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Flu-related health issues cause families pain in the United States. Many people mourn their loved ones every year, with flue claiming almost 50,000 lives every 12 months. The effect of flu is shown to cut across board, that is, between adults and children. The lack of information is what affects many people, sometimes even ignoring a flu attack and only going to hospital when it is too late.

All You Should Know About False Positive Test Results

This article intends to help you understand basic well-researched facts about how women deal with false positives in breast cancer testing. First, it has been found that after a false positive, women often forget about visiting the doctor for the subsequent tests. They take almost five years before going back to the hospital. At this time, they may have developed cancer and it could be in its late stages, making it hard for them to survive. However, when breast cancer is detected early when it is still in the first stages, then it means that its spread can be arrested and put under control before it spreads much further. Wrong results could bring any required treatment into disarray and could eventually turn fatal.

Yet Despite The Progress Against Zika

About one year ago, the CDC issued a travel advisory cautioning people about going to the Caribbean and Brazil on account of the Zika virus. Many businesses in the Zika affected areas suffered business losses. Brazil and the Caribbean have booming tourism business that adds a great deal to the GDP. When the travel advisories were issued, the Zika free tourist attractions like Hawaii experienced booming business.

Diet and Physical Activity

It is important to be careful with the kind of exercise and carbohydrates amounts associated with type 1-diabetes. This will not only help in keeping the risk factors away, but it will help you stay on course to managing your Type 1 Diabetes if that is what you are looking for.

Type 1 diabetes patients and healthcare providers should watch what they do to control the disorder. Healthcare providers should recommend the right amount of food and exercise to patients.

Weight Loss Surgery Reignites

Weight loss surgery can now help obese people suffering from diabetes. Evidence shows that surgery benefits such people more than when they take medication only. Further, the research showed that five years after undergoing this surgery, the quality of life for these people had improved a great deal. In fact, some of them did not need to take insulin. In comparison to the people who took medication alone, this was a great improvement.

Families Together With Their Premie Babies

Having a bay is a lot of fun for the mother, her friends and the entire family. However, when a baby is born prematurely, then that could pose a nightmare, especially when the local hospital does not have a neonatal intensive care unit. For example, consider when a mom has a premie baby in Kerrville area, with the long distance between the area and Gillespie County, Austin or San Antonio where you find the neonatal intensive care units. The journey can be quite harrowing.

Belly Fat

Extra weight in older women is not in itself deadly, but the position where the fat is could be dangerous. A study carried out shows that women who are between 70 and 79 years old and are overweight did not reduce their years if the extra pounds were not piled up around the waist. However, at the same time, researchers have established that being underweight also contributes to a shorter lifespan.

Belly fat is more dangerous than being overweight

According to the lead researcher who is also the University of Arizona’s department of epidemiology and biostatics Zhao Chen, the fat that piles on the abdomen is deadlier than being overweight. At the same time, it was found that large waist size in the Hispanic women reported less mortality while they had bigger waists. Dr Chen says that older women should be worried when their weight is below what is required for their height.

Health related data from different providers is critical to the provision of high quality healthcare. At least, that is what patients think. In a survey that was carried out by Humana Subsidiary Transcend Insights, it was determined that 97% of patients would like healthcare organizations to have access to all of their patient records.

In the recently published studies, researchers noted a variation in the type of brain damage such as empty spaces and dead spots in the brain, congenital deafness and cataracts.

How are the children affected?

However, differences were recorded in all the three studies on the potential ways the infected children could be affected.

The observational study cannot be singularly based on to say that heavy drinking is responsible for stunted brain development. Less brain matter may as well be due to genetic factors, and it is such an abnormality that raises their possibility of abusing alcohol.

The lead author, Noora Heikkinen of the University of Eastern Finland, said that “Substance use has been found to be connected to social exclusion, mental health problems and lower educational attainment.”