Daniel Freedman, DO, a pediatric neurologist in Austin, Texas, remembers being flabbergasted when a surgeon threw an instrument across the room in medical school. “I remember thinking, ‘I can’t believe people actually do this, a grown man in his 50s having a temper tantrum,’ ” Freedman told Medscape Medical News. But it certainly wasn’t the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will lift its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private-sector employers on Nov. 1, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday in another sign of the city’s gradual return to pre-pandemic norms. The city began requiring almost all private businesses to ban unvaccinated employees from the workplace in December 2021, just as […]
Using stool samples from Viking latrines, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have genetically mapped one of the oldest human parasites — the whipworm. The mapping reflects the parasite’s global spread and its interaction with human beings, a delicate relationship that can make us healthier and ill. Using fossilized eggs in up to 2500-year-old feces […]
Racial and ethnic minorities who have cancer are more likely to experience significant delays in radiotherapy initiation compared to their White counterparts, new research shows. Black patients, in particular, faced the longest delays in the initiation of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) compared with White patients — almost 26%, or a median of 20 days, longer. “This study […]
J.R. Chester got pregnant the summer before her senior year of high school. A bright student with good grades, she gave birth, graduated, and was pregnant again when she arrived at college that fall. She was a teen mom—like her mother, her grandmother, and her great-grandmother. Her school did not teach sexual health education, and […]
Ruxolitinib (Opzelura) cream can help repigment the skin in many body areas affected with vitiligo, researchers reported at the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) 2022 Annual Meeting. Those difficult areas include the hands and feet, said Thierry Passeron, MD, PhD, of Université Côte d’Azur and Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice in France. Indeed, […]
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The number of people killed on U.S. roadways fell slightly from April through June, the first decline in two years as roads became more congested as the pandemic eased. But the government says the number of deaths remains at a crisis level. Estimates from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show that 20,175 people died […]
Sweden initially chose a different disease prevention and control path during the pandemic than many other European countries. In June 2020, the Swedish Government established a national Commission to examine the management of COVID-19 in Sweden. In a review, Professor Jonas F Ludvigsson summarizes and comments on the findings of the commission inquiry. The review […]
While pregnancy shouldn’t stop you from lacing up your runners, there are a few precautions you need to take. If you’re healthy with an uncomplicated pregnancy, UK chief medical officers recommend staying active while pregnant. That means doing at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity activity per week, including two muscle strengthening sessions. But if you’re […]
