Opinion | Two Years of Excess Deaths: What Can We Learn?
Has anyone noticed that the nation has been going through a 3-month surge in COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations that is just now beginning to abate? The CDC community levels on July 28 reported over 80% of counties at medium or high risk levels, an all-time high since the CDC began reporting such information back in […]
Celebrities Open Up About Marriage Counseling
Michelle Obama devoted part of her book “Becoming” to going to couples therapy with Barack, and it turns out the celebrity pair is just one of many going to counseling.
Fate of Transcatheter Tricuspid Devices: Will it Be Repair or Replacement?
CHICAGO — Discussing their predictions on where transcatheter technologies in the tricuspid space are going, some experts said they favored the odds of replacement over repair when devices are ready to be commercialized. Yet making the case for transcatheter tricuspid valve repair was Paul Sorajja, MD, of Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, who […]
Decoding a key part of the cell, atom by atom
Whatever you are doing, whether it is driving a car, going for a jog, or even at your laziest, eating chips and watching TV on the couch, there is an entire suite of molecular machinery inside each of your cells hard at work. That machinery, far too small to see with the naked eye or […]
Opinion | ‘Well Vanilla Didn’t Work; We’ll Try French Vanilla’: What We Heard This Week
“That’s sort of going, ‘Well vanilla didn’t work; we’ll try French vanilla.’” — Gary Sachs, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, on the benefits of adjunctive cariprazine (Vraylar) for patients who have failed on multiple first-line antidepressants. “Here we are, waking up in yet another scenario where we have, in this case, children that […]
Opinion | ‘I’m Going to Be Down the Street Drinking a Beer’: What We Heard This Week
“We don’t just flip ’em a scalpel and say, ‘Hey, good luck, I’m going to be down the street drinking a beer.’” — Christopher R. Porta, MD, of Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington, on the rigorous oversight of surgical trainees. “We expected to get different results.” — Lawrence Casalino, MD, of Weill Cornell […]
Got Brain Fog Because Of Long COVID? Here’s Why And How To Cope.
If you’ve ever been jet-lagged or pulled an all-nighter before going straight into work or school, you probably know the feeling. Maybe you had a harder time focusing that day, were more irritable and forgetful than usual, or just felt mentally off. Brain fog, a term used to describe feelings of mental fuzziness, affects everyone […]
What Are the First Signs of Going Crazy? Mental Illness
How do you know if you’re going crazy? It’s important to identify the warning signs and seek help early on Unfortunately, there is no easy way to determine whether certain behaviors are a sign of mental illness. However, people who feel they are going crazy often have one thing in common: something feels amiss. Mental […]
Initial COVID-19 infection on the single-cell level, revealed
What is going on at the single-cell level in the first days of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the lungs? Researchers at Texas Biomedical Research Institute and Southwest National Primate Research Center (SNPRC), in collaboration with Washington University in St. Louis, have clarified what immune cells are present in the lungs in the first days of SARS-CoV-2 […]
Look who’s talking now: The fishes! Widespread sound communication among fish
There’s a whole lot of talking going on beneath the waves. A new study from Cornell University finds that fish are far more likely to communicate with sound than generally thought — and some fish have been doing this for at least 155 million years. These findings were just published in the journal Ichthyology & […]