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Alongside High-Profile Advocates, 4DMedical Presses Lawmakers for Pilot Lung Screening Program WASHINGTON , March 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- 4DMedical, the leading developer of functional imaging software for respiratory illness, made the rounds on Capitol Hill Wednesday urging lawmakers to harness the latest emerging technologies to treat veterans suffering from exposure to toxic burn pits. 4D is asking Congress to allocate funds for a pilot program to implement their non-invasive lung screening technology at 3–5 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) sites around the country. Joining 4D in the nation's capital was a quartet of nationally known veterans' advocates: Le Roy Torres and his wife Rosie, founders of Burn Pits 360; Ohio resident Tim Hauser , an Air Force veteran who for suffers from constrictive bronchiolitis, and Kevin Hensley , a Michigan veteran of the U.S. Air Force who also suffers from constrictive bronchiolitis. Hensley, Hauser and Le Roy Torres have ...

The common cold is a respiratory viral infection. It is one of the most common illnesses, with adults contracting around two to three colds yearly—kids contract even more. A cold is generally a mild infection that resolves in a few weeks with rest and plenty of fluids. However, a cold can become more serious, developing into pneumonia or bronchitis. This is more common in people with underlying health conditions, like asthma. This article explains a common cold's symptoms, treatment, and possible complications. eclipse_images / Getty Images Symptoms of a Cold As a respiratory virus, colds have symptoms that affect your nasal passages, lungs, and throat. Common cold symptoms include: Most people do not experience a fever with a cold, although it is possible to have one. More than 200 viruses cause a cold, but rhinovirus is the most common culprit. Cold vs. Flu vs. COVID-19 Flu (caused by the influenza virus) and C...

Dear Doc: Whenever my child is sick, I get out the thermometer. If their temperature is above 98.6, I treat it. I've heard that might not be the best thing for my child. Any truth in that? — Kim, from Edgerton Dear Kim: My mom was one of those — if I felt hot, she took my temperature and then dissolved an aspirin in a spoon and gave it to me. Tylenol had not been invented, nor had ibuprofen. I can still taste that disgusting stuff in the spoon — and, by the way, it was the wrong medicine to give. If a child has a viral infection and you give aspirin, it can cause Reye's syndrome, a rare serious event that causes swelling of the liver and brain. It can affect kids and teens, especially after influenza. Bad choice of drug for those situations. And that's why you have to wonder whether we should give fever-reducing drugs in the first place. For a fever of about 100 degrees, it's best not to give anything. Better to make your child more comfortable by putting a cold washc...

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One person wrote, "Why do I feel air coming out my phone?" and others said that they played the video when their phone was heating up and it worked and brought their device's temperature down. Of course, a TikTok video is not going to actually cool off a phone, but it can make your mind think it is getting colder. So why is it happening? Well a psychologist explained to the Daily Mirror that "it is an example of the power of suggestion combined with sensory input designed to simulate the real thing." She stated, "We have grown to associate the feeling of being cold with seeing an air conditioning unit up close while also listening to the sound of it circulating the cool air." Regardless, with the summer months not far away, it might be a good idea to remember this video on those hot days ahead.

This post is part of our Home Remedy Handbook, a tour of the landscape of home remedies from the iffy to the doctor-approved. Read more here. Children under 4 years old shouldn't use over-the-counter cough and cold medicines, the FDA has warned. So what do you do instead? Try home remedies, which "may work better than medicines" for young children, the American Academy of Pediatrics says. Read more The AAP also notes that you don't have to treat a child's symptoms just because they have a cold. If your kid is acting normally and the cough or runny nose don't seem to bother them, no action is needed. This includes fevers: While you should call the doctor for a fever over 102 (or, for infants under 2 months, 100.4), fevers under that cutoff tend not to bother the child and don't need specific treatment. When to avoid cold medicines for kids First of all, let's look at the recommended age limits for over-the-counter cough and cold medicines. Under 4 year...

Ticks are obligate hematophagous arthropods that are the second most prevalent vectors of human zoonotic pathogens after mosquitoes ( 1 ). Ticks harbor a vast number of pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and protozoa ( 2 ). Emerging tickborne disease (TBD) agents that cause human infections, such as Borrelia miyamotoi and Rickettsia tamurae , have been reported ( 3 ). In Europe, ticks most frequently implicated in human infectious diseases are Ixodes , Rhipicephalus , and Dermacentor spp. ( 4 ). Tularemia, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and tick-borne encephalitis are the 3 TBDs under specific surveillance by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ( 5 ). Surveillance of other TBDs relies mainly on national reference centers, reports, literature analysis, and serologic surveys. Most TBDs have geographic disease patterns, and distribution evolves with climatic conditions and human behavioral modifications. Monitoring TBDs is critical for developing optimal prevention and...