Post-COVID Neurologic, Psychiatric Symptoms May Persist for 2 Years
Up to 2 years after infection, people who had COVID-19 continued to face increased risks of neurologic and psychiatric sequelae compared with people who had other respiratory infections, a retrospective study showed. Health records of nearly 1.3 million people — mostly in the U.S. — showed that risks of cognitive deficit (brain fog), dementia, psychotic […]
‘Spider-Man’ Star Tom Holland Says He’s Taking Time Away From Social Media
Holland, who has deleted Instagram in prior years, said Instagram and Twitter are both overstimulating and overwhelming while explaining how he’s on a social media hiatus in a roughly three-minute video posted this weekend. Advertisement “I get caught up and I spiral when I read things about me online and ultimately it’s very detrimental to […]
Two Stories of Dying in America
After years of walking amongst the dying, I have come to one overwhelming conclusion. We are scared to death … of dying. Studies show that a significant portion of people are afraid of death and the deaths of our loved ones. In fact, there is even a field of study devoted to the human reaction […]
See Who Made This Year’s List of Best Hospitals
There was no surprise when it came to first place on this year’s “Best Hospitals” list from U.S. News & World Report. For the seventh consecutive year, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., clocked in at No. 1 on the Honor Roll of the 20 institutions ranked as “delivering exceptional treatment across many areas of care,” […]
Cooking Food From My Homeland Pulled Me Out Of A Deep Depression
After coming to the U.S., Ahu Hettema dealt with immigration issues for more than 10 years. Unable to visit her family or her native home of Turkey, she spiraled into a deep depression. When her mother came to Honolulu to cook Ahu her favorite Turkish dishes, the kitchen helped her heal. After running a farmers […]
Halos and dark matter: A recipe for discovery: No, scientists still don’t know what dark matter is. But MSU scientists helped uncover new physics while looking for it.
About three years ago, Wolfgang “Wolfi” Mittig and Yassid Ayyad went looking for the universe’s missing mass, better known as dark matter, in the heart of an atom. Their expedition didn’t lead them to dark matter, but they still found something that had never been seen before, something that defied explanation. Well, at least an […]
America’s Doctor Shortage Explained
[embedded content] We’ve heard for years that America has a shortage of doctors. According to projections from the AAMC [Association of American Medical Colleges], if we do not take steps to address this issue, we can expect shortages of between 38,000 and 124,000 physicians by the year 2034. But why is it so difficult to […]
The Drug- And Alcohol-Fueled Lifestyle Of Chefs: How Does One Escape?
In the past few years, mental health concerns have increased in the restaurant industry, as in the world as a whole. Anthony Bourdain’s suicide in 2018, especially, brought attention to the issue. Unfortunately, drinking and drugs are often par for the course in the food industry, as highlighted by a 2015 study on the high […]
An ocean of galaxies awaits: New COMAP radio survey will peer beneath the ‘tip of the iceberg’ of galaxies to unveil a hidden era of star formation
Sometime around 400 million years after the birth of our universe, the first stars began to form. The universe’s so-called dark ages came to an end and a new light-filled era began. More and more galaxies began to take shape and served as factories for churning out new stars, a process that reached a peak […]
What a Martian meteorite can teach us about Earth’s origins
These days, not so much. But more than 4.5 billion years ago, it’s possible the Red Planet had a crust comparable to Iceland today. This discovery, hidden in the oldest martian fragments found on Earth, could provide information about our planet that was lost over billions of years of geological movement and could help explain […]