If you were asked your favorite sleep position, you’d probably be able to answer pretty quickly. But it can be a little trickier to figure out the best sleeping position—one that helps you reduce your aches and pains and maximize the enormous health benefits that research has shown a good night’s sleep can provide. Here […]
Get your coil or implant from your pharmacist! Huge shake-up of NHS contraceptive rules will free up GPs EXCLUSIVE: The service is set to be fully rolled out across England later this year The scheme, already piloted throughout the country, will launch in four phases Experts hope it will free up another 2million GP appointments […]
In a recent review published in BMC Infectious Diseases, researchers reviewed existing data on Clostridioides difficile infections (CDI) among United States residents. Study: The burden of CDI in the United States: a multifactorial challenge. Image Credit: AnaLysiSStudiO / Shutterstock.com What are CDIs? CDIs have caused considerable mortality in the U.S. and have notable psychological, clinical, economic, and […]
COVID-19 can cause difficulty recognizing faces and navigational problems, according to a new Dartmouth study in Cortex. While it’s widely known that COVID-19 can cause a range of neurological problems, including the loss of smell and taste, and impairments in attention, memory, speech, and language, known as “brain fog,” the study is the first to […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest long COVID news and guidance in Medscape’s Long COVID Resource Center. Health care workers infected with the COVID-19 Omicron variant were far less likely to experience significant long COVID symptoms than those who contracted the original SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to new research out of Switzerland. The results, which will be presented […]
More about the findings: 37% of older adults say they felt a lack of companionship in the past year, compared with 41% in June 2020 and 34% in 2018. 34% of older adults reported feeling isolated from others, down from 56% in June 2020 but still higher than the 27% who said the same in […]
Is weight-loss drug Wegovy REALLY a game-changer? Four reasons why it might not end the obesity epidemic.. from doubts about what happens to patients after treatment to shortages that may limit supply to 35,000 people For millions of failed dieters, the arrival of Wegovy — a ‘miracle’ treatment offering a guaranteed slimming effect — seems […]
The number of injuries in youth athletics is significantly reduced when coaches and parents have access to digital information on adolescent growth. It also takes twice as long for the first injury to occur. This is shown in a study from Linköping University published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Many promising athletes have […]
NEW ORLEANS – In the international FREEDOM COVID trial that randomized non–critically ill hospitalized patients, a therapeutic dose of anticoagulation relative to a prophylactic dose significantly reduced death from COVID-19 at 30 days, even as a larger composite primary endpoint was missed. The mortality reduction suggests therapeutic-dose anticoagulation “may improve outcomes in non–critically ill patients hospitalized […]
While parenting behavior can significantly influence the mental development of adolescents, most studies on parenting behaviors rely only on adolescents’ perceptions. Moreover, these studies rarely focus on how parents’ and children’s perceptions of parenting affect adolescents’ basic psychological needs. In a new study, researchers from Doshisha University, Japan show how adolescents perceive parenting differently than […]
