A mom and ER doctor says her 7-year-old daughter recently started hallucinating and hearing voices. The pediatrician didn’t panic, because she recognized her daughter’s distress as a classic sign of infection. Fevers, our body’s attempt to fight viruses like the flu, can prompt brief periods of delirium. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up!…
When Covid-19 struck Jerry Guerinot in January 2021, the stocky 77-year-old defense attorney, who already had diabetes and heart disease, developed double pneumonia and was given a 5% chance of survival. After three months in a Houston hospital, he beat those grim odds. But Guerinot’s scarred lungs and weakened immune system set him up for…
A mother is speaking out about how dangerous respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, can be as her 2-year-old battles the disease. Jazlynmae Gonzalez just spent her birthday in the pediatric ICU at the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque and has been trying to fight off the virus for the last two weeks. Her…
Summary: Alzheimer’s disease onset may be accelerated by viruses that inflame and disrupt signals from the olfactory system to the hippocampus, a new study reports. Source: University of Colorado Viruses can inflame and disrupt connections between the olfactory system, which governs the sense of smell, and the part of the brain associated with memory and…
The first signs of age-related illness such as cognitive decline can be challenging to spot, unlike cardiovascular disease or other primarily physical ailments such as diabetes. But the problem can be particularly challenging to identify when it starts progressing at a younger age, especially as it can often get mistaken for other issues. Unfortunately, such…
Is THIS why women are twice as likely to get dementia as men? Menopause takes brakes off ‘danger protein’, scientists show for first time About two-thirds of America’s 5million Alzheimer’s patients are women Scientists used to think this was because they lived longer than men But now a new study suggests the difference could be…
Parkinson’s disease strikes nearly 90,000 older Americans a year, 30,000 more than was previously estimated, according to a study published Thursday. Incidence rates differed across the country. States with higher rates of older residents saw more diagnoses of the disease, whose risk typically increases with age, but so did some “Rust Belt” states in the Northeast and…
COVID-19 isn’t the only virus spreading rapidly this holiday season. After a quiet flu season last year, influenza is now on the rise in California, and the state is in the “very high” category for virus transmission, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Amid the surge, you may be wondering if it’s too…
Comment on this story Comment It started in mid-September with Vance, 5, who came down with RSV and wheezed so badly that his skin was pulling in and out of his ribs with every breath. His little brother Banks, then 11 months old, caught it too. Things were just starting to get better in October,…
Group A streptococcus. (BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Health agencies are issuing warnings to parents about invasive group A streptococcus (iGAS), a common bacterium that usually causes mild illness but can sometimes result in severe cases and even death in young children. Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is…
