When Bobby Redman was told in 2020 she needed to move into a residential aged care home, she says “it scared the daylights out of me”. Redman, who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2015, was falling over often, and her memory lapses were becoming dangerous; leading to saucepans catching fire on her stove and her bath overflowing. Bobby Redman […]

Lucy Aerts has quite the claim to fame.  ‘I was the first female nipple to be shown on daytime television,’ says the 37-year-old with a smile. ‘I remember waking up to a text from my friend which said: “Ben Shepherd is discussing your nipples on ITV! It caused quite a ruckus at the time, but I really didn’t realise what […]

New guidelines highlight the role that integrative pain management techniques, such as massage, acupuncture, and music therapy, can play in relieving certain types of cancer pain in adults. The recommendations, published earlier this month in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, represent a joint effort between the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the Society of Integrative Oncology (SIO) to […]

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video A woman has shared how she couldn’t leave the house or even look at herself in the mirror after experiencing horrific withdrawal symptoms from eczema creams. Daisy Malin, 26, from Teddington, London, was diagnosed with mild eczema as a toddler, which doctors prescribed topical steroid […]

A new study compared two dermatological treatments—microneedling and chemical peels—to see which works best for treating acne scars. The researchers focused on people with darker skin and randomly assigned them to receive one of the two treatments. The participants who received the microneedling treatment had the best results, as 73% of that group saw a marked improvement. While some may […]

The human body contains 600 to 800 lymph nodes, which are specialised organs that trigger immune responses. To be informed about infections in the body, lymph nodes are connected to the individual organs via lymph vessels. From the organs, the lymph vessels transport fluids and special immune cells to the lymph nodes. These immune cells are called dendritic cells; they […]

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (WashU Medicine) and BJC HealthCare are joining forces and partnering with CuriMeta, a new company that will accelerate lifesaving research in the fight against chronic and acute diseases that impact our communities. WashU Medicine and BJC HealthCare are engaging in this venture to bring sophisticated data sets in support of research that […]

In a recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers in Singapore estimated the effectiveness of the second booster (fourth dose) vaccination with messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines against symptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant and associated hospitalizations with among individuals aged ≥80 years. The continual emergence of Omicron subvariants […]

Maya Iyer, MD, MEd, experienced bullying as a faculty member, and she sensed that she wasn’t alone. “The best ideas for research often come from individual experiences, in both personal and the professional academic medicine setting,” she told Medscape Medical News. “And I was correct. I was not the only one who experienced bullying. In fact, the most severe bullying […]

Pilates has been growing massively in popularity – and with good reason… Pilates has to be one of the most frustrating workouts going. Just when you think you’re going to find it easy – lying comfortably on your mat with a neutral spine – you’re forced to get up (but not too much… only lifting the shoulders and head while keeping […]