Reuters Health News Summary

Following is a summary of current health news briefs. Women often keep impact of menstrual pain, bleeding to themselves

Many women who suffer from menstrual symptoms like pain and heavy bleeding don't tell their families or doctors about it even when it interferes with their ability to keep up with daily routines, a Dutch study suggests. Among nearly 43,000 girls and women who responded to an online nationwide survey, 85 percent said they experienced painful cramping during their periods, 77 percent had symptoms of mood disorders, and 71 percent suffered from tiredness or exhaustion. China's Inner Mongolia reports human infection of H7N9 bird flu virus: Xinhua

China's Inner Mongolia region reported on Saturday a case of human infection with the H7N9 bird flu virus, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The same bird flu strain killed almost 300 people in the country during the winter of 2016/2017. New nursing home patients may wait to see a doctor

When Medicare patients are discharged from a hospital to a skilled nursing facility, the time it takes for a doctor or advanced-level practitioner to see them for a first evaluation can vary widely, a new study suggests. About one in six initial medical assessments occur more than four days after nursing home admission, for example, and one in 10 patients never get such an assessment during their nursing home stay, according to the report in Health Affairs. Hospital staff errors with gowns and gloves spread bacteria

Healthcare workers caring for infectious patients sometimes make mistakes when removing personal protective garments, resulting in contamination of clothes or equipment with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a small study shows. "No one is perfect and inadvertent healthcare worker contamination with multi-drug resistant organisms can occur and may be a key step in the spread of potential pathogens in healthcare settings," said lead study author Dr. Koh Okamoto of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Workplace yoga can indeed lower employee stress

People who get to do yoga at work may be less stressed out than their peers who don't, a research review suggests. At any given time, as many as one in six working people suffer from stress and other symptoms related to mental illness, researchers note in Occupational Medicine. Yoga is one of many approaches a growing number of employers are using to combat stress and improve workers' mental health, but research to date has offered a mixed picture of how well these efforts are working. CDC investigates E.coli outbreak in several states

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and several other U.S. agencies are investigating an E.coli outbreak in five states, the CDC said https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2019/o103-04-19/map.html on Friday. The CDC, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and several states are investigating the outbreak of toxin-producing E.coli O103 infections.