Ten to thirty percent of all Covid patients will suffer from long-haul symptoms, according to the latest research from Mt. Sinai’s Center for Post-Covid Care. Those numbers should be a “wake-up call” for young people and motivate them to avoid infection, Dr. Peter Hotez of Texas Children’s Hospital said on CNBC’s “The News with Shepard
Month: February 2021
Low-income mothers feminize their children in the womb by adjusting their hormones, whereas high-income mothers masculinize their children, a major study based on finger length, led by a Swansea University expert, has found. The phenomenon is an unconscious evolutionary response aimed at boosting their offspring’s chances of successful reproduction. It helps, in part, explain associations
Inhaled budesonide (Pulmicort), a steroid generally used to treat asthma, dramatically reduced the need for hospitalization in COVID-19 patients within a week of symptom onset, a small randomized trial in the U.K. found. Among 139 patients with mild COVID-19 symptoms, 10 in the control group required either a COVID-19-related urgent care or emergency department (ED)
WASHINGTON — Non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) continues to be necessary for many Medicaid patients, but it has issues that need to be resolved, speakers said at a meeting of the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC). “The best investment in health isn’t always in healthcare,” said MACPAC Commissioner Kisha Davis, MD, MPH, regional
Exercise can be a good tool to help boost energy and general wellbeing. Cancer patients often turn to it to see if it will help clear their minds and fight back against some of the effects of their treatment. Is higher intensity in a workout better than a more relaxed pace? According to a new
Worried about getting back on the road after lockdown? Here are some tips to help ease the anxiety If you’ve not been driving much over the past few months, chances are you might feel a little worried about getting back on the road when lockdown restrictions ease. And, if you are suffering from driving nerves
Graduate medical education (GME) funding is linked with better patient outcomes and resident academic performance but did not boost hospitals’ bottom line, according to an analysis involving 1298 academic hospitals. Critics have questioned both how hospitals are using the $10 billion a year in subsidies from the federal government and the accounting of the money,
Incoming Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley shared his vision for the future of HMS and was formally welcomed to his new role by Harvard President Drew Faust at a celebration in the Medical Education Center on Jan. 4. Read the full story at https://hms.harvard.edu/news/celebrating-future Like Harvard Medical School on Facebook: https://goo.gl/4dwXyZ Follow on
Father of two and author of the recently released Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home, shares how being a dad completely changed his perspective on life and writing, on Happiful’s podcast I am. I have Nikesh Shukla’s podcast Brown Baby has the most joyful intro music I have heard in recent times.
The KRAS inhibitor sotorasib provides durable clinical benefit in heavily pretreated patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring KRAS p.G12C mutations, results of a phase 2 trial suggest. “This is a historic milestone in lung cancer therapy. After 4 decades of scientific efforts in targeting KRAS, sotorasib has potential to be the first targeted
It’s becoming more and more common: whether in a coffee shop in Silicon Valley or in a weightlifting gym in Boulder, Colorado, people without diabetes are using continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) to “hack” their blood sugars, lose weight, and hone their diets accordingly. This article will explore the use of CGMs in the non-diabetic population,
Feb 8 2021 More than one year into the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), new variants have emerged, causing concerns vaccines may not work quite so well against some of them. In the United Kingdom, a new SARS-CoV-2 variant, called the variant of concern VOC 202012/01 or
FDA Approves Breyanzi (lisocabtagene maraleucel) CAR-T Cell Therapy for Adults with Relapsed or Refractory Large B-cell Lymphoma PRINCETON, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE) February 5, 2021 — Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Breyanzi (lisocabtagene maraleucel; liso-cel), a CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy for
Richard Besser, who served as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under former President Barack Obama, said the U.S. is better off continuing to focus on getting patients both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine despite the slow rollout. On CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith,” Besser agreed with comments made earlier
California mom Megan Bacigalupi has had enough. She wants her kindergartner and second grader back in their Oakland classrooms. But the coronavirus is spreading too quickly to open schools in Alameda County, based on the current state standards. And the local teachers union hasn’t agreed to go back — even after teachers have been vaccinated.
Music legend Tony Bennett, 94, has just broken his silence about a big secret. In an interview for AARP, Bennett revealed that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease 4 years ago! Although he’s been able to work over those four years, the toll on his mental faculties has become increasingly noticeable. Although he still recognizes
Receiving the COVID-19 vaccine is an important step towards ending the pandemic – congratulations! Once you have received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, you may be wondering what’s next. The vaccine is shown to be 95% effective about a week or two after the second dose is received. It is important to remain vigilant
Teresa Murphy has been teaching for 27 years, most recently at Spanish Lake Elementary School in Hialeah, Florida. She takes the time to educate her students on not just their subjects, but also about helping their communities. This school year, she’s teaching perseverance by example, and her school district is honoring her in the process.
Mobile electrocardiography (mECG) devices can go places a standard 12-lead electrocardiography system can’t, with fewer technicians in tow, but it doesn’t have the same functionality — their most advanced use these days is detection of atrial fibrillation. But research on several fronts aims to endow a prominent mECG system the capability to measure the heart-rate-corrected
Our favorite convertible diaper changing station. Photo by DaVinci “Whose turn it is to change the baby’s diapers?” While you both love your baby to the moon and back (likely more), feeling the occasional urge to pass the buck is understandable. But since changing diapers is in both your futures for quite sometime, organizing the
New experimental vaccines could stop the worst effects of synthetic fentanyl and carfentanil, two drugs that have been major drivers of the opioid epidemic in the U.S., according to a new study published in ACS Chemical Biology on Wednesday. During several experiments in mice, the vaccines prevented respiratory depression, which is the main cause of
President Biden, a long-time champion of both expanded access to healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, just froze a move made by the Trump administration late in his term aimed at reducing the cost of insulin. This has some advocates fearing that Biden essentially “canceled” affordable insulin in his first week in office. So, what’s going
London, UK / Tuebingen, Germany / Boston, USA – February 3, 2021 — GlaxoSmithKline plc (LSE / NYSE: GSK) and CureVac NV (Nasdaq: CVAC) today announce a new € 150 million collaboration that builds on their existing collaboration. The aim of the cooperation is to develop next-generation mRNA vaccines that have the potential of a
Healthcare workers administer Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines at a vaccination site inside a church in the Bronx borough of New York, on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. Angus Mordant | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Joe Biden won’t commit to achieving herd immunity to the coronavirus in the U.S. by the end of summer, suggesting a long
Neuroscientists at McMaster University have found a link between children who are at risk for developmental coordination disorder (DCD), a common condition that can cause clumsiness, and difficulties with time perception such as interpreting changes in rhythmic beats. Accurate time perception is crucial for basic skills such as walking and processing speech and music. “Many
“It’s a version of an experiment. You have to really treat that, in my mind, as an experiment and get people’s informed consent.” — Arthur Caplan, PhD, of NYU Grossman School of Medicine, on changing COVID-19 vaccine dosing from what was tested in the registration trials. “Hard to argue with results from 40,000 patients.” —
Our top pick for diaper changing table. Photo by Graco Babies need diapers, babies need parents to change the diapers. As for what parents need to meet baby’s needs, we offer this advice to make the process easier. We suggest buying a diaper changing station. More luxury than necessity, the best tables boast extra storage,
Don’t get caught in a trap, learn how to spot manipulation in action, and break free for good Throughout our lives, we’re bound to come into contact with manipulative people. It could be in the workplace, in a friendship, or a relationship – it might even be a family member. Manipulation comes in many different
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