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BOSTON A multidisciplinary team from MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC), Brigham and Women s Hospital and other institutions have identified the mechanism of how an extremely rare but serious post-COVID-19 complication develops in children and adolescents. Led by MGHfC pediatric pulmonologist Lael Yonker, MD, researchers determined that viral particles remaining in the gut long after an initial COVID-19 infection can travel into the bloodstream, instigating the condition called Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C).
The syndrome can occur several weeks after an initial infection; symptoms include high fever, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, rash and extreme fatigue. The hyperinflammatory response and cytokine storm seen in MIS-C can lead to extensive damage in the heart, liver and other organs.
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Gut Feelings: The microbiome and our health by Alessio Fasano and Susie Flaherty reveals how understanding this alien inner world will make it possible to target medicines to an individual’s needs at the molecular level.
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An Impossible Project, streaming on digital platforms from 15 March, celebrates the return of analogue formats, from Polaroid to vinyl. The film highlights the work of Viennese biologist Florian “Doc” Kaps to reverse the tide of technological “progress”.
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Double Blind by Edward St Aubyn leaps from London to Cap d’Antibes in southern France to a rewilded corner of Sussex, UK, in a thrilling and mischievous tale of ecology, psychoanalysis, genetics and neuroscience.
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+ January 26, 2021 THIS issue might be water under the bridge as President Rodrigo Duterte has repudiated the decision of the Inter-agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) allowing children 10 years old and above in places under modified general community quarantine (MGCQ), citing the new United Kingdom (UK) variant that infected some children in Bontoc, Mountain Province. But, still, I am writing this for the sake of academic discussion as this might be brought up again in the near future amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Supposedly, effective this Feb. 1, persons aged 10 to 65 will be allowed to go out of their houses in areas under MGCQ. This, after the IATF approved the recommendation to relax the age-based restrictions for areas placed under MGCQ. The entire island of Cebu, including its independent and highly urbanized cities, is under MGCQ.
How Your Gut Health Affects Your Disease Risk
A chain reaction in your gut can leave you vulnerable to chronic inflammatory disease
The critical importance of gut health is getting more attention. A significant proportion of your immune system resides in your gastrointestinal tract, which means optimizing your gut microbiome will have far-reaching effects on your physical health and emotional well-being.
Mounting scientific evidence also continues to suggest a large component of nutrition centers on nourishing health-promoting bacteria in your gut (and elsewhere in and on your body). Take care of these beneficial bacteria and you’ll keep harmful microbes in check and shore up your protection against chronic disease.
Woman tried to kill her parents after gluten sensitivity induced psychosis: case study Doctors told the woman to follow a gluten-free diet, instructions she promptly ignored because her delusions led her to believe they were plotting against her
Author of the article: Dave Yasvinski
Publishing date: Dec 24, 2020 • December 24, 2020 • 3 minute read • Is there a connection between celiac disease and psychiatric disorders? GETTY
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A previously healthy 37-year-old woman had doctors in search of the missing ingredient when a sudden psychosis turned her life into something out of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.