In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* pre-print server, researchers used seasonal autoregressive integrated moving averages (sARIMA) to estimate excess mortality, defined as the difference between the number of observed and expected deaths in the United States (US). The scientists calculated excess mortality stratified by age, region, gender, and ethnicity during the first two years of the coronavirus disease 2019 […]

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* pre-print server, researchers used seasonal autoregressive integrated moving averages (sARIMA) to estimate excess mortality, defined as the difference between the number of observed and expected deaths in the United States (US). The scientists calculated excess mortality stratified by age, region, gender, and ethnicity during the first two years of the coronavirus disease 2019 […]

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As Monkeypox Spreads, White House Declares Public Health Emergency Yesterday, the Biden administration declared monkeypox a public health emergency in during a briefing led by US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. Circumventing full federal review: The move allows federal health officials to expedite preventive measures to treat monkeypox. Cases rising: As of Thursday, there are 6600 […]

New research provides novel insight into how mindfulness alters pain-related activity in the brain, in findings that point to more targeted pain management. In a randomized trial, more than 100 healthy individuals were assigned to an 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program, a health improvement program (HEP) of the same length, or a waiting list. Scanning participants’ brains during a […]

New research provides novel insight into how mindfulness alters pain-related activity in the brain, in findings that point to more targeted pain management. In a randomized trial, more than 100 healthy individuals were assigned to an 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program, a health improvement program (HEP) of the same length, or a waiting list. Scanning participants’ brains during a […]

Eating pheasant killed using lead shot is likely to expose consumers to raised levels of lead in their diet, even if the meat is carefully prepared to remove the shotgun pellets and the most damaged tissue. A study has found that pheasants killed by lead shot contain many fragments of lead too small to detect by eye or touch, and […]

A case report suggests that early use of oral tecovirimat may be an effective treatment for patients with monkeypox and severe proctitis. The report is published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Monkeypox illness includes systemic symptoms and skin eruptions, and more recent cases have involved proctitis with perianal lesions, some with severe anorectal pain. Researchers from George Washington University School […]

Mount Sinai Health System and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have launched a new human genome sequencing research project called the Mount Sinai Million Health Discoveries Program with the Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC), part of the industry-leading, New York-based biotechnology company Regeneron. The Program aims to enroll one million Mount Sinai patients over a five-year period, making […]