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Health By Andrew Jacobs and Christina Jewett from NYT Health https://ift.tt/N0pMCUP via IFTTT Psychedelic and Hallucinogenic Drugs, Drug Abuse and Traffic, Veterans, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Mental Health and Disorders, Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, Therapy and Rehabilitation, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Clinical Trials, Ecstasy (Drug), Research, Depression (Mental), Placebos, Alternative and Complementary Medicine The agency’s staff analysis suggests that approval of the illegal drug known as Ecstasy for treatment of PTSD is far from certain, with advisers meeting next week to consider the proposed therapy.

Health By Apoorva Mandavilli from NYT Health https://ift.tt/1W6grY4 via IFTTT your-feed-science, Agriculture and Farming, Avian Influenza, Disease Rates, Livestock, Tamiflu (Drug), Dairy Products, Cattle, Vaccination and Immunization, Viruses, Medicine and Health The worker had respiratory symptoms, unlike the first two. But the risk to the public remains low, federal health officials said.

Health By Ellen Barry from NYT Health https://ift.tt/5Mb7ZHL via IFTTT Research, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Mental Health and Disorders, Anxiety and Stress, Quarantines, your-feed-healthcare, Colleges and Universities The prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder among college students rose to 7.5 percent in 2022, more than double the rate five years earlier, researchers found.

Health By Penelope Green from NYT Health https://ift.tt/awp176R via IFTTT Deaths (Obituaries), Psychology and Psychologists, Marriages, Dating and Relationships She believed the bond between adults was as sustaining as that between parent and child, and developed a therapy to strengthen and repair broken relationships.

Health By Apoorva Mandavilli and Brian Otieno from NYT Health https://ift.tt/pRkd6aS via IFTTT Hypodermic Needles and Syringes, Tests (Medical), Factories and Manufacturing, Vaccination and Immunization, Medical Devices, Deafness, your-feed-science, your-feed-health, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, internal-truncator In Kenya, Revital Healthcare is manufacturing medical products that Africa needs to take charge of routine health care and respond to outbreaks.

Health By Apoorva Mandavilli from NYT Health https://ift.tt/8UCMLbr via IFTTT your-feed-science, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), United States International Relations, Vaccination and Immunization, Treaties, Developing Countries, Disasters and Emergencies, Rumors and Misinformation, International Relations Negotiators plan to ask for more time. Among the sticking points are equitable access to vaccines and financing to set up surveillance systems.

Health By Roni Caryn Rabin from NYT Health https://ift.tt/A8CUinw via IFTTT your-feed-health, your-feed-healthcare, Colon and Colorectal Cancer, Disease Rates, Millennial Generation A new analysis of dozens of studies has identified the most common warning symptoms in adults under 50, whose rates of colon and rectal cancer are on the rise.

Health By Apoorva Mandavilli from NYT Health https://ift.tt/q8X6m5c via IFTTT your-feed-science, Avian Influenza, Research, Food Contamination and Poisoning, Cattle, Mice, Viruses, Milk The results bolster evidence that virus-laden raw milk may be unsafe for humans.

Health By Gina Kolata from NYT Health https://ift.tt/YP0ZqKW via IFTTT Colon and Colorectal Cancer, Tests (Medical), Blood, Colonoscopy, Feces The Guardant Health Shield test, one committee member said, “is better than nothing for patients who are getting nothing, but it is not better than a colonoscopy.”

Health By Reed Abelson from NYT Health https://ift.tt/KNLFzx6 via IFTTT Hospitals, Health Insurance and Managed Care, Cyberattacks and Hackers, Nursing and Nurses, Computer Security, Medicine and Health, Health Care Workers, Suits and Litigation (Civil) For two weeks at the 140-hospital system, doctors and nurses have had little access to digital records for patient histories, resorting to paper and faxes to treat people.

Health By Pam Belluck and Emily Cochrane from NYT Health https://ift.tt/DkQ37JK via IFTTT Abortion, Law and Legislation, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Abortion Drugs, Mifeprex (RU-486), Miscarriages, Women and Girls, Doctors, your-feed-science, your-feed-healthcare A bill that is expected to pass would impose prison time and thousands of dollars in fines on people possessing the pills without a prescription.

Health By Apoorva Mandavilli and Emily Anthes from NYT Health https://ift.tt/fM0OaWx via IFTTT your-feed-science, your-feed-health, your-feed-animals, Avian Influenza, Agriculture and Farming, Dairy Products, Livestock, Cattle, Viruses The new case, in a Michigan farmworker, did not suggest that bird flu was widespread in people, health officials said, adding that the risk to the general public remained low.

Health By Christina Jewett from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3yH7pSu via IFTTT Brain, Medical Devices, Sensors, Implants, Computers and the Internet, Disabilities, Paralysis, Clinical Trials, Research Elon Musk’s first human experiment with a computerized brain device developed significant flaws, but the subject, who is paralyzed, has few regrets.

Health By Sam Roberts from NYT Health https://ift.tt/w6KCzes via IFTTT German Measles (Rubella), Vaccination and Immunization, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Stillbirth, Birth Defects, Doctors, Tests (Medical), Deaths (Obituaries) He also identified the virus, which can cause infants to be born with severe physical and mental impairments as well as causing miscarriages and stillbirths.

Health By Ellen Barry from NYT Health https://ift.tt/Gvd9fo8 via IFTTT Psychiatry and Psychiatrists, Mental Health and Disorders, Hospitals, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, your-feed-healthcare, your-feed-science, Therapy and Rehabilitation, Psychology and Psychologists, Emergency Medical Treatment At the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting, a patient described a restraint that haunts him, more than eight years later.

Health By Stephanie Nolen and Thomas Cristofoletti from NYT Health https://ift.tt/M1YFZjs via IFTTT Deaths (Fatalities), Avian Influenza, Medicine and Health, Disease Rates, Agriculture and Farming, Poultry, Animals, Birds, Viruses, Doctors, Influenza, Developing Countries, internal-truncator, your-feed-science, your-feed-healthcare When a child in a small Cambodian town fell sick recently, his rapid decline set off a global disease surveillance system.

Health By Matt Richtel from NYT Health https://ift.tt/Mj6e5yo via IFTTT Marijuana, Teenagers and Adolescence, Drug Abuse and Traffic, Youth, Medicine and Health, your-feed-health, your-feed-science Contrary to expectation, a major study found that weed use among minors was lower in states where the drug was legal.

Health By Matt Richtel from NYT Health https://ift.tt/dv3RIzB via IFTTT Marijuana, Teenagers and Adolescence, Drug Abuse and Traffic, Youth, Medicine and Health, your-feed-health, your-feed-science Contrary to expectation, a major study found that weed use among minors was lower in states where the drug was legal.

Health By Emily Anthes and Linda Qiu from NYT Health https://ift.tt/sLAgBSi via IFTTT your-feed-science, your-feed-health, your-feed-animals, Animals, Livestock, Avian Influenza, Law and Legislation, Animal Abuse, Rights and Welfare, Food Contamination and Poisoning, Bacteria, Agriculture and Farming, Factory Farming, Pigs, Antibiotics, Meatpacking Plants and Slaughterhouses, Chickens, Swine Influenza, Cattle, Respiratory Diseases Tens of millions of farm animals cross state lines every year, traveling in cramped, stressful conditions that can facilitate the spread of disease.

Health By Gina Kolata from NYT Health https://ift.tt/DlS5M4L via IFTTT Life-Sustaining Support Systems, Withdrawal Of, Brain, Deaths (Fatalities), Disabilities, Hospitals, Doctors, Research A review of a limited number of cases of unresponsive patients with severe traumatic brain injuries raised questions about a custom of making a decision within 72 hours.

Health By Gina Kolata from NYT Health https://ift.tt/OR8NjIG via IFTTT Lung Cancer, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Clinical Trials The treatment is for patients with small cell lung cancer, which afflicts about 35,000 people in the U.S. a year.

Health By Apoorva Mandavilli from NYT Health https://ift.tt/6ePO5g7 via IFTTT Monkeypox, Vaccination and Immunization, Homosexuality and Bisexuality, Epidemics, LGBTQ Pride Month (US), your-feed-health, your-feed-science A deadlier version of the infectious disease is ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo, while the type that caused a 2022 outbreak among gay and bisexual men is regaining strength.

Health By Benjamin Mueller from NYT Health https://ift.tt/bDo4L0R via IFTTT United States International Relations, United States Politics and Government, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Grants (Corporate and Foundation), Coronavirus Origins Investigation The decision came after a scorching hearing in which lawmakers barraged EcoHealth Alliance’s president with claims of misrepresenting work with Chinese virologists.

Health By Apoorva Mandavilli from NYT Health https://ift.tt/hFnNkCO via IFTTT internal-reader-callout, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Content Type: Service, Syphilis Congenital syphilis has risen significantly in the United States. The Times would like to talk to women who experienced the condition when pregnant and learn how they dealt with it.

Health By Jan Hoffman from NYT Health https://ift.tt/URafLJw via IFTTT your-feed-science, Deaths (Fatalities), Drug Abuse and Traffic, Opioids and Opiates, Methamphetamines, Naloxone (Drug), Fentanyl, Two Thousand Twenty Three, Cocaine and Crack Cocaine, your-feed-healthcare Preliminary numbers show a nearly 4 percent decrease in deaths from opioids, largely fentanyl, but a rise in deaths from meth and cocaine.

Health By Matt Richtel from NYT Health https://ift.tt/OngqAhu via IFTTT Brain, Mental Health and Disorders, Alcohol Abuse, Addiction (Psychology), Eating Disorders, Emotions, Anxiety and Stress, Psychology and Psychologists, your-feed-science, your-feed-health The psychologist studies how to recognize emotions and cope with them. She learned the hard way.

Health By Azeen Ghorayshi from NYT Health https://ift.tt/dW6A4Kr via IFTTT Youth, Gender, Children and Childhood, Medicine and Health, Teenagers and Adolescence, Doctors, Transgender, Mental Health and Disorders, your-feed-healthcare Dr. Hilary Cass published a landmark report that led to restrictions on youth gender care in Britain. U.S. health groups said it did not change their support of the care.

Health By Virginia Hughes from NYT Health https://ift.tt/IdS8GXc via IFTTT Kidneys, Genetic Engineering, Genetics and Heredity, Deaths (Fatalities), Hospitals, Pigs, Transplants, your-feed-healthcare Richard Slayman received the historic procedure in March. The hospital said it had “no indication” his death was related to the transplant.

Health By Michael S. Rosenwald from NYT Health https://ift.tt/1Hgvs4W via IFTTT Deaths (Obituaries), Death and Dying, Medicine and Health, Ethics and Official Misconduct, Hospitals A bioethicist, she pioneered bedside methods for helping patients, their families and doctors deal with anguishing life-or-death decisions in a high-tech age.

Health By Richard Sandomir from NYT Health https://ift.tt/vfH6ewO via IFTTT Deaths (Obituaries), Psychiatry and Psychiatrists, Medical Schools, Hospitals A psychiatrist, he ran New York-Presbyterian after a landmark merger, improving its patient care and finances and raising money to expand its footprint across the region.

Health By Apoorva Mandavilli, Linda Qiu and Emily Anthes from NYT Health https://ift.tt/VugPICL via IFTTT your-feed-science, Agriculture and Farming, Labor and Jobs, Federal-State Relations (US), Factory Farming, Foreign Workers, Protective Clothing and Gear, Disease Rates, Avian Influenza, Workplace Hazards and Violations, Food Contamination and Poisoning, Immigration and Emigration, Rural Areas, Meatpacking Plants and Slaughterhouses, Cattle, Viruses Farmworkers have been exposed to milk infected with the bird flu virus. But there has virtually been no testing on farms, and health officials know little about who may be infected.

Health By Clay Risen from NYT Health https://ift.tt/oal57h0 via IFTTT Deaths (Obituaries), Gender, Intersex, Surgery and Surgeons, Children and Childhood, Babies and Infants He pushed back against doctors who recommended surgery on infants born with ambiguous genitalia, arguing for acceptance of diversity.

Health By Emily Anthes from NYT Health https://ift.tt/C7MPSom via IFTTT your-feed-science, your-feed-health, your-feed-animals, Biodiversity, Global Warming, Animals, Invasive Species, Disease Rates, Lyme Disease, Urban Areas, Malaria, Environment, Pollution Biodiversity loss, global warming, pollution and the spread of invasive species are making infectious diseases more dangerous to organisms around the world.

Health By Remy Tumin from NYT Health https://ift.tt/UFje3HS via IFTTT Breast Cancer, Deaths (Fatalities), Deaths (Obituaries) After being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer when she was 23, she became determined to educate other young people about early detection.

Health By Pam Belluck from NYT Health https://ift.tt/RbPBIuN via IFTTT your-feed-science, Alzheimer's Disease, Genetics and Heredity, Research, Disease Rates, Brain, Dementia, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Leqembi (Drug), your-feed-healthcare People with two copies of the gene variant APOE4 are almost certain to get Alzheimer’s, say researchers, who proposed a framework under which such patients could be diagnosed years before symptoms.

Health By Gina Kolata and Kenny Holston from NYT Health https://ift.tt/BdZbXzl via IFTTT Sickle Cell Anemia, Genetic Engineering, Therapy and Rehabilitation A 12-year-old boy in the Washington, D.C., area faces months of procedures to remedy his disease. “I want to be cured,” he said.

Health By Ellen Barry from NYT Health https://ift.tt/Vm2BCJ7 via IFTTT Mental Health and Disorders, Colleges and Universities, Education (K-12), Youth, Teenagers and Adolescence, Medicine and Health, Research, Therapy and Rehabilitation, Anxiety and Stress, Social Media, Psychology and Psychologists, Depression (Mental), Generation Z, Emotions Recent studies cast doubt on whether large-scale mental health interventions are making young people better. Some even suggest they can have a negative effect.

Health By Emily Baumgaertner from NYT Health https://ift.tt/KPYzGSy via IFTTT your-feed-health, your-feed-healthcare, Youth, Children and Childhood, Race and Ethnicity, Deaths (Fatalities), Research, Black People, Whites, Native Americans, Teenagers and Adolescence, Traffic Accidents and Safety, Suicides and Suicide Attempts New research finds that the death rate among Black youths soared by 37 percent, and among Native American youths by 22 percent, between 2014 and 2020, compared with less than 5 percent for white youths.

Health By Apoorva Mandavilli and Emily Anthes from NYT Health https://ift.tt/L1DluIX via IFTTT your-feed-science, Avian Influenza, Disease Rates, Research, Agriculture and Farming, Dairy Products, Livestock, Cattle, Viruses, Birds, Influenza A genetic analysis sheds light on when the outbreak began, how the virus spread and where it may be going.

Health By Apoorva Mandavilli from NYT Health https://ift.tt/chYTwFH via IFTTT your-feed-science, Vaccination and Immunization, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Ears and Hearing, Heart, Medicine and Health, Tinnitus, Disease Rates, Rumors and Misinformation, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Compensation for Damages (Law), Research, Blood Clots, Men and Boys, internal-truncator All vaccines have at least occasional side effects. But people who say they were injured by Covid vaccines believe their cases have been ignored.

Health By Richard Sandomir from NYT Health https://ift.tt/EnmdiTj via IFTTT Deaths (Obituaries), Multiple Personalities, Therapy and Rehabilitation Through psychotherapy, recounted in a memoir, he learned that he had 11 personalities, or fractured parts of his identity. One of them told of childhood abuse.

Health By Noah Weiland and Linda Qiu from NYT Health https://ift.tt/UoANgY7 via IFTTT Tests (Medical), Avian Influenza, Agriculture and Farming, Dairy Products, Food Contamination and Poisoning, Workplace Hazards and Violations, Livestock, Food, Cattle, Meat, Viruses, Migrant Labor (Agriculture), Disease Rates, Beef, Milk, Livestock Diseases, Cheese But the scope of the outbreak among cattle remains uncertain, and little human testing has been done.

Health By Reed Abelson and Noah Weiland from NYT Health https://ift.tt/4NDKBIY via IFTTT Health Insurance and Managed Care, United States Politics and Government, Medicine and Health, Hospitals, Cyberattacks and Hackers, Antitrust Laws and Competition Issues Several lawmakers questioned whether the company had become so large — with tentacles in every aspect of the nation’s medical care — that the effects of the hack were outsize.

Health By Roni Caryn Rabin from NYT Health https://ift.tt/br05wht via IFTTT your-feed-health, your-feed-healthcare, Preeclampsia, Aspirin, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Women and Girls, Black People, Doctors, Babies and Infants, Maternal Mortality Women at risk for extreme high blood pressure should take a daily baby aspirin. But their doctors don’t always tell them.