MEDICINE & HEALTH

Fentanyl-Related Deaths Are On the Rise in West Virginia, Up to 122%

MEDICINE & HEALTH 04.16.2019 14:16 PM

The drug is easy to export, and it is a thousand times stronger than morphine and heroin The National Institutes of Health, West Virginia University funded a recent study that has researchers Gordon Smith, Marie Abate, and Zheng Dai and they discovered an increase in fentanyl-related deaths in West Virginia, even as there is a decline in deaths related to prescription for opioids.

Comic-Style Information Helpful For Patients Scheduled to Undergo Cardiac Catheterization

04.16.2019 11:49 AM

Patients who received this comic-style felt well prepared for surgery, study says Physicians need to fully inform patients about what the procedure will entail before undergoing surgery.

Survey of Births Finds Millions of Missing Women

04.16.2019 10:21 AM

It has been common knowledge to people that whenever a man ejaculates, he produces somewhere between 40 million and 1.2 billion of sperms

Dark Chocolate Can Help Lower Blood Pressure, Studies Show

04.16.2019 10:04 AM

This sweet treat can unexpectedly help those with high blood pressure As everyone knows, high blood pressure can be the cause of numerous serious health complications, especially if it is untreated.

Measles Outbreak Causes the Shutdown of a School in New York

04.16.2019 10:01 AM

Jewish school gets shutdown after refusal to present health documents to the Department of Health. As the controversy in anti-vax issues continue, New York City Department of Health has issued an exclusion order last December that prevents unvaccinated students from attending school in some neighborhoods.

Losing Weight Doesn’t Mean You’re Losing Fat

04.15.2019 23:08 PM

Did you know that the faster you are losing weight, the more likely are you not losing all that fat?

Milan Fair Tests to See If Quality of Interior Design Affects Health

04.15.2019 23:06 PM

There are some things that might be seen as unimportant or insignificant could actually have a great impact on the people that inhabit the space.

2 Year Old Roman Dinkel Fights both Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida

04.15.2019 21:38 PM

Roman Dinkel, the little boy who is just 2 years old has become the star of the social media because the gritty little feller refuses to give in to the odds that are stacked against him.

The Rise of Implicit Weight Bias Due to Celebrity Fat-Shaming

04.15.2019 14:14 PM

Cultural messages augmenting women’s gut-level feeling that thin is good and fat is bad The public has routinely criticized female celebrities, particularly about their appearance.

90 Percent of Teens Are Victims of Intimate Partner Homicide, Study Says

04.15.2019 14:11 PM

90 percent of the perpetrators are male, and guns are the most common weapon they used JAMA Pediatrics' new study indicates that indeed the intimate partner homicide among teens happens and 90 percent of the victims are girls.

Printing the World’s First 3D Vascularised Engineered Heart Using Patient’s Cells and Biological Materials

04.15.2019 11:51 AM

The first time scientists successfully engineered and printed an entire heart replete with cells, blood vessels, ventricles, and chambers

Researchers Restored Silenced Cancer Genes to Fight a Broad Range of Cancers

04.15.2019 10:48 AM

Findings could lead to a new strategy to fight a broad range of cancers After a due study of human colon cancer cells and mice, John Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers and experts confirm that they have successfully blocked the activity of portions of a protein referred to as UHRF1 and restored the function of hundreds of cancer-fighting genes that became misregulated by the disease.

Diabetes in Children Connected to Maternal Gestational Diabetes, Study Says

04.15.2019 10:31 AM

Maternal gestational diabetes mellitus is a risk indicator of diabetes in children and youth In recent research, "Gestational diabetes associated with incident diabetes in childhood and youth: a retrospective cohort study" published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal), it was discovered by researchers that children and youth of mothers with gestational diabetes during pregnancy are at risk of diabetes themselves.

FDA Sugar Labeling Policy Potentially a Cost-Effective Way to Generate Important Health Gains

04.15.2019 10:30 AM

The mandatory added sugar policy for packaged foods and beverages is set to take effect between 2020 and 2021

Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Isn’t A Global Emergency Yet

04.14.2019 10:17 AM

The UN has released a report that says that the Ebola outbreak in Congo has yet to be considered as a global emergency.

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