Recent growth in the number of health care workers providing home care for Medicare patients is “small and inadequate” compared with the increasing demand in…
How common is stroke in people critically ill with COVID-19?
A large, year-long study has found that among people with COVID-19 who were hospitalized in an intensive care unit (ICU), 2% experienced a stroke after…
Designing better antibody drugs with artificial intelligence
Antibodies are not only produced by our immune cells to fight viruses and other pathogens in the body. For a few decades now, medicine has…
Watch Action Bronson Crush a Training Session With World’s Strongest Man Martins Licis
Martins Licis might be the current reigning World’s Strongest Man, but he was left gasping for breath while trying out rapper Action Bronson’s high-rep, high-range…
Adolescents with lack of empathy show early signs of psychopathy
A pioneering study with the Portuguese population shows that adolescents with high levels of callous-unemotional traits demonstrate lower levels of anticipated guilt towards the possibility…
Significantly more mild bleeding episodes with AstraZeneca vaccine than mRNA vaccines
An unpublished preprint of a study done by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, NIPH, concludes that the AstraZeneca COVID-vaccine may lead to less severe…
Pictures of COVID injections can scare the pants off people with needle phobias
This year is shaping up as the year of the COVID-19 vaccination photo, with the pandemic providing seemingly endless photo opportunities. We’ve seen stock photos…
Sunlight linked with lower COVID-19 deaths, study shows
Sunnier areas are associated with fewer deaths from Covid-19, an observational study suggests. Increased exposure to the sun’s rays—specifically UVA—could act as a simple public…
The impact of COVID-19 on people with kidney failure
A new analysis reveals that individuals with kidney failure have faced especially high hospitalization and death rates during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings, which appear…
Removing care inequalities for teens and young adults with cancer
Adolescents and young adults (AYA) with cancer are often missing out on age-appropriate specialist care owing to a lack of awareness of how their needs…