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February is American Heart Month, a time to highlight the top cause of death in Americans: heart disease. This year, the American Heart Association is highlighting the “Don’t Die of Doubt” awareness campaign, which focuses on reminding people that, even during the pandemic, hospitals are the safest place to go when symptoms of heart disease crop up.
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What does bile acid production in the digestive tract have to do with Parkinson’s disease? Quite a lot, according to a study published in
The findings reveal that changes in the gut microbiome may in turn alter bile acid production by favoring synthesis of toxic forms of the acids.
These shifts were seen only in people with Parkinson’s and not in healthy controls, a critical difference that suggests bile acids may be a viable biomarker for diagnosing Parkinson’s early and tracking its progression. The insights also may provide new avenues for developing therapies that impede Parkinson’s-related changes in the gut, thereby potentially slowing or stopping disease onset and progression, a media release from Van Andel Research Institute explains.
CANTON Dr. Timothy Crone hit the ground running this week.
The new president of Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital started in the role Tuesday, which included visiting each unit of the Canton hospital and meeting employees. There s a very positive energy here. There s a lot of excitement and enthusiasm. It s just been fantastic so far, he said. Honestly, it was a fun day. It was a really fun day yesterday.
The former Mercy Medical Center officially became part of the Cleveland Clinic health system Monday after more than a century as a Sisters of Charity hospital.
The hospital will maintain its Catholic identity through sponsorship by the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine.
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Interview Highlights
On The Criminalization of Girls of Color In Schools
Dr. Morris outlines this broader landscape that starts when girls are very, very young in school. The ways in which they re treated, the ways in which they’re perceived, the ways in which their bodies are understood and criminalized, and their behaviors are pathologized. If we see these tendencies that show up early on that push black and brown girls out of education pathways and into more criminalized atmospheres, what results then is that we are reifying systemic barriers that have significant implications on their life chances, and also remove black and brown girls from the ability to make significant contributions to our community and to our society.
Metabolites. The findings reveal that changes in the gut microbiome the rich population of helpful microbes that call the digestive tract home may in turn alter bile acid production by favoring synthesis of toxic forms of the acids.
These shifts were seen only in people with Parkinson s and not in healthy controls, a critical difference that suggests bile acids may be a viable biomarker for diagnosing Parkinson s early and tracking its progression. The insights also may provide new avenues for developing therapies that impede Parkinson s-related changes in the gut, thereby potentially slowing or stopping disease onset and progression.