cursory exam, being told your […]
Food stamp work requirements increase mental health care use: ‘These work requirements harm people with no measurable benefit to the economy’
Being exposed to work requirements in order to receive nutrition benefits from the U.S. government significantly increased mental health care use for depression and anxiety, a new Northwestern University study has found. The policy’s negative effects occurred much sooner for women than men. This is the first study to look at how work requirements associated […]
A ‘factory reset’ for the brain may cure anxiety, drinking behavior, study suggests: Gene editing reverses brain genetic reprogramming caused by adolescent binge drinking
Gene editing may be a potential treatment for anxiety and alcohol use disorder in adults who were exposed to binge drinking in their adolescence, according to the results of an animal study published in the journal Science Advances. The study is issued by researchers from the University of Illinois Chicago who have been studying the […]
Prenatal Disinfectant Exposure Linked to Asthma Risk in Kids
Mothers who were exposed to disinfectants on the job were more likely to have children with asthma, an analysis of a large birth cohort from Japan suggested. After adjusting for many factors including maternal return to work 1 year after giving birth, mothers who used disinfectants every day in the prenatal period were more likely […]
Air pollution exposure during pregnancy may boost babies’ obesity risk
Women exposed to higher levels of air pollution during pregnancy have babies who grow unusually fast in the first months after birth, putting on excess fat that puts them at risk of obesity and related diseases later in life, new CU Boulder research shows. The study of Hispanic mother-child pairs, published this week in the […]