NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New data from a long-running study shed light on trajectories of depressive symptoms experienced from adolescence to early adulthood, which could help pinpoint when to intervene in adolescent depression, and with whom. “Depression often first emerges in adolescence and, for many, is a lifelong disorder. The long-term clinical course of […]
One in every three children in foster care are on psychotropic medications designed to alter their mental status or mood, a significantly higher percentage than children who are not in foster care within the Medicaid program. That is one of the findings of a study abstract, “Psychotropic Medication Usage Among Foster and Non-Foster Youth on […]
Media erupt over Biden mandates Can President legally force vaccinations? U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has advised that the Biden administration will “monitor” to ensure no one abuses COVID-19 vaccine exemptions. President Biden last week announced a mandate that required any company with at least 100 employees to mandate its workforce. The only way […]
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen. Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, famous for taking on Big Tobacco in the ’90s and winning, worked on a series of ill-fated national lawsuits against nonprofit hospitals. The goal? Get nonprofit — or “charity” — hospitals to actually provide charity care instead of price-gouging and dunning low-income patients. Scruggs […]
Researchers have reversed lung fibrosis in a mouse model of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF, as reported in a study published in the journal Cell Death and Differentiation. Mice were given bleomycin for 12 days to establish lung fibrosis, and then treated daily until 21 days with ABT-199, whose medical form is known as Venetoclax, […]
While some students may think it’s a good idea to pull an all-nighter before an exam, conventional wisdom may be correct: A good night’s sleep may actually be more helpful, according to University of Michigan research. U-M scientists Sara Aton and James Delorme found when mice are sleep-deprived, there is an increase in activity in […]
17-year-old diagnosed with heart issues after getting COVID vaccine Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier and Fabio Berlingieri on his son getting diagnosed with heart issues after getting the Pfizer vaccine. While myocarditis has been in the headlines lately due to rare occurrences in mRNA COVID-19 vaccine recipients, it’s viruses that are the most […]
In a new study on mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that using MRI scans to measure blood volume in the brain can serve as a noninvasive way to potentially track the progress of gene editing therapies for early-stage Huntington’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that attacks brain cells. The researchers say that by identifying and […]
CrossFit Games champion and “Fittest Man on Earth” Mat Fraser may have retired from the sport, but he is still programming workouts that push him to his physical limits in his second act as a YouTube fitness personality, with his mantra HWPO (“hard work pays off”) at the center of everything he does. In his […]
(Reuters) -Medical equipment maker Danaher Corp said on Thursday it would buy privately held biotech company Aldevron in an all-cash deal for about $9.6 billion, snapping up a supplier to COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna Inc. U.S.-based Aldevron has a contract to supply Moderna plasmid DNA required to make the drugmaker’s mRNA vaccine, which has been […]
