The stigma stops here. Is your workplace doing enough to become menopause friendly? Our expert columnist Claudine Thornhill investigates… Does your workplace have a menopause policy yet? If not, one may be on its way to a workplace near you. In July 2022, the government policy paper, Menopause and the Workplace: How to enable fulfilling
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has decided to allow the Novavax monovalent COVID-19 booster for adults amid the ongoing pandemic. Earlier this week, CDC director Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, signed a decision memo allowing people aged 18 and above to receive the Novavax monovalent shots instead of the updated bivalent boosters
Preexisting statin use may help protect hospitalized patients with COVID-19 against negative outcomes, including death, a large retrospective analysis suggests. Compared with patients who didn’t take statins, statin users had better health outcomes. For those who used these medications, the researchers saw lower mortality, lower clinical severity, and shorter hospital stays, aligning with previous observational
CNN — In September, an 8-month-old baby came into Dr. Juanita Mora’s office in Chicago with an infection the doctor hadn’t expected to see for another two months: RSV. Like her peers across the country, the allergist and immunologist has been treating little ones with this cold-like virus well before the season usually starts. “We’re
Major depressive disorder affects women twice as often as men, but researchers are still trying to identify the reasons why. Researchers at Michigan State University have recently received a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue their investigation of how male and female brains respond to stress differently and how testosterone
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Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Monday’s key moments. Healthcare and staples leading the market Quick mentions: META, DIS, SBUX 1. Health care and consumer staples leading the market Stocks gained on Monday, with health-care and staples stocks leading
Celiac disease (CD) is an immune-mediated enteropathy that arises due to permanent gluten sensitivity in genetically susceptible individuals. Between 1975 and 2000, CD prevalence increased fivefold in the United States. Improved recognition of a heterogeneous presentation, better screening, and increased disease awareness may be responsible for the increased diagnosis of this disease. Other factors likely
Why does this 5-year-old boy have pebbled bumps covering his shoulder blades and hair growing all over his back? That’s what Piyush Kumar, MD, of Madhubani Medical College and Hospital in India, and colleagues asked in their report published in JAMA Dermatology. The child’s parents, who were in a non-consanguineous marriage, explained that the boy
Intimacy generally refers to the closeness between people in a personal relationship. Typically building over time as you feel a deeper sense of connection, grow to care more about each other, and feel more comfortable together, you can be physically and/or emotionally close to someone. For many people, the more you work on deepening your
ocal authorities have confirmed the deaths of six people in the U.S. who tested positive for monkeypox (MPV/MPX/MPXV). This is said to be a “stark reminder” that the virus remains a potentially dangerous illness even amid the declining cases. New York City has logged two deaths and so has Chicago, according to CNN. Maryland and Nevada,
The study covered in this summary was published on medrxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaway Why This Matters People with LFS have nearly a 100% lifetime risk of developing a wide range of cancers. Patients routinely undergo intensive surveillance, which significantly improves survival but is also burdensome to
A talk by David A. Sinclair, PhD, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and co-director of the Glenn Labs for the Biological Mechanisms of Aging. Moderated by Freda C. Lewis-Hall, MD, DFAPA, executive vice president and chief medical officer of Pfizer and a member of the HMS Board of Fellows. Harvard Medical School MED-EDs
Buy PDFs here: http://armandoh.org/shop “Supraventricular tachycardia is an arrhythmia which occurs above the ventricles. Examples of SVT include Atrial tachycardia, Atrial flutter, Atrial Fibrillation and AVRT and AVNRT. AVNRT is the classic SVT and is a result of abnormal/unsynchronised electrical transmission from the AV node to the ventricles. Normally conduction from the right atrium to
It might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you’re reeling off therapeutic activities, but fishing is making a splash in the wellness space. Here, we meet the people and organisations that have discovered something very special lurking just below the waterline No, this isn’t clickbait: fishing really can improve your mental
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has tested positive for COVID-19. The public health agency announced Saturday via its website that Walensky tested positive for the virus on Friday night, adding that she’s up to date with her vaccines and only experiencing mild symptoms. Walensky is following the CDC’s
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) from patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancers can reflect treatment response, spare some additional treatment, or signal potential remission in those with metastatic cancer, a new study reveals. The blood-based test for ctDNA “can detect tumor DNA in circulation and thus identify even a microscopic cancer that would not
CNN — Two researchers are urging health-care providers to educate and screen pregnant women about intimate partner violence, as women in the United States are more likely to be murdered during pregnancy or postpartum than to die of common obstetric causes such as high blood pressure, hemorrhage or sepsis. Other research suggests that they are
In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* server, researchers in Germany and Switzerland evaluated 11 commercial reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) kits (A to L) for Monkeypox virus (MPXV) detection. Study: Evaluation of eleven commercially available PCR kits for the detection of Monkeypox virus DNA. Image Credit: Salov Evgeniy / Shutterstock Background From May 2022, cases of
Professor Monica Trujillo holds up wastewater samples at a lab at Queens College on August 25, 2022, in New York City. Since the first polio case was identified in July in New York’s Rockland County, the disease has been detected in New York City sewage, suggesting the virus is spreading. Angela Weiss | AFP |
An innovative program to support children with reading difficulties helped them make significant progress when used online, new analysis shows. Own-Voice Intensive Phonics (OVIP) approach is a computer-assisted instruction system which has already been shown to be effective as part of face-to-face tuition as part of previous research. The first evaluation study of the online
Last month, 15,000 nurses went on strike in Minnesota in the largest private-sector nursing strike in U.S. history. They were protesting understaffing and overwork at a time when provider burnout has reached epidemic proportions — approximately 63% of physicians and 80% of nurses now report symptoms of burnout. Meanwhile, healthcare continues to struggle with overwhelming
Talking about divorce can be tricky no matter what your situation. We asked experienced therapists and solicitors to answer your top questions about telling your partner you want a divorce (and how to approach things if you’re worried about your mental or physical wellbeing) Divorce. It’s still considered a taboo subject despite how common it
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a new brief about how smokers develop age-related macular degeneration and how people living with them also have the same risk for early vision loss. In a news release posted on its website Thursday, the WHO highlighted how people living with tobacco users are twice as likely to
A new type of electrode made from sugar could help doctors and researchers more effectively monitor contractions during preterm labor, a condition that precedes almost half of preterm births and is the leading cause of US neonatal deaths. The sensors, developed by engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis,
Teeth falling out your mouth and stumbling walks… what can our dreams tell us about ourselves? And how can we learn to interpret them? Humans have been searching for the meaning of dreams for a very, very long time. In fact, the Babylonian Dream Tablet offers a series of dream interpretations – including “If he
Black mothers giving birth in hospitals are 53% more likely to die during childbirth than are Hispanic and White women, according to researchers who attributed the gap at least in part to bias among physicians and the healthcare system. Dr Robert White The United States is in the midst of a maternal healthcare crisis, said
CNN — Covid-19 vaccines will be part of recommended immunization schedules in 2023 for both children and adults, after a unanimous vote by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. That doesn’t make the vaccines mandatory for anyone, a point that was emphasized in a discussion before Thursday’s
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