A Top Trainer Shared a 30-Second Trick for Fixing Lower Back Pain

Strength coach Jeff Cavaliere C.S.C.S. frequently demonstrates stretches and mobility-focused workouts on the Athlean-X channel that are conducive to safer, injury-free training. In the above video, Cavaliere shares his technique for alleviating and avoiding lower back pain. “If the hips aren’t strong, or the muscles around the hips, the glutes, aren’t strong, then the lower back tries to do the […]

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New diagnostic system can rapidly and sensitively measure antibodies against SARS-CoV-2

A research team at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) in Japan has developed a diagnostic system that can rapidly and sensitively measure the amount of antibodies in the blood that can protect us from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This achievement was published in the scientific journal Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, and is […]

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‘Quadpill’ Bests Monotherapy for Initial BP Lowering: QUARTET

A “quadpill” containing quarter doses of four blood pressure (BP)-lowering medications was more effective than monotherapy for initial treatment of hypertension, with similar tolerability, in the 1-year, phase 3 QUARTET randomized, active-control trial. Clara Chow, MD, PhD, academic director of the Westmead Applied Research Centre, University of Sydney, Australia, presented the findings in a late-breaking trial session at the European Society […]

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Idaho Hospitals Nearly Buckling in Relentless COVID Surge

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The intensive care rooms at St. Luke’s Boise Medical Center are full, each a blinking jungle of tubes, wires and mechanical breathing machines. The patients nestled inside are a lot alike: All unvaccinated, mostly middle-aged, paralyzed and sedated, reliant on life support […]

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