Tag: Medicine/Health

Credit: Graphic created by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, using bacterial illustrations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine expert weighs devastating impact of COVID-19 on health care workers

Credit: Graphic created by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, from data in Razzak et al, PLOS ONE 15(12): e0242589 During ...

Telemedicine needed to diagnose and treat dysphagia in COVID-19 patients, doctors say

Credit: Graphic created by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, with public domain images. COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the ...

Physicians say non-contact infrared thermometers fall short as COVID-19 screeners

Credit: Public domain image While a fever is one of the most common symptoms for people who get sick with ...

Resistance training paired with peanut protein affects muscle health in older adults

The mask matters: How masks affect airflow, protection effectiveness

A computer model deepens our understanding of airflow while wearing face masks, where particles land in the respiratory tract and ...

Fast walking in narrow corridors can increase COVID-19 transmission risk

Long streams of virus-laden droplets can trail behind infected individuals walking through a narrow corridor, impacting safe social distancing guidelines.Credit: ...

Study shows women less likely to survive out-of-hospital cardiac arrest than men

Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - Dec. 15, 2020 - A study of patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest ...

‘Alarmingly high’ vitamin D deficiency in the United Kingdom

Credit: University of South Australia Over 50 per cent of Asians living in the UK are severely deficient in vitamin ...

Survivors of child abuse twice as likely to die young

Credit: University of South Australia Globally the statistics are daunting. Across countries and communities between 15 and 50 per cent ...

Do tumors stiff-arm the immune system?

An old dog with new tricksCredit: Alan Herbert In a paper just published in the Journal for the Immunotherapy of ...

Costs, COVID-19 risk and delays top older adults’ concerns about seeking emergency care

Findings could help hospitals improve emergency department care and follow-up for people aged 50 to 80Credit: University of Michigan Even ...

COVID-19 preprint data rapidly influenced critical care practice

Credit: ATS Dec. 15, 2020-- In a new research letter published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of ...

Structural racism severely impacts the health of foreign-born Blacks and Latinx

New study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine highlights the magnitude of the disparities in health of racial/ethnic minorities ...

Researchers assess regenerative patch for spina bifida defect

Credit: Ramesha Papanna, MD, MPH Researchers are investigating whether a human umbilical cord patch placed on the spina bifida defect ...

Dallas Heart Study yields new insights about depression

UT Southwestern researchers find links between inflammation, menopause, and depressive disorderCredit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - Dec. 14, 2020 ...

Emerging from the fog: Little understood post-stroke cognitive issues are verified

Credit: Marsh et al. After Julia had a minor stroke, she was thankful for receiving rapid treatment and recovering well. ...

A human gene placed in fruit flies reveals details about a human developmental disorder

Meier-Gorlin syndrome is a rare genetic developmental disorder that causes dwarfism, small ears, a small brain, missing patella and other ...

West Nile virus infection risk is higher in less affluent neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD

Study finds abundance of infected mosquitos varies with neighborhood incomeCredit: Photo by Edwin Remsberg In Baltimore, Maryland, people living in ...

One-year kidney allograft outcomes do not differ by hepatitis C status of donor