Health & Fitness

A large new study found that people who recovered from Covid-19 within the past year are 40% more likely to receive a new diagnosis of diabetes compared to those who weren’t infected.  The increased risk translates into 1% of people who have had Covid-19 developing diabetes who otherwise wouldn’t have, the study’s author says, resulting in potentially millions of new cases world-wide. 

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the ER. A UK woman’s hand was left looking like a cartoon shark head after doctors sewed the appendage inside her stomach to fight a vicious infection. A video chronicling her “Jaws”-dropping mitt currently boasts over 75 million views on TikTok. “I wasn’t aware my hand was going to look like a shark’s head ’til it had actually been released from my abdomen,” Sadie Kemp, 34, said of her bizarre affliction, the Mirror reported. In the video, which she did “not expect to go viral,” the 34-year-old Petersborough native can be seen making her Megalodon-esque mitt “hum” the “Jaws” theme before dunking it in a bowl of water. A UK woman’s hand was left looking like a cartoon shark head after doctors sewed the appen...

Shortness of breath, heart palpitations, chest pain, fatigue and brain fog — those are just some of the ongoing complaints of a growing number of people, many of whom had only mild cases of acute Covid-19. "Long Covid," also known as post-acute sequelae of Covid-19, is associated with a whole host of problems involving multiple body systems, much like other chronic diseases that often go unrecognized and undiagnosed. Today, doctors and scientists are seeing epic spikes in immune dysregulation following Covid-19. Estimates of the frequency of long-term symptoms and conditions after Covid-19 infection range from 5% to 80%, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The World Health Organization's estimates range from 10% to 20%. Whatever the final numbers, medical ...

Want a healthier heart? Eat 100g of cranberries every day, scientists say Research led by King's College London tracked 45 men over a month  They found 100g of the fruit improved the amount arteries were able to expand  Fruit can improve heart health, 'even in people with low cardiovascular risk' By Joe Davies Health Reporter For Mailonline Published: 08:20 EDT, 22 March 2022 | Updated: 10:41 EDT, 22 March 2022 <!-- <!-- <!-- <!-- <!-- (function (src, d, tag){ var s = d.createElement(tag), prev = d.getElementsByTagName(tag)[0]; s.src = src; prev.parentNode.insertBefore(s, prev); }("https://www.dailymail.co.uk/static/gunther/1.17.0/async_bundle- -.js", document, "script")); <!-- DM.loadCSS("https://w...

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Psychiatry's most influential diagnostic manual has a new disorder in its latest edition: prolonged grief. Why it matters: The diagnoses could open up new ways of treating mental distress associated with grief and have that care paid for by insurers, the New York Times reports. The addition of prolonged grief disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) comes at a time when many in the U.S. are grappling with loss related to the pandemic. What they're saying: The inclusion of the disorder "will mean that mental health clinicians and patients and families alike share an understanding of what normal grief looks like and what might indicate a long-term problem," said APA CEO Saul Levin in a statement last fall about the move to add prolonged grief to the DSM. B...

BOSTON—At a sewage treatment plant on a sliver of land in Boston Harbor, trickles of wastewater are pumped into a plastic jug every 15 minutes. Samples from the jugs, analyzed at a lab in nearby Cambridge, Mass., are part of the growing effort to monitor the Covid-19 virus in wastewater across the U.S. On Deer Island in Boston, readings from the system covering 2.4 million people have recently shown virus readings leveling off after a steep decline from this winter’s Omicron-driven rise. In some areas, levels of the virus may be edging higher.

image: Scott Lippman, MD, is director of the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center and co-senior author of a new <em>Nature Communications Medicine</em> paper about a study showing that high-conductance di-electrophoresis detected 95 percent of early pancreatic cancers. view more  Credit: UC San Diego Health Sciences A novel screening platform has flagged more than 95 percent of stage 1 cancers, according to a pilot study published in Nature Communications...

They did however note that the characteristics of a tinnitus diagnosis, including whether it is intermittent, continuous, pulsatile or non-pulsatile, could offer key indications as to which underlying pathologies are at play. The scientists also noted that two of the reported cases of vaccine-associated tinnitus had a medical history of otological conditions. This finding, noted the team, suggests genetic predisposition could play a significant role in determining who’s at risk. They went on to hypothesise that a possible cause for tinnitus could be reactivity between anti-spike SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and otological antigens. As antibodies interact with the antigens along the auditory pathway, they could trigger an inflammatory reaction, explained the authors.

While there have been anecdotal accounts of people developing a ringing in their ears, or the ringing becoming more severe, after taking the Covid-19 vaccine, experts say there is no overwhelming evidence of it being a side-effect of the jab and more research is needed. The ringing, buzzing or hissing noise in one or both ears is a condition called tinnitus. The sound can be either constant or intermittent, and may vary in intensity. It can be a mild annoyance or debilitating. Studies in the Frontiers in Public Health medical journal and International Journal of Audiology found tinnitus may be a symptom of Covid-19 infection and in some cases can make the condition worse. Global health bodies have also noted some reports of tinnitus developing or becoming more severe after getting the...