Over the past few weeks, there has been increasing awareness of the heightened risk of family violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there has been a silence around perpetrators—in terms of the justice system’s ability to hold them to account during the crisis and the wider family violence system’s need to keep them “in view.” Both are critical to manage […]
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Insulin sensitivity of the brain determines where the fat deposited in the body when In many scientific studies it could be shown that being fat is unhealthy. If you are Overweight, it depends on the fat distribution. According to experts, the abdominal circumference is crucial for the health risk. In a long-term study has now shown, such as body weight […]
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First signs that transmission of the novel coronavirus has again picked up were visible in German official data, just as the country attempts a cautious easing of its lockdown measures. The reproduction or infection rate under close watch by health authorities mounted again to around 1.0, meaning each infected person passes the virus on to one other, figures from the […]
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Most treatment providers for individuals with alcohol use disorders are well versed in either the 12-Step Alcoholics Anonymous program or in a different treatment such as cognitive behavioral therapy—but the two approaches can mesh well, according to a Baylor University researcher. Alcohol use disorders are among the most common psychological disorders experienced by Americans, according to the National Institute on […]
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is encouraging people who have recovered from a confirmed infection with the new coronavirus to consider donating their plasma so it can be injected into people with severe forms of the infection. It’s a treatment called convalescent plasma, and variations of it have been used to treat other infectious diseases, including previous variations of […]
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The coronavirus outbreak has taken more than 200,000 lives across the world. NHS doctors have issued a warning to medical services to watch out for an unusual but perilous reaction in children which may be linked to COVID-19. Express.co.uk has compiled a full list of the key symptoms to look out for in children? Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he […]
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Dr. Felipe Lobelo is sad but not surprised the coronavirus pandemic appears to be taking a greater toll on African Americans and Latinos. The pandemic and another crisis “have collided, and it’s accelerating the bad outcome,” said Lobelo, an associate professor at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta who researches health disparities. That other crisis, he said, […]
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(HealthDay)—The most common comorbidities among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the New York City area are hypertension, obesity, and diabetes, according to a study published online April 22 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Safiya Richardson, M.D., M.P.H., from the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health in Manhasset, New York, and colleagues describe the clinical characteristics […]
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A team of Army and academic researchers are investigating how eye-pupil size changes can indicate a person’s cognitive state as a means to enable teaming with autonomous agents. The future Army battlespace will require humans and AI agents to team effectively to accomplish mission-critical goals. Although AI agents can fill gaps in human performance, they are rigid and lack the […]
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A team of researchers and patient advocates have addressed the challenges related to traveling after receiving 177Lu-DOTATATE radiation therapy in a study published in the April issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Due to the residual radiation activity of 177Lu-DOTATATE, neuroendocrine tumor patients have experienced travel delays at U.S. ports of entry. It is recommended that patients carry a […]
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