Mouth ‘On Fire’: Help for the Often Misdiagnosed Condition TMD
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Mouth ‘On Fire’: Help for the Often Misdiagnosed Condition TMD

May 24, 2023 – Dental pain is the worst. It can come seemingly out of nowhere and interfere with eating, drinking, and everyday activities. But what happens when the pain is not necessarily in your teeth but, rather, around your face, jaw, and neck? Shane G., a 40-year-old finance manager based in Austin, TX, is painfully… […]

Hi-Tech Implant Helps Paralyzed Man Walk More Naturally
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Hi-Tech Implant Helps Paralyzed Man Walk More Naturally

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterWEDNESDAY, May 24, 2023 (HealthDay News) — A Dutch man with paralyzed legs can now stand and walk, thanks to a wireless brain-spine interface that responds to his thoughts by moving his legs.Gert-Jan Oskam, 40, suffered a spinal cord injury 11 years ago from a bike accident in China that left him… […]

Aging With HIV
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Aging With HIV

“No one asked me when I was in my 20s what I wanted to be or what kind of life I wanted to have when I was in my 60s, because I wasn’t expected to live,” says HIV advocate Vince Crisostomo.Crisostomo, who is now in his 60s, found out that he had HIV in 1989,… […]

Can a Saliva Test Predict the Best Way to Manage Obesity?
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Can a Saliva Test Predict the Best Way to Manage Obesity?

May 23, 2023 – It sounds like a simple solution to a complicated problem: Find out what kind of obesity you have based on a one-time genetic saliva test. Then you and your doctor can get a better idea if anti-obesity drugs or other treatments are more likely to work for you.  The goal of… […]

Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: How We’re Learning to Treat It More Effectively
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Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: How We’re Learning to Treat It More Effectively

About 20% of people with breast cancer have a type called triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). It usually has a worse outlook than other breast cancers. It also tends to affect non-Hispanic Black women and women under 40 more often. But it can be harder to treat because some common cancer treatments, like anti-hormone and anti-HER2, don’t work… […]

HIV: Getting Past the Fear
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HIV: Getting Past the Fear

An estimated 1.2 million people in the U.S. live with HIV. But research shows that many of them — about 13% — don’t know it. According to the CDC, nearly 40% of new HIV infections are transmitted by people who don’t know they have the virus.There are several reasons that may hold people back from… […]

Amid Therapy Waitlists, New AI Coach May Be Quicker Option
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Amid Therapy Waitlists, New AI Coach May Be Quicker Option

May 25, 2023 – The growth of artificial intelligence has drawn praise as well as anxiety and skepticism. But researchers from the University of Illinois Chicago and their colleagues have found that their AI app appears to be useful in treating anxiety and depression. And they hope it can soon help whittle down the lengthy… […]

Tick-Borne Powassan Virus Can Kill –
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Tick-Borne Powassan Virus Can Kill –

By Cara Murez HealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, May 25, 2023 (HealthDay News) – Robert Weymouth, 58, of Portland, Maine, died this year because of a tick bite. You’ve likely heard of Lyme disease and the problems it can cause when passed to a human through the bite of a deer tick. But Lyme isn’t the only tick-borne illness in… […]

Standard Tests May Underestimate Severity of Sleep Apnea in Black Patients
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Standard Tests May Underestimate Severity of Sleep Apnea in Black Patients

By Cara Murez HealthDay ReporterWEDNESDAY, May 24, 2023 (HealthDay News) — When it comes to diagnosing sleep apnea, current screening methods may put Black patients at a disadvantage, new research suggests.Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a serious sleep disorder characterized by disrupted breathing during sleep. An initial screening tool might be an overnight pulse oximeter test… […]

Less Invasive Procedure for ‘Leaky’ Heart Valves Proves Successful
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Less Invasive Procedure for ‘Leaky’ Heart Valves Proves Successful

By Alan Mozes HealthDay ReporterWEDNESDAY, May 24, 2023 (HealthDay News) — When one of the heart’s valves springs a big leak, that can spell big trouble.The good news: The condition, known as degenerative mitral regurgitation (DMR), is treatable using a minimally invasive intervention known as TEER (transcatheter edge-to-edge repair), a procedure that involves the insertion of… […]