A new study revealed that while long COVID was relatively rare in children, it was still prevalent in hospitalized adolescents, who were over the age of 14. The study, recently published in JAMA Network Open, is one of the largest to ever investigate the lingering effects of COVID-19 in children, with more than 2,000 of them
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 symptoms continue to “improve significantly,” though he still has a lingering sore throat, according to a Sunday update from his doctor. Biden’s runny nose, coughing, and body aches have “diminished considerably,” and his pulse, blood pressure, respiratory
Amid the current political turmoil, the Government must remain focussed on a solution to post-Brexit science funding and opportunities for international collaboration. Here, our policy department gives us an update on the current state of play, what you can do to help and what we know about the Government’s ‘Plan B’… Last year, we wrote
Have you ever wondered if plants could get cancer? Or even dinosaurs? What about how we treated cancers way back when we didn’t have access to modern medicine? Or what the next steps are in bringing us one step closer to a world free from cancer? All those questions, and many more, are answered in
What is self-destructive behaviour, why do we develop destructive patterns, and what can we do to move past these negative behaviours? Have you ever found yourself doing something, even though you know it’s not good for you? We all engage in behaviours that aren’t good for us from time to time. Whether unintentional or intentional,
Afraid of heights, flying, spiders? A new virtual reality-based app might be able to help you. According to the American Psychological Association, a phobia is a form of anxiety disorder that’s defined by a “persistent and irrational fear of a specific situation, object, or activity.” Present in about 12.5% of adults in the United States,
WHO Declares Monkeypox a Public Health Emergency By the numbers: Monkeypox outbreaks have been reported in 74 countries around the world, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There have been more than 16,000 cases worldwide; of those, 839 cases have been reported in New York City. Symptoms: Single ulcers, anal lesions, and
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In this article ONEM AMZN One Medical clinic One Medical For the better part of a decade, One Medical has been my primary care provider. It’s convenient, with locations around the Bay Area, and I like being able to schedule a same-day physical or get a quick referral to a specialist. One Medical knows a
We often hear the phrase ‘growing pains’ used by the general public to describe muscle or joint pain in young people and the term is also used by health professionals. However researchers have found there is no consistent medical definition of the condition behind a diagnosis. A broad review of medical literature by University of
“We are in very scary times.” — Michal Elovitz, MD, a Pennsylvania maternal-fetal medicine specialist, discussing the American Board of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ decision to make its board certification exam virtual this year in part due to safety concerns after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. “I thought it was the extreme act of courage,
The unvaccinated young adult began experiencing weakness and paralysis about a month ago, county Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert said Thursday. The case comes nearly a month after the UK Health Security Agency warned that it had detected poliovirus in its surveillance of London sewage samples, indicating that there had been some spread between
Learning about stomach (gastric) cancer can be intimidating. Mohamad (Bassam) Sonbol, M.D., an oncologist at Mayo Clinic, walks you through the facts, the questions, and the answers to help you better understand this condition. For more reading visit: https://mayocl.in/3IW8Gm7. When it comes to your health, Mayo Clinic believes credible and clear information is paramount. There’s
Here are five things I wish I had known before my first day of medical school. Having these down will make the transition much easier. Your study efficiency, happiness, wellbeing, and satisfaction with life will all improve. The sooner you can incorporate all five, the quicker medical school will feel less like medical school and
New research led by scientists at Arizona State University has revealed some of the first detailed molecular clues associated with one of the leading causes of death and disability, a condition known as traumatic brain injury (TBI). TBI is a growing public health concern, affecting more than 1.7 million Americans at an estimated annual cost
As the monkeypox outbreak continues, health officials have started tracking virus clusters in large gatherings like pool parties and music festivals to understand how it spreads. In an interview with CNN, Lori Tremmel Freeman, chief executive officer of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, said this response has two different aspects. “One is
Emma Sherman, a 13-year-old girl in Ascot, United Kingdom, woke up to a dizzying aura of blind spots and flashing lights in her field of vision. It was May 2020, and she also had crippling nausea and headaches. By August, her dizziness was so overwhelming, she couldn’t hold her head up, lying in her mother’s
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As the COVID-19 virus continues to mutate and infect people across the globe, health experts pointed out why the vaccine for the new variant is taking so long to arrive. Two years into the pandemic, it’s become clear that one of its biggest challenges is the constant virus mutation that forces vaccine manufacturers to come up
An overreliance on spirometry to identify emphysema led to missed cases in Black individuals, particularly men, based on a secondary data analysis of 2,674 people. “Over the last few years, there has been growing debate around the use of race adjustment in diagnostic algorithms and equations commonly used in medicine,” lead author Gabrielle Yi-Hui Liu,
President Joe Biden, who tested positive today for Covid-19 this morning, posts on Twitter “Folks, I’m doing great. Thanks for your concern. Just called Senator Casey, Congressman Cartwright, and Mayor Cognetti (and my Scranton cousins!) to send my regrets for missing our event today.” Courtesy: White House President Joe Biden likely has the BA.5 Covid-19 variant
Nearly 6 percent of children who presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with COVID-19 reported symptoms of long COVID 90 days later, according to a study conducted in eight countries and published in JAMA Network Open. Initial hospitalization of 48 or more hours, four or more symptoms at the initial ED visit, and age 14
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, here is a 10-question quiz based on the news of the week. Topics include the first
“There are two different aspects of this response,” Lori Tremmel Freeman, chief executive officer of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, told CNN. “One is heavily concentrated, rather narrowly, on events that occur that can be the hotbeds for the spread,” Freeman said, including large dance parties and pool parties. “Coming off
Philosophers have long struggled to define human consciousness. Now, a team of researchers led by neurologists at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has pinpointed the regions of the brain that may play a role maintaining it. Read the full story at https://hms.harvard.edu/news/how-do-you-know-you-know Like Harvard Medical School on Facebook: https://goo.gl/4dwXyZ Follow on
Learn more about the all-new Med School Insiders Casper Course: https://medschoolinsiders.com/casper Premeds often worry about things like GPA, MCAT, and letters of recommendation when preparing for medical school applications; however, there is an increasingly common metric that you need to be aware of. The Casper test is designed to give medical schools insight into an
Researchers at the Universities of Bonn and Osnabrück have discovered a protein whose defect causes motor disorders in flies. The protein had also previously been found in human patients with Parkinson’s disease. So far, however, it was not known what function it has in the cell. The study now provides an answer to this question.
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