Sen. John Fetterman Checked Into Hospital For Clinical Depression
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) checked himself into a hospital this week in order to be treated for depression, according to a statement released by his chief of staff Thursday. “Last night, Senator John Fetterman checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to receive treatment for clinical depression. While John has experienced depression off […]
Hospitals Slammed With ‘Viral Jambalaya’ Of Flu, RSV, COVID-19
As Americans head into the holiday season, a rapidly intensifying flu season is straining hospitals already overburdened with patients sick from other respiratory infections. More than half the states have high or very high levels of flu, unusually high for this early in the season, the government reported Friday. Those 27 states are mostly in […]
Study identifies alcohol risk factors for acute stroke: INTERSTROKE study is one of the largest international studies of risk factors for stroke
A global study, co-led by University of Galway, into causes of stroke has found that high and moderate alcohol consumption was associated with increased odds of stroke. The study also found that there was no link between low level drinking and stroke. The INTERSTROKE research looked at the alcohol consumption of almost 26,000 people worldwide, […]
Taylor Swift Captures What It’s Like To Struggle With Your Mental Health
It’s somewhere between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. and I am wide awake, headphones shoved into my ears, my eyes brimming with tears. I’m listening to Taylor Swift’s latest album, “Midnights,” which was released at midnight (of course) on Friday. Once again, Swift puts words to emotions that many of us experience but can’t adequately […]
Recent Developments in Allergic Asthma
Forty-two weeks into 2022, the year has seen significant progress in bringing relief to patients with allergic asthma. Among them: research identifying novel types of precipitating factors (literally, in one recent study), better understanding of air pollution’s contributions to asthma exacerbations, and insights into how climate change may affect asthma patients. And drug developers in […]
A Week of Spending for a Pharmacy Resident in Richmond Making $47.5K
Welcome to the MedPage Today “Med Money Journals,” providing readers a look into the finances of doctors, nurses, medical students, PAs, NPs, and others practicing medicine. Each post offers information about one person’s financial background, wages, and spending over a 7-day period. Anonymously share your own Med Money Journal here. Job: Post-graduate year one (PGY1) […]
Nothing Lasts Forever, Including Infant BCG Vaccine Protection
Infants who received BCG [bacille Calmette-Guérin] vaccination at birth had protection against tuberculosis into early childhood, but that protection largely disappeared in only a few years, according to a meta-analysis. Effectiveness of the BCG vaccination against tuberculosis in all age groups was 18%. However, when the results were stratified by age, only in children younger […]
A Week of Spending for a Biomedical Engineer in Minneapolis Making $185K
Welcome to the MedPage Today “Med Money Journals,” providing readers a look into the finances of doctors, nurses, medical students, PAs, NPs, and others practicing medicine. Each post offers information about one person’s financial background, wages, and spending over a 7-day period. Anonymously share your own Med Money Journal. Job: Biomedical engineer for med-tech company […]
Brains of children with autism may not always ‘see’ body language, study finds
Noticing and understanding what it means when a person leans into a conversation or takes a step back and crosses their arms is a vital part of human communication. Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester have found that children with autism spectrum disorder may not always process body […]
Deep dive into the dusty Milky Way
An animated dive into the dusty Milky Way reveals the outlines of our galaxy taking shape as we look out further and further from Earth. Based on new data from an interactive tool that exploits data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission and other space science data sets, astronomers have created an animation to […]