The royal family are no stranger to luxury travel, jet-setting across the globe in chartered royal jets and lounging in ‘secret’ VIP suites before they board – but the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been known to fly on commercial airlines (first class, of course). SEE: Prince William & Kate Middleton’s £3,300 ‘secret’ Heathrow menu revealed The British royals […]
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among carefully selected patients with HPV-positive oropharynx squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) undergoing primary transoral robotic surgery (TORS), it is likely that 25% will need radiochemotherapy afterward, a single-center study suggests. “Even when a clinical exam and radiology seem to show resectability and no extranodal extension (ENE), there is a chance that the patient will show […]
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A recent qualitative study has identified six strategies that recovering alcoholics use to negotiate social situations and remain sober, depending on how they feel about stigmas associated with drinking and alcoholism. “There is a stigma in the United States associated with not drinking socially,” says Lynsey Romo, corresponding author of the study and an associate professor of communication at North […]
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“I HATE THE WORLD! I HATE THE FUCKING WORLD!” That was me. Alone. In a shopping mall parking lot. I was running a quick errand and short on time. If you’ve ever been to a shopping mall in the DC burbs, you know that there’s never any parking anywhere, and that everyone else driving through the garage sucks. I couldn’t […]
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You don’t need a lot of kit to get strong. This upper body workout includes six muscle building exercises using just one piece of kit. Trekking to the gym sounds less appealing than ever now that we’re facing dark mornings and rainy weather. The good news is that lockdown taught us how good home workouts can be, so it’s time […]
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There are multiple benefits and few harms from sharing clinical notes in patients with mental illness, results of a poll of international experts show. As of April 5, 2021, new federal rules in the US mandate that all patients are offered online access to their electronic health record (EHR). “Given that sharing notes in psychiatry is likely to be more […]
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Inflammatory cytokines are molecules that are secreted by immune cells to promote inflammation. A study published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research found that measuring inflammatory cytokines may help predict patient outcomes after traumatic injury, which is the leading cause of mortality in individuals under 50 years of age. In the study of 58 patients with an average age of […]
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(Reuters) – The European Union’s medicines regulator said on Monday it has started evaluating the use of Pfizer Inc and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine in children between five and 11 years of age. Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech last week submitted data that supports the use of their mRNA vaccine for young children. The vaccine was found to induce a […]
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Tuesday he won’t comply with a mandate requiring deputies be vaccinated against the coronavirus or face termination, claiming thousands could leave the department and that will lead to more crime. His defiance to the order […]
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Scientists from Germany have recently identified a new sub-lineage of the alpha variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in some European countries. This sub-lineage harbors additional mutations in the nucleoprotein, spike protein, and open-reading frame 8 (ORF8). The variant with spike mutations is 3-fold less sensitive to neutralization by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine-induced antibodies. The study […]
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