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Milk, soy, eggs, wheat, peanuts, tree nuts, sesame, fish and shellfish the list goes on. There are more than 32 million people including children who have food allergies in the U.S. one bite of the wrong food could kill them. New therapies were approved just as COVID was hitting so researchers worry that not everyone is aware of them.
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According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention more than 19.2 million adults struggle with seasonal allergies. Its now the sixth leading cause of chronic illness in the U.S. If you struggle with seasonal allergies your symptoms are likely much more acute this year and scientists say the environmental changes due to climate change may be to blame.
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COVID-19 first hit the news more than three years ago. But since those first reports we have learned so much about the virus. The findings suggest that you dont have to come into contact with a person who has it but by simply touching contaminated surfaces you can come down with COVID. Thats why researchers are now developing new ways to kill COVID before it comes into contact with people.
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More than 53,000 people will have shoulder replacement surgery this year. The average age is 60 to 80. And just like knee and hip replacement surgeries this procedure can be a life changer. Now technology used in some of the latest mixed reality games is making this surgery even better than before.
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It's been called the hygiene hypothesis all the scrubbing and wiping we do to keep germs at bay may instead interrupt the body's natural defense systems. The research continues to look for a definitive link between the increase in allergies and the increase in anti bacterial cleaning. But experts believe the lack of exposure to germs may leave children at higher risk for developing asthma, allergies, and other allergic conditions.
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As the government prepares to declare the end of the public health emergency on May 11th concerns are growing about people who got COVID-19 but never got rid of the symptoms. Its called long-COVID which means symptoms last for more than a month. But for some people their health has been impacted for years now.
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You eat healthy and you exercise yet the numbers on your scale just nudge their way up. If you wonder why your health habits mirror that of a friends but shes skinny and you're not researchers at the University of Virginia say genes may play a big part and now they've identified specific genes that may be making some people fat and others that help people stay thin.
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It takes 10 years and one billion dollars for a company to bring a new antibiotic to market, but bacteria are constantly evolving and can become resistant to those new drugs within a few years. One solution may be bacterial killers that change. They are called phage and they are giving thousands of people a chance of living life without pain without drugs and without deadly bacteria.
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Its been called the largest epidemic in human history. Not COVID diabetes. More than 37 million Americans are living with it right now and more than 90 percent of those have Type 2 diabetes. Seven million people rely on a daily insulin shot to manage their condition. Now a breakthrough in the diabetes world may simplify the future of diabetes treatment.
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Heart failure is a common and costly condition affecting over six million U.S. adults thats about one in 250 people. When a patient reaches advanced heart failure medications no longer work. Thats why it's vital to catch the problem early. Now AI is giving doctors advanced notice helping them find the most critical patients.
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One million Americans are living with Parkinson's disease. Medications can help with the symptoms and for some patients deep brain stimulation or DBS works to control the tremors. Now doctors are using focused ultrasound to target the area of the brain causing the problems. The challenge doctors are facing is that they have only been able to perform the procedure on one side of the brain meaning the patient would only have improvement on one side...
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