A new study published in the leading journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research found that being on the COVID-19 front lines could negatively impact hospital workers’ mental health—even for ancillary hospital staff such as maintenance workers and administrative staff, and also during lulls. At Israel’s Hadassah Medical Center, more than half (59 percent) of hospital workers […]
West Virginia leads the nation in overdose deaths, but distinguishing intentional overdoses from accidental ones is far from straightforward. To shed light on the matter, Ian Rockett—a professor emeritus of the West Virginia University School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics—led a national study to examine interstate characteristics associated with high rates of self-injury mortality. “A relatively new concept, […]
A study by Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center researchers published in today's print edition of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics shows that triplatin is effective against triple negative breast cancer, which is the most aggressive form of breast cancer and has few targeted therapies. Triplatin, a 30-year-old drug, has faced a bumpy road on the path […]
Meet Talia! We’re not going to lie, when we first met Talia, she had it rough. Having been rescued from a home with 90 other dogs, she was very fearful—and we don’t blame her! But after being brought to the ASPCA Behavioral Rehabilitation Center (BRC), Talia began to learn that new people, sounds and objects […]
Fox News Flash top headlines for January 28 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. How many times can I reuse my N95 mask? It depends, but you should be able to use N95s and KN95s a few times. The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says health […]
This study was published in Preprints With The Lancet and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaways Patients with type 2 diabetes treated with a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor had significantly lower rates of gout and all-cause mortality when compared with patients treated with a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor in a retrospective analysis […]
A team of scientists led by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have discovered that disulfiram, an FDA-approved drug, prevents the immune system from producing toxic webs known as neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs). Many scientists suspect NETs help drive the development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in patients with severe COVID-19 and other life-threatening lung […]
During the early phase of the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the mortality rate among men was notably higher than in women. Researchers deduced that biological sex-related factors played a primary role in susceptibility to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Study: Sex disparities in COVID-19 outcomes in the United States: Quantifying […]
With American hospitals facing a dire shortage of nurses amid a slogging pandemic, many are looking abroad for health care workers. And it could be just in time. There’s an unusually high number of green cards available this year for foreign professionals, including nurses, who want to move to the United States—twice as many as […]
In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, an interdisciplinary team of researchers conducted an open, prospective pilot feasibility analysis through artificial intelligence (AI)-based platform to provide clinical decision support on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outcomes. Study: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR EFFECTIVE MONITORING OF POPULATION AT DISTANCE DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC. RESULTS FROM AN […]
