The pandemic has increased older adults’ willingness to receive the flu shot, new research shows. The study analyzed survey results of 4,501 Canadians over the age of 50 from ten provinces. Twenty per cent of 1,001 research participants aged 50 to 64 indicated they had not considered getting a flu shot, but were now more likely to given the impact […]
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The nation is suffering from smile deprivation, according to new research by Bupa Dental Care, and a third of people in the UK have given up on the gesture due to wearing a mask. And with The British Dental Association reporting that around 20 million dental treatments weren’t carried out last year compared to 2019, the pandemic has had a […]
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As one of Australia’s most successful sporting exports, you’d expect Liz Cambage to be familiar with criticism. Having competed for Australia with the Opals at the 2012 London Olympics where Cambage led the team to a bronze medal, Cambage has come to be a three-time WNBA All-Star who currently holds the WNBA single-game scoring record. Safe to say, Cambage knows […]
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BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro never wanted to buy COVID-19 vaccines and originally bet on herd immunity beating the coronavirus, the senator leading the upper house’s inquiry into the government’s handling of the crisis said on Friday. In an interview, Senator Renan Calheiros said it is too early to say if Bolsonaro had committed any criminal offense in […]
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PHOENIX — A former nurse charged with sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman who later gave birth at a Phoenix long-term care facility has lost a bid to throw out DNA evidence that authorities say links him to the crime. A judge on Monday rejected Nathan Sutherland’s claim that investigators made a misrepresentation when saying in a request for a court […]
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Young adults with epilepsy experience higher rates of anxiety, depression, and suicidality, compared with their counterparts in the general population, a new study shows. The findings, based on a study of 144 young adults with epilepsy (YAWE), was published recently in Epilepsy & Behavior. “People with epilepsy (PWE) are at a significantly higher risk of experiencing mental health difficulties, compared […]
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What started as the preliminary analysis of routine laboratory data has since evolved into the largest-ever study of viral load levels in patients with SARS-CoV-2. A team of researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have now analyzed the PCR samples of more than 25,000 persons with COVID-19. Working under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Christian Drosten, the team determined the […]
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When the covid-19 pandemic forced behavioral health providers to stop seeing patients in person and instead hold therapy sessions remotely, the switch produced an unintended, positive consequence: Fewer patients skipped appointments. This story also ran on NBC News. It can be republished for free. That had long been a problem in mental health care. Some outpatient programs previously had […]
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(HealthDay)—Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with restrictive and obstructive spirometry patterns, with the strongest associations seen for severe patterns, according to a study published online May 13 in Arthritis & Rheumatology. Lauren Prisco, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study to examine the association between RA and pulmonary function measures on spirometry among individuals […]
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A research group from Osaka University led by Professor Hisashi Arase and consisting of researchers from the Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, the Institute for Protein Research, the Immunology Frontier Research Center, the Center for Infectious Diseases, and the Graduate School of Medicine has discovered for the first time that both neutralizing antibodies that protect against infection as well as […]
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