Black patients who undergo treatment at hospitals in the United States face significantly higher risk regarding several measures of patient safety compared with their White counterparts, a new report finds. One expert says these findings should be a call to action for hospitals and physicians. The Urban Institute, which is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, evaluated differences in […]
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Two reports support the safety and immunogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines in patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) and represent the first available data on such patients. In an observational cohort study published in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Caoilfhionn M. Connolly, MD, of Johns Hopkins […]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A year after COVID-19 upended life for millions of Americans, there are troubling signs that the coronavirus may have also slowed progress against another deadly health threat: smoking. Fewer smokers called quit-smoking hotlines last year and some smoked more, contributing to an unusual bump in cigarette sales — all in the middle of the stress, anxiety and […]
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A U.K.-wide study involving patients with early breast cancer has shown their care was no less safe and effective than before the pandemic started. The University of Manchester led national study of 3,776 patients—treated for early breast cancer at 64 hospitals across the UK—between March and May 2020, is published in the British Journal of Cancer. The team found that […]
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A team led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian has used advanced technology and analytics to map, at single-cell resolution, the cellular landscape of diseased lung tissue in severe COVID-19 and other infectious lung diseases. In the study, published online March 29 in Nature, the researchers imaged autopsied lung tissue in a way that simultaneously highlighted dozens of […]
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Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a rare chronic inflammatory disease of the bile ducts and is difficult to treat, since its causes have not yet been adequately researched. Using RNA sequencing, an international research consortium led by Michael Trauner, Head of MedUni Vienna’s Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Department of Medicine III), has now identified a new prognostic factor for […]
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A review of more than 20 studies by researchers at Arizona State University and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, suggests that nonalcoholic fatty-liver disease (NAFLD) is a growing dietary problem for children across the globe. “The prevalence of fatty-liver disease is escalating not only in adults, but also in children,” said Johanna DiStefano, […]
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When we heard news of the mass shooting in Boulder, my friends and I were still processing the mass shooting in the Atlanta area just six days earlier. As an East Asian woman, it was particularly personal. Not only did I see myself in the six Asian women who were shot and killed; I also knew what it felt like […]
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Researchers specialized in psychiatry and psychology at the University of Helsinki investigated the effects of depression on visual perception. The study confirmed that the processing of visual information is altered in depressed people, a phenomenon most likely linked with the processing of information in the cerebral cortex. The study was published in the Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. In the […]
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Tessica Brown, the woman who went viral earlier this year after using Gorilla Glue in her hair, is pregnant. According to TMZ, Brown, 40, is expecting her first child with fiancé Dewitt Madison, and the baby on the way will join their family, which includes kids from previous relationships: she is mom to five children and he has four kids […]
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