Scientists develop environmentally safe, frost-resistant coatings: A longer-lasting alternative to conventional deicers
Airports are busy, especially during the winter. As passengers wait to board, delays get longer when airplanes need to be dowsed with thousands of gallons of deicing fluids that help them fight the frigid winter. But as soon as the plane takes off, most of the liquid is gone from the surface of the aircraft […]
Distant regions of the human brain are wired together by surprisingly few connections
Understanding how the brain functions, particularly how information is processed during different activities, is difficult without knowing how many axons are in the brain and how many connect different functional regions. An approach by Burke Rosen and Eric Halgren at the University of California, San Diego, U.S. published March 24 in the open-access journal PLOS […]
Abortion Stays in Spotlight at SCOTUS Nominee’s Senate Hearing
WASHINGTON — During the third day of her Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing, Republican senators continued peppering President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson Wednesday with questions about her views on abortion. “Can an unborn child feel pain at 20 weeks?” asked Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). “I don’t know,” replied Jackson, who, if confirmed, […]
Missed Cancer Screenings During Pandemic Could Raise Death Rate for Years
Title: Missed Cancer Screenings During Pandemic Could Raise Death Rate for YearsCategory: Health NewsCreated: 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM
GI Infections Dipped Sharply During Pandemic Restrictions
Reported gastrointestinal (GI) outbreaks in England were halved during the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with a similar period over the 5 years’ prior, a retrospective ecological study found. From February to July 2020, there was a 52% decrease in GI outbreaks — including reports of food poisoning, hemolytic uremic syndrome, infectious […]
Women in Healthcare: ‘Then’ and ‘Now’
Reflecting during Women’s History Month on the headway women have made in healthcare illuminates many areas of progress and also the many disparities that remain. Consider the “then” and “now” of five key issues facing women in medicine, both as professionals and patients themselves. 1. Women Physicians Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman in the U.S. […]
Opinion: The Humanity of Naomi Osaka, Michael Beasley And Other Black Athletes Versus The Inhumanity Of Their ‘Fans’
Therefore, to state it in another, more accurate way, I became, during my fourteenth year, for the first time in my life, afraid — afraid of the evil within me and afraid of the evil without. — James Baldwin Where does a giant go when he doesn’t want to be seen? Advertisement For six-foot-ten-inch former […]
No Underlying Conditions in 63% of Young Kids Hospitalized During Omicron
During the peak of the Omicron wave, weekly hospitalizations for infants and toddlers due to COVID-19 were approximately five times what they were during the peak of the Delta variant, new research from the CDC showed. In the first week of January, COVID-associated hospitalizations in children ages 0-4 years reached 14.5 per 100,000 children, reported […]
AMA Debates Value of Natural Immunity to COVID
During the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates annual meeting, members debated whether natural immunity or previous infection with SARS-CoV-2 was sufficient for the merit of immunity credentials. Gregory Pinto, MD, a delegate from New York, called for policy recommending “that vaccination credentials be provided on the basis of natural immunity or previous SARS-CoV-2 […]
FDA Greenlights First Condom Specifically for Anal Intercourse
The first condoms specifically indicated for use during anal sex gained a thumbs up from the FDA, the agency announced on Wednesday. One Male Condoms, manufactured by Global Protection of Boston, received marketing authorization to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) during anal intercourse, including HIV. The move could improve public health efforts to reduce STIs, […]