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Shots - Health News
Amid the pandemic, Americans are experiencing sleeplessness, headaches, stomach upset and more symptoms of chronic stress.
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Sleepless Nights, Hair Loss And Cracked Teeth: Pandemic Stress Takes Its Toll

Oct 14, 2020
Reports are on the rise of symptoms such as headaches, stomach problems and flare-ups of autoimmune disorders. Here's why chronic stress can make our bodies hurt, and what to do about it.
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The serious inflammatory syndrome sending some children and teens to the hospital remains extremely uncommon, doctors say. But if your child spikes a high, persistent fever, and has severe abdominal pain with vomiting that doesn't make them feel better,
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Mystery Inflammatory Syndrome In Kids And Teens Likely Linked To COVID-19

May 07, 2020
Doctors in the U.S. and Europe are reporting a small wave of cases of what looks like a "shock syndrome" in young people. They have low blood pressure, inflamed hearts and other serious symptoms.
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Health care workers assist a COVID-19 patient in Spain. Some evidence from Europe and China suggests an overzealous immune response may be contributing to the severe illness in some patients.
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Why Some COVID-19 Patients Crash: The Body's Immune System Might Be To Blame

Apr 07, 2020
An overblown immune response could be killing a portion of the sick, and some doctors think that new treatments being tested could help at least some of those patients.
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A scanning electron micrograph shows microglial cells (yellow) ingesting branched oligodendrocyte cells (purple), a process thought to occur in multiple sclerosis. Oligodendrocytes form insulating myelin sheaths around nerve axons in the central nervous
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Researchers Find A Web Of Factors Behind Multiple Sclerosis

Jan 21, 2019
It's looking like MS strikes when a variety of triggers gang up to impair neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Researchers are using their new knowledge to search for treatments.
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In addition to profound exhaustion that isn't relieved with sleep, the illness now called ME/CFS includes flu-like symptoms, muscle pain, "brain fog" and various other physical symptoms, all of which typically worsen with even minor exertion.
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Scientists Edge Closer To Elusive Lab Test For 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome'

Jul 31, 2017
Stanford University scientists have found an array of proteins in the blood whose levels correlate closely with the severity of symptoms of the mysterious illness that's increasingly known as ME/CFS.
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Eating: it's what I was born to do apparently!
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Can Changing When And What We Eat Help Outwit Disease?

Feb 19, 2017
I'm fasting intermittently as part of a research study, to see if changing my gut microbiome affects my multiple sclerosis. But maybe living on Peanut Chews isn't the best strategy.
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I'm Fasting For Science: Will It Help Tame My Multiple Sclerosis?

Jan 08, 2017
I like to eat, often and a lot. But when I heard about a medical study looking at whether fasting might tame the painful symptoms of MS, I was all in. Then I ate that 7 a.m. bagel.
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Moises Valsquez-Manoff, center, in Tijuana, Mexico, with Jorge Llamas, left, in front of the clinic where Llamas dispenses parasitic worms, and Garin Aglietti, owner of wormtherapy.com.
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Could Worms In Your Gut Cure Your Allergies?

Aug 12, 2016
Some people are trying to treat autoimmune problems with an unlikely tool: worms that live in your gut, permanently. Scientists are finally starting to figure out if they work.
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Fetal Cells May Protect Mom From Disease Long After The Baby's Born

Oct 26, 2015
In 1893, a German scientist made a striking discovery: Cells from a fetus hide out in a mother's body after birth. Scientists say these cells alter the risk of breast cancer and autoimmune diseases.
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Seasons May Tweak Genes That Trigger Some Chronic Diseases

May 12, 2015
Genes linked to inflammation are more active in winter, a study hints. That might partly explain why some diseases, including Type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis, are more likely to start then.
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