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People with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease, usually experience muscle weakness that impacts movement.
New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation could improve muscle function for these patients, even restoring the capability to walk.
In studies at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, sessions of spinal cord stimulation were shown to restore motor neuron activity and improve muscle strength in the legs for patients with SMA.
The findings were published in Nature Medicine on Feb. 5.
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“The patients all had a rare disease that destroys neurons in the spinal cord (much like polio) due to a genetic disorder from birth,” Dr. Peter Konrad, chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute in West Virginia, told Fox News Digital. (Konrad was not involved in the study.)
“The disease weakens the legs and a..

A mother is speaking out after she says her 12-year-old daughter was denied a place on the heart transplant list at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital because of her vaccination status.
Brayton and Jeneen Deal, who adopted Adaline fromChina, said she was born with two heart conditions that will now require a transplant.
When the Deals were in the process of adopting Adaline, the adoption agency told them to pick another child because “her heart was so bad, she wasn’t going to make it,” they wrote in a GoFundMe campaign.
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“We continued to support Adaline so she could stay in a foster home, but shortly after we arrived home with our other adopted child, the agency stopped taking the funds out of our account,” they wrote.
“So, we thought she had passed away.”
After starting the process a second time to adopt from China, the Deals saw Adaline was still in the system.
They brought her home, where they said she excelled – despit..

More than 133 million Americans (40%) had at least one chronic disease in 2022, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Topping the list of chronic diseases are heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and diabetes.
Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a cardiologist and public health campaigner based in London, believes a big part of what’s fueling all those conditions are the foods on Americans’ plates.
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“I think you cannot fix health or health care without fixing the food,” he said during an on-camera interview with Fox News Digital.
Studies have shown that only one in eight Americans has optimal metabolic health, which Malhotra defines as “the state of balance the body maintains between storing fat and burning it for energy.”
In his bestselling book, “The 21-Day Immunity Plan,” Malhotra writes that metabolic health is measured using five markers.
Those inclu..

Microplastics were detected in almost every seafood sample found off the coast of the western U.S. in a recent study, researchers claim.
The study, led by Portland State University (PSU), identified “anthropogenic particles” — which are materials produced or modified by humans — in the edible tissue of six different species of fish.
Those included black rockfish, lingcod, Chinook salmon, Pacific herring, Pacific lamprey, and pink shrimp, according to a PSU press release.
MICROPLASTICS FOUND IN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF AMERICAN MEAT, WATER, PLANTS: STUDY
Specifically, the peer-reviewed study found microplastics — “tiny particles that shed from clothing, packaging and other plastic products” — in 180 out of 182 samples of seafood that were either purchased at a store or obtained from a fishing boat in Oregon, the release stated.
The highest concentration of particles occurred in pink shrimp, and Chinook salmon contained the lowest.
“We found that the smaller org..

People are suffering from “Zoom fatigue” for some very specific reasons, according to a recently published study.
In the post-pandemic world, the increasing reliance on virtual meetings has led to the identification of a new phenomenon among people who are apparently fed up with talking to colleagues on computer screens.
This phenomenon has “significant” implications for workplace productivity and individual well-being, scientists say, as news agency SWNS reported.
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The new study has found that “facial appearance dissatisfaction” is a key trigger of meeting fatigue.
Chaeyun Lim of the University of Michigan and her colleagues investigated impression management features – tools that allow users to adjust their self-video to manage their appearance.
The research team recruited 2,448 U.S.-based workers to participate in a short survey.
The sample included professional, technical and scientific wo..

Cases of prostate cancer are on the rise in California, according to new research.
A study by UC San Francisco (UCSF) included nearly 388,000 men who had prostate cancer between 2004 and 2021.
The incidence rate of cases increased 6.7% per year on average between 2011 and 2021, the JAMA-published research revealed.
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Although cases rose, prostate cancer mortality rates declined 2.6% per year from 2004 to 2012, and plateaued from 2012 to 2021. These trends were similar across age, race, ethnicity and region, the researchers found.
The rising cases correspond with a change in guidelines for PSA (prostate-specific antigen) testing, in which the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) stopped recommending the screenings in 2012, according to the UCSF press release.
The guidelines were changed in order to reduce the number of prostate cancer patients who were treated with “potentially harmful interventions” for non-threatening fo..

Mothers are increasingly speaking up today about the health and well-being of their families — and many are jumping aboard the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative.
Moms across the nation are now vocal about the artificial ingredients found in foods, about the importance of preventative steps for chronic illness and about other key health concerns. (See the video at the top of the article.)
Ginny Yurich, host of the parenting podcast “1000 Hours Outside,” drove from Pinckney, Michigan, to Washington, D.C., to join fellow MAHA moms in rallying behind Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on Jan. 29.
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“We have just noticed a precipitous decline in health among children, including allergies [and] sensory processing disorder,” Yurich, a mother of five, told Fox News Digital.
Ana-Maria Temple, a pediatrician in Charlotte, North Carolina, who specializes in holistic eczema treatments, told Fo..

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Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of President Donald Trump and mom of two, will host a new program on Fox News Channel called “My View with Lara Trump” on Saturday evenings, it was announced on Wednesday.
Trump, 42, is married to Eric Trump and is a former Republican National Committee co-chair. She’s also been outspoken about the need for improved health in America.
In an on-camera interview a few days ago with Fox News Digital, she said she’s “like a lot of parents out there today” in terms of being concerned about the health and well-being of her young children. (See the video at the top of this article.)
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“Whenever you go to the grocery store or whenever you prepare food for your children, you really wonder, what is it that you’re feeding them? And you hear so much about the fact that we in the United States don’t have the same standards as other countries.”
She added, “You wonder, why is that? And am I doing the best I possi..

Ozempic, a medication originally for Type 2 diabetes, has gained popularity for its weight…