Over 80% of Nurses Face Workplace Violence, Survey Finds
U.S. nurses reported a surge in workplace violence in post-pandemic times, according to a new survey from the nation’s largest nursing union. In National Nurses United’s (NNU) poll of 914 nurses, 46% said workplace violence had increased and 82% said they had experienced at least one type of violence at work in 2023. Additionally, 68% […]
Have You Ever Experienced ‘Jamais Vu’? Here’s What It Is And Why It Happens.
Photo by Rafa Elias via Getty Images If something you’ve seen a million times, like a word or a celebrity, suddenly looks unfamiliar, jamais vu could explain why. Déjà vu is a transitory mental state that, according to one study, as much as 97% of the population have experienced at least once in their life. […]
Adults with ADHD are at increased risk for developing dementia
Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are nearly three times more likely to develop dementia than adults without ADHD, according to a Rutgers study. The study, coauthored by Michal Schnaider Beeri, director of the Herbert and Jacqueline Krieger Klein Alzheimer’s Research Center at Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI) was published in JAMA Network Open. It followed […]
Oral Cancer Patients Face Worse Outcomes With Delayed Radiation Therapy
MONTREAL – Most patients in a Canadian cohort had prolonged times to postoperative radiation therapy, and those delays were associated with worse survival outcomes, a multicenter study showed. Among 1,368 postsurgical patients with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma, 80% waited more than 42 days to start postoperative radiation therapy (S-PORT). Delays in starting RT were […]
Nitrate: Healthy heart or cancer risk? Meet nutrition’s Jekyll and Hyde
Despite our understanding of nutrition expanding remarkably in recent times, few aspects of our diet continue to confuse and divide the experts like nitrate. For a long time nitrate has been viewed warily, with previous research showing it could potentially be linked to causing cancer. However, subsequent research has revealed dietary nitrate also has various […]
One Paid Medical Malpractice Claim May Signal More to Come
Physicians who had a prior paid medical malpractice claim were three to four times more likely to have future claims, according to a retrospective case-control study, challenging the commonly held notion among physicians that medical malpractice claims are simply bad luck or random events. Among every physician licensed to practice in the U.S. at the […]
Patient Accused of HIPAA Violation, Threatened With Jail for TikTok Posts
A confrontation between hospital staff and a patient over wait times and patient rights was documented in a series of viral TikTok videos, according to a local news report. Denise Bradley, a patient at Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn, Michigan, was confronted by hospital security and a nurse after she was found to be recording an […]
It’s not them, it’s you: Why potatoes don’t deserve their bad reputation: They may not have all of the benefits as other vegies, but potatoes can still be a healthy option
With low or no-carbohydrate diets rising in popularity in recent times, the humble potato is now regularly overlooked in favour of other vegetables. In fact, research literature has previously indicated potatoes may have a detrimental effect on health, such as possibly increasing the likelihood of developing Type 2 diabetes. However, new Edith Cowan University (ECU) […]
Youth With Gender Dysphoria Hospitalized for Suicidal Ideation Far More Often
Hospitalizations due to suicidality and self-harm were four or fives times more common in young people with gender dysphoria-related diagnoses compared with those without such diagnoses, a serial cross-sectional study showed. Among transgender and non-binary young people ages 6 to 20 included in the Kids’ Inpatient Database for 2016 and 2019, 36% of those with […]
CDC: Unvaccinated 14 Times More Likely to Catch Monkeypox
Men eligible for the monkeypox vaccine who did not receive one were roughly 14 times more likely to catch the virus, early real-world effectiveness data from the CDC showed. During the week of August 28, for example, incidence of monkeypox was 230 per 100,000 for those who did not get vaccinated, as compared to 15 […]