Opinion | Long COVID Persists as a Mass Disabling Event
Bonuck is a pediatric health researcher and a professor of family and social medicine. The latest CDC data on long COVID in U.S. adults and an alarming World Health Organization (WHO) statement about its long-term impact underscore the pandemic’s lingering and debilitating effects. Like the satirical film “Don’t Look Up,” in which scientists couldn’t focus […]
Opinion | Dignity for the Deceased: The Need for Federal Regulations
Champney is a professor of cell biology, and a body donor program coordinator. A faculty colleague at another institution contacted me to let me know that his mother had donated her body to our body donation program. I replied that we would take care of her and treat her with the respect and dignity she […]
Opinion | Time to Incorporate Quality Measures Into Telemedicine
David Nash is founding dean emeritus and the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy at the Jefferson College of Population Health. Follow Although remote diagnosis and treatment of patients by means of telecommunication technology may seem like something new, that is not the case. Fun facts: The idea was discussed […]
Advice For Black Women, From A Black Woman — It’s Time To Take Care Of Your Heart
Dr. Alanna A. Morris is the Associate Professor of Medicine and the Director of Heart Failure Research at Emory University School of Medicine, and focuses on the impacts race and gender may have on health disparities in cardiovascular disease. She is part of a new educational initiative called Hear Your Heart, which is designed to […]
Men over 40 who regularly eat sunomono more likely to be in lower blood pressure category, study finds: Vinegar-based Japanese side dish provided an opportunity for first observational study of dietary vinegar’s health benefits
An observational study led by Professor Hiroaki Kanouchi from Osaka Metropolitan University presents the first evidence that eating sunomono — a Japanese vinegared side dish — correlates to lower blood pressure categorization in men. “The benefits of vinegar in a healthy diet are well known. Our research is the first observational study of these benefits; […]
Researchers feed worms a natural plant extract; watch them fatten, live 40% longer
A research team in the Louisiana State University Department of Biological Sciences led by Assistant Professor Adam Bohnert has published a landmark study linking greater metabolic health — achieved through a natural plant extract — with longer lifespans in C. elegans, commonly known as roundworms. Although worms and humans don’t appear to have much in […]
Sleeper cells: Newly discovered stem cell resting phase could put brain tumors to sleep: Engineering researchers discover and explore new neural stem cell state that gives insight into cancer
Christopher Plaisier, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, and Samantha O’Connor, a biomedical engineering doctoral student in the Plaisier Lab, are leading research into a new stage of the stem cell life cycle that could be the key to unlocking new methods of […]