Most children with parent-reported attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are not receiving medications and have never received outpatient mental health care, according to a study published online April 28 in JAMA Network Open. Mark Olfson, M.D., M.P.H., from Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City, and colleagues describe current ADHD medication use and lifetime outpatient mental […]

Scabies: Get to know the symptoms and treatments While there has been a “low incidence” of the infectious disease in some parts of the country, scabies is still raising some concern. Mr Lines said: “In Norfolk, we’re fortunate to have a very low incidence of scabies.” However, he cautioned: “We have seen cases of scabies reported elsewhere in the country. […]

Arcturus: Cases of new Covid variant on the rise in India Since the start of the Covid pandemic the virus has continued to mutate resulting in the way the infection takes hold of the body changing. Many of us are aware of the earliest symptoms detected back in 2020 with everyone told to be wary of a persistent cough and […]

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A long-term analysis designed by Christian Gerges and Irene Lang at the Department of Medicine II of the University Hospital Vienna and MedUni Vienna indicates that one third of patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) also have left heart disease. In the past, the possibility of overlap between these two conditions had not been considered in the diagnosis and […]

A University of Houston biomedical engineer and his team are reporting the discovery of new biomarkers for early detection of bladder cancer (BC), among the most common cancers diagnosed in men in the U.S. According to the American Cancer Society, more than 62,000 cases have been diagnosed in men and nearly 20,000 in women so far in 2023. The current […]

A versatile new foam material developed by researchers at the University of Georgia could significantly reduce health care-related infections caused by implanted medical devices-;or drastically improve cleanup efforts following environmental disasters like oil spills. Like a spongy Swiss Army knife, the porous three-dimensional foam is water repellent-;meaning it resists blood, microbes and proteins, while also exhibiting antimicrobial and oil-water separation […]

Seven months after Lahavah Wallace’s weight loss operation, a New York bariatric surgery practice sued her, accusing her of “intentionally” failing to pay nearly $18,000 of her bill. Long Island Minimally Invasive Surgery, which does business as the New York Bariatric Group, went on to accuse Wallace of “embezzlement,” alleging she kept insurance payments that should have been turned over […]

After a week of remote work in Farmington Hills, Michigan, Denise Castille was packing up her desk and preparing to leave for the airport to catch a flight back to her home in McKinney, Texas. Most of her co-workers had already left for the Independence Day long weekend when Denise, then 46, started experiencing sharp chest pain. She began sweating […]