The Colorado wildfire that destroyed more than 1,000 homes last month has forced the temporary closure of a hospital and upended the lives of health care workers as the state’s already strained health care system braces for another surge in covid-19 hospitalizations. Avista Adventist Hospital in Louisville, a community outside Boulder that was devastated in the wildfire that erupted Dec. […]

In a recent retrospective cohort study of mental health and wellbeing of adolescents posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers investigated the incidence of psychiatric diagnoses of Israeli adolescents before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Study: Mental health assessment of Israeli adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Image Credit: Alina Kruk/Shutterstock Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic […]

Is risk of suicide in our genes? Findings of an international scientific team led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, suggest that gene expression studies could offer insights into the underlying causes of suicide, a highly complex public health problem that takes the lives of more than 800,000 people each year worldwide. Examination […]

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The FDA on Friday shortened the time that people who received Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine need to wait for a booster — from 6 months to 5 months. That means Americans 18 years old and older who received their second shot of the two-dose Moderna vaccine at […]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Following rotator cuff repair (RCR), it might be best to delay the start of physical therapy (PT) by at least one week, a new study hints. “Although many studies have demonstrated decreased stiffness with beginning PT early, studies have also demonstrated that early PT increases repair failure,” researchers note in the Journal of the American […]

A team of Université Laval scientists may have discovered why severe depression affects women and men differently, according to a study published today in Nature Communications. The researchers examined the brains of people with depression at the time of death and discovered alterations located in different parts of the brain for each sex. They also identified a potential depression biomarker […]

The omicron variant quickly took over the global coronavirus landscape after it was first reported in South Africa in late November, 2021. The U.S. became the 24th country to report a case of omicron infection when health officials announced on Dec. 1, 2021, that the new strain had been identified in a patient in California. How do scientists know what […]

Researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) have discovered a new gene that plays an important role in the way the spleen functions, potentially leading to new treatments for infectious diseases. The study, published in Science Immunology, also uncovered multiple new spleen cells and revealed the distinct way they respond in order to fight off […]

Vaccine hesitancy could be reduced by providing health information in a foreign language, a new study finds. The study found that when presenting two groups with the same information about vaccines in two different but familiar languages, the use of one language corresponded with a 7 percent higher number of people saying “yes” and a 7 percent lower number of […]

A new document from the American Heart Association (AHA) summarizes the latest research on cardiovascular risk factor management in type 2 diabetes, including medications, lifestyle, and social determinants of health. Despite the availability of effective therapies for improving cardiovascular risk, in the United States fewer than 1 in 5 people with type 2 diabetes and without known cardiovascular disease meet […]