Health

A New Study, From Sweden, Of More Than 7,236 Children That Died Before They Turned A-Year-Old Is Indicating A 45% Increased Risk Of Death During Early Life For Babies Born Via In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Than Those Born Naturally. The Study Linked The Increased But Relatively Very Small Risk Of Death To High Premature Birth Via IVF.

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A 2012 To 2013 Survey Of The Sexual History Of 2,537 Men And 3,185 Women, Coupled With Their Health Rating, Indicate That Having 10 Or More Sexual Partners Throughout One’s Life May Raise The Risk Of Cancer For Women By 91%, And For Men By 69%. The Reason For This Is Still Unclear, But Some Are Attributing It To The Higher Risk Of Sexually…

More Advances On Cancer Treatment. More Than A Thousand Scientists, In 37 Countries, After More Than A Decade, Have Now Completed 99% Of “The 100,000-Piece Of Jigsaw Puzzles” That Is Cancer. This Feat Would Enable Cancer Treatment To Be Tailored To Each Patients’ Unique Tumour Or Help In Developing Ways For Catching Cancer Earlier. Nice!

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Researchers, In What Is Known As Antigenic Imprinting, Have Stated That The First Type Of Early Childhood Influenza Virus That One Is Exposed To Dictates One’s Ability To Fight The Flu For The Rest Of One’s Live. This Could Help Access Risk, At Any Given Year, Based On One’s Age And The Dominant Virus At Birth.

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Researchers Have Discovered A T-Cell With A New Type Of T-Cell Receptor (TCR) That Recognizes A Molecule, MR1, Which Appears On Surfaces Of Both Healthy And Many Cancer Cells. But The TCR Equipped T-Cells, However, Kill Only Cancer Cells Of Any Type With MR1. Researchers Are Hopeful The Treatment Will Be Ready In A Few Years.

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For The Second Time In The USA, A Woman, Jennifer Gobrecht From Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, With A Transplanted Womb From a Deceased Donor Was Able To Give Birth, Via Cesarean Section, To A Healthy Child. The Womb Was Then Removed After The Child Birth. Wow! It Seems That Uterus Transplant Actually Works In Solving Infertility In Women.

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Another Method To Trigger The Immune System To Fight Against Cancer Tumors. This Involves Activating The Immune System Response At Cancer Tumor Sites By Injecting Tumors With Flu Vaccine. The Process Was Said To Slow Tumor Growth In A Test Mice Lungs, But Not In The Muscles. More Studies Are Required To Effectively Use This Process.

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Even Though 19 States Have Already Raised The Minimum Age To Buy Tobacco Products To 21, It’s A Most Welcome Development That The US Federal Government Has Now Officially Raised The Minimum Age To Buy Tobacco Products, Which Includes Cigarettes, Cigars, And e-Cigarettes From 18 To 21, To Alleviate The Health Impact Of Teen Smoking.

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The First Generic Powerful Blood Thinner, Eliquis (Apixaban), Has Been Approved By The U.S. FDA On 12/23/19. Eliquis Helps Reduce Risk Of Stroke In Patients With Irregular Heartbeat Or AFib And Also Prevents Blood Clots In Veins Deep In The Body And In lungs. This Generic Will Improve Access To Lower-Cost, Safe And High-Quality Drug.

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Previous Studies Have Associated Air Pollution With Dementia And Reduction In Intelligence. And Now, A New Recent Study Is Linking Air Pollution, With Particles Smaller Than 2.5 Micrometres, To Depression And Suicide. And That Cutting The Air Pollution To EU Legal Limit Could Prevent About 15% Of Depression.

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Researchers, Via Studying 100,000 American Female Nurses Since 1976, Are Indicating A Relationship Between Heart Disease–Related Death Rate And A Woman’s Birth Month Or Birth Season. The Study Seems To Correlate The Highest Heart Disease Mortality Rate To Women Born In April ( Spring And Summer), And The Lowest To Those Born In December (Fall).…

Researchers, Inspired By How Lotus leaves Repel Water, Have Innovated A Self Cleaning Plastic Surface That Repels All Forms Of Bacteria, Preventing Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs And Other Dangerous Bacteria In, E.g., Hospitals And Kitchen Settings. The Surface Could Also Be Used In Food Wraps Or Shrink-Wrapped Onto, E.G, Door Handles.

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Doctors Used A New Method, Ultrasound, Administered Via Rod Shaped Device Inserted Into The Urethra, To Treat Prostate Cancer With 80% Success Rate And 65% Of Men Showing No Prostate Cancer Sign After A Year. This Is A Most Welcome Development Because Surgery And Radiation Treatments Can Leave Men Incontinent Or Impotent.

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Doctors At Duke University Have For The First Time In The US Transplanted A Reanimated Adult Heart. The Heart Is Perfused With Cold Solution And Removed. The Circulatory Dead Heart Is Placed In TransMedics Organ Care System Where It’s Revived. The Procedure Has Been Performed In The UK And Australia, And In Pediatric Donation In The US.

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Aside From The Fact That Brushing One’s Teeth Could Help Prevent Gum Disease, A New 10.5-Year Study Of 160,000 Individuals In Korea, Above The Age Of 40, Is Indicating That Improved Oral Hygiene Can Reduce The Risk Of Atrial Fibrillation And Heart Failure. Heart Disease Is Said To Be The Leading Cause Of Death Worldwide.

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There Is A Type Of Natural Sugar Called Tagatose, Approved By The FDA As A Food Additive. Researchers Claim It’s Safe For Diabetics, Will Not Cause Cavity, Has No Link To Cancer, And Has 38% Calories Of Conventional Sugar. Unfortunately, It’s Hard To Produce Commercially Until Now By Using Lactobacillus Plantarum—A Food-Safe Bacterium.…

Doctors, In The US, Have For The First Time Placed Humans In Suspended Animation (SA), Where Most Vital Body Functions Are Stopped Without Causing Death. The Process Is Done By Cooling A Person To Around 10-15 °C Via Replacing Their Blood With Ice-Cold Saline. SA Is Done To Fix Traumatic Injuries That Would Have Caused Death.

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Researchers May Have Discovered A Way To Stop The Rabies Virus From Shutting Down Key Parts Of The Immune System Responses. The Discovery, According To The Scientists, Could Allow For The creation Of A New, Safe And Effective Live Vaccine. Rabies Kills Almost 60,000 People Each Year, Mostly Affecting Poor And Rural Communities.

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Hospital Infections Are The 8 Leading Cause Of Death In the USA With Beds As The Main Spreading Culprit. Hence The Importance Of The Study Finds That Beds With Copper Surfaces, Due To Copper Antimicrobial Properties, Harbor An Average Of 94% Fewer Bacteria Than Regular Beds With Plastic Surfaces That Could Hold Unsafe Levels Of Bacteria.

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The First New Strain Of HIV, In 19 Years, Called “HIV-1 Group M, subtype L,” Has Been Discovered. Now, Before You Start Freaking Out, This Is Just Another Additional Subtype Of HIV. This Means That It Poses No New Threat As The Current Testing And Preventive Treatments Will Diagnose And Treat The New Strain.