Dr. Howard Smith Reports

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Health News You Should Use, the latest medical discoveries and commonsense advice that you can use in a practical way to keep yourself and your family healthy.  

Here are this weeks stories :

Management of Asthma Changing

Button Battery Dangers

TELL ME WHY: Coffee is Good For Your Gut

Bowel Cancer Rising In Over-fed Young Adults

Measles Will Become Epidemic Unless We Compel Immunization

Broccoli Triggers Cancer Immunity

Asthma App Helps Kids Breathe Better

Holistic Approach To IBD

Impact Of Weed Legalization On Colorado Health Care Utilization

Childrens’ Protruding Teeth Are At Risk

Falling Asleep To The TV Robs Kids Of Healthy Sleep

Obsession With Healthy Eating Is Dangerous

Early Onset Heart Failure On The Rise 

The Reproductive Clock Ticks For Men Too

TRY A LITTLE KINDNESS:  Big Pharma Can Have A Big Heart

For more information, you’ll find all the references for the stories and a copy of show notes on my website at: https://www.drhowardsmith.com/may-2019-3rd-week-health-news

#Asthma #albuterol #budesonide #bronchodilators #Ingestions #buttonbatteries #coinbatteries #parenting #Coffee #gimotility #bowelcontraction #microbiome #Bowelcancer #colorectal cancer #fecaltestkits #colonoscopy #fat #fiber #Measles #MMR #vaccination #antivaxx #Broccoli #cancer #cauliflower #cabbage collard greens #Brussel sprouts #kale #WWPI #PTEN #indole3carbinol #smartphoneapp #asthma #peakflow #AppStore #IBS #holisticmedicine #TVtime #sleep #screentime #parenting #hypnotherapy #Cannabis #pain #motorvehicleaccidents #drugoverdose #drugabuse #Dentalprotrusion #buckteeth #dentalfracture #orthodontia #mouthguard #dentalimplant  #Orthorexia #ocs #healthyeating #vegan #vegetarian #Heartfailure #obesity #diabetes #cholesterol #lipids #fastfood #alcohol #Paternity #agingsperm #prematurity #birthdefects #spermbanking #PrEP #HIV #AIDS #corporatephilantrophy

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/BHsfjlX86Mg

Health News You Should Use, the latest medical discoveries and commonsense advice that you can use in a practical way to keep yourself and your family healthy.  

Here are this weeks stories :

Management of Asthma Changing

Button Battery Dangers

TELL ME WHY: Coffee is Good For Your Gut

Bowel Cancer Rising In Over-fed Young Adults

Measles Will Become Epidemic Unless We Compel Immunization

Broccoli Triggers Cancer Immunity

Asthma App Helps Kids Breathe Better

Holistic Approach To IBD

Impact Of Weed Legalization On Colorado Health Care Utilization

Childrens’ Protruding Teeth Are At Risk

Falling Asleep To The TV Robs Kids Of Healthy Sleep

Obsession With Healthy Eating Is Dangerous

Early Onset Heart Failure On The Rise 

The Reproductive Clock Ticks For Men Too

TRY A LITTLE KINDNESS:  Big Pharma Can Have A Big Heart

For more information, you’ll find all the references for the stories and a copy of show notes on my website at: https://www.drhowardsmith.com/may-2019-3rd-week-health-news

#Asthma #albuterol #budesonide #bronchodilators #Ingestions #buttonbatteries #coinbatteries #parenting #Coffee #gimotility #bowelcontraction #microbiome #Bowelcancer #colorectal cancer #fecaltestkits #colonoscopy #fat #fiber #Measles #MMR #vaccination #antivaxx #Broccoli #cancer #cauliflower #cabbage collard greens #Brussel sprouts #kale #WWPI #PTEN #indole3carbinol #smartphoneapp #asthma #peakflow #AppStore #IBS #holisticmedicine #TVtime #sleep #screentime #parenting #hypnotherapy #Cannabis #pain #motorvehicleaccidents #drugoverdose #drugabuse #Dentalprotrusion #buckteeth #dentalfracture #orthodontia #mouthguard #dentalimplant  #Orthorexia #ocs #healthyeating #vegan #vegetarian #Heartfailure #obesity #diabetes #cholesterol #lipids #fastfood #alcohol #Paternity #agingsperm #prematurity #birthdefects #spermbanking #PrEP #HIV #AIDS #corporatephilantrophy

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Pharmaceutical companies are the corporations that most of us love to hate for their unabashed greed in raising drug prices to astronomical levels.  Here’s one drug company that deserves sustained applause rather than scorn for its generosity.  The story is told by good news network.org.

Gilead Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company based in Foster City, CA, through its CEO Daniel O’Day has announced the largest ever donation by a pharmaceutical company.  Every year for the next 11 years, the company will be donating 2.4 million bottles of their Truvada PrEP pre-exposure prophylaxis medication to over 200,000 needy and uninsured Americans at risk for contracting infection with the human immunodeficiency virus.

This combination reverse transcriptase inhibitor medication prevents the proliferation of HIV in virus infected cells and in so doing prevents the development of AIDS.

This generous program is just the latest chapter in Gilead’s phialthrophic contributions to eradicating HIV/AIDS.  In 2017, the company announced the launch of its $100 million COMPASS Initiative.  COMPASS is an acronym for COMmitment to Partnership in Addressing HIV/AIDS in Southern States).  Although home to only38% of the US population, the southern states are the sites of 52% of new HIV infections.  In these states, nearly half a million people are currently living with HIV.

Let’s hope that Gilead Sciences will become a model for other companies to give back to the community.  

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/gilead-gives-free-anti-hiv-medication-to-at-risk-patients/

https://www.gilead.com

#PrEP #HIV #AIDS #corporatephilantrophy

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/K5dWdmkXykI

Pharmaceutical companies are the corporations that most of us love to hate for their unabashed greed in raising drug prices to astronomical levels.  Here’s one drug company that deserves sustained applause rather than scorn for its generosity.  The story is told by good news network.org.

Gilead Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company based in Foster City, CA, through its CEO Daniel O’Day has announced the largest ever donation by a pharmaceutical company.  Every year for the next 11 years, the company will be donating 2.4 million bottles of their Truvada PrEP pre-exposure prophylaxis medication to over 200,000 needy and uninsured Americans at risk for contracting infection with the human immunodeficiency virus.

This combination reverse transcriptase inhibitor medication prevents the proliferation of HIV in virus infected cells and in so doing prevents the development of AIDS.

This generous program is just the latest chapter in Gilead’s phialthrophic contributions to eradicating HIV/AIDS.  In 2017, the company announced the launch of its $100 million COMPASS Initiative.  COMPASS is an acronym for COMmitment to Partnership in Addressing HIV/AIDS in Southern States).  Although home to only38% of the US population, the southern states are the sites of 52% of new HIV infections.  In these states, nearly half a million people are currently living with HIV.

Let’s hope that Gilead Sciences will become a model for other companies to give back to the community.  

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/gilead-gives-free-anti-hiv-medication-to-at-risk-patients/

https://www.gilead.com

#PrEP #HIV #AIDS #corporatephilantrophy

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/g5bWW3_0-7g

Women over 30 with an interest in motherhood constantly have an eye on that ticking biological clock.  The latest study from Rutgers University suggests that men also need to pay attention to old Father Time if they want to produce healthy offspring.

The study reviewed nearly half a century of research on fertility and healthy reproduction.  Men 45 years or older with decreasing testosterone experience declining fertility and contributed suboptimal sperm that trigger pregnancy complications including gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, premature birth, still births, low birth weight, newborn seizures, and birth defects including cardiac anomalies and cleft palate.  Later, the children of older men had an increased incidence of childhood cancer, psychiatric disorders, and autism.

The study’s authors recommend that men as well as women keep an eye on the clock if they have parenthood in their futures.  If fatherhood is to be delayed, they suggest that men consider banking their sperm by age 35 or by 45 at the latest.

N. Phillips, L. Taylor, G. Bachmann. Maternal, infant and childhood risks associated with advanced paternal age: The need for comprehensive counseling for men. Maturitas, 2019; 125: 81 DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2019.03.020

#Paternity #agingsperm #prematurity #birthdefects #spermbanking

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/g5bWW3_0-7g

Women over 30 with an interest in motherhood constantly have an eye on that ticking biological clock.  The latest study from Rutgers University suggests that men also need to pay attention to old Father Time if they want to produce healthy offspring.

The study reviewed nearly half a century of research on fertility and healthy reproduction.  Men 45 years or older with decreasing testosterone experience declining fertility and contributed suboptimal sperm that trigger pregnancy complications including gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, premature birth, still births, low birth weight, newborn seizures, and birth defects including cardiac anomalies and cleft palate.  Later, the children of older men had an increased incidence of childhood cancer, psychiatric disorders, and autism.

The study’s authors recommend that men as well as women keep an eye on the clock if they have parenthood in their futures.  If fatherhood is to be delayed, they suggest that men consider banking their sperm by age 35 or by 45 at the latest.

N. Phillips, L. Taylor, G. Bachmann. Maternal, infant and childhood risks associated with advanced paternal age: The need for comprehensive counseling for men. Maturitas, 2019; 125: 81 DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2019.03.020

#Paternity #agingsperm #prematurity #birthdefects #spermbanking

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/HYkk6YqL5iU

Death due to congestive heart failure has been on the rise over the past 7 years, and the group most affected is surprisingly those under 65.  A new study from Northwestern University cardiologists looks at CDC epidemiologic data for nearly 48 million Americans from 35 to 84 years of age.

The study shows that the trend toward declining death rates from heart failure seen over the past 3 decades is now reversing.  Younger individuals are now more likely to develop heart failure, and the reasons appear to be due to our country’s dual interrelated epidemics of obesity and diabetes.  Middle-aged black men are at a particularly high risk.

Heart failure is deadly with outcomes similar to metastatic lung cancer.  The best treatment is prevention by maintaining a healthy weight, keeping your blood pressure under control, and monitoring your cholesterol and lipid profiles.  These goals will be far easier to achieve by eliminating fast food and excessive alcohol.

Peter Glynn, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, Matthew J. Feinstein, Mercedes Carnethon, Sadiya S. Khan. Disparities in Cardiovascular Mortality Related to Heart Failure in the United States. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2019; 73 (18): 2354 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2019.02.042

#Heartfailure #obesity #diabetes #cholesterol #lipids #fastfood #alcohol

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/HYkk6YqL5iU

Death due to congestive heart failure has been on the rise over the past 7 years, and the group most affected is surprisingly those under 65.  A new study from Northwestern University cardiologists looks at CDC epidemiologic data for nearly 48 million Americans from 35 to 84 years of age.

The study shows that the trend toward declining death rates from heart failure seen over the past 3 decades is now reversing.  Younger individuals are now more likely to develop heart failure, and the reasons appear to be due to our country’s dual interrelated epidemics of obesity and diabetes.  Middle-aged black men are at a particularly high risk.

Heart failure is deadly with outcomes similar to metastatic lung cancer.  The best treatment is prevention by maintaining a healthy weight, keeping your blood pressure under control, and monitoring your cholesterol and lipid profiles.  These goals will be far easier to achieve by eliminating fast food and excessive alcohol.

Peter Glynn, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, Matthew J. Feinstein, Mercedes Carnethon, Sadiya S. Khan. Disparities in Cardiovascular Mortality Related to Heart Failure in the United States. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2019; 73 (18): 2354 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2019.02.042

#Heartfailure #obesity #diabetes #cholesterol #lipids #fastfood #alcohol

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/-UtbUESmvgM

Orthorexia nervosa is medical jargon for an obsession with healthy eating.  Psychologists from Toronto’s York University explain the drivers and dangers of this condition in a review article just published in the journal Appetite.

Orthorexia nervosa tends to develop in those individuals with a history of eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive personalities, a history of repeated dieting, a poor body image, a desire to be thin, and often a history of depression.  Those individuals who adopt restrictive eating practices such as vegetarians, vegans, and especially lacto-vegetarians are at high risk for this disorder.

Unlike those who suffer from anorexia nervosa and the drive to restrict calories in the effort to maintain a low body weight, persons with Orthorexia nervosa fixate on obtaining or preparing healthy food.  They spend so many hours of the day, planning, purchasing ingredients, and preparing healthy meals that they have little time left for other pursuits.  This disorder seems to affect men and women in near equal numbers.

Orthorexia nervosa, although described in a number of studies, is not officially recognized as an official psychiatric diagnosis.  It’s treatment, though, is similar to many psychiatric disorders and includes: cognitive behavioral therapy, meditative therapy, and psychopharmaceutical therapy with anti-depressives and anti-anxiety medications.

If any of this sounds familiar to you as a description of a family member or of yourself, please know that help is available.

Sarah E. McComb, Jennifer S. Mills. Orthorexia nervosa: A review of psychosocial risk factors. Appetite, 2019; 140: 50 DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2019.05.005

#Orthorexia #ocs #healthyeating #vegan #vegetarian

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/-UtbUESmvgM

Orthorexia nervosa is medical jargon for an obsession with healthy eating.  Psychologists from Toronto’s York University explain the drivers and dangers of this condition in a review article just published in the journal Appetite.

Orthorexia nervosa tends to develop in those individuals with a history of eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive personalities, a history of repeated dieting, a poor body image, a desire to be thin, and often a history of depression.  Those individuals who adopt restrictive eating practices such as vegetarians, vegans, and especially lacto-vegetarians are at high risk for this disorder.

Unlike those who suffer from anorexia nervosa and the drive to restrict calories in the effort to maintain a low body weight, persons with Orthorexia nervosa fixate on obtaining or preparing healthy food.  They spend so many hours of the day, planning, purchasing ingredients, and preparing healthy meals that they have little time left for other pursuits.  This disorder seems to affect men and women in near equal numbers.

Orthorexia nervosa, although described in a number of studies, is not officially recognized as an official psychiatric diagnosis.  It’s treatment, though, is similar to many psychiatric disorders and includes: cognitive behavioral therapy, meditative therapy, and psychopharmaceutical therapy with anti-depressives and anti-anxiety medications.

If any of this sounds familiar to you as a description of a family member or of yourself, please know that help is available.

Sarah E. McComb, Jennifer S. Mills. Orthorexia nervosa: A review of psychosocial risk factors. Appetite, 2019; 140: 50 DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2019.05.005

#Orthorexia #ocs #healthyeating #vegan #vegetarian