COVID Vax Now Widely Available for Young Kids — Will Parents Consent?
Listen and subscribe on Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, and Google, so you don’t miss the next episode. And if you like what you hear, a five-star rating goes a long way in helping us “Track the Vax!” Twenty-eight million American children ages 5 to 11 are now eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine. Within hours of the […]
What Do We Know About the Rare COVID-19 Vaccine Complications?
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Requiring the COVID Vaccine: The Legal Battle Ahead
Listen and subscribe on Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, and Google, so you don’t miss the next episode. And if you like what you hear, a five-star rating goes a long way in helping us “Track the Vax”! Mandating the COVID-19 vaccine has been called presidential overreach, un-American, even unprecedented, despite a long history of requiring vaccines […]
Wiggling worms suggest link between vitamin B12 and Alzheimer’s
Worms don’t wiggle when they have Alzheimer’s disease. Yet something helped worms with the disease hold onto their wiggle in Professor Jessica Tanis’s lab at the University of Delaware. In solving the mystery, Tanis and her team have yielded new clues into the potential impact of diet on Alzheimer’s, the dreaded degenerative brain disease afflicting […]
Could More Mask Mandates Stop the Delta Surge?
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‘The Level of Death and Despair’: What We Heard This Week
“It’s almost impossible to describe to those who don’t work in our environment the level of death and despair that nurses and other frontline healthcare workers have been witness to over the past 18 months.” — Beth Wathen, MSN, RN, president of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, on how the COVID pandemic has affected […]
Acoustic illusions
When listening to music, we don’t just hear the notes produced by the instruments, we are also immersed in its echoes from our surroundings. Sound waves bounce back off the walls and objects around us, forming a characteristic sound effect — a specific acoustic field. This explains why the same piece of music sounds very […]
Just 10% of kids with ADHD outgrow it, study finds: Researchers said that attention deficit hyperactive disorder waxes and wanes over a lifetime
Most children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) don’t outgrow the disorder, as widely thought. It manifests itself in adulthood in different ways and waxes and wanes over a lifetime, according to a study published Aug.13 in the American Journal of Psychiatry. “It’s important for people diagnosed with ADHD to understand that it’s normal […]
Just 10% of kids with ADHD outgrow it, study finds: Researchers said that attention deficit hyperactive disorder waxes and wanes over a lifetime
Most children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) don’t outgrow the disorder, as widely thought. It manifests itself in adulthood in different ways and waxes and wanes over a lifetime, according to a study published Aug.13 in the American Journal of Psychiatry. “It’s important for people diagnosed with ADHD to understand that it’s normal […]
What to Do When It’s Time to Let Go … of the Specialist
So, how do we get our colleagues to let go, to stop taking care of our patients? Seems like a funny thing to ask. Don’t get me wrong, we need our specialist colleagues; we value the care they provide and their expertise and assistance. We in primary care would probably be pretty much lost without […]