Opinion | A Physician Guide to Supporting Sexual Assault Survivors
Lee is a psychiatry resident. A decade ago, I believed it utterly unthinkable that anyone could advocate for rape or incest survivors carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term. I was wrong. I’ve witnessed this extremism firsthand while walking by my local Planned Parenthood, the site of a mural that I wanted to see in person. […]
So THAT’S Why Drinking Alcohol Makes You Feel Worse As You Get Older
Yana Iskayeva via Getty Images At a certain decade in life, many of us lose the enzyme to metabolize alcohol (alcohol dehydrogenase). “Drink in moderation” is advice we hear often, but as most people can attest to after a booze-filled holiday season, it isn’t easy to stick to. When we can stick to moderate drinking, […]
Clinical Challenges: New Hope in Management of Neurofibromatosis
A decade of progress has brought hope to management of genetic tumor-causing conditions that fall under the umbrella of neurofibromatosis (NF). “There have been more discoveries and more approaches in the past decade than the 100 years before that,” said Roger J. Packer, MD, of the Gilbert Family Neurofibromatosis Institute at Children’s National Hospital in […]
States Try to Obscure Execution Details as Drugmakers Hinder Lethal Injection
In 2011, Jeffrey Motts was executed in South Carolina. More than a decade later, the state hasn’t carried out another execution because officials have struggled to obtain the drugs needed for lethal injection. Now, to resume executions, lawmakers are debating a bill that would further shroud the state’s lethal injection protocols from public scrutiny by […]
NC Nonprofit Hospital Execs Made Over $1.75B Since 2010, Report Shows
Over the past decade, CEOs and other top executives at North Carolina’s nonprofit hospitals raked in massive amounts of money as worker wages were stymied, medical debt mounted, and a lack of transparency persisted, according to a new report. Nonprofit hospitals in the state paid their top executives more than $1.75 billion from 2010 to […]
Long-hypothesized ‘next generation wonder material’ created: Scientists have successfully synthesized graphyne, which has been theorized for decades
For over a decade, scientists have attempted to synthesize a new form of carbon called graphyne with limited success. That endeavor is now at an end, though, thanks to new research from the University of Colorado Boulder. Graphyne has long been of interest to scientists because of its similarities to the “wonder material” graphene — […]
Where do ‘Hawaiian box jellies’ come from?
An insightful cross-disciplinary team of University of Hawai’i (UH) at Manoa researchers, working for over a decade, published a study recently revealing that a key number of hours of darkness during the lunar cycle triggers mature “Hawaiian box jellyfish” (Alatina alata) to swim to leeward O’ahu shores to spawn. Led by Angel Yanagihara, associate research […]
When My Infant Daughter Was Declared Brain-Dead, I Had To Make An Unimaginable Choice
Nearly a decade ago, the doctor who had been responsible for my daughter’s care in the pediatric ICU asked me: “Would you consider organ donation?” My mind struggled to string his words into a decipherable sentence. My husband and I had just been told that our 1-year-old daughter, Rehma, was brain-dead. She was on a […]
Changing your diet could add up to a decade to life expectancy, study finds: A new model, available as an online calculator, estimates the impact of dietary changes on life expectancy
A young adult in the U.S. could add more than a decade to their life expectancy by changing their diet from a typical Western diet to an optimized diet that includes more legumes, whole grains and nuts, and less red and processed meat, according to a new study publishing Feb. 8 in PLOS Medicine by […]
Cannabis Use Climbing in Pregnancy Among People With HIV
Among pregnant people living with HIV, marijuana use climbed over the last decade both in pregnancy and during the postpartum period, according to results from a cohort study. Prevalence of marijuana use during pregnancy among people living with HIV increased from 7.1% in 2007 to 11.7% in 2019, reported Lynn Yee, MD, MPH, of Northwestern […]