Telehealth has breathed new life into the idea of house calls, and now doctors’ paper prescription pads are also getting a much-needed digital makeover.  E-prescribing, paxil cr and paroxetine er which has been around for years, has already been proven to reduce errors, save time and improve outcomes.1 The opioid crisis, which caused a record 110,236 U.S. deaths in 2022, […]

Prof. John Speakman from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, alongside Prof. Kevin Hall from the National Institutes of Health (U.S.), Prof. Thorkild Sorensen from the University of Copenhagen and Prof. David Allison from Indiana University (U.S.), has published a perspective article on potential mechanisms of obesity pathogenesis. It was based on an […]

Photo: Phoenix Children’s Hospitals and health systems have worked hard over the past decade-plus to roll out and optimize electronic health records. But EHRs by themselves have not automatically resulted in widespread improvements in clinical care and patient outcomes. THE PROBLEM “During the early phase of EHR implementation, when a large majority of providers first started converting from paper to […]

Researchers in the University of Delaware College of Health Sciences Department of Medical and Molecular Sciences are playing a pivotal role on the global health stage as they investigate the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the world. Centers for Disease Control statistics show that 79 million Americans have human papillomavirus (HPV). With 14 million new infections each year, […]

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends screening for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy at each prenatal visit. This recommendation forms the basis of a final recommendation statement published in the Sept. 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Jillian T. Henderson, Ph.D., from the Kaiser Permanente Evidence-based Practice Center in Portland, Oregon, and colleagues conducted a […]

MRI scans have shown that practicing mindfulness can help rewire the brain connectivity of pre-teens with anxiety and attention issues, in new UniSC Thompson Institute research. In encouraging results for families, Dr. Michelle Kennedy’s University of the Sunshine Coast Ph.D. found that mindfulness training can be an effective intervention for children aged 9 to 11 who are anxious or have […]

A new study showed the positive impact of yoga on rheumatoid arthritis. Specifically, it helped maintain cell homeostasis. Gentle yoga is recommended for people with RA, but other styles could be modified with props under the guidance of a qualified yoga therapist or instructor. Despite the promising results, the study was small in size and short in duration. More research […]

While Angelina Jolie’s daughter Shiloh Jolie-Pitt is all about her mom’s humanitarian work, she’s never exactly been the biggest fan of the acting world. In fact, at one point, she turned down a role alongside her mom in the hit Disney film Maleficent. Rewind it back to 2014, when everyone was itching to see Jolie play the iconic Disney villain […]

Due to the unhealthy foods we eat and the sedentary lifestyle we have nowadays, it’s no wonder that we’re starting to reap what we sow. Prolonged periods of sitting without moving our body (and exercising at all), causes our muscles to become stiff because they aren’t stretched for a while. Aside from that, your muscles are put under stress and […]

Neurons are talkers. They each communicate with fellow neurons, muscles or other cells by releasing neurotransmitter chemicals at “synapse” junctions, ultimately producing functions ranging from emotions to motions. But even neurons of the exact same type can vary in their conversational style. A new study in Cell Reports by neurobiologists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory highlights a […]