The Harrison County Board of Education sent a letter to parents earlier this week warning of an outbreak of flu in schools that has affected up to 15 percent of students in the county. “This is the first year that I can recall that we’ve seen this many children out at one given time with the flu,” Harrison-Clarksburg Health Department Nurse Director Margaret Howe-White said Wednesday.
Day: February 22, 2017
BLOG: The First Official Night of ProCigar, Santiago
You probably didn’t know that the Camp David Ranch in Santiago, the Dominican Republic, has a basement. Unlike the Alamo, it does.
Up to 600 waterfowl die in western Idaho from avian cholera
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game in a news release on Tuesday says the birds were found dead on private land near Parma on Feb. 9. Officials say tests on two Canada geese, six mallards and a red-tailed hawk identified avian cholera as the cause of the deaths.
Hamburg chiropractor to celebrate 30
… his 30th anniversary, Dr. Karas has no plans for retirement or even semi-retirement. According to him, “health is wealth” and he looks forward to the future and expanding the practice to include an associate, an individual massage area …
CDC: Flu virus will continue to spread for several weeks
… received a vaccine yet, it’s not too late. Anyone who has not received a vaccine yet can visit a local pharmacist or health care provider. The CDC says getting immunized not only protects you from the flu but it can also prevent spreading the flu to …
Mother shares heartbreaking post about 10-year-old son’s cancer battle
A Texas mother’s heartbreaking Facebook post about her 10-year-old son’s fight with cancer has gone viral. In September 2012, Drake Medinger was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, according to the Stinky Joe’s #1 Pit Crew Facebook page.
People & Events
… Fairmont Area Multiple Myeloma Support Group will meet 10 a.m. to noon Saturday in the main classroom at Mayo Clinic Health System-Fairmont. Park on hospital side of building, enter at main entrance. Meeting room is on the ground floor. Watch for …
Support for Obamacare repeal has dipped since Donald Trump took office: Poll
… Action Network said it is spending $2.2 million on ads featuring a California mom who lost her doctor and preferred health plan under Obamacare. It builds on a previously announced, $5.2-million ad buy to promote the GOP’s repeal and replace …
The Further Adventures of Paul Ryan, Serious Policy Wonk
Paul Ryan has a very, very serious proposal to eventually have a proposal to take away health insurance from millions of people to pay for upper-class tax cuts. He is defending it with all the seriousity his proposal deserves: The rhetoric: In her inaugural weekly address, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi claimed that repealing Obamacare-a law that, in her words, has experienced ” immense progress “-will result in widespread death and suffering.
Is alchohol really good for a diabetic?
… alchohol is good for one’s well-being. My problem is that I am diabetic but do like a tripple or two. Am I doing my health any harm? By the way, keep up the good work! Well here is the good news for all you drinkers out there; you’re protecting …
Baby on way for ‘Little People’ stars Jeremy, Audrey Roloff
The pair tells Us Weekly that Audrey Roloff discovered she was pregnant after returning home from a gender reveal party for Jeremy’s twin brother, Zach Roloff, and his wife, Tori, who are expecting a baby boy in May. She says she “was so surprised” after seeing a positive result on a pregnancy test. The 25-year-old says it could be the start of a large family.
Women will be okay without Planned Parenthood
… ocedures. Women without severe financial limitations should accept the responsibility of paying out of pocket or thru health insurance.
McNeil Liberals have created an unnecessary crisis for Nova Scotia labour relations: CUPE
… ho provide public services vital to every community in the province. Members work in sectors including school boards, health care, long term care, municipalities, highways, home care, universities and social services.
Ancient Chinese fortune-telling offers modern day benefits
Co-translator and co-annotator Joanna C. Lee explained that the editions are adapted for the modern reader, so the entries start on Jan 1, rather than the actual first day of the Year of the Rooster , and extend beyond Dec 31 to Feb 16, 2018, the day the Year of the Dog begins. Which is lucky, because, as Lee points out, the new volume includes the “hilarious” prognostication for this year’s US presidential inauguration day.
TRAGIC: Louise Done with her son Harry who died moments after this picture was taken
… vaccines for all forms of meningitis, it is crucial that parents and carers take responsibility for their children’s health and make sure they know the signs and symptoms of meningitis. “It is also important that they trust their instincts if they …
Beale Street Music Festival features eclectic lineup
Kings of Leon, Snoop Dogg, Soundgarden and Sturgill Simpson are among the musical acts scheduled to perform at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis in May. Festival officials announced Wednesday that Widespread Panic, Death Cab for Cutie, Wiz Khalifa, Booker T. Jones, Bush, Ludacris and Jill Scott also are in the lineup for the 41st installment of the annual three-day festival. Several performers will be making their first appearance, including Tori Kelly, Jimmy Eat World, Silversun Pickups, The Revivalists and Midnight Oil.
Judge Rules That Texas Can’t Defund Planned Parenthood
In December of 2016, Texas’s inspector general announced that the state’s Medicaid funds would no longer go toward Planned Parenthood, citing a series of secretly-recorded videos that alleged the health care provider was illegally selling fetal tissue for profit. Though the videos were revealed to have been heavily edited and the House Oversight Committee’s 2015 investigation into Planned Parenthood found no evidence of wrongdoing, anti-choice activists and legislators alike have pointed to them as a reason why the organization should be defunded.
Preeclampsia raises risk of heart disease, heart failure
… disease later in life. A new study suggests physicians should inform pregnant women with preeclampsia of the heart health risks associated with the condition. Preeclampsia and eclampsia may cause birth complications, as they affect the blood supply …
Alimera Sciences and Knight Therapeutics Announce Filing of New Drug…
Alimera Sciences, Inc. , a leader in research, development and commercialization of prescription ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, and Knight Therapeutics Inc. , a leading Canadian specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced that Knight’s New Drug Submission for ILUVIEN has been accepted for review by Health Canada. ILUVIEN 0.19 mg is Alimera’s sustained release intravitreal implant approved in the U.S. to treat diabetic macular edema in patients who have been previously treated with a course of corticosteroids and did not have a clinically significant rise in intraocular pressure.
‘Rory the Robot’ campaign reaches milestone achievement
SUCCESS: Paul Markall, of the Rory the Robot committee, and appeal chairman Ian Jukes stand with the machine. Picture supplied by Caroline Leah MIPR.
Nebraska Legislature, Day 32
The Legislature advanced a bill to second reading that would remove a requirement that a patient get a referral from a doctor to receive services from a licensed acupuncturist.
Angiosome Targeted PTA is More Important in Endovascular…
Angiosome Targeted PTA is More Important in Endovascular Revascularisation than in Surgical Revascularisation: Analysis of 545 Patients with Ischaemic Tissue Lesions. European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery : the official journal of the European Society for Vascular Surgery This study aimed to evaluate the impact of angiosome targeted revascularisation according to revascularisation method in patients with diabetes.
Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms, smoking, and risk of sporadic Parkinson’s disease in Japan.
Epidemiological evidence on the relationships between the vitamin D receptor single nucleotide polymorphisms rs731236 , rs7975232 , rs1544410 , and rs2228570 and Parkinson’s disease is inconsistent. We investigated these relationships in 229 sporadic PD patients within six years of onset in Japan.
Rab7A regulates Tau secretion.
The axonal microtubule-associated protein TAU, involved in Alzheimer’s disease , can be found in the extracellular space where it could be taken up by neurons, an event that is believed to contribute to the propagation of tau pathology in the brain. Since the small GTPase Rab7A is involved in the trafficking of endosomes, autophagosomes and lysosomes, and RAB7A gene expression and protein levels are upregulated in AD patients, we tested the hypothesis that Rab7A was involved in Tau secretion.
Association of IGF1 gene polymorphism with Parkinson’s disease in a Han Chinese population.
Accumulating evidence suggests that insulin-like growth factor 1 plays an important role in Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis. However, it is not clear if IGF1 polymorphism contributes to PD risk.
Clarington family shares struggles with Lyme disease acquired in Durham
Aiden Putrich, 13, and Christina Putrich share a laugh in their Newcastle home. In 2014, Aiden was bitten by a tick while visiting Second Marsh, two years later and after a series of debilitating illnesses, he was diagnosed with lyme disease.
BWW Review: This RENT is Spent, and Passion is Not Enough to Pay the Piper at the Artscape Arena
If RENT were bout about the life experiences of a young, African-American, lesbian lawyer, the current revival of Jonathan Larson’s 1997 rock opera at the Artscape Arena might be worth its hefty ticket price of R295 and the production might be as relevant as it claims to be. As it is, Namisa Mdlalose’s truly wonderful performance as Joanne is but a supporting story to a central narrative about the anguish of two straight white men, one of whom cries white tears magical enough to bring back from the dead his Latinx girlfriend – even if this undermines the show’s ‘no day but today’ credo in the process.
Honey Cleansing Scrub Recipe
… others any way she can. One way she choosesto help is by offering information on the benefits and uses of natural health and healing methods for the well-being of both people and pets. Dee also teaches Aromatherapy, Reflexology and Color/Crystal …
CED Life Science presenter profile: BetaBlue
Editor’s note: WRAL TechWire and the Council for Entrepreneurial development are partnering to present a series of profiles and Q&As featuring companies startups and emerging companies participating in the CED’s annual Life Science conference coming up Feb. 28-March 1 in Raleigh. The latest profile is BetaBlue, which is based in Graham, N.C. and targets schizophrenia.
Trump Moving To Delay Rule That Protects Workers From Bad Financial Advice
The exterior of the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 10. A lobbying battle is being waged over a rule requiring financial advisers to act in their clients’ best interest in retirement planning. Over the past two weeks, the Trump administration has taken steps to delay and perhaps scuttle a new rule designed to save American workers billions of dollars they currently pay in excessive fees in their retirement accounts.
Is This The Hard Part?
… always check with your physician before starting any weight loss and exercise program. For more from BayCare and the Health and Wellness Program, just click here. And please feel free to share your experiences (and recipes) with me at ann.kelly.com. …
New hepatitis C infections among HIV-positive gay men drop by half…
New hepatitis C infections among HIV-positive gay men drop by half after direct-acting antiviral roll-out in Netherlands A little more than a year after the Netherlands instituted a policy allowing unrestricted access to direct-acting antivirals for the treatment of hepatitis C, researchers have already seen a dramatic decline in acute hepatitis C virus infections among one at-risk population, HIV-positive men who have sex with men. These findings were reported on Thursday at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle, in a session that also included presentations on rising incidence of HCV infection among HIV-positive gay men in San Diego and predictions about eradication of HIV/HCV co-infection in France.
A benign circle: how a combination of factors has reduced HIV…
A benign circle: how a combination of factors has reduced HIV infections in one of the hardest-hit parts of Africa HIV incidence has started to tumble in one of the best-studied groups of people in Africa, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections heard in Seattle today. The annual infection rate has fallen 40% in the last four years, the conference was told.
New HIV infections fall in the US, but demographic and geographic disparities persist
Public domain image by the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention www.cdc.gov The number of annual new HIV infections in the US fell by 18% overall since 2008, offering evidence that prevention and treatment efforts are having an impact, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Tuesday to coincide with presentations at the 2017 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle. A closer look at the data, however, shows some notable differences across demographic groups and geographic regions.
Monoclonal antibodies show promise for HIV-positive people with limited treatment options
Our award-winning series of booklets, with each title providing a comprehensive overview of one aspect of living with HIV. A range of interactive tools to support people living with HIV to get involved in decisions about their treatment and care.
No evidence of risk compensation after circumcision in three African cohorts
… risk of infection. Katrina Ortblad and colleagues examined longitudinal demographic surveillance data from the Africa Health Research Institute’s cohort in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Almost 15,000 men contributed data from 2003 to 2014, including …
STI rates in PrEP users very high, but evidence that PrEP increases them is inconclusive
Our award-winning series of booklets, with each title providing a comprehensive overview of one aspect of living with HIV. A range of interactive tools to support people living with HIV to get involved in decisions about their treatment and care.
Collaborative Care Helps Adults with Depressive Symptoms
… Nearly three-quarters of all outpatient visits for depression are to primary care clinicians rather than to mental health specialists. Although depression is the second leading cause of disability worldwide, only one in seven older people meet …
The American commute is worse today than ita s ever been
… and a decrease in carpooling, particularly since the 1980s. There’s a massive body of social science and public health research on the negative effects of commuting on personal and societal well-being. Longer commutes are linked with increased rates …
Evansville man receives teddy bear with recording of daughter’s heartbeat
For one Evansville man, it means one day soon he’ll get to meet the woman who has the heart of the daughter he lost. Eugene Stogsdill saw a story we ran on 14 News at 4 on Wednesday about a heart transplant recipient in Louisville who sent a Teddy Bear to the family of her donor.