This content originally appeared on TCOYD: Taking Control of Your Diabetes. Republished with permission. Did you know that a regular coffee shop hot chocolate can easily have 400 calories, 40 grams of carbs and 40 grams of sugar? Delicious, but yowza! Be your own barista and give this one a try – it’s under 200
Month: February 2021
Researchers have created a dataset of COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome to help characterize lung compliance and hypoxemia, which may help administer better treatments. The severity of COVID-19, the disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), ranges from no symptoms in some patients to severe disease, including death in
Dr. Michael Osterholm, Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, announced advances for COVID-19 testing in Minnesota, Wednesday, April 22, 2020 in St. Paul, MN. Glen Stubbe | Star Tribune | Getty Images An epidemiologist who advised
New research from the University of Iowa and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center demonstrates that offspring can be protected from the effects of prenatal stress by administering a neuroprotective compound during pregnancy. Working in a mouse model, Rachel Schroeder, a student in the UI Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, drew a connection between the work
“The rooster isn’t causing the sun to come up.” — Paul Offit, MD, of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, commenting on how a physician who died after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine does not imply a causal relationship between the two events. “He knows about EHR [electronic health record] adoption, he knows about interfaces — the
Registry data reaffirmed extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) as a reasonable strategy for COVID-19 patients with severe respiratory problems, with most survivors discharged home and several going on to receive lung transplants. Survival outcomes were outlined for 189 consecutive COVID-19 patients who had received ECMO support at 20 institutions at the time of the analysis: 98
Ever felt the pain of overhearing a friend talking about you behind your back? Or maybe the guilt of knowing you revealed a secret that was shared with you in confidence? Growing up, I always associated friendships with drama, so imagine my shock when I discovered that this didn’t need to be the case and
Prescription drug prices in the United States are more than 250% times higher overall than those in 32 other countries, according to a new report from the RAND Corporation. The gap between prices was even higher for brand-name drugs, with US prices 3.44 times more than those in the other countries. Meanwhile, prices for generic