Eating a low quality diet, high in foods and food components associated with chronic inflammation, during pregnancy may be associated with an increased risk of obesity and excess body fat in children, especially during late-childhood. The findings are published the open access journal BMC Medicine. Researchers from University College Dublin, Ireland found that children of
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“That’s a demand that utterly outstrips the supply that we have.” — Jim Jackson, PsyD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, on a study suggesting that many COVID survivors have post-traumatic stress disorder. “It’s like taking a football and shoving it into a pipe with the diameter of a golf ball.” — David Nauen,
You’re in school to become a doctor, and you’ve been putting in the hours, but you still can’t quite get those perfect grades you’ve always wanted. Those that ace all their classes simply have some X factor that you don’t. Maybe it’s their smarts, or discipline, or willingness to have no life. That’s not quite
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. In the first week after the national COVID-19 emergency declaration of March 13, 2020, weekly vaccinations of Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and older declined as much as 62% compared with the corresponding period in 2019, according to a report published
This content originally appeared here. Republished with permission. Fat bombs are bite-sized snacks that are sugar-free, very low in carbohydrates, and high in fat, and they can be sweet or savory. They’re usually designed to help keep you in ketosis, but you don’t have to be in ketosis to enjoy fat bombs. Our bodies need
Disorders of the cells’ energy supply can cause a number of serious diseases, but also seem to be connected to aging. More research is needed on mitochondrial function to find future treatments. A new study involving researchers at Karolinska Institutet shows how an important molecule inside the mitochondria affects their function in mice and fruit
by Samantha Putterman, PolitiFact “Pfizer and Moderna could share their design with dozens of other pharma companies who stand ready to produce their vaccines and end the pandemic.” — Feb. 3 in a Facebook post This story was produced in partnership with PolitiFact. It can be republished for free. Vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna earned praise
Sometimes, depression can creep up on us in unexpected and subtle ways. Did you know about these unusual symptoms? Depression is one of the most prominent mental health conditions worldwide, and it’s likely that if you haven’t experienced it yourself, someone close to you has. For some, depression can be something that affects them in
A company-initiated recall of two models of EMBLEM S-ICD (Boston Scientific) subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator pulse generators has been categorized as Class I by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency announced today. The FDA notes that the advisory, which was communicated to patients and doctors in December, applies to 2825 of the
People wearing protective masks wait in line to receive a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a large scale vaccination site in Sacramento, California, on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Scientists and health officials told Congress Friday the federal government needs to ramp up its supply of
Parent education programs and interventions that begin shortly after the birth of a child have shown to significantly impact parenting behaviors that support social and academic engagement for children growing up in poverty, according to a study led by pediatricians and psychologists across the country, including NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Steinhardt, and the
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
Encourage your own happiness and growth this March. Explore ways of overcoming personal challenges, and be inspired to nurture your own mental wellbeing 1. Page-turners All On The Board: Inspirational quotes from the TfL underground duo What began as just two Transport for London employees who wanted to brighten up a ‘Keep Right’ sign with
by Judith Graham Robin Davidson entered the lobby of Houston Methodist Hospital, where her 89-year-old father, Joe, was being treated for a flare-up of congestive heart failure. This story also ran on CNN. It can be republished for free. Before her stretched a line of people waiting to get covid-19 vaccines. “It was agonizing to
Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Yes, the vaccines already authorized for emergency use against SARS-CoV-2 infection were developed relatively quickly. However, speediness does not equal sloppiness, and all necessary steps were taken in the process, experts said this week. Dr Matthew Zahn “The speed with which safe and effective
We are nearly a year into the pandemic, which has all but frozen life as we used to know it. It has required a shift in thinking, and a transition to doing most everything at home: work, school, and even exercise. Most gyms across the country are either still closed or operating at extremely limited
February 12, 2021 – Enrollment has begun to test additional investigational drugs in the Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) program. ACTIV is a public-private partnership program to create a coordinated research strategy that prioritizes and speeds development of promising COVID-19 treatments and vaccines. The new agents entering the randomized, placebo-controlled study are part of ACTIV-2, an adaptive
Award-winning entrepreneur Leanne Pero has been working solidly for the past 20 years while also living with the aftermath of cancer and childhood abuse. Here, she shares how burnout signalled to her that it was time to stop, re-evaluate, and start prioritising her own mental health Leanne Pero is an award-winning entrepreneur, founder of Black
Pulse oximeters have become popular during the COVID-19 pandemic for people to track their oxygen saturation, but they may not always be accurate, the FDA cautioned in new guidance released Friday. Several factors can affect the accuracy of pulse oximeters, including poor circulation, skin temperature, skin thickness, current tobacco use, use of fingernail polish, and
President Joe Biden said Friday that once the coronavirus pandemic has been defeated, his administration will target another deadly disease: Cancer. “I want you to know that, once we beat Covid, we’re going to do everything we can to end cancer as we know it,” Biden said in a speech after touring Pfizer’s massive coronavirus
Researchers have launched a new study into a little-known phenomenon that prevents people from recognizing members of their own immediate family or sometimes even their own reflection. Judith Lowes, of the Psychology division at the University of Stirling, is leading the three-year study into developmental prosopagnosia-sometimes referred to as “face-blindness” – which impairs a person’s
Despite recent media hype over the supposed effectiveness of one dose of the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines, the FDA and government scientists aren’t budging from the two-dose approach, officials said at a press briefing on Friday. Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, argued that one dose doesn’t
In April of 2007, OncoLink launched the OncoLife Survivorship Care Plan, a tool to create care plans for people who have survived cancer. As that tool reaches the milestone of 100,000 care plans created, OncoLink’s Managing Editor, Carolyn Vachani, looks back on the program’s origins. In 1996, The Institute of Medicine published a report called
Nearly 60,000 women in the United States die every year due to tobacco-related cancer. In 2014, it was 70,000. According to the Office of the Surgeon General and Office on Smoking and Health, Smoking is now directly responsible for 80% of lung cancer deaths in women in the U.S annually. Lung cancer became the leading
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is one of my favorite books from 2016. In this two part video, I go over a book summary and my thoughts on Mark Manson’s most recent book. SAONGAF: http://geni.us/10lQiZr My thoughts and summary of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k are organized in two
Get in the zone with these tracks from across the genres We’ve all be there, your to-do list is sitting untouched while your mind wanders and brain fog descends. You need to get your head in the game, but how? Music has the ability to both soothe and energise us, and can have a real
If you’re used to keeping your phone in a shirt pocket, bra, or any other chest mount, it might be time to reconsider The iPhone 12 introduced a new quality of life feature– MagSafe– that may have an impact on some pacemakers and other medical devices. While the name was originally used for a type
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