BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Murad Sharifi, a refugee from Afghanistan, works at a kebab place and lives in a shelter for the homeless in Budapest’s outskirts. His tiny room is filled with dozens of paintings depicting a colourful but ominous world, of Afghan women clad in long black burqa gowns, surrounded by hostile men.Slideshow ( 5 images )Sharifi, who fled to […]
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A nationwide, retrospective, case-control study of older adults in Denmark suggests that the bisphosphonate alendronate that is widely used to treat osteoporosis may protect against new-onset type 2 diabetes. But these preliminary findings need to be confirmed in a randomized controlled trial, experts said. The registry study showed that from 2008 to 2018, among individuals in Denmark age 50 and […]
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All products featured on Allure are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read what your sign's 2021 horoscope predictions have in store for you or check out the Leo personality profile. Welcome to October, you beautiful Leo, you. At the end of September, Mercury retrograde and an anxiety-provoking full […]
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Patients using take-home technology following non-elective surgery resulted in significantly greater detection and correction of drug errors, and reduction in patients’ pain, says a national study led by Hamilton researchers. The study looked at patient outcomes from virtual care and remote automated monitoring (RAM) – video calls with nurses and doctors, and self-monitoring of vital signs using wearable devices. The […]
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A new study has found that a child’s reading speed can be improved by simply increasing the space between letters within a piece of text. The research, led by Dr. Steven Stagg of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), examined the benefits of letter spacing and colored overlays amongst a group of dyslexic and non-dyslexic children. It is the first study to […]
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. With the Delta variant of COVID-19 still raging in the United States and intensive care units in parts of the country filled with patients with the coronavirus, experts are voicing concern about the added risk of a difficult flu season. Two mathematical models are predicting a […]
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Both high C-reactive protein (CRP) and older age predict mortality from COVID-19 in patients with diabetes, new research suggests. The data, from the retrospective ACCREDIT cohort study, were presented September 28 at the virtual European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) 2021 Annual Meeting by […]
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The life-support system called ECMO can rescue COVID-19 patients from the brink of death, but not at the rates seen early in the pandemic, a new international study finds. Where once about 60% of such patients survived at least 90 days in spring 2020, by the end of the year it was just under half. The decreased survival over time […]
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(Reuters) – The three largest U.S. drug distributors will pay more than $75 million to resolve claims they fueled an opioid epidemic in the Cherokee Nation’s territory in Oklahoma, marking the first settlement with a tribal government in the litigation over the U.S. addiction crisis. The deal announced by the Cherokee Nation on Tuesday came after McKesson Corp, AmerisourceBergen Corp […]
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. More than 400,000 people in the U.S. have received COVID-19 booster shots at pharmacies since the third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was authorized last week, White House officials announced Tuesday. Most of the shots were given over the weekend, and nearly 1 million people have […]
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