Here’s What You Should Do Immediately After You Get A Sunburn
Eleganza via Getty Images While getting a sunburn should never be a goal, it does happen from time to time — especially for folks with fair skin. When spending time outside, it’s important to do what you can to avoid getting a sunburn. The skin damage that occurs can cause problems like skin aging and […]
6 Personality Traits That May Secretly Be ADHD
urbazon via Getty Images ADHD can happen in adults — and it might present differently than you think. An estimated 4% of adults in the United States — or 8 million people — are formally diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, aka ADHD, in any given year. “There is a common belief that ADHD only impacts children, […]
Could Hot Flashes and Night Sweats Serve as Early Signs of Poor Brain Health?
ATLANTA — Hot flashes and night sweats, particularly those that happen during sleep, may be an an early marker for cognitive illness, a study found. Frequent vasomotor symptoms that occurred during sleep were associated with increased white matter hyperintensity volumes (B[SE]=0.17 [0.06], P<0.05), brain lesions that have been linked with cognitive impairment, reported Rebecca Thurston, […]
The Risk Factors For A Blood Clot Are More Common Than You Think
When they happen on the outside, blood clotting can be a good thing to help prevent excessive bleeding after you’ve been injured. Platelets (a type of blood cell) and proteins in your plasma (the liquid part of the blood) band together and form a clot over the injury, which eventually dissolves once the injury has […]
15 Life-Saving Items That Nurses Say You Should Keep At Home
Part of what makes medical emergencies so scary is that, by nature, they can happen completely unexpectedly. Staying prepared with a fully-stocked first aid kit, supplemented with other potentially life-saving essentials, can be a great way to manage your anxieties, save you a trip to the emergency room or, at the very least, act fast […]
New understanding of complex catalysis advances catalyst design
Many of the catalytic reactions that drive our modern world happen in an atomic black box. Scientists know all the components that go into a reaction, but not how they interact at an atomic level. Understanding the reaction pathways and kinetics of catalytic reactions at the atomic scale is critical to designing catalysts for more […]
It Looks Like The Number Of Uninsured Americans Didn’t Spike During The Pandemic
Sometimes it’s news when a bad thing doesn’t happen. The story of health insurance coverage during the pandemic appears to be one of those times. Back in early 2020, when COVID-19 first began to force businesses to shut down, unemployment soared and the number of uninsured Americans seemed certain to soar, too. But a pair of […]