Smoking Wreaks Genetic Havoc on Lungs, Study Warns
Smoking Wreaks Genetic Havoc on Lungs, Study Warns For every year of smoking a pack daily, there were 150 more mutations found in each lung cell WebMD News from HealthDay By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Nov. 4, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Smoking is linked to significant genetic damage in the lungs and other organs of the body, according to new research. "This study offers fresh insights into how tobacco smoke causes cancer," said co-lead author Ludmil Alexandrov, the Oppenheim..>> view originalMutant Ebola May Have Caused Explosive Outbreak
Omu Fahnbulleh stands over her husband after he staggered and fell, knocking him unconscious at an Ebola ward in Liberia in 2014. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption John Moore/Getty Images One mutation. A simple tweak in the Ebola gene — a C got turned into a T. That's all it took to make Ebola more infectious..>> view originalLawsuit claims former fertility doctor used his own sperm
Image copyright Courtesy Rebecca Dixon Image caption The Dixon family learned this year Daniel was not Rebecca's biological father. A former Ontario fertility doctor is facing allegations he used his own sperm to impregnate at least two patients. Daniel and Davina Dixon and their daughter Rebecca filed a civil lawsuit this week in an Ontario court against Dr Norman Barwin. They decided to take legal action after learning this year Rebecca was not Mr ..>> view originalCould polio drugs treat children with a mysterious paralyzing disease?
Researchers developing drugs against polio and other polio-like viruses say those drugs could potentially be effective against a mysterious, polio-like condition called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM).The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed 89 cases of the paralyzing disease in the United States through September. A 6-year-old boy suspected of having AFM died in Seattle on Sunday, the first death believed to be caused by the disease. One of the drugs in development, pocapavir..>> view originalThe Real Reason Why Daylight Saving Time Is a Thing
This weekend, when American clocks turn back an hour at Nov. 6 at 2:00 a.m. Eastern Time, the move will bring an end to the period of Daylight Saving Time that marked precisely a century since the first such policy went into effect. That Daylight Saving Time began in Germany on May 1, 1916, in the hopes that it would save energy during World War I, according to Michael Downing, author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time. But, though Germans were first to mess with th..>> view originalMedical Interns Could Work Longer Without A Break Under New Rule
Enlarge this image A proposed change in work rules would let first-year residents care for patients for up to 28 hours without getting a chance to sleep. Thomas Northcut/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Thomas Northcut/Getty Images A proposed change in work rules would let first-year residents care for patients for..>> view originalMore than 100 students at USC are sickened by norovirus
More than 100 cases of the norovirus have been reported on the University of Southern California campus. On Thursday the Los Angeles County Health Department confirmed that gastrointestinal virus had been making USC students sick within the last couple of weeks, according to Los Angeles CBS. The university announced that 103 cases have been reported since the virus started. Within the first week, there was at least 40 cases, an employee at the USC Engemann Student Health Center told the station...>> view originalSmoking more likely to kill HIV patients than the virus - WRCB
BY MAGGIE FOX, NBC News(NBC News) - Smoking is so deadly that it may be more likely to kill HIV patients than the virus, researchers reported Thursday.New cocktails of HIV drugs can keep patients healthy, even though they don't cure the infection. And they work so well that HIV patients who can get the drugs have almost the same life expectancy as uninfected Americans.The trouble is, 40 percent of HIV patients smoke — more than twice the rate of U.S. adults as a whole.Dr. Krishna Reddy of Massac..>> view originalChild obesity rises in summer: Time for a shift in approach?
As school cafeterias have started to replace white bread with whole wheat, serve only low-fat or nonfat milk, and set age-aligned calorie maximums, a new national study has found it’s not the school day that’s the problem. It’s summer.Younger elementary school students gained weight faster over summer vacation than during the school year, according to the study published Wednesday in the journal Obesity. In fact, the percentage of overweight or obese students did not increase during the school ..>> view originalSuicide Kills More Middle School Students Than Car Crashes
The suicide rate among U.S. middle school students doubled from 2007 to 2014, surpassing for the first time the incidence of youngsters aged 10 to 14 who died in car crashes, federal researchers found. The steady seven-year rise in middle school suicides, from an annual rate of 0.9 to 2.1 per 100,000, came as traffic deaths among the same age group declined to 1.9 per 100,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The motor vehicle mortality rate reported ..>> view original
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