Five tips to help you manage anxiety when returning or starting university amid the COVID-19 pandemic For the thousands of students across the UK who are going to university this month, life couldn’t look more different to the students of 2019. With a global pandemic still lurking, many of the usual Freshers and welcome-back get-togethers
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In the interest of public health and safety, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) is calling for the elimination of daylight saving time in favor of permanent year-round standard time — a recommendation that has garnered strong support from multiple medical and other high-profile organizations. “Permanent, year-round standard time is the best choice to
If the culture at work is causing you anxiety, and making you doubt your abilities, the good news is that things can change. Here we share how to regain your confidence If you’re struggling with self-confidence at work, thinking there is something wrong with you, please stop. Take a step back, and look at things
We get it. Wearing a mask can be uncomfortable. They’re hot. They get damp if you exert yourself. The elastics may hurt your ears. So it can be tempting to try using a face shield instead – a clear plastic shield that covers your face from your forehead down. But shields were never meant to be
Final 18-month results of the EVAPORATE trial suggest icosapent ethyl (Vascepa) provides even greater slowing of coronary plaque progression when added to statins for patients with high triglyceride levels, but not all cardiologists are convinced. The study was designed to explore a potential mechanism behind the cardiovascular event reduction in REDUCE-IT. Previously reported interim results
Harvard Medical School alumnus Doug Kelling, a practitioner of primary care medicine, shows pluck in a time of change. Visit the Winter 2013 issue of Harvard Medicine magazine to learn more about Kelling and the state of primary care in the United States: http://hms.harvard.edu/harvard-medicine Like Harvard Medical School on Facebook: https://goo.gl/4dwXyZ Follow on Twitter: https://goo.gl/GbrmQM
This is what I wish I knew before I became a doctor. Now that I’m on the other side of medical school and have earned my M.D., there are a lot of things I didn’t know as a pre-med. Support the channel and become a Patron! Earn exclusive perks. Visit https://patreon.com/medschoolinsiders There are many misconceptions
Sep 7 2020 Thought LeadersDr. Bradlee L. HeckmannJohn H. Sununu Endowed Fellow in ImmunologySt. Jude Children’s Research Hospital In this interview, Dr. Bradlee. L. Heckmann from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital speaks to News-Medical about a new pathway that could potentially treat Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s is the 6th leading cause of death in the US.
News FDA Alerts Corgiomed LLC Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of All Lots of Leafree Instant Hand Sanitizer Aloe Vera Labeled as EDIBLE ALCOHOL September 3, 2020 Print this page Audience: Consumer, Health Professional September 3, 2020 — CorgioMed, LLC is voluntarily recalling all lots of Leafree Instant Hand Sanitizer-Aloe Vera, within expiry to the consumer
National security advisor, John Bolton, right, attends a meeting with President Donald Trump and President of Chile, Sebastian Piñera in the Oval Office of the White House on September 28, 2018 in Washington, DC. Oliver Contreras | The Washington Post | Getty Images Former national security advisor John Bolton said Friday that President Donald Trump‘s
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Sep 5 2020 Early identification and treatment is vital to avoid long-term mental health consequences from COVID-19 among children and young people, say researchers. Writing in the Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy Journal, the psychologists from the University of Bath highlight how health anxieties can be triggered by changes like returning to
Welcome to this week’s edition of Healthcare Career Insights. This weekly roundup highlights healthcare career-related articles culled from across the Web to help you learn what’s next. Ericka L. Adler, JD, cautions practices and physicians wanting to offer wellness services to make sure these services comply with state and federal laws — Wellness services may
Last month, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who recently joined the board of Phoenix Biotechnology and has a financial stake in the company, said he had participated in a July meeting at the White House with President Donald Trump regarding the use of oleandrin as a potential therapeutic for the coronavirus. The extract comes from the
Teenagers and people over age 65, the two groups most at risk for car accidents and injuries, are more likely to drive less safe cars. That is the finding of a new study from the Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the first large-scale, statewide analysis of vehicle safety
About one-third of all patients with psoriasis will develop psoriatic arthritis (PsA), a condition that comes with a host of vague symptoms and no definitive blood test for diagnosis. Prevention trials could help to identify higher-risk groups for PsA, with a goal to catch disease early and improve outcomes. The challenge is finding enough participants
Lifesaving surgery at four months old led Flo to a mental breakdown when she was just eight, and resulted in a childhood defined by mental health. As a teenager, Flo had the lightbulb moment to stop letting her mental illnesses define her While my birth was pretty straightforward, when I was four months old everything
When the COVID-19 pandemic was first announced by the World Health Organization earlier this year, few people imagined the impact it would have on our lives all these months later – with no signs of improvement coming any time soon. Every day people are continuing to struggle with this new reality and many who were
Early administration of evolocumab significantly reduced levels of LDL cholesterol in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention, according to data from an open-label randomized trial of 102 adults in Japan. Data from previous studies have shown that proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitors can reduce LDL cholesterol in acute
By Heather Nelson Rapid advances in telehealth have provided doctors a level of convenience (1) that lends itself to well-rounded patient care. In this article, we will highlight some benefits of telemedicine relating to diabetes management. Rise of Diabetes Distance Care Telemedicine is the use of technology in delivering medical care to patients from a
Synthetic biologists at Harvard Medical School and Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have devised a new, more environmentally sustainable way to produce antimicrobial silver nanoparticles at the mesoscale using biological rather than inorganic chemical methods. The new technique from the laboratory of Pamela Silver, described in ACS Synthetic Biology, reengineers bacterial capsules to
Print this page TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Aug. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) today announced that the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published positive results from the Phase 3 trial of evinacumab in 65 patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH). Evinacumab is an investigational medicine that binds to and blocks the function of angiopoietin-like 3 (ANGPTL3), and is
A group of drugmakers competing to bring a coronavirus vaccine to market plan to issue a public statement as soon as next week that says they will not seek government approval until enough data has been collected to ensure the drugs are safe and effective, CNBC confirmed Saturday. An early draft of the joint statement
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Sep 5 2020 Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), believed to be linked to COVID-19, damages the heart to such an extent that some children will need lifelong monitoring and interventions, said the senior author of a medical literature review published Sept. 4 in EClinicalMedicine, a journal of The Lancet. Case
The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up can be a challenge. As an aid for our readers and for a little amusement, here is a 10-question quiz based on the news of the
Atlas, a neuroradiologist who wrote a book on magnetic resonance imaging, said it doesn’t matter that he has no expertise in epidemiology or infectious diseases; he accused public health experts of ignoring data; said the US was doing better compared to Europe in terms of coronavirus deaths and claimed — incorrectly — that the case
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According to findings, unrealistic beauty standards are increasing the pressure that girls feel to look a certain way Posting photos online should be a fun way to express yourself and stay in touch with friends and family, but new findings from Girlguiding’s annual Girls’ Attitude survey has highlighted a worrying trend among young people. In
Vaccines take time to develop. That’s a fact. So as soon as the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the race for a new vaccine took off. Unfortunately, this sense of urgency has also lead to potentially misleading statements and forecasts about the how a vaccine might be ready by the end of the summer, by early fall, and