Fight menstrual cramps with food. Here’s how | CNN

Fight menstrual cramps with food. Here’s how | CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Eat, But Better: Mediterranean Style. Our eight-part guide shows you a delicious expert-backed eating lifestyle that will boost your health for life. CNN  —  About 85% of girls suffer painful bloating, cramps and abdominal pain during their monthly periods — and for some the problems can last for years. “Since menstrual … Read more

Human Cocaine and Heroin Addiction Is Found Tied to Impairments in Specific Brain Circuit Initially Implicated in Animals – Neuroscience News

Human Cocaine and Heroin Addiction Is Found Tied to Impairments in Specific Brain Circuit Initially Implicated in Animals – Neuroscience News

Summary: Greater impairment of the prefrontal cortex-habenula pathway was correlated with earlier age of first drug use. Source: Mount Sinai Hospital White matter in the brain that was previously implicated in animal studies has now been suggested to be specifically impaired in the brains of people with addiction to cocaine or heroin, according to a … Read more

Night owls at high risk of certain chronic diseases, study says | CNN

Night owls at high risk of certain chronic diseases, study says | CNN

Sign up for the Sleep, But Better newsletter series. Our seven-part guide has helpful hints to achieve better sleep. CNN  —  If you prefer to go to bed and get up later – a sleep chronotype known as being a night owl – you may be at higher risk for type 2 diabetes and heart … Read more

Rabies-infected bat discovered in Orange County

Rabies-infected bat discovered in Orange County

Local Orange County health officials are alerting the public after a bat tested positive for rabies in Fountain Valley on Wednesday. The infected bat was discovered in the parking lot of a pickleball court located near 16400 Brookhurst Street, according to the OC Health Care Agency. Visitors are being asked to stay alert and avoid … Read more

Worries over stigma are driving a push to rename monkeypox, but the process is slow | CNN

Worries over stigma are driving a push to rename monkeypox, but the process is slow | CNN

CNN  —  Since the beginning of the monkeypox outbreak, scientists and activists have pushed for the name of the virus and the disease to be changed to something “non-discriminatory” and “non-stigmatizing.” Public health experts have worried that stigma could steer people away from getting tested and vaccinated. A new name can help slow the spread … Read more

The USDA is sprinkling fish-flavored vaccines from the sky to fight rabies :: WRAL.com

The USDA is sprinkling fish-flavored vaccines from the sky to fight rabies :: WRAL.com

By Zoe Sottile, CNN It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… an oral rabies vaccine, dropped from the sky. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has initiated its annual oral rabies vaccine distribution, a project that will continue through October. The project is focused on preventing the spread of raccoon rabies from the eastern United States into … Read more

‘Zombie deer’ plague Ohio and Midwest: What we know

‘Zombie deer’ plague Ohio and Midwest: What we know

Deer are becoming infected with a disease that’s creeping into Ohio and other parts of the Midwest. On Monday, police in southern Ohio were called to look into a bizarre sighting on the side of the road. “This deer was just standing there and unresponsive to us, just like… like it wasn’t afraid,” said James … Read more

Mystery illness that killed dozens of dogs across Michigan identified

Mystery illness that killed dozens of dogs across Michigan identified

Veterinarians have identified the disease that killed more than 20 dogs in a single Michigan shelter as parvovirus. From the beginning, veterinarians identified that the symptoms of the previously mysterious illness matched that of parvovirus, but dogs tested negative for the virus. The Otsego County Animal Shelter initially reported it was seeing its dogs die … Read more