16Mar 2023 by Janice Holland
Could Eating Too Much Fish Raise Your Risk of Developing Melanoma?

Could Eating Too Much Fish Raise Your Risk of Developing Melanoma?

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Eating higher amounts of fish, including tuna and non-fried fish, may be connected to a higher risk of developing malignant melanoma, according to a new study. The research, published on June 9 in Cancer Causes & Control, followed nearly a half-million people over an average of 15 years and found that higher total fish intake was associated with a higher incidence of the deadly skin cancer.“This study is important because it’s very large and it’s prospective by design, meaning that fish intake was assessed before the development of cancer,” said author Eunyoung Cho, ScD, associate professor of dermatology and epidemiology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, in a release.Melanoma is the fifth most common cancer in the United States, and the risk of developing it over a lifetime is…
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16Mar 2023 by Janice Holland
The Cost of New Drugs May Keep Many Patients From Accessing Essential Medications

The Cost of New Drugs May Keep Many Patients From Accessing Essential Medications

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Nearly half of all drugs launched in the last two years initially cost above $150,000 a year, according to a paper from researchers at Harvard Medical School. The study, published in JAMA, is well-timed: Congress is renewing discussions about drug price controls.“Prices for newly marketed brand-name drugs are increasing markedly each year — these high prices can prevent patients from accessing or being able to afford essential medications,” says a coauthor of the study, Benjamin Rome, MD, an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.The high cost of medications impacts the majority of Americans. According to a 2022 Kaiser Family Foundation poll, about 60 percent of adults take at least one prescription drug, and 25 percent currently take 4 or more…
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13 Metodologías de Desarrollo de Software: Guía Completa

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En resumen, la programación es el proceso de crear software y sistemas informáticos mediante el uso de lenguajes de programación y herramientas de desarrollo. Es una habilidad esencial en la era digital y puede ser utilizada para resolver problemas y automatizar tareas. En relación con esto, los ITS juegan un papel muy importante, puesto que han sido creados para identificar las debilidades y necesidades de aprendizaje individuales y así establecer una metodología de enseñanza apropiada según cada caso. Analizando la literatura sobre los diferentes tipos de ITS existentes en diversas disciplinas, se observa que para su desarrollo los autores utilizan técnicas de IA implementando redes neuronales y teorías de la educación, como lo son la psicología cognitiva. El desarrollador de software SAFe parece que es lo mismo, pero es completamente…
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16Mar 2023 by Janice Holland
Cigarette Smoking Doubles the Risk of Developing Both Types of Heart Failure

Cigarette Smoking Doubles the Risk of Developing Both Types of Heart Failure

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People who smoked tobacco cigarettes developed heart failure at 2 times the rate of people who never smoked, according to a study published in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The research is one of the first to assess smoking in both types of heart failure — reduced ejection fraction and preserved ejection fraction — and found that smoking is significant risk factor for both.“These findings underline the importance of preventing smoking in the first place, especially among children and young adults.” said study senior author Kunihiro Matsushita, MD, PhD, associate professor in the department of epidemiology at Bloomberg School in Baltimore, in a release. “We hope our results will encourage current smokers to quit sooner rather than later, since the harm of smoking can last…
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16Mar 2023 by Janice Holland
Sleep Problems Are Tied to a Risk of Life-Threatening COPD Flare-Ups

Sleep Problems Are Tied to a Risk of Life-Threatening COPD Flare-Ups

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Poor sleep is associated with an increased risk of potentially life-threatening disease flare-ups in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), according to a new study.People with COPD have lung conditions that block airflow and make it harder to breathe. There are two main types of COPD — emphysema and chronic bronchitis — and many people experience both, per the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).Researchers did sleep assessments for 1,647 patients with COPD and then followed them over three years to see how often they had flare-ups that required treatment.Compared with people who slept well, those with mild sleep problems were 25 percent more likely to have COPD flare-ups, according to the study's results, reported June 6 in the journal Sleep. Patients with the most severely insufficient or…
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16Mar 2023 by Janice Holland
Type 2 Diabetes Drug Tirzepatide (Mounjaro) Aids Weight Loss in People With Obesity

Type 2 Diabetes Drug Tirzepatide (Mounjaro) Aids Weight Loss in People With Obesity

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A once-weekly injectable recently approved to treat type 2 diabetes may hold major potential as a weight loss medication for people with obesity, too, a study suggests.Overweight or obese participants without type 2 diabetes who took the drug, called tirzepatide (sold as the diabetes drug Mounjaro), lost an average of nearly 21 percent of their body weight at the highest dose studied. Scientists presented their findings at the American Diabetes Association (ADA)’s annual meeting in New Orleans and published the study in The New England Journal of Medicine.“Definitely, the weight loss in this study is far more what we had ever seen with other FDA-approved medications in term of the absolute amount of weight lost or percentage of weight lost,” says Osama Hamdy, MD, PhD, an associate professor at Harvard…
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15Mar 2023 by Janice Holland
Pulse Oximetry Readings Are Less Accurate for Black, Hispanic, and Asian People With COVID-19

Pulse Oximetry Readings Are Less Accurate for Black, Hispanic, and Asian People With COVID-19

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Pulse oximeter devices, a common tool used to guide medical decision-making in COVID-19 patients, overestimated the blood oxygen levels in nonwhite patients with COVID-19 and made them appear healthier than they actually were, according to a new study published May 31 in JAMA Internal Medicine.These findings add to the growing body of evidence about pulse oximetry inaccuracies in people of color, says the study's co-lead author Ashraf Fawzy, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. “Our research is the first to show that the overestimation of oxygen saturation among Black and Hispanic patients led to a delayed recognition of the need for COVID-19 therapy compared with white patients,” says Dr. Fawzy.That’s because oxygen saturation levels are often used to determine…
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15Mar 2023 by Janice Holland
The Mental Health Toll of Mass Shootings

The Mental Health Toll of Mass Shootings

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Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, joined a club no one wants to be in: the ever-growing list of schools, places of worship, and communities torn apart by a mass shooting.On May 24, an 18-year-old gunman entered the elementary school and murdered 19 children and two teachers in a fourth-grade classroom before being shot and killed by authorities responding to the shooting, AP News reports. The shooting in the heavily Latino town happened on the heels of another mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. Only 10 days earlier, an 18-year-old gunman targeting Black people killed 10 people in a Tops Friendly Market.Those who weren’t directly affected by these shootings don’t escape unscathed, either.Many have even changed how they live their lives because they fear being a victim of a shooting.…
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15Mar 2023 by Janice Holland
Frequent Use of Antibiotics Tied to Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Older Adults

Frequent Use of Antibiotics Tied to Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Older Adults

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Older people who frequently take antibiotics are at greater risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to research presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2022. The study has not been peer-reviewed or published.Previous research, published in 2020, found a link between antibiotic use and the onset of IBD in young adults. Research led by Adam Faye, MD, an assistant professor of medicine and population health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City, looked at whether the same link could be found in older adults. Using the Danish National Prescription Register, researchers identified 2.3 million people ages 60 and older from 2000 to 2018 and assessed the number of antibiotics prescribed, the timing of antibiotics, and the impact of specific antibiotic classes on the development of IBD…
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