Changing your diet could add up to a decade to life expectancy, study finds: A new model, available as an online calculator, estimates the impact of dietary changes on life expectancy
A young adult in the U.S. could add more than a decade to their life expectancy by changing their diet from a typical Western diet to an optimized diet that includes more legumes, whole grains and nuts, and less red and processed meat, according to a new study publishing Feb. 8 in PLOS Medicine by […]
What Age Group Is the Most Suicidal? Risk Factors, Prevention
The highest suicide rates are seen among teenagers and young adults between the ages of 10 to 35 years old. Suicide is causing fatal self-injury to take one’s own life to escape from pain or suffering. Suicide is seen among all age groups, but the highest suicide rates are seen among teenagers and young adults […]
Bipolar Disorder in Children, Teen, Adults: Symptoms, Signs & Types
Agarkar, S., N. Mahgoub, and R.C. Young. “Use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in bipolr disorder.” Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 23.2 Spring 2011: E12-E13. Albanese, M.J., S.E. Nelson, A.J. Peller, and H.J. Shaffer. “Bipolar Disorder as a Risk Factor for Repeat DUI Behavior.” Journal of Affective Disorders 121.3 Mar. 2010. Altshuler, L.L., […]
Bipolar Disorder Types, Causes, Symptoms, Treatment & Diagnosis
Agarkar, S., N. Mahgoub, and R.C. Young. “Use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in bipolr disorder.” Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 23.2 Spring 2011: E12-E13. Albanese, M.J., S.E. Nelson, A.J. Peller, and H.J. Shaffer. “Bipolar Disorder as a Risk Factor for Repeat DUI Behavior.” Journal of Affective Disorders 121.3 Mar. 2010. Altshuler, L.L., […]
Pennsylvania Doctor Issued Blanket Mask Exemptions for School
As children return to school — many of whom are too young to be vaccinated against COVID-19 — Pennsylvania, among other states, is requiring that masks be worn inside K-12 buildings and other early learning programs. But the public health measure hasn’t been without pushback, including anti-mask action taken by members of the medical community. […]
Certain Groups Left Behind in HIV Preventive Care
Black and Hispanic individuals at risk for HIV, as well as young adults and people with substance use disorder (SUD), were more likely to experience gaps in preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) care, a retrospective study showed. Examining electronic health record (EHR) data of people linked to PrEP care from 2012 to 2019, Black (HR 0.74, 95% […]
Study identifies molecule that stimulates muscle-building in humans
In a randomized control study of 10 healthy young men, researchers compared how consuming the single amino acid leucine or its two-molecule equivalent, dileucine, influenced muscle-building and breakdown. They found that dileucine boosts the metabolic processes that drive muscle growth 42% more than free leucine does. They report their findings in the Journal of Applied […]
Some IBD Treatments in Pregnancy Had No Effect on Kids’ Infection Risk
Exposure to immunosuppressive monotherapies in utero did not increase serious infection risks in young children born to mothers with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but the same could not be said for exposures to combination therapies, a French population-based study found. Children up to 1 year of age who were exposed to tumor necrosis factor (TNF) […]
Acceptance of Vaginal Ring and Oral PrEP Increasing in Young African Women
By and large, young women and adolescent girls in Africa use and accept new methods of preventing sexually transmitted HIV, researchers reported. Of the 247 adolescent girls and young women who participated in the REACH-034 trial, 77.8% had at least moderate adherence to use of the monthly dapivirine-eluting vaginal ring and 58.6% had at least […]
Vaginal Ring as Safe as Oral PrEP in Late Pregnancy
The long-acting dapivirine vaginal ring, which reduces HIV risk in young women, had a comparable safety profile in late pregnancy to an oral daily pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) regimen, according to an interim analysis of a small open-label trial in sub-Saharan Africa. Adverse pregnancy outcomes were rare, with one stillbirth and one neonatal death in the […]