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CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT THIS RESOURCETime Change, Health Change: Preparing for the Daylight Savings Time Transition
Research has shown that the rates of heart problems like heart attacks can change around the time daylight savings time starts or ends. On the day after the springtime change, when people lose an hour of sleep, heart attacks show a noticeable increase.
One study from Michigan showed a 24% increase in daily heart attack counts on the day following the springtime change, while on the day following the fall time change, when people gain an hour of sleep, there was a 21% reduction in heart attacks [1].
Another study published in Open Heart showed a similar 25% jump in heart attacks the day after the springtime change [2]. Yet another study also supported these findings, showing a 24% increase in daily heart attack counts (acute myocardial infarction or AMI counts) on the day following springtime changes and a 21% reduction on the day following fall changes [3]. These changes are believed to be tied to the disruption in sleep and the body’s internal clock caused by the time change. In addition to heart attacks, a Michigan study reported an 8% rise in ischemic stroke during the first two days after the springtime change [4].
Similarly, a lack of sleep has been distinctly linked to increased insulin resistance [5], showcasing another avenue through which sleep disturbances can manifest in physical ailments. Remember that insulin is the hormone that helps your cells use glucose for energy. When your body becomes resistant to insulin, glucose accumulates in your bloodstream instead of being used by your cells.
In simple terms, the sudden change in time messes with people’s sleep and body clocks, and this can lead to more health problems right after the springtime change.
We will lose an hour of sleep tonight due to daylight savings time ending. So, what can we do to minimize the impact and prioritize our health?
Here are some suggestions on what we can do:
• Go to bed earlier: Try to go to bed an hour earlier than usual to make up for the lost hour of sleep.
• Keep a regular sleep schedule: Try to keep your bedtime and wake-up time consistent, even on weekends. This can help your body’s internal clock adjust to the new time.
• Avoid caffeine and alcohol: These substances can interfere with your sleep. It’s a good idea to avoid them in the evening.
• Relax before bed: Do something relaxing, like reading or a warm bath to help you wind down.
• Create a sleep-friendly environment: Make sure your bedroom is dark, quiet, and a comfortable temperature for sleeping.
• Get some sunlight in the morning: Natural sunlight in the morning can help reset your body’s internal clock to the new time.
• Take short naps if needed: If you feel exhausted, short naps (20-30 minutes) can be refreshing. But avoid long naps as they can interfere with your nighttime sleep.
• Stay active: Regular physical activity can help you fall asleep faster and enjoy deeper sleep.
• Manage stress: Practice relaxation techniques like meditation or deep breathing to manage any stress that interferes with sleep.
• Avoid screens before bed: The blue light emitted by phones, tablets, computers, and TVs can interfere with your sleep, so it’s a good idea to turn these off at least an hour before bed.
By following these tips, we can help our body adjust to the time change more easily and create healthy habits that prioritize our health long-term.
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Innovative Minds: Heman Bekele
Frost Middle School | 8th grade | 14 years old
How his invention, a Bar of Soap Can Help Cure Cancer Worldwide – Melanoma Treating Soap (MTS)
Meet Heman. Heman developed Melanoma Treating Soap (MTS), a compound-based bar of soap designed to treat skin cancer.
The Cost?
50 cent (per bar)
$10 USD (Dollars for a pack of 20)
Why did you enter the 3M Young Scientist Challenge?
Personally, I applied for the 3M Young Scientist Challenge because I believe that young minds can make a positive impact on the world. I have always been interested in biology and technology, and this challenge gave me the perfect platform to showcase my ideas. The opportunity to work with 3M mentors and show my project to a panel of judges was an exciting prospect. I am passionate about finding sustainable solutions to global problems, and I hope to inspire others to do the same.
What is your favorite invention of the last 100 years, and why?
The digital camera is undoubtedly one of the most important inventions of the last 100 years. With the ability to capture and preserve our memories and experiences, the camera has transformed the way we see and understand the world around us. From the earliest days of film photography to the latest digital cameras and smartphones, the digital camera has enabled us to capture and share our experiences in ways that were once impossible. Whether it’s capturing the beauty of nature, the joy of family gatherings, or the excitement of new adventures, the camera has become an essential tool for documenting our lives and making them more meaningful. By preserving our memories and experiences, the digital camera allows us to connect with our past and share our stories with future generations, which is why it is my favorite invention from the last 100 years.
In 15 years I hope to be…
A successful electrical engineer who has contributed significantly to the industry. I envision myself leading a team of professionals in the development of innovative electrical systems that will shape the future of technology. Alongside my professional success, I hope to have a fulfilling personal life with a loving family and a strong network of friends. I also hope to have given back to my community by mentoring aspiring engineers and supporting initiatives that promote STEM education. Ultimately, in 15 years, I hope to have made a positive impact on the world through my work and personal endeavors.
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This virtual (ONLINE) series will done in English with live interpretation in Spanish and Somali.
This training is open to anyone within the early childhood education community in WA state, (INCLUDING ALL FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND NEIGHBORS HELPING TO CARE FOR EACH OTHERS CHILDREN). So feel free to share the training opportunity widely!
The goal of this training series is to introduce and teach PROVIDERS, ECE admin, and consultants alike how to promote healthy development in children ages 0-5 with autism spectrum disorders.
All 3 trainings will be recorded so that folks unable to attend live sessions will be able to access it in mid-to-late November 2021.
Training: Promoting Social-Emotional Development
Tue, October 12tt, 2021
Time: from 1pm – 3pm
Training: Managing Challenging Behaviors
Tue, November 9th, 2021
Time: 1pm – 3pm
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The same link and passcode will work for all 3 trainings.
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Which group of children at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19?
…., children with obesity, diabetes, asthma or chronic lung disease, sickle cell disease, or immunosuppression can also be at increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19.
Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the tasks, (AND/OR), environment or to the way things are usually done that enable individuals with disabilities to have an equal opportunity to participate in an academic program or a job (U.S. Department of Education, 2007).
Broad categories of accommodations include changes to the application process to ensure an equal opportunity to apply for program enrollment, changes that enable a student with a disability to perform the essential functions of the academic program, and changes that enable a student with a disability to enjoy equal benefits and privileges of the program (e.g., access to training).
Examples of accommodations by disability type and Accommodation Examples.
CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITION
Notetakers
Flexible attendance requirements
Extra exam time and allowances for breaks
Assignments made available in electronic format
Use of email to facilitate communication
LOW VISION
Seating near front of the classLarge print exams, handouts, signs, equipment/material labelsContrast-enhanced printed materialsImage-enlarging technology (e.g., TV monitor, magnifier)Electronic format for syllabi, assignments, readings, resourcesGlare guardsSupplementary light source.
BLINDNESS
Audio-recorded, brailled or electronic-formatted lecture notes, handouts, and textsVerbal or audio descriptions of visuals and videos
Raised-line drawings and tactile models of graphic materials
Braille lab signs and equipment labels; auditory lab warning signals
Adaptive lab equipment (e.g., talking calculators, tactile timers)
Computer with optical character reader, speech output, Braille screen display and Braille printer output
HEARING LOSS
Sign language interpreter
Seating near the instructor/speaker with an unobstructed view of the speaker’s face • Real-time captioning
FM system
Note taker
Alternate location for testing that has reduced auditory and visual distraction
Visual aids and written supplements to spoken instructions
Written assignments, lab instructions, summaries, notes
Use of email for class and private discussions
LEARNING DISABILITY
Note taker
Audio recorded lectures
Captioned films
Extended time on exams and assignments
Alternative testing arrangements/locations
Instructions provided in multiple formats, including visual, aural and tactile
Computer with voice output, spellchecker and grammar checker
Concise oral instructions, clear written instructions and well organized visual aids
MOBILITY/ MOTOR IMPAIRMENT
Notetaker, scribes, lab partners
Classrooms, labs and field trips in accessible locations, using accessible transportation
Computer with speech input, voice output and alternative keyboard
Wheelchair-friendly furniture and room arrangement (e.g., adjustable tables, space for a wheelchair, lab equipment located within reach)
Use of ramps and raised platforms for student’s accessClass materials available in electronic formatExtended time for completion of activities
SPEECH IMPAIRMENT
Alternative assignments for oral presentations (e.g., written assignments, one-to-one presentation)
Course substitutions
Flexibility with in-class discussions (e.g., consider online discussion boards)
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Although many people with COVID-19 get better within weeks, some people continue to experience symptoms that can last months after first being infected, or may have new or recurring symptoms at a later time. This can happen to anyone who has had COVID-19, even if the initial illness was mild. People with this condition are sometimes called “long-haulers.” This condition is known as “long COVID.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), people with long COVID have a range of new or ongoing symptoms that can last weeks or months after they are infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 and that can worsen with physical or mental activity.
Examples of common symptoms of long COVID include:
Tiredness or fatigue
Difficulty thinking or concentrating (sometimes called “brain fog”)
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
Headache
Dizziness on standing
Fast-beating or pounding heart (known as heart palpitations)
Chest pain
Cough
Joint or muscle pain
Depression or anxiety
Fever
Loss of taste or smell
This list is not exhaustive.
Some people also experience damage to multiple organs including:
heart
lungs
kidneys
skin
brain.
Long COVID is a physiological condition affecting one or more body systems. For example, some people with long COVID experience:
Lung damage
Heart damage, (including inflammation of the heart muscle)
Kidney damage
Neurological damage
Damage to the circulatory system resulting in poor blood flow
Lingering emotional illness and other mental health conditions
Accordingly, long COVID is a physical or mental impairment under the ADA, Section 504, and Section 1557.
NOTE:
Is long COVID always a disability?
No.
An individualized assessment is necessary to determine whether a person’s long COVID condition or any of its symptoms substantially limits a major life activity. The CDC and health experts are working to better understand long COVID.
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Nearly 3% of medical workers in a new Israeli study contracted COVID-19 even though they were vaccinated, and 19% of them still had symptoms six weeks later.
The study followed about 1,500 Israeli health care workers for four months after they received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Anyone who tested positive more than 11 days after the second dose was considered a breakthrough case.
Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist who founded and directs the Scripps Research Translational Institute in California. said current vaccines are great at preventing serious infection deep in the lungs, but not at blocking infection in the upper airways.
What’s needed, he said, is a nasal-spray vaccine that would stop the coronavirus from taking hold at all.
“Those who are vaccinated did everything right, but some are going to go on to long-COVID, and that’s really unfortunate.”
Topol said the best protection is to get vaccinated and practice social measures like wearing a mask.
Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, said he is troubled by the fact that young, healthy people would get so-called breakthrough infections within a few months of vaccination.
Scientists expected protection to wane over time, and they expected the vaccines to be less effective among older people and those with pre-existing health conditions. But that’s not who got sick in this study.
Dr. Ashish Jha, said he finds it concerning – though not conclusive – that people had lingering symptoms weeks after getting sick.
“There really may be a risk here, but we don’t know how big a risk and how much of a problem it is,” he said.
Although the vaccines were never expected to be perfect, the findings raise questions about their protection and suggest that even vaccinated people could experience long-term symptoms such as such as fatigue, brain fog and shortness of breath.
Most of the people in the study who got sick had mild symptoms, and none were hospitalized.
The good news is none of the 39 people who got infected passed the coronavirus on to anyone else, according to the study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT THIS RESOURCEAlthough many people with COVID-19 get better within weeks, some people continue to experience symptoms that can last months after first being infected, or may have new or recurring symptoms at a later time. This can happen to anyone who has had COVID-19, even if the initial illness was mild. People with this condition are sometimes called “long-haulers.” This condition is known as “long COVID.”
In light of the rise of long COVID as a persistent and significant health issue, the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice have joined together to provide this guidance.
This guidance explains that long COVID can be a disability under Titles II (state and local government) and III (public accommodations) of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA),3 Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), and Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Section 1557).
Each of these federal laws protects people with disabilities from discrimination. This guidance also provides resources for additional information and best practices. This document focuses solely on long COVID, and does not address when COVID-19 may meet the legal definition of disability.
The civil rights protections and responsibilities of these federal laws apply even during emergencies.
They cannot be waived.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), people with long COVID have a range of new or ongoing symptoms that can last weeks or months after they are infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 and that can worsen with physical or mental activity.
Examples of common symptoms of long COVID include:
Tiredness or fatigue
Difficulty thinking or concentrating (sometimes called “brain fog”)
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
Headache
Dizziness on standing
Fast-beating or pounding heart (known as heart palpitations)
Chest pain
Cough
Joint or muscle pain
Depression or anxiety
Fever
Loss of taste or smell
This list is not exhaustive.
Some people also experience damage to multiple organs including:
heart
lungs
kidneys
skin
brain.
Long COVID is a physiological condition affecting one or more body systems. For example, some people with long COVID experience:
Lung damage
Heart damage, (including inflammation of the heart muscle)
Kidney damage
Neurological damage
Damage to the circulatory system resulting in poor blood flow
Lingering emotional illness and other mental health conditions
Accordingly, long COVID is a physical or mental impairment under the ADA, Section 504, and Section 1557.
NOTE:
Is long COVID always a disability?
No.
An individualized assessment is necessary to determine whether a person’s long COVID condition or any of its symptoms substantially limits a major life activity. The CDC and health experts are working to better understand long COVID.
This guidance addresses the “actual disability” part of the disability definition. The definition also covers individuals with a “record of” a substantially limiting impairment or those “regarded as” having a physical impairment (whether substantially limiting or not). This document does not address the “record of” or “regarded as” parts of the disability definition, which may also be relevant to claims regarding long COVID.
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The father of eight was scheduled to get his second dose on May 3. But instead, on that day he tested positive for COVID-19.
Gordon Ballard was born with sickle cell anemia — a disorder in which there aren’t enough healthy red blood cells to move oxygen through the body — and suffered one or two crises per year, his daughter said.
When the pandemic began, “my dad spent every day in fear” because he felt certain he would die if he contracted COVID-19, Ballard-Hart said.
He was also scared of the vaccine, Ballard-Hart said.
Gordon Ballard’s doctors implored him to get it — and he received his first dose on April 5, she said.
Gordon Ballard, 65, died on May 17, 2021, two weeks after he tested positive.
Sandra Ballard said she and her husband “made a plan along time ago” that whenever Gordon Ballard was admitted to the hospital for sickle cell crises, “we would act like it was the last time.”
“We would hug and kiss and say our goodbyes … in case he didn’t make it back home,” she said.
But with COVID-19, she said he went downhill so quickly and was intubated by the time hospital staff called, that she never had that chance. He was unconscious by the time she arrived at the hospital.
“I wasn’t there with him in the end … I wasn’t there to hold him,” she said. “I wasn’t there to really say our final goodbyes.”
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Kansas City-based Nostrum Laboratories has issued a voluntary recall of two lots of Metformin HCl Extended Release Tablets, USP 750 mg. The addition of Nostrum’s pills come as 76 more lots were flagged in October for a possible cancer-causing ingredient.
The recall of extended-release metformin continues as two more lots of the diabetes drug have been added to the recall list.
The FDA announced the previous recall, involving Marksans Pharma Limited and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries products, on Oct. 5. It involves the 500mg and 700mg tablets.
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Why 7 Deadly Diseases Strike Blacks Most, © 2005 WebMD, Inc. All rights reserved
Health care disparities heighten disease differences between African-Americans and white Americans.
Several deadly diseases strike black Americans harder and more often than they do white Americans.
Why?
“Genes definitely play a role. So does the environment in which people live, socioeconomic status — and, yes, racism,” says Clyde W. Yancy, MD, associate dean of clinical affairs and medical director for heart failure/transplantation at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Some numbers
• Diabetes is 60% more common in black Americans than in white Americans. Blacks are up to 2.5 times more likely to suffer a limb amputation and up to 5.6 times more likely to suffer kidney disease than other people with diabetes.
• African-Americans are three times more likely to die of asthma than white Americans.
• Deaths from lung scarring — sarcoidosis — are 16 times more common among blacks than among whites. The disease recently (2004) killed former NFL star Reggie White at age 43.
• Despite lower tobacco exposure, black men are 50% more likely than white men to get lung cancer.
• Strokes kill 4 times more 35- to 54-year-old black Americans than white Americans. Blacks have nearly twice the first-time stroke risk of whites.
• Blacks develop high blood pressure earlier in life — and with much higher blood pressure levels — than whites. Nearly 42% of black men and more than 45% of black women aged 20 and older have high blood pressure.
• Cancer treatment is equally successful for all races. Yet black men have a 40% higher cancer death rate than white men. African-American women have a 20% higher cancer death rate than white women.
Marksans Pharma Limited Issues Expansion of Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Metformin Hydrochloride Extended-Release Tablets, USP 500mg & 750mg, Due to the Detection of N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA)
Summary
Company Announcement Date:
October 02, 2020
FDA Publish Date:
October 05, 2020
Product Type:
Drugs
Reason for Announcement:
Due to the Detection of N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) Impurity
Company Name:
Marksans Pharma Limited
Brand Name:
Time-Cap Labs Inc.
Product Description:
Metformin Hydrochloride for Extended-Release Tablets, USP 500 mg and 700 mg
Risk Statement: NDMA is classified as a probable human carcinogen (a substance that could cause cancer) based on results from laboratory tests. NDMA is a known environmental contaminant found in water and foods, including meats, dairy products and vegetables. Marksans Pharma Limited has not received any reports of adverse events that have been related to this recall.
The risk of developing cervical cancer was reduced by 88 percent in women who had been vaccinated before age 17, and by 53 percent in those vaccinated between ages 17 and 30, according to the study of nearly 1.7 million girls and women.
A large Swedish study found the HPV vaccine substantially reduces a woman’s risk of developing cervical cancer, especially in women who were immunized at a younger age.
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