New research presented at The Physiological Society's Long COVID: Mechanisms, Risk Factors, and Recovery on 22 – 23 February shows that a small handheld breathing device helped reduced breathlessness and improved physical fitness of people with long COVID. The low cost, home-based rehabilitation programme increased the strength of respiratory muscles speeding up the rate of recovery from COVID-19. Approximately, one […]

Earlier this month, Mississippi became the 37th state to legalize medical marijuana, synthetic form of synthroid medicine while 27 states have already decriminalized cannabis use for personal consumption. As more states legalize cannabis use, research into its usage and effects has lagged behind, specifically among different racial and ethnic groups, according to LaTrice Montgomery, Ph.D., research associate professor in the Addiction […]

Fox News Flash top headlines for February 23 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Pregnancy-related deaths for U.S. mothers climbed higher in the pandemic’s first year, continuing a decades-long trend that disproportionately affects Black people, according to a government report released Wednesday. Overall in 2020, there were almost 24 deaths per 100,000 births, […]

Being overweight may cause more hospital admissions and higher incidences of disease and mortality than previous studies report, according to new University of Bristol-led research. The study, published in Economics and Human Biology, used a genetic technique to identify the sole impact of body composition on hospital admissions from over 300,000 people. The study, led by researchers from Bristol Medical […]

A new, large-scale study led by scientists at the Yale School of Public Health has established a robust link between long-term ozone exposure and an increased risk of cognitive impairment in older adults. Air pollution has long been considered a major risk factor for an aging society. Fine particulate matter floating in increasingly high concentrations around the globe can lead […]

An influential federal advisory panel endorsed flat across-the-board Medicare payment levels for clinicians for 2023, with several members raising the idea of a need for future increases. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) on Thursday voted unanimously to recommend that Congress stick with current law regarding Medicare’s physician fee schedule. The bipartisan Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) was […]

A new study offers fresh insight into early indications of high-risk, early-stage, epithelial ovarian cancer: More than 70% have at least one symptom such as abdominal/pelvic pain or increased girth/fullness, and women with larger tumors have more symptoms. “Even in early-stage disease, ovarian cancer is not necessarily a silent disease,” said lead author and gynecologic oncologist/surgeon John K. Chan, anti […]

Multiple sclerosis — an autoimmune disease that affects the brain and spinal cord — may emerge after infection with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). An estimated 90% to 95% of people catch EBV, also called human herpesvirus 4, by the time they reach adulthood, according to the clinical resource UpToDate. In children, the virus typically causes an asymptomatic or very mild infection, […]

ETH Zurich and the other Swiss universities are committed to reducing the stress and suffering experienced by laboratory animals. However, an outright ban on animal testing—being put to the vote in a popular initiative this coming February—would put an end to progress in medical research. Johannes Bohacek is carefully attempting to nudge a mouse in a cage into a plexiglass […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is slamming politicians who refuse to say whether they have received COVID-19 booster shots as “gutless.” “You gotta say it. Whether you had it or not, say it,” Trump said in an interview that aired Tuesday night on the conservative One America News Network. Trump, who was booed last month by supporters […]