Nearly 90 percent of COVID-19 patients who qualified for, but did not receive, ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) due to a shortage of resources during the…
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Men With Spinal Cord Injury Less Apt to Undergo Prostate Cancer Screening
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Men with spinal-cord injury are less likely to undergo prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate cancer compared with the general…
Prescription Video Game Focuses Attention in ADHD
A prescription, digital therapeutic shows measureable brain changes that correlate with improved attention control in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Investigators found children…
US Pregnancy Deaths Higher Among Black Women Early in Pandemic
(Reuters) – Black women in the United States were nearly three times as likely to die during or shortly after pregnancy over the first year…
Elephant Seals Have an Internal GPS They Use for Migration
Elephant seals have a sense that functions like an internal GPS to guide their migration to their breeding beaches each year, according to researchers from…
Heart disease: The food significantly associated with a reduced risk – 75% lower
Dr Chris on the link between paracetamol and heart disease We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve…
Cancer: The sign in the feet that could signal a tumour pressing against the spinal cord
Prostate cancer: Dr Philippa Kaye discusses symptoms We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of…
The Five (and More) Senses
There are five basic human senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. The sensing organs associated with each sense send information to the brain to…
The CDC’s New Guidelines on Covid Risk and Masking Elicit Mixed Feelings
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month unveiled updated covid-19 guidelines that relaxed masking recommendations, some people no doubt sighed in relief…
Population-level health and economic impact of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in first year of rollout in the US
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused over 438 million documented cases, with over 5.96 million deaths worldwide. The high number of deaths within a…