Front-line physicians who cared for COVID-19 patients during the first wave of the pandemic in New York City and New Orleans reported multiple factors that contributed to their occupational stress during this extraordinarily trying time in their careers. These included individual-level factors such as age, work experience and life stage; institutional-level factors such as resource […]
More than one in three continuously insured individuals in Massachusetts experienced a health insurance transition during the 12 months before or after giving birth, according to a University of Massachusetts Amherst study. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, analyzed data from more than 97,000 births from 2015 through 2017. The findings suggest that further […]
A new study by Portland State University researchers is the first to show that eating a diet exclusively high in saturated fats can reprogram the mouse immune system, making it better able to fight off infection but more susceptible to systemic inflammatory conditions, including sepsis. Brooke Napier, assistant professor of biology at PSU, led the […]
Pneumococcal vaccination uptake remains low among high-risk adults in Canada, including those aged 65 years or older and patients with chronic conditions, according to a new report. Nearly half of older adults — and 80% of patients aged 47 to 64 years who have underlying medical conditions — have never received a pneumococcal vaccine, which […]
On November 4, 2022, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated their clinical practice guidelines for opioid prescription in pain management. CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for prescribing opioids for pain – United States, 2022. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Image Credit: Victor Moussa / Shutterstock.com The importance of pain management […]
Women who have both ovaries removed before menopause may have a heightened risk of developing Parkinson’s disease years later, a new study suggests. Looking at decades of data on more than 5,000 women, researchers found that those who had both ovaries removed before age 43 were five times more likely to eventually be diagnosed with […]
Though well-known as a respiratory illness, COVID-19 can also affect the nervous system, bringing on headaches and fatigue and wiping out the sense of smell. But it’s unclear whether these symptoms are caused by an immune response or the virus itself invading the central nervous system (CNS). Now, researchers reporting in ACS Infectious Diseases have […]
Republicans are likely to take control of one or both houses of Congress when all the votes are counted, but Democrats on Wednesday were celebrating after their party defied expectations of substantial losses in the midterm election. The backlash over the Supreme Court's decision in June to overturn 49 years of abortion rights was apparently […]
New technology can trace which populations of breast cancer cells are responsible for the spread of the disease, and for the first time highlights how the location of cancer cells could be as important as mutations in tumor growth. The method was created by a team from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute […]
New research from University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers is shedding light on racial disparities in breast cancer mortality in women who live in economically deprived neighborhoods. The findings, published in JAMA Network Open, suggest that neighborhood deprivation has a differential impact on breast cancer mortality in Black and white women. In a cohort of […]
