I tried a TikTok beauty trend… but it destroyed my face Regina Quaye, 24, from Ghana, suffered acne breakouts after shaving her face A woman claims that she destroyed her face by attempting a seemingly harmless TikTok beauty trend. Regina Quaye, from Ghana, resorted to DIY ‘dermaplaning’ to get rid of her ‘peach fuzz’ in […]
Dr John Williams, a paediatrician at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, warned of the “most important virus you’ve never heard of”. HMPV is “most likely to put people in the hospital and cause severe disease” – on par with Covid and flu. The contagious viral infection is the “most likely to sweep through nursing homes […]
Conventional implantable medical devices designed for brain stimulation are often too rigid and bulky for what is one of the body's softest and most delicate tissues. To address the problem, Rice University engineers have developed minimally invasive, ultraflexible nanoelectrodes that could serve as an implanted platform for administering long-term, high-resolution stimulation therapy. According to a […]
A risk calculator used to predict cardiovascular disease also may help predict a person’s poor cognitive function, new research suggests. The study, published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association, found that the higher a person’s 10-year cardiovascular risk score, the worse they scored on tests for cognitive function, adding to a large […]
Food workers who showed up while sick or contagious were linked to about 40% of restaurant food poisoning outbreaks with a known cause between 2017 and 2019, federal health officials said Tuesday. Norovirus and salmonella, germs that can cause severe illness, were the most common cause of 800 outbreaks, which encompassed 875 restaurants and were […]
For decades there has been almost no improvement in the medical treatment of schizophrenia, one of the most serious and devastating of all mental illnesses, but recent advances have raised hopes of progress. The condition often only hits the headlines after violent attacks by sufferers, such as a schizophrenic patient who stabbed a nurse to […]
Health care organizations today are caring for patients with increasingly complex needs and leveraging larger teams that include clinicians with diverse and specialized expertise. At the same time, high turnover and labor shortages mean that facilities frequently employ a more temporary and mobile workforce. In a new commentary, researchers point out that, as a result, […]
Millions of people listen to podcasts each year. Podcast content is diverse, with popular genres including true crime, comedy, and society and culture. In our research, we’re specifically interested in podcasts that talk about mental health. People listen to mental health-themed podcasts for many reasons: to understand mental health issues better, to learn self-help strategies […]
At the time that it was halted, a multicenter randomized trial was associating venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) with an intriguing signal of benefit for patients in cardiogenic shock undergoing percutaneous intervention (PCI) for acute myocardial infarction. Stopped early because of the pandemic, the EURO SHOCK trial has data on only 35 patients, but all-cause […]
