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Study points to better care for babies born to opioid users

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Babies born to opioid users have shorter hospital stays and need less medication when their care emphasized parental involvement, skin-to-skin contact and a quiet environment, researchers reported Sunday.

Newborns were ready to go home about a week earlier compared to those getting standard care. Fewer received opioid medications to reduce withdrawal symptoms such as tremors and hard-to-soothe crying, about 20% compared to 52% of the standard-care babies.

Babies born to opioid users, including mothers in treatment with medications such as methadone, can develop withdrawal symptoms after exposure in the womb.

Typically, hospitals use a scoring system to decide which babies

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Freeze-dried feces pills called ‘crapsule’ to be taken by patients in clinical trial

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Keeping up with all the latest in health news can be a crapshoot. Luckily, we’ve got you covered. Here are the most headline-grabbing stories this week from Yahoo News partners.

‘“Crapsules” … may offer new hope for patients’

A clinical trial funded by the United Kingdom’s National Institute for Health and Care Research is testing whether pills made from the freeze-dried poop of healthy people could help those with advanced liver disease, Sky News reported.

Individuals with cirrhosis — a condition involving severe scarring and damage to the liver — have higher levels of “bad” gut bacteria

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Which Diet (way of eating) Is Best for Health and Longevity?

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Proper diet undoubtedly promotes healthier aging and longevity. But what’s the right diet? A meta-analysis of diet studies proposes an answer. or more accurately, answers, based on diet-related biomarkers linked to disease and aging. Half of the studies were done in Europe, the rest from North America and Asia. The February, 2023, article was published in Nutrients. You can read the entire article online.

“….the main goal of this systematic review was to perceive the quantity and quality of different diets or aspects in nutrition, how they could modulate biomarkers and prevent aging-related diseases, in order to enlighten

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DeSantis reduced Miami Beach COVID testing out of spite, major says in CBS documentary

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A new documentary about Gov. Ron DeSantis delves into whether the governor’s team silenced Florida’s former Surgeon General Scott Rivkees throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and pushed to close a testing site on Miami Beach in response to criticism by the mayor.

Released Thursday, the documentary by CBS News Miami’s Jim DeFede broadly details the governor’s rise from a relatively unknown congressman to a national figure on the front lines of the culture wars. Most of the hour-long programs focus on the COVID-19 pandemic as the governor’s launching pad onto the national stage, where he is now a serious candidate in

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Missouri governor signs bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors, some adults

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.

Transgender minors and some adults in Missouri will soon be banned from accessing puberty blockers, hormones and gender-affirming surgeries under a bill signed Wednesday by the state’s Republican governor.

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Beginning Aug. 28, Missouri health care providers won’t be able to prescribe those gender-affirming treatments for teens and children. Most adults will still have access to transgender health care under the law, but Medicaid won’t cover it.

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Gender-affirming surgeries for inmates and prisoners will be outlawed.

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The law is set to expire in 2027 as part of a Republican compromise with Senate Democrats.

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Congestive Heart Failure: Excessive Sodium Restriction is Dangerous

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June 1, 2023 · 7:00 AM

From DailyMail:

Salt has long been seen as enemy number one for people with heart problems, with doctors telling patients to cut down on the amount of sodium they consume.

But new research suggests that restricting salt too much may actually raise the risk of an early death in heart failure patients.

Their work builds upon a growing body of research that posits the benefits of cutting out salt to this subset of patients may be overblown.

And the findings could mean a more exciting diet for more than six million Americans with heart

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Trump slammed for congratulating Kim Jong-un

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Donald Trump is under fire from Republicans for complimenting North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un after his country was admitted to the World Health Organization’s Executive Board.

“Congratulations to Kim Jung Un!” the former president wrote on Truth Social, misspelling his name while sharing news of the admission.

The post drew immediate condemnation from GOP presidential candidates and state party leaders.

“Kim Jong Un starves his own people,” Mr Trump’s former UN ambassador and 2024 opponent Nikki Haley said on Twitter.

“It’s a total farce that North Korea has a leading role at the World Health Organization.”

Georgia Governor Brian

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The Oil and Gas Industry’s Impact on Health Costs Us $77 Billion a Year: Report

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Two oil pumpjacks are shown in motion

Two oil pumpjacks are shown in motion

At this point, it’s not exactly news that the oil and gas industry is bad for the planet and bad for people. Climate change is a serious issue that is already negatively impacting people’s lives, but it’s not just bomb cyclones and massive wildfires that we have to worry about. There’s also the pollution that we breathe every day, and that’s bad for our health. But just how bad is it?

In case you missed it:

One way to look at the problem is how much it costs, which is a new study

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