Florida Has A Measles Outbreak. Here’s What That Actually Means For You.
LOADINGERROR LOADING Currently, Florida is experiencing a measles outbreak in which nine people, mainly children, are infected. Despite this, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo went against Centers for Disease Control guidance and told parents of unvaccinated children they can decide whether they want to keep their children home from school during the outbreak. The […]
‘Ghost’ Provider Networks a Big Problem for Patients, Especially in Mental Health
WASHINGTON — Nine years ago, Keris Jän Myrick had a problem: she got a new job in a new state, and with it, new health insurance, and she needed to change her mental health provider. “Navigating the Blue Cross Blue Shield for federal employees provider directory to find a psychiatrist in the D.C. or Maryland […]
Concussion Expert’s Papers Retracted
The British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM), a BMJ publication, is retracting nine more non-research articles authored by former editor-in chief and concussion researcher Paul McCrory, MBBS, PhD, of the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Melbourne, Australia. Expressions of concern will be placed on another 38 articles published in BMJ journals on […]
Most high blood pressure in children and teenagers is linked with unhealthy lifestyle
Inactivity, diets high in sugar and salt, and excess weight account for nine in ten cases of high blood pressure in children and adolescents, according to a consensus paper by heart health experts published today in European Heart Journal, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). The document, which focuses on hypertension in […]
Physicists announce first results from The Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment’s final dataset
Over nearly nine years, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment captured an unprecedented five and a half million interactions from subatomic particles called neutrinos. Now, the international team of physicists of the Daya Bay collaboration has reported the first result from the experiment’s full dataset — the most precise measurement yet of theta13, a key […]