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The health benefits of gardening may be a reason to nurture your green thumb.Gardening gets us moving, fills our lungs with fresh air, is naturally meditative, and can be deeply nourishing, both literally and figuratively.But research also shows that in getting some dirt-with its bacteria and other microscopic denizens-under our fingernails, we may also boost our gut health.

Cases of gonorrhoea in England have reached record highs, new figures show.Meanwhile, the number of syphilis cases diagnosed in England has reached the highest level since just after the Second World War.Infectious syphilis diagnoses increased to 8,692 in 2022, the largest annual number since 1948, new figures from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) show.

A murder-accused nurse has told jurors that mistakes by hospital colleagues led to the death of one of her alleged victims.Lucy Letby, 33, told Manchester Crown Court that a delay in giving antibiotics to the newborn girl's mother after her waters broke early may have had an impact.Letby allegedly administered air to the infant via an intravenous line while she worked a night shift at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email A dog owner who ignored vets' recommendations that her beloved pet of 18 years who helped her cope with the death of her brother be put down three times, said her canine friend is thriving now.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails UK charities have teamed up with corporate giants to send more than 350,000 worth of emergency supplies to Turkey following the devastating earthquake.The emergency aircraft departed from London Heathrow for Adana on Tuesday, carrying clothes, blankets and almost a tonne of infant milk powder.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email A woman and her 12-year-old grandson say they have been left "traumatised" after being attacked by a dog at a UK holiday park.Cheryl May and her grandson Zac were both injured in the dog attack at St Ives Holiday Park in Cornwall on 15 February.

Germany's disease control agency warned Thursday that rising temperatures due to global warming will increase the likelihood of heat stroke, vector-borne illnesses and other health risks in the country.The Robert Koch Institute said lung diseases from forest fires and agricultural dust may become a growing problem, as will skin cancer due to increased ultraviolet radiation as Germany experiences longer periods of cloud-free weather.

An American alligator rescued from Prospect Park Lake on Sunday had swallowed a four-inch-wide bathtub stopper and is not strong enough for it to be removed right now, the Bronx Zoo said in a statement on Wednesday evening.The alligator, a female, is too weak and unresponsive to eat on its own and is being tube-fed, according to the statement from the zoo, which has been caring for the animal since its rescue from the park.

The alligator rescued from a New York City park last week had swallowed a bathtub stopper, according to an update from zoo officials.The wayward gator was discovered in Brooklyn's Prospect Park Lake by workers for the New York Department of Parks and Recreation last Sunday.Since then, the reptile, found emaciated and suffering from the cold weather, has been cared for by the city's Bronx Zoo.

Pioneering new technology could help patients with non-healing wounds avoid infections and the need for antibiotics, scientists say.Wirelessly powered, environmentally friendly smart bandages have been developed by a team of scientists from the UK and France, with the University of Glasgow and the University of Southampton leading the research.

There is a lot to enjoy for a new fan introduced to thoroughbred racing.There is the beauty of the animals, the thrill of watching them move and the joyful feeling of outsmarting the other horseplayers and cashing a bet.But there is a cold fact about the sport that can be hard for fans and impossible for critics to accept: Sometimes a horse gets hurt, and sometimes it is euthanized, often right on the track.

Cronobacter sakazakii, the bacteria that contaminated a major infant formula manufacturing plant and led to a nationwide shortage, is a common natural pathogen.It's harmless for most people, but it can be life threatening for infants, especially those who are born prematurely or with weakened immune systems.

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of child neglect over the death of an eight-year-old linked to the Strep A infection in Wales.A 33-year-old woman was arrested by Dyfed-Powys Police on Friday after the sudden death of a child the day before in Lampeter, Ceredigion.She has been released as inquiries continue, the BBC reported.

As if parents don't have enough to worry about between the flu, RSV, Covid and all the other viruses circulating, here's something new to add to the list of anxieties: severe cases of bacterial infections caused by strep A. Alongside a wave of garden-variety strep throat and scarlet fever, parts of Europe are seeing an increase in invasive strep A infections - the kind where the bacteria finds its way into places where it can do more damage, like the bloodstream, lungs or heart.

By Low De Wei | Bloomberg A deadly drug-resistant fungus spreading across the US saw a dramatic uptick in cases during the Covid pandemic, with more than half of all states now reporting cases.Candida auris (C.auris) was first described in Japan in 2009, with the earliest known infections in the US dating back to 2013.

As an A&E doctor, I start every consultation these days by apologising for the long wait.For some of my patients, it means a scramble to organise emergency childcare.Others miss the window to access the best treatments for strokes or heart attacks.The waiting room is a hotbed of emotion.My patients are understandably furious that they've been left in a windowless waiting room for hours with limited food and water, inadequate pain relief and little information about when they might be seen (aside from the hourly PA announcement that the current wait time is 15 hours and is expected to increase).

After contracting bacterial meningitis, legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck died Wednesday at the age of 78, according to a statement posted to his official social media accounts and confirmed to CNN by his agent.On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck's passing, the statement read.

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Labour would give people greater choice over where they receive hospital treatment, the shadow health secretary has pledged.Wes Streeting said organising waiting lists by region would give patients more freedom and help tackle backlogs.Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is expected to commit to delivering the idea across England during a speech on Monday.

Because ministers have missed their target to recruit 6,000 new GPs in England by a wide margin, they have now produced a set of fixes designed to relieve pressure on general practice by directing people elsewhere.These changes will extend the orbit of primary care to pharmacists and even receptionists, ensuring, according to the NHS chief executive, Amanda Pritchard, that patients won't need to go to a GP unless they really need to see a GP.

Americans are confronting a shortage of several major drug treatments.Some cancer patients are struggling to get chemotherapy drugs.Antibiotics are scarce after winter's severe flu season.Medications for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are in short supply.Even children's Tylenol has been hard to find, as my colleague Christina Jewett wrote.

Iguanas, those pesky green critters that come out in full force during the summer months in South Florida, are more than just a nuisance.They also pose health risks.While touching an iguana or its feces can cause salmonella, a new Centers of Disease Control & Prevention report links an iguana's bite to a rare bacterial infection called mycobacterium marinum.

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By the time his lanky arms first reached the wall, it was clear nobody in the pool at Riverside City College was going to challenge Rex Maurer."He's going to lap them," muttered Justin Lee, a student at Pasadena Poly, from a crowd of awed spectators."At a CIF final.

After returning from a vacation at Lake of the Ozarks, Olivia Goodreau found herself resting her head on her desk at school a lot.At the time, the then 8-year-old wasn't fully able to articulate what that meant to her parents and teachers."I started feeling very behind and slow and I kind of had a feeling that I wasn't feeling normal or like myself," the now 18-year-old from Denver tells TODAY.com.

On December 18, 2019, Wuhan Central Hospital admitted a patient with symptoms common for the winter flu season: a 65-year-old man with fever and pneumonia.Ai Fen, director of the emergency department, oversaw a typical treatment plan, including antibiotics and anti-influenza drugs.Six days later, the patient was still sick, and Ai was puzzled, according to news reports and a detailed reconstruction of this period by evolutionary biologist Michael Worobey.

The Biden administration has proposed new rules that will require patients to have an in-person medical evaluation before being prescribed most prescription medications by their doctors, with limited exceptions, according to a statement released on Friday.Under the new rule proposals from the Drug Enforcement Agency, patients would still be able to get less-addictive medications, such as antibiotics or birth control, prescribed to them by their doctors via telehealth.

A biotech company in Georgia has received conditional approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the first vaccine for honeybees, a move scientists say could help pave the way for controlling a range of viruses and pests that have decimated the global population.It is the first vaccine approved for any insect in the United States.

Two more people have died and more details of horrifying eye infections are emerging in a nationwide outbreak linked to recalled eye drops from EzriCare and Delsam.The death toll now stands at three, according to an outbreak update this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.A total of 68 people in 16 states have been infected with a rare, extensively drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain linked to the eye drops.

It was his yellow, bloody eyes that gave his illness away.The previously healthy 18-year-old showed up at an emergency department in the Netherlands after two days of fever, vomiting, and diarrhea.His heart was beating rapidly and his abdomen was a bit tender.The whites of his eyes were splotched with blood, a sign that blood vessels on the surface of his eyes had burst.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria as seen under a microscope.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 68 people have become infected with a drug-resistant strain of the bacteria, with many infections linked to the use of contaminated eye drops.Janice Haney Carr/AP The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it's investigating a drug-resistant strain of bacteria that caused severe injuries in 68 patients, including three deaths, across the U.S. The CDC says most of the patients infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa reported using artificial tears or eyedrops.

Ashley Mellen thought she was doing everything right for her health - eating lots of fruits and vegetables, buying organic, opting for grass-fed beef and not using any toxic substances in her home.The stay-at-home mom of three says she felt so well that she had taken no pain medicine, antibiotics, over-the-counter or prescription drugs since her 20s.

The poor thing!The emaciated alligator found in a Brooklyn pond Sunday morning remains in poor health while undergoing treatment at the Bronx Zoo, officials said Wednesday night.The reptile called Godzilla is being tube fed because it's too weak to eat on its own, zoo officials reported, and has a 4-inch-wide bathtub stopper in its stomach that must be removed.

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Madison Muller | (TNS) Bloomberg News Clusters of infections linked to the use of eye drops have been found in four states, according to U.S. health officials tracking the outbreak that's already led to the death of one person.At least 35 of 56 cases related to the recalled eye drops have been reported from California, Connecticut, Florida and Utah, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesperson.

A third child aged under 10 in Scotland has died with Strep A infection, health officials have said.Public Health Scotland (PHS) said it is aware of 17 deaths amongst invasive group A streptococcal infections (iGAS) cases between October 3 and January 15, an increase of four since the previous report.

A n otherwise healthy 26-year-old is urging young people to take up the flu vaccine after he was hospitalised for a week over the festive period - amid a surge in cases across the capital.Olly Browning, from Oval in south London, who has no underlying health conditions, was left in intensive care needing oxygen after he contracted influenza and it led to pneumonia.

Parents in England are being warned by health officials to keep children home from school if unwell and with a fever.In a statement on Monday, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) issued advice for simple steps' to protect children and adults from high rates of seasonal flu and coronavirus.The warning is applied to children in schools and nursery settings.

The road to his first World Series championship wasn't entirely magical for Kiké Hernández.Hernández was dealing with some dental trouble when the Los Angeles Dodgers kicked off their playoff run in 2020.But it was a ripple effect from the issue that led to the most embarrassing moment of Hernández's Major League Baseball career to date.

The 2020 season was one of the most memorable in recent memory and not for good reason as the COVID-19 pandemic affected lives across the globe, but the Los Angeles Dodgers were able to bring some joy into an overall poor year.The Dodgers won their first World Series since 1988 and had a historic National League Championship Series comeback after falling down 3-1 to the Atlanta Braves.

It's been 50 years since Michael Lesy's influential cult classic Wisconsin Death Trip was published.A documentary text of found material, the book gathered prosaic historical photos of Wisconsin residents from the turn of the 20th century and paired them to haunting effect with fragmentary newspaper archives from the same time period reporting on often garish deaths what our critic Dwight Garner, evaluating the book for its anniversary, called horrific local news items that point, page by page, toward spiritual catastrophe.

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said in a social media post published Wednesday that prison authorities have placed him in a one-person cell for six months, a move his lawyer described as part of authorities' efforts to damage Navalny's health.Navalny, 46, said on Instagram that he had been denied the opportunity to visit with his family for the past eight months.

The German government said Tuesday that it will allow health insurance companies to pay more for pediatric medications that are in short supply in the country.Germans have scrambled to find basic drugs such as painkillers in recent weeks amid delivery bottlenecks and higher-than-usual demand.Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said insurers that form the backbone of the German public health system will be able to pay 50% more than the legally set price for patent-free medicines.

The mother of a young boy who suffered brain damage as a result of an infection which left him gravely ill within hours of his birth at a Shrewsbury hospital has called for lessons to be learned from maternity care failings.Adam Cheshire, now aged 11, spent nearly a month in intensive care after being diagnosed with Group B Strep (GBS) and meningitis following his birth at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in March 2011.

The parents of a law student who died after a series of remote consultations with doctors and nurses say they hope an inquest will raise awareness of the need for GP practices to see patients face to face.Musician David Nash, 26, had four phone consultations with a Leeds GP practice over a 19-day period, but none of the clinicians spotted that he had developed mastoiditis in his ear, which caused a brain abscess, sparking meningitis, his family have said.

Health This is the first time five different classes of antibiotics were found to be less effective against a strain of gonorrhea.The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) is warning residents of a new strain of drug-resistant gonorrhea detected in the state.The DPH said in a news release Thursday that multiple antibiotics were found to be less effective against this strain of gonorrhea.

A neurosurgeon who investigated the death of a 26-year-old law student after a series of remote GP appointments, concluded he probably would have lived if he had been taken to hospital earlier, an inquest has heard.Simon Howarth conducted an inquiry following the death of musician David Nash, who was taken to hospital after four phone consultations with a Leeds GP practice over a 19-day period in October and November 2020 and then five calls to NHS 111.

A living medicine' has been created to tackle drug-resistant lung infections.The breakthrough offers a new strategy to combat the leading cause of mortality in hospitals.In experiments, it worked on mice infected with pneumonia.Antibiotic resistant bugs are one of the biggest threats facing mankind, according to the World Health Organisation.

For a third consecutive day, Montefiore has been short 3,500 nurses at their three Bronx locations, and for patients and employees who spoke with Bronx Times reporters Wednesday, those absences are starting to show.Montefiore workers said that nursing assignments have been filled by unfamiliar and inexperienced staff workers, particularly in ICU and maternity units.

At least 30 children have now died in the UK from invasive Strep A disease (iGas), new figures show.Some 25 under-18s have died in England from the infection so far this season, dating between September 19 and December 25, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said.Two under-10s in Scotland have died with iGas since October 3, Public Health Scotland announced on Wednesday.

The heartbroken parents of a 22-month-old toddler have told how they found her dead - just hours after she was sent home from hospital.Little Hailey Thompson was diagnosed with a virus on 18 December, but her family were told to keep giving her fluids and paracetamol instead of antibiotics.But early the next day, her parents Kris Thompson, 32, and Iboyla Adam, 35, found her unresponsive in her bedroom.

M ore cases of diphtheria among asylum seekers have been reported in England, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said.The total number of cases for the year so far now stands at 67, figures published on Tuesday show.The UKHSA said five cases of diphtheria among asylum seekers were reported between December 12 and 18.

With an early and severe flu season straining resources, the Biden administration says it will release the prescription antiviral Tamiflu from the Strategic National Stockpile to states and territories that request it.The US Department of Health and Human services said Wednesday this should help ease access to the medication  one of several types of medicines patients have sometimes struggled to find amid a surge of respiratory viruses, including flu, RSV, Covid-19 and others.

The number of patients in hospital with flu in England has skyrocketed according to new data, sparking warnings that this season could be more severe than in pre-pandemic years.An average of 1,939 people with flu were in hospital each day last week, up 67% on 1,162 the previous week, according to NHS England.

More cases of diphtheria among asylum seekers have been reported in England, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said.The total number of cases for the year so far now stands at 67, figures published on Tuesday show.The UKHSA said five cases of diphtheria among asylum seekers were reported between December 12 and 18.

Muscle and Health magazine named Gorji in their international selection of  5 Restaurants Every Foodie Must Visit at Least Once in the Fall 2022 issue.Across the world, the other four restaurants are Lu Ban, Liverpool, UK; Beefbar at Lou Pinet, Saint Tropez, France; Klein Jan at Tswalu Kalahari, South Africa; and Al Sud, Algarve, Portugal.

A mother has shared Strep A warning signs after her daughter fell victim to the infection - leaving her hospitalised and unable to walk.Kadie Dolphin, 37, first noticed symptoms of the infection on 8 November - just hours later six year-old Nancie Rae was in hospital.She had severe swelling and was unable to walk.

The government has issued a second wave of emergency rule changes to allow pharmacists to supply alternative medicines to treat Strep A to cope with antibiotic supply problems amid a surge in cases.It comes as the latest data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), released on Thursday 15 December, showed cases of the bacterial infection rose 27 per cent in the last week.

There are currently three times more cases of scarlet fever than usual, a senior health official has said.The latest figures show that at least 19 children have now died across the UK from invasive Strep A disease.Professor Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), said the vast majority of children affected have a mild illness and that an open mind is being kept as to why there is a spike in infections.