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  • Deadly germs, Lost cures: A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of SecrecyThis is…

    Deadly germs, Lost cures: A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of SecrecyThis is…

    Deadly germs, Lost cures: A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy

    This is a scary story..

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    “The man at Mount Sinai died after 90 days in the hospital, but C. auris did not. Tests showed it was everywhere in his room, so invasive that the hospital needed special cleaning equipment and had to rip out some of the ceiling and floor tiles to eradicate it.

    “Everything was positive — the walls, the bed, the doors, the curtains, the phones, the sink, the whiteboard, the poles, the pump,” said Dr. Scott Lorin, the hospital’s president. “The mattress, the bed rails, the canister holes, the window shades, the ceiling, everything in the room was positive.”

    C. auris is so tenacious, in part, because it is impervious to major antifungal medications, making it a new example of one of the world’s most intractable health threats: the rise of drug-resistant infections.

    For decades, public health experts have warned that the overuse of antibiotics was reducing the effectiveness of drugs that have lengthened life spans by curing bacterial infections once commonly fatal. But lately, there has been an explosion of resistant fungi as well, adding a new and frightening dimension to a phenomenon that is undermining a pillar of modern medicine.”

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  • Good news! Since 1990s, heart attacks have become less deadly, frequent for Americans

    Good news! Since 1990s, heart attacks have become less deadly, frequent for Americans

    Good news! Since 1990s, heart attacks have become less deadly, frequent for Americans:

    Heart attack prevention and outcomes have dramatically improved for American adults in the past two decades, according to a Yale study in JAMA Network Open. 

    Compared to the mid-1990s, Americans today are less likely to have heart attacks and also less likely to die from them, said the researchers.

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  • ISRAELI SCIENTISTS SAY THEY THINK THEY FOUND A CURE FOR CANCER!

    ISRAELI SCIENTISTS SAY THEY THINK THEY FOUND A CURE FOR CANCER!

    “We believe we will offer in a year’s time a complete cure for cancer,” said Dan Aridor, of a new treatment being developed by his company, Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies Ltd. (AEBi), which was founded in 2000 in the ITEK incubator in the Weizmann Science Park. AEBi developed the SoAP platform, which provides functional leads to very difficult targets.

    MORE..https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/A-cure-for-cancer-Israeli-scientists-say-they-think-they-found-one-578939

    “Our cancer cure will be effective from day one, will last a duration of a few weeks and will have no or minimal side-effects at a much lower cost than most other treatments on the market,” Aridor said. “Our solution will be both generic and personal.”
    It sounds fantastical, especially considering that an estimated 18.1 million new cancer cases are diagnosed worldwide each year, according to reports by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Further, every sixth death in the world is due to cancer, making it the second leading cause of death (second only to cardiovascular disease).

  • Superbug involved in Tijuana bariatric surgery infections showed concerning mutation

    Superbug involved in Tijuana bariatric surgery infections showed concerning mutation

    THE CDC warns:

    The superbug that infected nearly a dozen Americans who recently underwent weight-loss surgery at a Tijuana hospital had a particularly nasty genetic mutation that set off alarm bells after patients began showing up in hospitals and doctors officers with painful wounds.

    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel warning this week, notifying the public that 11 Americans who traveled to Tijuana hospitals for weight-loss surgery had become infected with drug-resistant pseudomonus aeruginosa infections during their stays.

    DEVELOPING..

  • Rise in melatonin for sleep aid

    Rise in melatonin for sleep aid

    This from the UK GUARDIAN:

    Tens of thousands of children and young people are being given the hormone melatonin to help them sleep, prompting concern that the medicine is being handed out too readily with little evidence of its long-term effectiveness or safety.

    Melatonin, which is produced naturally by the body in dark environments to help sleep preparations, has been authorised for use by people aged over 55. It has been hailed as a less addictive alternative to insomnia drug treatments.

    Despite the fact it is not licensed for use by any other age group, 117,085 people under 18 were given melatonin “off label” – the term used for when a drug is given for an unapproved indication or in an unapproved age group – to aid sleep in the 2017-18 financial year. In the first four months of the current financial year, 69,280 prescriptions were given to under-18s.

    The WEBMD verdict is this: Melatonin is POSSIBLY SAFE when taken by mouth appropriately, long-term.Melatonin has been used safely for up to 2 years in some people. However, it can cause some side effects including headache, short-term feelings of depression, daytime sleepiness, dizziness, stomach cramps, and irritability..

    But why the overwhelming need? What is the issue within America and the developed world that is leading to such awful sleep problems? 

    A recent report running in the CHICAGO SUN TIMES  reports on one expert who concludes:

    Before trying sleep aids, return to basics like establishing a regular sleep schedule, Tsai said. She sympathizes with parents, and in the last five years has seen an influx of teens in her own sleep clinic fighting some serious emotional battles.

    “There’s more electronic usage and I feel like our teens have higher rates of anxiety and/or depression and that plays a role in our sleep,” she said.

    Afraid of the effects of melatonin and effectiveness in general? Maybe CBD gummies are the way to go instead.

    One article tells of a “sleepyhead” who was put to sleep by the them..

    The first night I took the gummies, I was convinced they worked. I felt less stressed on the Sunday night before work and within thirty to forty minutes after getting into bed I was asleep. However, my success was short-lived. I don’t know if I abused the gummies by taking them in the day time (when I was also stressed) or built a nightly tolerance, but after a week or so, I was awake again. The 10mg of cbd oil that the Sunday Scaries contained was not doing it for me anymore.

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  • Georgia toddler paralyzed overnight as AFM fears grow nationwide

    Georgia toddler paralyzed overnight as AFM fears grow nationwide

    A Georgia mother said her toddler went to bed sick and woke up paralyzed from the neck down.

    It’s the latest in a series of mysterious illnesses that are baffling doctors. Two young patients were recently treated at Scottish Rite after they fell ill and then woke up partially paralyzed.

    Doctors are still working to figure out what causes acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, but they tell Channel 2 Action News in Georgia that the rare condition is similar to polio, in that it can cause muscle weakness or partial paralysis.

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  • The Green Mile is a long road

    The Green Mile is a long road

    A woman purported to be the oldest living person ever at 128 says she hasn’t lived a single happy day in her life and her longevity is “a punishment”.
    The Russian government claims Koku Istambulova is the world’s oldest person.

    But she has bluntly said her longevity “was God’s will” and she “did nothing to make it happen”. While some people chalk it up to a healthy or active lifestyle, “tired” Koku said: “I have no idea how I lived until now.”

    Koko is set to turn 129 in two weeks… and she added: “I have not had a single happy day in my life.”

    Now that is something surely to look forward to. The Golden Years…. raining down on you.

  • THE FLU BOMB: KIDS GET BANNED FROM DETROIT HOSPITAL!

    THE FLU BOMB: KIDS GET BANNED FROM DETROIT HOSPITAL!

    The worst flu since the early 2000s strikes

    he entire continental United States is experiencing widespread flu right now, the first time in the 13 years of the current tracking system that that has happened, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    Officials said that this flu season is shaping up to be one of the worst in recent years.
    The rate of flu hospitalizations — the number of people hospitalized with flu per 100,000 — nearly doubled last week compared with the previous week. Last week it was 22.7 per 100,000 people; the week before that rate was 13.7.
    All of that prompted metro Detroit’s Beaumont hospital chain to take an unusual step Friday afternoon: banning visits from children under 13 until the flu season subsides.
    “We apologize for the inconvenience,” said a news release from Beaumont Health System, which operates eight major hospitals in southeast Michigan.
    “All Beaumont Health hospitals are experiencing high volumes of patients with respiratory viral illnesses, predominantly influenza,” the release said.
    “For the safety of our patients and staff, visitation by children under 13 years of age is limited to extraordinary circumstances, such as severe illness of a parent or sibling, or end-of-life situation.”
    Even if children are not obviously sick, they shouldn’t visit a hospital because they could be carriers of the influenza virus, said Dr. Christopher Carpenter, section head of infectious diseases at Royal Oak-Beaumont Hospital.
  • Not for the faint of heart or the low in fiber

    Not for the faint of heart or the low in fiber

    Surgeons removed 30 inches of a man’s large intestine after diagnosing him with a rare condition involving a building-up of constipation throughout his life.

    The unnamed male patient, 22, is believed to have been born with the congenital condition known as Hirschsprung’s disease – also known as “HD”.

    It means his stool cannot pass because of a lack of nerves in some muscles inside his colon.

    As a result, the man’s abdomen began to bulge at a very young age – to the point where people thought he appeared heavily pregnant.

  • Cell phone (non)safety draft now released to the public!

    Cell phone (non)safety draft now released to the public!

    CELL PHONE DANGERS REVEALED! But .. not revealed. It was held secret and in draft form until recently..

    As the SAN FRAN CBS affiliate reports,

    After keeping it hidden for years, California’s Department of Public Health has released a draft document outlining health officials’ concerns about cellphone radiation exposure.

    The previously unpublished document was released this week after a judge indicated she would order the documents be disclosed in the case Moskowitz v. CDPH.

    Joel Moskowitz, Ph.D., who is the director of the Center for Family and Community Health at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, sued the state in 2016 under the California Public Records Act to get the document released.

    The document is dated April 2014, but Moskowitz says the document was originally prepared seven years ago and updated several times, but never released to the public.