Health & Fitness

Summary: Suppressing or blocking out physical sensations related to emotions such as sadness can hinder recovery from depression symptoms and may cause a relapse into depression. Source: University of Toronto The physical sensations that accompany sadness can feel as undesirable as they are intense—a constriction of the chest, watery eyes and a raw throat, to name a few. But Norman Farb, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, and Zindel Segal, a distinguished professor of psychology in mood disorders at U of T Scarborough, have discovered that keeping sensation alive in the face of stress is critical for well-being, particularly for those who have recovered from depression. In the largest neuroimaging study to date of psychotherapy for preventing re...

A Waldo County resident has died after being infected by a rare virus spread by infected ticks, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed.Officials say the adult-aged person developed neurological symptoms and died while in the hospital. They believe the person became infected with the Powassan virus while in Maine.Powassan virus is a rare illness spread by an infected woodchuck tick or deer tick bite.Officials consider the virus rare, with only about 25 cases reported each year since 2015. In Maine, there have been 14 cases reported since 2010. “Ticks are active and looking for a host to bite right now,” director of the Maine CDC Nirav D. Shah said. “I urge Maine people and visitors to take steps that prevent tick bites.”Symptoms of the virus usually start one w...

CNN  —  Although a federal judge struck down the Biden administration’s mask mandate for public transportation Monday, some experts say you don’t want to throw out your mask just yet. No matter the form of public transportation – planes, trains, trams, subways, buses or even rideshares – good ventilation can help reduce the spread of Covid-19, but masks work best. “You can’t engineer your way out of a problem like this,” said Krystal Pollitt, an assistant professor of epidemiology and assistant professor in chemical and environmental engineering at the Yale Institute for Global Health. Someone infected with Covid-19 releases aerosols that contain the coronavirus when the...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Have you ever eaten steak at dinnertime and then developed hives at midnight? As tick season kicks into gear, it’s a good idea to know about a potentially life-threatening food allergy called alpha-gal syndrome that may occur after certain tick bites – especially the lone star tick, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "An allergy to ‘alpha-gal’ refers to having a severe and potentially life-threatening allergy to a carbohydrate molecule called galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose that is found in most mammalian or ‘red meat,’" according to the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology. The lone star tick, named for its characteristic white star shape on its back that some suggest is shaped like Texas and ...

More than half of people living with HIV who acquire SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, have asymptomatic illness, according to study results presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2022). This suggests that people with well-controlled HIV have COVID-19 outcomes similar to those of HIV-negative people. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, small studies and anecdotal reports suggested people living with HIV were not more likely to test positive for SARS-CoV-2 or to develop severe COVID-19 (though the hypothesis that antiretrovirals such as tenofovir might have a protective effect was never confirmed). Later studies, however, suggested that HIV-positive people, especially those with advanced HIV, are at ...

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Mississippi is chlamydia and gonorrhea capital of the U.S. — while Nevada has the most syphilis cases per capita, official figures reveal. Cases of common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) hit record highs across America during the first year of the pandemic, despite normal testing being interrupted by Covid. The outbreak was biggest in the Magnolia state thanks to a stigma around getting tested for the diseases and admitting to an infection, an epidemiologist in its department of health told DailyMail.com. They added that poor healthcare coverage — leading many to put off getting tested — and rising rates of drug abuse were also fueling infection levels.  In Nevada, STD prevention workers have blamed that state's growing hook-up culture leading to more anonymous sex via dating apps fo...

A resident of Waldo County has died from Powassan, an uncommon tick-borne virus, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. It is at least the third Powassan death recorded in Maine, according to the state CDC. The virus is rare, but the number of reported cases has increased nationally in recent years. Of 14 cases confirmed in Maine since 2010, three were reported last year and one this year, according to the Maine CDC. Powassan cases are most frequent in the Northeast and the Great Lakes region from late spring to mid-fall – ticks’ most active season. The symptoms of Powassan can greatly vary in severity – from no symptoms at all, to fevers, infection of the brain, or death. Many people infected with the virus don’t show symptoms, according to the U.S. C...

With more cases of bird flu detected in wild and domestic birds across Michigan, the Department of Natural Resources suggests Michiganders take down their bird feeders and birdbaths out of an abundance of caution.  Birds flock to Michigan in April and May as they migrate through the Great Lakes region after wintering in Central and South America. Migrating species, such as the colorful yellow-rumped warbler or the soaring broad-winged hawk, may seek out food sources in backyard bird feeders, causing some Michigan birders to worry about spreading the avian influenza, also known as the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI),  HPAI was first detected in the state in a backyard, nonpoultry flock of birds in Kalamazoo County in late February. Birds at the Detroit Zoo were moved indoors in ...

Naeblys/Getty Images Do you know your blood type?  Unless you've donated blood, were given a transfusion or found out during pregnancy, maybe you've never thought twice about it. But coursing through your veins every second of every day are tiny variations that categorize your blood into one of the...