You know that brisk walk to the shops and back? It’s about 10 minutes each way and you don’t know if you can be bothered to make the trip. Well, that one short stroll could save your from an early death, new research by Cambridge University shows. In fact, as many as one in 10 […]
The word 'evolution' may bring to mind dusty dinosaur bones, but it impacts our health every day. For example, even though antibiotics were invented only a century ago, the evolution of antibiotic resistance is already a major concern. The rise in modern health problems such as obesity can also be traced back to evolutionary principles. […]
The often-delayed diagnosis of isolated nail psoriasis (NP), along with the possibility of a “reciprocal relationship” with psoriatic arthritis, “should serve as an impetus for dermatologists to improve their diagnostic accuracy,” investigators said in a research letter. Diagnosis of isolated NP was delayed by almost 3 years among the 87 cases recorded and “arthritis was most often diagnosed concurrently with […]
A long-established Alzheimer’s drug can help people with a disorder that causes them to compulsively pull at their hair or pick at their skin, a new clinical trial has concluded. Memantine considerably improved symptoms in 3 out of 5 patients with either trichotillomania (hair-pulling disorder) or excoriation (skin-picking) disorder, researchers reported in the American Journal […]
Overcoming chemotherapy and antibiotic resistance Using biodiversity to drive biomedical innovation Improving public health measures An evolutionary-inspired roadmap for better health Source: Read Full Article
The international group of scientists who successfully lobbied the World Health Organization to recognize the airborne transmission of COVID-19 have published four key steps needed to avoid similar critical mistakes in the future. In a viewpoint article published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, QUT air-quality expert Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska leads an international group […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest long COVID news and guidance in Medscape’s Long COVID Resource Center. Proinflammatory elements mediated through metabolic pathways related to obesity and increased cellular senescence in CD57 expression in CD8+ T cells are associated with postacute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), according to a Mexican study. The researchers followed a Mexican cohort […]
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) recently published an updated practice guideline for treatment of patients with eating disorders. The guideline provides recommendations on assessment and evidence-based pharmacological, psychotherapeutic, and other nonpharmacological treatments for eating disorders. The Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Eating Disorders focuses primarily on anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating […]
Khloé Kardashian has updated the world on her progress after having a cancerous tumor surgically removed from her face. In the comments of her latest Instagram post, the 38-year-old reality TV star replied to a concerned message from one of her 295 million followers, who was wondering “what the heck” was on her face. The […]
*Important notice: medRxiv publishes preliminary scientific reports that are not peer-reviewed and, therefore, should not be regarded as conclusive, guide clinical practice/health-related behavior, or treated as established information. In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers determine the nucleic acid content of several types of viruses in samples collected from wastewater treatment […]
