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San Diego hospital seeing an alarming number of children 5 and under with cannabis poisoning

San Diego County's only children's hospital reports that it continues to see elevated numbers of young patients arriving in its emergency department with cannabis poisoning, echoing findings from a new analysis released last week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Tribune News Service

Should I worry about ticks?

Evidence suggests their numbers could be increasing – with bites transmitting viral, bacterial and potentially life-threatening diseases. But there are ways to guard against these attacks

The Guardian - UK

Dear Abby: Some relatives never visited my father with Alzheimer’s

Disappointed reader concludes that either they didn’t care, no one cared, or they were for some reason afraid to see someone with the disease

Chicago Sun-Times

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This Disease Was The World’s Deadliest Infection Before Covid-19 — Now It's Back

Tuberculosis is on the rise for the first time in decades after Covid-19 interrupted public health interventions and increased inequality.

Inverse

Endometriosis, a painful and often overlooked disease, gets attention in a new film

Below the Belt highlights patients' stories and the push for new research dollars for this poorly understood disease. Here are seven surprising facts from the film.

WEKU

Former Sounder Jimmy Gabriel had CTE. His family is pushing for head safety in soccer.

TUKWILA, Wash. — Jimmy Gabriel told the best stories.

Tribune News Service

‘I’m being burned alive’: Young woman diagnosed with ‘suicide disease’ faces race against time

Desperate mother fighting to save her daughter’s life clinging on to ‘one last hope’

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New Alzheimer’s drug is first to show it slows disease. But It’s facing a rocky rollout

Eisai Co.’s breakthrough Alzheimer’s drug — the first to show it slows the brain-destroying disease — is facing a rocky rollout as doctors grapple with logistical issues, insurance uncertainties and complicated safety testing requirements.

Tribune News Service

Deadly tickborne virus that’s spreading in Europe ‘likely to reach UK’

Climate change is causing infectious ticks to move north in Europe, expert warns

The Independent UK

How diseased coral parents can restore stony coral tissue loss disease, finds study

The coral reefs across the Caribbean have been devastated by Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD), which has caused severe mortality in a number of coral species, including Pseudodiploria strigosa, which has been particularly hard hit in the Mexican Caribbean. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Study analysis behavioural patterns of people who achieve weight loss clinically

A recent study analysed the behavioural patterns of people who achieve weight loss clinically. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Shaun Udal: I’ve faced some really dark days after Parkinson’s disease diagnosis

A month before turning 50 – in February 2019 – Udal was informed by post he had been diagnosed with the degenerative and incurable condition.

The Independent UK

Genetic testing could bring in ‘new age’ of diagnostics in NHS

A new DNA test looks at genetics as a risk factor in developing heart disease.

The Independent UK

Hunter's leading causes of death revealed

1085 men and 655 women died 'potentially avoidable deaths' in four years.

Newcastle Herald

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Running Daily May Help Slow Parkinson’s Disease, Study Finds

Intensive exercise boosts production of protein that aids neuron survival, potentially slowing symptoms

Chicago Tribune

Rev. Jesse Jackson stepping down from Rainbow/PUSH Coalition; successor to be named soon

Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease eight years ago, is stepping down from the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the influential Chicago-based civil rights organization he founded through its predecessor, Operation PUSH, more than 50 years ago.

The Hindu

Andhra Pradesh to kick-start massive cancer screening programme in September

AP govt to launch 1st-of-its-kind massive cancer screening for all over 30. CCC programme to ensure no cancer patient needs to leave state for treatment. Training of MLHPs & MOs underway; screening to begin soon. 62K new cancer cases in state/yr; early detection key. Govt to provide land for Health…

The Guardian - UK

How food companies ‘sweetened the world’ – and increased the risk of disease

The hard sell of ultra-processed foods in developing countries as being ‘good for you’ gives children a taste for sugar and salt that could have lasting effects on their health

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The Guardian - UK

Why are there fears of a London measles outbreak and what can be done?

Low MMR vaccine uptake in some areas means there could be a surge in cases of the infectious disease

The Independent UK

UK officials warn low measles immunization rates could lead to tens of thousands of cases in London

Britain’s Health Security Agency said that measles vaccination rates in parts of London have dropped so low that the capital could see tens of thousands of cases of the rash-causing disease

Fortune

Not brushing or flossing regularly? You could be hurting your body’s ability to fight off Alzheimer's disease. What you need to know

Oral health is whole-body health—you probably heard the adage at your dentist’s office, or way back in high school health class. New research proves it to be true to an even greater extent.

Homes & Gardens

Regular monitoring is ‘vital’ to catching zucchini diseases early and saving your plants

Learn the signs to look out for and measures to take to help keep zucchini healthy

The Hindu

Indo-Japanese researchers develop ‘disease-modifying’ treatment for Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy

Researchers have developed a disease-modifying treatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), a rare genetic disease, using a food additive — a beta-glucan produced by N-163 strain of a yeast Aureobasidium pullulans.

WEKU

WKU bicyclists to stop in Lexington during cross-country fundraiser to battle Alzheimer’s Disease

The latest bicycle trip across America by a group raising money for Alzheimer’s Disease research and support will pause for a fundraiser in Lexington Friday afternoon.

The Conversation

Young-onset Alzheimer’s can be diagnosed from as early as 30 – and the symptoms are often different

Alzheimer’s disease is often thought of as a condition that only affects the elderly. But around 3.9 million people worldwide aged 30-64 live with young-onset Alzheimer’s disease – a form of dementia in which symptoms appear before the age of 65.

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