RARE PHOTOS: 13 - The Real Truth

Surgeons Opened Her Aorta to Replace a Valve and Found the Inner Lining Had Turned Blue

During valve surgery on a woman with Churg-Strauss syndrome, the ascending aorta's inner lining was blue, a finding not previously reported.

Medical Daily · Sep 18

Independent Team Begins Reviewing Children's Meningococcal and Pneumococcal Vaccine Evidence as a Court Stay Freezes the Federal Schedule

An independent team will review meningococcal and pneumococcal vaccine evidence for children. Why the federal schedule change is currently on hold.

Medical Daily · Sep 18

Pennsylvania Officially Counts Four Measles Deaths While the Federal Tally Stays at Zero Under a Changed Method

Pennsylvania's health department confirmed two more measles deaths as cases hit 731. The CDC's national count remains zero after a data source change.

Medical Daily · Sep 18

Modak, Prasad and Festival Sweets Are Sending Indian Dogs to the Vet, Here Is Why

The biology that makes festival food dangerous for dogsDogs metabolise theobromine, the stimulant compound in cocoa, at roughly one-fifth the rate a human does. A 10-kilogram dog that eats 50 grams of dark chocolate barfi has consumed enough theobromine to trigger vomiting, muscle tremors, and cardiac arrhythmia. This is not…

Times Life · Sep 18

Wireless Brain Implant Let a Michigan Woman with Motor Neuron Disease Choose Her Own Words in Real Time

Paradromics says its wireless brain implant let a woman with motor neuron disease speak her own words in real time. Here is what is known.

Medical Daily · Sep 18

Roughly 1 in 4 Fatty Liver Cirrhosis Cases Began Before 50, Tied to Genetics and Type 2 Diabetes

A UC San Diego-led study found that about 25% of fatty liver cirrhosis cases began before age 50, with genetics and type 2 diabetes as key factors.

Medical Daily · Sep 18

Wildfire Smoke Linked to Higher Heart and Lung Hospitalization Risks Than Equal Levels of Other Pollution

Two Mount Sinai studies tie wildfire smoke to greater heart and lung hospitalization risks and poorer lung cancer survival than other air pollution.

Medical Daily · Sep 18

5 Ways Reusing Cooking Oil Changes Its Chemistry and Raises Toxin Risk in Indian Kitchens

1. The smoke point drops with every use, and that's when acrolein formsFresh mustard oil has a smoke point around 250°C. Refined sunflower oil sits close to 230°C. Reuse either of them twice and that threshold falls, sometimes by 30 to 40 degrees, because the free fatty acids released during…

Times Life · Sep 18

Seed Oil Panic: What Indian Cooking Oils Like Mustard, Coconut and Sesame Actually Do to Your Health

What the seed oil panic is actually arguingThe claim, stripped of its more dramatic versions, goes like this: industrially processed vegetable oils, sunflower, soybean, canola, corn, are high in omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids, particularly linoleic acid. When omega-6 intake dwarfs omega-3 intake, the body's inflammatory pathways tip out of balance.…

Times Life · Sep 18

Dry January Cleared a Woman's Stubborn Leg Rash, Pointing Doctors to a Rare Alcohol-Linked Vasculitis

Recurring purple spots that flare after drinking may signal a rare alcohol-linked vasculitis. For one woman, Dry January made them vanish.

Medical Daily · Sep 18