Photo: HHS.gov The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services today announced the appointment of Lisa J. Pino as Director of the Office for Civil Rights. WHY IT MATTERS At OCR Pino will be in charge of enforcing healthcare civil rights laws, such as the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules, the Patient Safety and Quality […]
The use of patient portals that provide access to electronic health records (EHRs) has dramatically increased in the past several years, and patients whose healthcare practioner encouraged them to use their online portal accessed them at a higher rate than those who were not encouraged to do so. These were among the topline results of […]
A city in northern China has killed three housecats after they tested positive for COVID-19, according to a local media report Wednesday, as the country takes increasingly strict measures to contain new outbreaks. The authorities in Harbin, where 75 cases have recently been discovered, said the action was taken because there was no available treatment […]
You have trillions of nerves throughout your body, but one holds the potential to impact both minor and serious health conditions and is so intriguing (partly because you can manipulate it yourself, to a certain extent!) that it deserves the spotlight: the vagus nerve. Otherwise known as the 10th cranial nerve, the vagus nerve is […]
Plank milks may be better for the environment but are they actually healthier for us than dairy? We look at the nutritional facts behind oat, soy, coconut and pea drinks to see how they match up to cow’s milk. Almost every coffee shop these days offers a non-dairy milk alternative. It’s as common to hear […]
The ability of COVID-19 to infiltrate and potentially change the function of a variety of different cells in the body, including the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas, is the subject of a special session at this year’s Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). The presentation will be given […]
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI are the first to have joined two proteins together by means of a free-standing, rigid link. The structural element holds the two protein molecules together at a defined distance and angle, much the way a barbell handle connects two weights. This type of linkage could help, for example, […]
UT Southwestern stem cell scientists find that stringent lineage tracing is crucial for studies of nerve cell regeneration. Their results, which are published in Cell, show that this tracing is far from routine in the field and suggest that earlier studies reporting "striking" regeneration results must be reexamined. Lineage tracing, which is a fundamental approach […]
Alzheimer's is a neurodegenerative disease that features the accumulation of the beta-amyloid peptide and Tau protein in the brain, which are associated with deficits in the neuronal connections and with dementia. However, researchers have recently discovered a type of people that despite the accumulation of these molecules, they do not develop dementia: the NDAN patients […]
Breastfed children are less likely to develop type 1 diabetes – but those who drink a lot of cow’s milk are at greater risk, study claims An early diet of fruit or gluten can also heighten odds of disease, experts say Scientists at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden reviewed 152 previous papers Those breastfed for […]
