Irritable Bowel Syndrome is common, but rarely discussed
(Matt Gilmour/ CTV News) — “I really, really have a big belly pain,” said Eve Tougas, an 11 year-old Montreal girl, describing her day-to-day struggle with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).
This month is IBS awareness month. The large intestine disorder is common, but rarely talked about, leaving many people to suffer alone. …
Lyme disease shot might soon be a reality
(Janet Krajcsik/ Pennsylvania News) — Those who have had experiences with Lyme disease must be ecstatic. Because according to a report by WBUR (Boston’s NPR news station), a springtime shot to prevent Lyme disease could become available in 2023.
The shot has been developed by MassBiologics, the nonprofit unit …
This is your brain on pandemic: What chronic stress is doing to us
(Stephanie Hogan/ CBC News) — Back in the 1980s, there was a public service announcement on TV that you may remember — or may have seen on YouTube.
A guy in a kitchen held up an egg and said, “This is your brain.” Then he cracked the egg into a hot frying pan, and said, “This is your brain on drugs.”
One …
Hypertension symptoms often mistaken for menopause in older women
(Lisa Rapaport/ Everyday Health) — New research shows that many middle-aged women may be living with undiagnosed hypertension because symptoms of the condition — including chest pain, exhaustion, headaches, heart palpitations, and sleep disturbances — are mistakenly attributed to menopause.
Missed hypertension cases …
HPV vaccine is protecting even young women who haven’t been vaccinated
(Linda Carroll/ NBC News) — There’s growing evidence that the HPV vaccine can protect even young women and girls who haven’t been immunized.
A new government study finds human papillomavirus infections have declined dramatically in both vaccinated and unvaccinated teen girls and young women.
Data …
TikTok is ‘like a trap,’ health experts say as eating disorders among teens rise
(Bethany Ao/ The Detroit News) — While scrolling through TikTok during the early months of the pandemic, Haley Collins often encountered videos showing people’s exercise routines or the foods they ate throughout the day. Collins, a 19-year-old sophomore at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., has struggled with …
Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart
(Cypress Hansen/ Knowable Magazine) — In 2011, Germany’s Frankfurt Airport — the country’s busiest — unveiled its fourth runway. The addition sparked major protests, with demonstrators returning to the airport every Monday for years. “It’s destroying my life,” one protester told Reuters a year later. “Every time I …
Five reasons why COVID herd immunity is probably impossible
(Christie Aschwaden/ Nature) — As COVID-19 vaccination rates pick up around the world, people have reasonably begun to ask: how much longer will this pandemic last? It’s an issue surrounded with uncertainties. But the once-popular idea that enough people will eventually gain immunity to SARS-CoV-2 to block most transmission …
Could chronic inflammation be the key to Alzheimer’s disease?
(Esther Landhuis/ Knowable Magazine) — For nearly 30 years, the hunt for a cure for Alzheimer’s disease has focused on a protein called beta-amyloid. Amyloid, the hypothesis goes, builds up inside the brain to bring about this memory-robbing disorder, which afflicts some 47 million people worldwide.
Billions of dollars …