Cancer: Doctor confirms risks linked to red meat consumption 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 Academics analysed health data records – consisting of 474,985 middle-aged Britons […]
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A Flinders University study has highlighted the challenges and shortfalls in support for our nurses who regularly deliver end-of-life care and comforti bereaved family members in often crowded and chaotic hospital emergency departments (EDs). Professor Eimear Muir-Cochrane. Image Credit: Flinders University The stressful environment, lack of space, and a focus on treatment and cure rather than comfort measures when the […]
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Vaccination efforts are underway in many countries as the threat of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), continues. Globally, over 4.47 billion vaccine doses have been administered, with many countries striving to immunize as many people as they can. Now, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that among people […]
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The global eradication of COVID-19 is probably feasible, and more so than it is for polio, although considerably less so than it was for smallpox, suggests a comparative score of technical, sociopolitical, and economic factors for all three infections, published in the online journal BMJ Global Health. Vaccination, public health measures, and global interest in achieving this goal as a […]
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. COVID-19 rates are surging again, and many Americans who’ve been vaccinated are turning their anger toward those who refuse to get the shot. Outraged at vaccine-hesitant people, some are even calling for mandates requiring all Americans to get inoculated, arguing the holdouts are allowing the Delta […]
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. COVID-19 vaccinations are once again on the upswing, the rise fueled by growing anxiety about the highly contagious Delta variant now responsible for most COVID infections in the U.S. At a briefing Thursday, Jeff Zients, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, said more than 864,000 Americans had been vaccinated in the previous […]
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The rapidly escalating surge in COVID-19 infections across the U.S. has caused a shortage of nurses and other front-line staff in virus hot spots that can no longer keep up with the flood of unvaccinated patients and are losing workers to burnout and lucrative out-of-state temporary gigs. Florida, Arkansas and Louisiana all have more people hospitalized with COVID-19 than any […]
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Adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients with cancer have not seen the same improvements in survival over the years as their pediatric and older adult counterparts. Some evidence has suggested that this may in part be a result of low AYA participation in clinical trials limiting advances in treatment for this group of patients. Yet an analysis of 25 years […]
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Gov. Greg Abbott appealed for out-of-state help to fight the third wave of COVID-19 in Texas while two more of the state’s largest school districts announced mask mandates in defiance of the governor. Abbott’s request Monday came as a county-owned hospital in Houston raised tents to […]
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Olympic gymnast Simone Biles opened up a conversation about unpopular opinions with a prompt on her Instagram story Monday. Some of the contributions her fans offered up were funny—"avocados are not that good" and "The letter 'Q' is unnecessary and should be removed from the alphabet"—but others focused on the importance of masking up and getting vaccinated to stop the […]
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