Is Radon a Concern for Your Home? – Wyoming Department of Health
Is Radon a Concern for Your Home? January 10, 2023 The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) wants families across the state to consider testing their homes for radon to find out whether a potentially dangerous health risk exists. Radon is an invisible, odorless, tasteless and dangerous gas found in many places, including homes. Radon occurs […]
Opinion | ‘I’m Really Freaking Out About Hurting Someone’: What We Heard This Week
“Yeah, malpractice is a concern, but I’m really freaking out about hurting someone.” — Linda Isbell, PhD, of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, talking about her team’s survey that looked at perspectives of emergency clinicians on lawsuits and patient harm. “I have not replaced Dr. [Leana] Wen because I did not want to leave any […]
Opinion | Empathy: A Path to Healthier Healthcare
Even as the country creeps slowly toward a long-anticipated “new normal,” I’m unable to shake off my concern about the pandemic’s long-term toll on physicians, healthcare professionals, and others employed in the healthcare sector. In the midst of these winter doldrums, I had an interesting and surprisingly upbeat conversation with Helen Riess, MD, a psychiatrist […]
Plasma-based engineering creates contact-killing, antifouling, drug-release surfaces: Technology could accelerate antimicrobial material development
The deepening concern over antibiotic-resistant infections, coupled with prevailing hospital-acquired infections from surgical tools, implants, and heavily touched surfaces, has ramped up antimicrobial material development in recent years. Conventional wet-chemistry methods used to create biocidal materials are complex, time-consuming, and expensive. In the Journal of Applied Physics, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Belgium, Czech Republic, […]
What Diseases Can You Get from Restrooms and Sitting on a Toilet?
STDs from toilet seats Germs in restrooms may concern you. So, you may want to learn about the viruses, bacteria, and parasites that can survive on bathroom surfaces and identify ways you can avoid taking those germs with you. When wondering what diseases you can catch in restrooms, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) — also called […]