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Mayo Clinic Q and A: How to manage symptoms of liver disease

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My husband is 45 and has lived with irritable bowel syndrome for many years. He was recently diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis. Are these two conditions related? We were told a liver transplant was likely in the future. Do all people require a transplant? Are other treatments…

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Fresh COVID wave sweeps Asia, New Zealand warns of pressure on hospitals

A new wave of coronavirus infections is rapidly spreading through Asia, prompting warnings for residents from New Zealand to Japan to take precautions to slow the outbreak and help prevent healthcare systems from being overwhelmed.

Reuters

Suspected case of monkeypox reported in Kerala

Samples have been sent to the National Institute of Virology, says Health Minister

The Hindu

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Foot-and-mouth disease Bali flight ban talk concerns tourism operators

Tourism leaders say any talk of suspending travel with Bali or reintroducing restrictions could seriously threaten the industry, as it struggles to get back on its feet after the pandemic.

ABC News

Minister rules out ban on Indonesian flights amid foot-and-mouth outbreak

Australia's Agriculture Minister rules out a ban on flights from Indonesia as a way to prevent a devastating livestock disease from entering the country.

ABC News

As NYC runs out of monkeypox vaccine, Mayor Adams presses top Biden aides

Mayor Eric Adams raised alarm about New York City’s monkeypox vaccine “supply constraints” in a phone call with two of President Biden’s top public health officials late Tuesday as the city once again ran out of shots against the viral disease.

Tribune News Service

Sydney news: Unvaccinated people will soon be able to visit NSW aged care homes

MORNING BRIEFING: Unvaccinated people will be allowed to visit residents in aged care homes across NSW from next Monday.

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Liver disease may be linked to a higher risk of dementia, study suggests

People who also have heart disease, or who have had a stroke, might have an even higher risk of dementia, researchers said.

The Independent UK

PharmaTher Receives Notice Of Allowance For U.S. Patent Covering Ketamine For Parkinson's And Motor Disorders Treatment

Ketamine pharmaceuticals provider PharmaTher Holdings Ltd. (OTCQB: PHRRF) has been granted a Notice of Allowance by the U.S.

Benzinga

What monkeypox could mean for us

Monkeypox is capturing the headlines as the first cases reach our shores. Mark Thomas explains its origins and what is likely to happen with the disease here.

Newsroom.co.nz

France reenters medical marijuana industry after more than a half-century hiatus – a cannabis historian explains

Early in 2022, the French legislature greenlighted the cultivation of cannabis inside French territory to supply the nation’s ongoing pilot program in medical marijuana. The clinical trials were launched in March 2021 with cannabis supplied from abroad and have been overseen by the country’s food and drug office, the Agence…

The Conversation

Kim Kardashian's psoriasis battle as fans spot red leg mark in unfiltered bikini pics

Kim Kardashian has been spotted struggling with a flare-up of psoriasis. She's been open about her battle with the painful autoimmune disease throughout her career

Daily Mirror

Manuscripts and art support archaeological evidence that syphilis was in Europe long before explorers could have brought it home from the Americas

That the arrival of Europeans in the New World in 1492 led to a massive shift in the ecological landscape has been widely accepted for the past 50 years. Suddenly a trans-Atlantic exchange – maize for wheat, tomatoes for apples, tobacco for horses – meant that plants and animals were…

The Conversation

It's getting harder for scientists to collaborate across borders – that's bad when the world faces global problems like pandemics and climate change

The United Nations and many researchers have emphasized the critical role international collaborative science plays in solving global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss and pandemics. The rise of non-Western countries as science powers is helping to drive this type of global cooperative research. For example, Brazil, Russia, India, China…

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Gut bacteria nurture the immune system – for cancer patients, a diverse microbiome can protect against dangerous treatment complications

One promising treatment for patients with blood cancers is stem cell transplantation. Doctors completely eliminate the patient’s immune system by aiming chemotherapy, radiation or both at their bone marrow before replacing it with a donor’s immune system. Because the bone marrow produces blood and immune cells, completely substituting cancerous bone…

The Independent UK

With 30% jump in Covid cases in two weeks, WHO says pandemic ‘nowhere near over’

Covid pandemic remains a public health emergency of international concern, says WHO

The Guardian - UK

As Covid deaths in the UK pass the grim milestone of 200,000, what have we learned?

While new variants and vaccinations have reduced death rates, and we are living with Covid, misconceptions still linger, says global health expert Devi Sridhar

Asharq Al-Awsat

S. Korea Expands Booster Shots as COVID-19 Cases Creep Up

Health officials in South Korea are expanding booster shots to adults 50 and over as COVID-19 cases creep up again across the country. The 40,226 new cases reported Wednesday marked the country’s highest daily jump in more than two months, although hospitalizations and deaths remain stable, AFP said. Baek Gyeongran,…

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High-Fat Diets Could Deteriorate the Brain, New Study Finds

New research, published in the latest issue of the journal Metabolic Brain Disease, shows that fatty foods may not only be adding to your waistline but also playing havoc with your brain. The international study led by University of South Australia (UniSA) neuroscientists Professor Xin-Fu Zhou and Associate Professor Larisa…

ABC News

Northern Territory's banana freckle outbreak grows, affecting 17 properties

The fungal disease, which growers say represents a major threat to Australia's $500m banana industry, has now been found at 16 Top End properties plus a government research facility.

Reuters

Why world's first malaria shot won't reach millions of children who need it

After decades of work, the World Health Organization endorsed the first-ever malaria vaccine last year - a historic milestone that promised to drive back a disease that kills a child every minute.

Reuters

Shanghai sweats over small, but stubborn COVID outbreak already hampering economy

Anxiety levels rose along with temperatures in Shanghai on Wednesday, as medical workers sweated beneath their hazmat suits while administering compulsory mass testing for COVID-19 in a city that recently emerged from a painful two-month lockdown.

The Guardian - AU

If you want to be healthy in Australia today, be born to rich parents

No amount of social restrictions will fix healthcare until we address underlying inequality

Chicago Tribune

Monkeypox continues to spread. 105 Chicagoans infected as vaccines roll out, health officials say.

Since monkeypox was first detected in the city nearly a month ago, 105 Chicagoans have been diagnosed with the virus, health officials said.

The Guardian - UK

Dialysis machine inspired by juice dispenser wins UK engineering prize

Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert award-winner could transform lives of kidney disease patients, say experts

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