Arthritis and Long COVID: A Double Whammy
“Long COVID” lays a particularly heavy burden on people with pre-existing arthritis, a Canadian survey study indicated. Worsened pain and greater functional limitations relative to their status prior to COVID-19 infection were reported by most individuals in Laval, Quebec, who had some type of arthritis and developed post-acute COVID symptoms following initial infection, according to […]
Mocktails or cocktails? Having a sense of purpose in life can keep binge drinking at bay: A new study reveals that having a sense of purpose in daily life can influence college students’ decisions on day-to-day alcohol consumption
Heavy alcohol use is common among college students — and as a consequence, it puts young adults at risk for a wide range of health issues, from cardiovascular disease to cancer. Day in and day out, college students are bombarded with cues to drink, whether that’s seeing a group of friends toast at a party […]
Opinion | ‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’ in the Pediatric ED
Walking out of a shift in the pediatric emergency department (ED) lately is a heavy mix of relief, guilt, and pure exhaustion. Wading through wall-to-wall families, huddled in blankets and sweatshirts through long hours waiting to be seen, you wish you could do more, find more beds, create more staff. You’ve spent hours running from […]
Tracing tomatoes’ health benefits to gut microbes: Favorable findings in pigs warrant human studies, researchers say
Two weeks of eating a diet heavy in tomatoes increased the diversity of gut microbes and altered gut bacteria toward a more favorable profile in young pigs, researchers found. After observing these results with a short-term intervention, the research team plans to progress to similar studies in people, looking for health-related links between tomatoes in […]
Mucus Too Sticky? NAC Injections May Help
BARCELONA — Patients with heavy mucus secretions that they couldn’t readily expectorate obtained some relief with IV N-acetylcysteine (NAC), a researcher said here. After 7 days of treatment in a randomized trial conducted in China, mean sputum viscosity scores declined by 0.24 points more with NAC than placebo injections (P<0.001), and scores for expectoration difficulty […]
What Are Uterine Fibroids? Symptoms And Risk Factors You Should Know.
Tanika Gray Valbrun started experiencing extremely heavy periods early in her teen years. “I was that girl who always had to carry pads with her, felt like I was always on my period, had to wear two panties and biker shorts, always had an extra bag with me,” she told HuffPost. In addition to the […]
How We Reported on Nurse Rehabilitation Programs
The pandemic took a heavy toll on frontline healthcare workers, especially nurses, prompting our team to look into whether states would be prepared to handle a potential influx of nurses needing help with substance use disorders. Our reporting led us to alternative-to-discipline programs, which are charged with getting nurses back on the job while protecting […]
Collisions of light produce matter/antimatter from pure energy
Scientists studying particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) — a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory — have produced definitive evidence for two physics phenomena predicted more than 80 years ago. The results were derived from a detailed analysis of […]