In an increasingly urbanized world, population density often leads to more deaths and injuries when floods, typhoons, landslides and other disasters strike cities. But the risks to life and limb are compounded when earthquakes are the agent of destruction, because they not only kill and maim but can also cripple the hospitals needed to treat survivors. Now, an international research […]
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FRIDAY, Oct. 23, 2020 — As most of America prepares for the Nov. 1 return of standard time, 63% want one fixed, year-round time, a new survey finds. “Evidence of the negative impacts of seasonal time changes continue to accumulate, and there is real momentum behind the push to end seasonal time changes,” said Dr. Kannan Ramar, president of the […]
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Imaging techniques ordinarily used by eye doctors to monitor the optic nerve could offer a non-invasive method of measuring and managing potentially dangerous swelling in the skull, a new UK study led by researchers at the University of Birmingham has found. Intracranial pressure (ICP)—or pressure within the skull often caused by a recent brain injury—is a potentially fatal condition that […]
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An ideal COVID-19 vaccine would not only protect people from becoming ill, it would also stop the virus spreading through the population. The best way to do this is to vaccinate as many people as possible. If the best available vaccine is only moderately protective—for example, if it only prevents 50% of infections—we might need to vaccinate children as well […]
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We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The “sunshine vitamin” grew in popularity more than any other vitamin supplement between June 2019 and July this year, market research expert Mintel said. It is now taken by 38 percent of people who use vitamin supplements, […]
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A large study of children and teens finds that having asthma or food allergies at age 12 increases the chances of developing teenage irritable bowel syndrome. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects more than 1 in 10 people, but not everyone who experiences these symptoms consults a doctor. IBS can affect adolescents, teens, and adults. According to an older study, some […]
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Scientists cannot be expected to drop everything they’re working on to turn their attention to beating COVID-19, according to the winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe. Speaking before he delivered the prestigious Michel Clavel lecture to the 32nd EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, which was due to take place […]
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October 22, 2020 — In less than one year, the world has moved from a sense of desperation to understand an unknown disease spreading all too quickly and taking lives, to one of hope that we now have enough knowledge and a growing set of tools to help fight COVID-19. With today’s FDA approval, and regulatory approvals or temporary authorizations […]
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(HealthDay)—If Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is repealed, pediatric cancer patients could lose critical insurance coverage, a new study warns. Kids with cancer often require intensive treatment and long-term follow-up to beat the disease. The ACA allows them to stay on their parents’ insurance coverage to age 26 and bans exclusion of patients with preexisting conditions. The U.S. […]
Continue reading » THURSDAY, Oct. 22, 2020 — Pregnancy can increase the risk of a rare, dangerous heart condition called aortic dissection, researchers report. This is especially true for women with underlying heart conditions that can go undetected. Aortic dissections — which affect 3 in 100,000 people per year — cause the layers of the aorta to tear, and blood to pool or […]
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