MODESTO, Calif. — One of Patrick Green’s first orders of business each day is to open a tap and fill a bottle with sludge. A utilities plant operator in Modesto, a city of nearly a quarter-million people in California’s San Joaquin Valley, Green helps keep the city’s sewers flowing and its wastewater treated to acceptable levels of safety. But in […]

Follow-up care after an asthma-related visit to the emergency department (ED) may help prevent future ED visits for children, a new study led by UC San Francisco researchers found.  Past studies on the relationship between asthma-related ED visits and follow-up found either no protective effect, or that follow-up was paradoxically associated with increased ED use, possibly because sicker patients in […]

GMB : Adela Roberts discusses her bowel cancer diagnosis 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 If you notice troublesome toilet issues, do not be embarrassed to […]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – BioNTech has expanded an ongoing clinical trial programme to develop new vaccines and patterns of administration for better protection against the dominant Omicron coronavirus variant as it reported a profit boost from its first-generation shot. The enlargement of its trial programme with partner Pfizer, initially unveiled in January, comes as global COVID-19 cases are on the rise […]

An estimated 112 million (44%) American adults are struggling to pay for healthcare, and more than double that number (93%) feel that what they do pay is not worth the cost. The findings come from two new composite scores developed by the nonprofit, nonpartisan organization West Health and Gallup, the global analytics and advice firm, to assess the healthcare cost […]

A higher dose of primaquine prevents more relapses from a lingering form of malaria parasite, according to a study from Brazil published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Venezuela and Brazil have the highest incidences of malaria in Latin America, primarily from Plasmodium vivax. Of the five types of malaria infections, P vivax can be difficult to eradicate, because, […]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Increased concentrations of the tau protein in the brain’s frontal, medial and occipital cortices are associated with psychosis and more rapid cognitive and functional decline in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients, an imaging study shows. Dr. Jeremy Koppel of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in Manhasset, New York, told Reuters Health by email, “Psychosis in […]

Olivia Williams discusses ‘bizarre’ symptom of pancreatic cancer 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 One of the symptoms of pancreatic cancer is jaundice. Jaundice occurs when […]

Cancer survivors are more likely to face transportation barriers to health care than the general population, according to a study published online March 24 in JAMA Oncology. Changchuan Jiang, M.D., from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York, and colleagues assessed self-reported transportation barriers among cancer survivors and the general population. The analysis included 11,586 adults with and […]

My son, the third and youngest child in our family, had just turned four. I sensed the familiar urgency that our family wasn’t complete, and it was time to adopt again. My husband, the more practical partner, wasn’t sure. I told him I wanted to research a few adoption agencies — you know, just in case. This “just in case” […]