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The First Child in the U.S. Has Been Diagnosed With Bird Flu

Health officials on Friday confirmed bird flu in a California child—the first reported case in a U.S. minor.

The child had mild symptoms, was treated with antiviral medication and is recovering, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in announcing the test results. No details about the child have been released, except that they live in Alameda County, which includes Oakland, and attend day care.

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The infection brings the reported number of U.S. bird flu cases this year to 55, including 29 in California, the CDC said. Most were farmworkers who tested positive with mild symptoms.

One exception was an adult in Missouri who did not work at a farm and had no known contact with an infected animal. It remains a mystery how that person was infected—health officials have said there was no evidence of it spreading between people.

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A British Columbia teen also was recently hospitalized with bird flu, ..

Should You Tape Your Mouth Shut When You Sleep?

People have been talking up mouth-taping lately on TikTok and Instagram as a home remedy for snoring, insomnia, dry mouth, and other sleep-related issues—and the trend seems to be sticking. “Mouth-taping is very popular right now,” says Dr. Abhay Sharma, an assistant professor and ear-nose-throat doctor at the University of South Florida who monitors such trends, knowing his patients will bring them up.

For the uninitiated, mouth-taping is exactly what it sounds like: the mouth is taped shut, forcing the nose to take in air instead. Mouth-taping had long been the empty threat of spouses irked by their partner’s snoring, but now the TikTok tapers seal their own mouths voluntarily, looking for better sleep and more likes.

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Anecdotes in support of mouth-taping aren’t as wacky as they may seem. Scientists find benefits to breathing mostly through the nose, rather than the mouth, even as more than 50% of Americans breathe regularly through their mouths. I..

Can Hearing About Someone Else’s Problems Fix Your Own?

Would you spend $40 on a meal? A workout class? A new T-shirt? To chat with a stranger about their life experience for half an hour?

The last is the business model behind Fello, a new app that pays people to tell their life stories to others going through the same stuff. Just like Uber and Airbnb let people make cash from their cars and homes, Fello lets you monetize your hard-won wisdom.

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The idea is to provide “a new type of support that you don’t get from going to a generic support group, perusing Reddit or Facebook groups, or meeting with a therapist,” says CEO Alyssa Pollack, a former executive at Uber Eats. The person on the other side of your screen isn’t a mental-health professional, but can speak to “the specific ‘lived experience’ that you’re going through.”

Though the app is new, the idea is not. Fello and other platforms like it are selling something that humans have long gotten for free: peer support. “It’s something that people natura..

AI detects woman’s breast cancer after routine screening missed it: ‘Deeply grateful’

A U.K. woman is thanking artificial intelligence for saving her life.
Sheila Tooth of Littlehampton, West Sussex, had her breast cancer successfully detected by AI after routine testing came back «normal,» according to a report by SWNS.
Tooth, 68, was told she was clear of breast cancer after her last mammogram was reviewed by two radiologists.
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Her mammogram was then analyzed by an AI system, Mammography Intelligent Assessment, as part of a system being tested by University Hospitals Sussex.
The technology picked up cancer cells in Tooth’s screening that were undetectable by the human eye, according to SWNS.
Tooth had been previously diagnosed with non-invasive early breast cancer 15 years ago, so she reported feeling «very frightened» about being diagnosed again.
«But I knew that whatever they could see on my scan must have been incredibly small if it wasn’t picked up the first time,» she told SWNS.
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Teen’s sudden death from peanut allergy leads to dramatic family decision

A family in Wisconsin is mourning the loss of their teenage daughter after she died from an allergic reaction — but they have found some comfort in the lives her donated organs have saved.
Hannah Glass, 19, was a freshman at Maranatha Baptist University and had lived with a severe peanut allergy since she was a toddler.
After taking a bite of a brownie that she did not know was made with peanut flour, she experienced an allergic reaction that ultimately led to irreversible brain damage and death.
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The teen’s parents, David and Janean Glass, spoke to Fox News Digital on camera to discuss their tragic loss and to share a cautionary message for other families. (See the video at the top of this article.)
The family first learned of their daughter's allergy when she was 3 years old, when the child took a bite of a peanut butter cookie and immediately threw up and broke out in a rash.
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Clonazepam, popular anxiety-reducing drug, recalled nationwide for ‘possibly life-threatening’ error

The anxiety-reducing drug, Clonazepam, has been recalled after a potentially «life-threatening» label mix-up, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said.
According to a release from the federal agency, Endo Inc. announced a voluntary recall of 16 lots of Clonazepam Orally Disintegrating Tablets.
The pharmaceutical company said the immediate recall came after it was discovered that 16 lots of the anxiety drug were mislabeled with the incorrect strength and National Drug Code (NDC) on them. The company said the labeling error was made by a third-party packager.
As a result, children and adults prescribed Clonazepam could face «life-threatening» side effects, the FDA warned.
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The mislabeling of the drug could result in «significant sedation, confusion, dizziness, diminished reflexes, ataxia, and hypotonia,» the FDA said.
«There is reasonable probability for significant, possibly life-threatening, resp..

What to Do if You Have Sleep Apnea

As a young physician in Sydney, Australia in 1979, Colin Sullivan conceived of an experiment to help people with nighttime breathing issues. After several months of waiting for the right patient, he met a construction worker so tired from disrupted overnight sleep that he habitually dozed off on the scaffolding.

The man had sleep apnea—his airway was obstructed, which interrupted breathing at night, waking him repeatedly. But he refused Sullivan’s recommendation for surgery to create an opening in the neck, the only known treatment back then.

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The day had come for Sullivan to try a contraption he’d invented, a “big swimming pool pipe attached to a blower,” as he describes it. Through a mask, the device delivered air into the man’s nose, creating a slight increase in pressure that kept his airway open. He slept peacefully for the first time in years.

“It was an amazing result,” Sullivan says. At the time, though, he “never imagined” there’d be such ..

Hunters suffer fatal heart attacks while dragging heavy deer, state department reports

At least three deer hunters in Michigan have died from heart attacks this hunting season, according to local reports.
The three men, who were located in Arenac and Tuscola counties, were ages 57, 65 and 83, the report stated.
Two of the men were said to be hauling away heavy deer when they experienced cardiac arrest.
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Michigan’s firearm deer hunting season began on Nov. 15 and runs through Nov. 30, according to the state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
Deer hunting is known to be a potentially dangerous activity for people with heart conditions, according to Dr. Bradley Serwer, a cardiologist and chief medical officer at VitalSolution, a Cincinnati-based company that offers cardiovascular and anesthesiology services to hospitals nationwide.
«The act of deer hunting typically involves hiking to a tree stand or blind, waiting in the cold for hours and then dealing with a sudden surge of adrenaline when a dee..

‘I’m a pharmacist, and I wouldn’t take these 3 vitamin supplements’

There is a variety of guidance about which vitamins and supplements people should take for better health — especially on social media.
Amina Khan, a pharmacist in the U.K. and founder of The Pharmacist Beauty, addressed her nearly 300,000 followers on TikTok about the three supplements she’d never take.
«I think you’re going to be surprised at most of these,» she said in the video, which has nearly one million views.
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Read on to find out the three she pinpointed.
While gummy vitamins can taste delicious, Khan considers them «basically just a sugar pill,» she said.
«You might as well go have a sweet,» she said. «They are packed with sugar and filler ingredients, and I know so many of you [are] bingeing these.»
Khan warned that gummy supplements can be «very easily over-consumed» and can lead to mineral toxicity.
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Dementia risk could be linked to walking speed, study suggests

A slower walking pace could be a sign of cognitive decline or dementia, a new study suggests.
Researchers assessed more than 16,800 healthy people over the age of 65 in the U.S. and Australia during a seven-year period (2010 to 2017), according to the published study in JAMA Network Open.
The investigators measured participants' walking speed and performed cognitive tests every two years.
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Those who demonstrated a decrease in walking speed by at least 2 inches per second a year — along with slower cognitive ability — had a higher risk of dementia, as compared to individuals considered to be «non-decliners, cognitive-only decliners or gait-only decliners,» according to the report.
«The combination of declining memory and slowing gait seems to be a stronger indicator of future dementia risk than decline in one of those things alone,» Dr. Taya A. Collyer, PhD, who led the study out of Monash University ..