Mirrorless gyms, wheelchair-based dance classes… and the trainer who won’t help you lose weight: The new breed of fitness gurus who prove that exercise ISN’T just about what you look like Tally Rye, who teaches spin classes in London: ‘No, you don’t need to lose weight after lockdown’ Rhian Cowburn and Faye Mouse Bell set […]
Pumpkins, trick or treats, and different costumes are what is expected during Halloween! It’s the time of year when you can either be scared or see things as fun and enjoyable, trick-or-treating your neigborhood with the rest of the family. Halloween can also be called by many other names like ‘Hallowe’en’ that is a contraction […]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new enzyme replacement therapy, avalglucosidase alfa (Nexviazyme, Genzyme), for patients aged 1 year and older with late-onset Pompe disease. Pompe disease is a rare genetic disease that occurs in an estimated 1 in 40,000 births. It’s caused by a genetic deficiency or dysfunction of the […]
The COVID-19 pandemic may have increased older adults' risk of falling and injuring themselves, due to changes in physical activity, conditioning and mobility, a new national poll suggests. More than a third of people between the ages of 50 and 80 report their physical activity declined in the pandemic's first 10 months, and more than […]
(HealthDay)—Certain dermoscopic structures associated with melanoma detection may have diagnostic importance, including shiny white structures, pseudopods, and blue-white veil, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published online Aug. 4 in JAMA Dermatology. Natalie M. Williams, M.D., from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and colleagues examined the diagnostic accuracy of individual dermoscopic […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. When the Delta variant of the coronavirus was first identified in India in December 2020, the threat may have seemed too remote to trigger worry in the United States, although the horror of it ripping through the country was soon hard […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers gathered at Indiana University to protest mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations the school is requiring for students, staff and faculty. America’s covid-19 vaccination rate is around 60% for ages 12 and up. That’s not enough to reach so-called herd immunity, […]
Increasing poor physical (motor) function from around age 65 is associated with an increased risk of death, finds research published by The BMJ today. Signs of increasing decline, such as difficulty getting up from a chair or getting dressed, emerge up to 10 years before death, the findings show. The researchers therefore suggest that early […]
The message from Big Bend Regional Medical Center was stark: The only hospital in a sparsely populated region of far West Texas notified local physicians last month that because of a nursing shortage its labor and delivery unit needed to temporarily close its doors and that women in labor should instead be sent to the […]
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