We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Highly drug-resistant mycobacterium abscessus, which is also known as NTM, is from the same family as tuberculosis. But once it […]

Minneapolis-based Allina Health, working with Flare Capital Partners, has launched a new company, Inbound Health, designed to help health systems and payers design and build hospital-at-home and home-based skilled nursing programs. WHY IT MATTERS The goal with Inbound Health is to offer the full stack of capabilities needed to scale at-home care models, according to Allina Health – such as […]

Dr Xand: Research suggests Aspirin could help with stroke We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Only 53 years of age at the time of his death, […]

A mum of two battling breast cancer has launched an accessible clothing line to help cancer patients. The clothes are fitted with holes to allow access to their ports while they undergo chemotherapy. Alexia Baron, 31, was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2020 while she was 34 weeks pregnant with her second child, Mila, who is now two. She […]

FINDINGSUCLA research finds that a refundable State-level Earned Income Tax Credit (SEITC) of 10% or above the Federal EITC was associated with a 21% relative risk reduction in reported behavior that could put single mothers at high risk for becoming infected with HIV during the previous year. Also, a 10 percentage-point increase in SEITC was linked to a 38% relative […]

Over the past 30 years, the number of television programs targeting infants has been increasing. Between 1997 and 2014, screen time doubled among children aged 0 to 2 years. A new study, published in Frontiers in Psychology, has examined the impact passive screen use has on a young child’s cognitive development. It found screen exposure — whether that be from […]

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The COVID-19 pandemic is driving attention to clean indoor air like never before. At a White House summit on Tuesday, leaders from government, industry, and education came together to make a case that low-quality indoor air should warrant the same kind of outrage and action as […]

A Cleveland Clinic-led research team used artificial intelligence to map out hundreds of ways that the virus that causes COVID-19 interacts with infected cells. Through this analysis, they identified potential COVID-19 medicines within thousands of drugs already approved by the FDA for other treatments. The research focused on host-targeting therapies, which operate differently from other antivirals by disrupting the mechanisms […]

People living with HIV appear to develop cardiovascular disease (CVD) and hypertension earlier than those without HIV, and they seem to be increasingly likely to develop chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a new study. On average, CVD and hypertension occurred about 2 years earlier in people living with HIV. And from about age 40 on, CKD burden increased more […]

In a recent study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, researchers evaluated the impact of coffee consumption on the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD), arrhythmias, and mortality. Study: The impact of coffee subtypes on incident cardiovascular disease, arrhythmias, and mortality: long-term outcomes from the UK Biobank. Image Credit: Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock Background Coffee is consumed ubiquitously across most societies. Historically, […]