(HealthDay)—The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken up the U.S. opioid crisis in ways bad and good, increasing the risk of use and overdose but also spurring innovative approaches to treatment. The pandemic has definitely been linked to an increase in opioid use and overdose deaths, Tufts University’s Thomas Stopka said during a HealthDay Now video interview. […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everyone’s lives, and Dr. Anthony Fauci is no exception to that. The infectious disease expert was thrust into the international spotlight first as a member of Donald Trump’s White House Coronavirus Task Force and now as President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor. While many people have turned to Fauci for […]
Days before her 91st birthday, Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine outside of clinical trials. Keenan, who was sporting a polka-dot cardigan over a festive shirt, was given the first dose of a two-dose vaccine at the University Hospital Coventry in England, setting off the first […]
University of Melbourne public health leader and ophthalmologist, Professor Hugh Taylor said 2020 has presented additional challenges with COVID-19 leading to reduced access to eye screening, examination and surgery, all resulting in greater backlogs and patient waitlists. On the plus side, COVID-19 has led to a shift in the provision of soap, washing facilities and […]
Redundancy is about as close as it gets to the feeling of being dumped. There’s no good way to experience it, but having to sit on my bed and watch my boss and a HR representative (never a good sign) tell me over a glitchy Microsoft Teams call that my services were no longer required, […]
When Lauren Langbein became a doctoral student in cell biology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia in 2014, she was used to being a stellar student—she had always excelled in classrooms and labs. But by the end of 2016, her research project was falling apart, and Langbein, a native of Monmouth County, N.J., and a […]
If you’re been feeling angrier during the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19, Jeremy Tyler, Psy.D., hears you. “Whether it’s folks I provide clinical services to, friends, family, or people I’m just chatting with—I’m hearing a lot of frustration and anger,” he says. Tyler is an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry and a director at Penn […]
