Child's Toy Whirligig Inspired Stanford Researchers To Invent Low-Cost, Hand-Powered Blood Centrifuge and other top stories.

• Child's Toy Whirligig Inspired Stanford Researchers To Invent Low-Cost, Hand-Powered Blood Centrifuge

  

  Stanford researchers took inspiration from a whirligig, a child's toy that has been around since ancient times, and developed a low-cost, hand-powered centrifuge that will enable prompt diagnosis and treatment in off-the-grid regions where diseases like tuberculosis, HIV, African sleeping sickness, and malaria are prevalent. In a study published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering, Manu Prakash and colleagues detailed the development and creation of the "paperfuge." Built from just 20 ..

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• It's all good: Any exercise cuts risk of death, study finds

  

  Weekend warriors, take a victory lap. People who pack their workouts into one or two sessions a week lower their risk of dying over roughly the next decade nearly as much as people who exercise more often, new research suggests.Even people who get less exercise than recommended have less risk than folks who don't break a sweat at all."If someone is completely inactive, the best thing they can do is even getting out and taking a walk," said Hannah Arem, a health researcher at George Washington U..

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• This might be how stress and heart attacks are linked

  

  Activity in the amygdala, a region of the brain associated with fear and stress, can predict your risk for heart disease and stroke, according to a study published in the journal The Lancet on Wednesday."The study produced several novel findings. It showed, for the first time in animal models or humans, the part of the brain -- the amygdala -- that links to the risk of subsequent cardiovascular disease," said Dr. Ahmed Tawakol, co-director of the cardiac PET/CT program at Massachusetts General H..

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• Clearing up another mammogram muddle

  

  So what’s the bottom line? Rahbar said that although it’s true some DCIS lesions might not need to be treated, there’s currently no reliable way to determine this. The good news, he said, is that “these lesions are the earliest form of breast cancer and are extremely curable.”   So what should a woman do if she gets a mammogram and is told she has DCIS? “I would absolutely recommend that any patient diagnosed with DCIS seek treatment at a comprehensive cancer center that can provide a range of ..

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• Physically active men may improve their prostate cancer prognosis

  

  There are various treatments involved in beating back a prostate cancer diagnosis. Sometimes a man may feel that he is at the mercy of his doctor recommending treatments that can be worrisome, possibly resulting in long-term side effects. However ...

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• Parents View New Peanut Guidelines With Guilt and Skepticism

  

  Since the new guidelines were announced last week, many parents, alarmed by the recommendation that peanut-containing foods be deliberately fed to infants, have lashed out at the medical community in social media posts.A new parent who gives peanuts to a baby “could be sentencing them to death,” said Peggy Cottle, of Dayton, Ohio, who has a child with a peanut allergy.Ms. Cottle said that it often seems like every year a new study comes out that negates an earlier study. “There is no definitive..

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• Does Nutella cause cancer? Maker fights back on palm oil concerns

  

  Concerns are rising in Europe after a explosive new report that links cancer to Nutella. The report says the use of palm oil is the problem. Buzz60Nutella pots on display in a creperie in Rome.(Photo: Alberto Pellaschiar, ASSOCIATED PRESS)The maker of Nutella is fighting back against claims that a key ingredient in the hazelnut and chocolate spread may cause cancer.Italian food giant Ferrero recently launched an advertising campaign in Italy that assures consumers that palm oil used in ..

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• Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just made pediatricians' jobs a lot harder

  

  Knema Rezaei Bazazidad, a pediatrician at Austin Regional Clinic Southwest, examines a child prior to updating her immunizations. (Courtesy of Austin Regional Clinic and Leindani Creative) Donald Trump just made my job harder. The work of every medical provider for children is likely to become more difficult, and our nation may well become sicker. Yesterday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that Trump had asked him to head a commission to study the safety of vaccines. Saying “we ought to be d..

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• Woman Who Acquired Zika Locally in US Had Unusual Rash

  

  A pregnant woman locally infected in the United States with the Zika virus presented with an unusual rash last year, according to a report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Lucy Chen, MD, with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Florida and colleagues, described the case. On July 7, 2016, a 23-year-old woman who was 23 weeks and 3 days pregnant and had not yet sought prenatal care, presented with a 3-day fever, widespread itchy rash, and sore throa..

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