Changing the assortment of food and drink products on offer in shops, restaurants and bars has the potential to improve diets, reduce inequalities and protect the environment, say researchers in The BMJ today. These types of measures are called availability interventions. Examples include replacing some of the confectionery items on offer with fruit or nuts; sugary drinks with no or […]

Using the UK Biobank, a large-scale biomedical database, researchers from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences have found that AI models can be racially biased if they are trained on unbalanced databases, meaning where AI models are used, misdiagnoses would occur for under or non-represented races. In the majority of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), there are known associations between […]

Patients who undergo solid organ transplants are at high risk of developing severe COVID-19 infections due to their need to take immunosuppressive medications. These medications, aimed at preventing such patients’ bodies from rejecting transplanted organs, have the unintended consequence of making immune systems more open to the virus that causes COVID-19. A new multicenter study that includes researchers at Washington […]

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The verdict is out on an uncomfortable sibling disagreement. A Reddit user took to Am I The A**hole to share an argument she got in with her sister over baby clothes — and here’s how the whole situation went down. “I 28(F) have a 2 year old ‘Sophie,’” the user began. “My partner and I earn good money and my daughter […]

Clementine and members of the Cedar Hill Fire Department outside the Tri-City shelter where she was adopted: Firefighter Jake Termin, Capt. Robert Moree, Firefighter Rusty Roysdon, Driver/Engineer Bryan Wallen, and Firefighter Blake Brancato. On May 8, Clementine, a stray three-year-old Catahoula Leopard/Hound-mix, was dropped off at the Terrebonne Parish Animal Shelter in Gray, Louisiana, about an hour’s drive southwest of New Orleans. […]

(Reuters) – An experimental drug being developed by RedHill Biopharma Ltd that improved outcomes in a randomized trial involving severely ill COVID-19 patients infected with earlier versions of the coronavirus is showing promise against the Omicron variant in vitro, researchers said. The oral drug, opaganib, has dual anti-inflammatory and antiviral effects. When opaganib was added to treatment with Gilead Sciences’ […]

“The Quarantini,” “Pandemic Punch,” “Corona Sunrise”: Recipes for cocktails with names such as these began flooding the internet in early 2020, as countries went into lockdown and COVID-19-related hospitalizations and death rates began to soar. The humor in the names might have helped distract from a grim reality: alcohol-related deaths were on the rise, shooting up 25% in 2020 over […]

Testing shortages, long waits for results, and an over-taxed health care system have made headlines throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. These issues can be further exacerbated in small or rural communities in the US and globally. Additionally, respiratory symptoms of COVID-19 such as fever and cough are also associated with the flu, which complicates non-lab diagnoses during certain seasons. A new […]

Scientists at Newcastle University analyzed three common elective surgery procedures, primary hip and knee replacements and knee arthroscopies, between 1 April 1997 to 31 March 2019. Hip replacements are commonly used to assess healthcare equity. The Scottish NHS waiting time initiative was launched in 2002. The analysis shows that between 1 July 2002 and 31 March 2010 waiting time inequality […]