Surgery
Study recommends using age, not weight, to screen for diabetes
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers should focus on age, not weight, to capture the greatest number of people in all racial and ethnic groups with prediabetes […]
Almost all countries around the world criminalize abortion in some circumstances, finds global review
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Almost all countries around the globe criminalize abortion in some circumstances, despite the public health risks and impact on human rights, finds […]
Study examines the link between mental health and oral health
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A study examining the mental health-oral health association cross-sectionally and longitudinally was presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the […]
Community health workers can help protect pregnant women and their babies from malaria
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Community health workers can make a great difference in increasing the number of pregnant women who receive life-saving preventive antimalarial treatment, according […]
Leaders say ‘never again’ to vaccine inequity
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Three years since the Covid pandemic began, nearly 200 prominent world figures called on Saturday for the vaccine inequity seen during the […]
Can children read maps at the age of four?
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Children start to develop the basic skills that underlie map reading from the age of four, according to new research from the […]
Transcatheter mitral valve repair in heart failure patients significantly reduces hospitalizations and improves survival
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Transcatheter mitral valve repair for heart failure patients with mitral regurgitation can reduce the long-term rate of hospitalizations by almost 50 percent, […]
High-flow nasal cannula usage outside of intensive care associated with longer hospital stays, higher costs
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) treatment for patients with mild to moderate bronchiolitis may be associated with longer hospital stays and higher cost […]
Obesity in pregnant women could alter structure and function of placenta, raising poor health outcome risk
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Maternal obesity alters the structure of the placenta (a vital organ that nourishes the baby during pregnancy) more than gestational diabetes mellitus […]
White House braces for ruling on abortion pill’s fate
People gather in front of the J. Marvin Jones Federal Building and Mary Lou Robinson United States Courthouse to protest a lawsuit to ban the abortion […]
Any regular physical activity at any age linked to better brain function in later life
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Any regular leisure time physical activity at any age is linked to better brain function in later life, but maintaining an exercise […]
How COVID-19 can impact the heart
Hearts from mice infected with COVID-19 have an increased percentage of fibrosis and dilation of the fibers—a common indicator of early cardiomyopathy in mice. Credit: Andrew […]
Mothers’ alcohol consumption before and during pregnancy is linked to changes in children’s face shapes
1. Tier 1: PAE only before pregnancy; Tier 2a: PAE during first trimester, but abstinent during trimesters two and three; and Tier 2b: PAE during first […]
Study suggests that wildfire smoke increases risk of going into labor prematurely
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a new study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting—and published in […]
Tobacco and e-cigs may put healthy young people at risk of severe COVID illness, new research suggests
Credit: CC0 Public Domain New UCLA research suggests that smoking tobacco and vaping electronic cigarettes may increase healthy young people’s risk for developing severe COVID illness. […]
Being married may help people maintain lower blood sugar levels
Credit: CC0 Public Domain People living with a spouse seem to have a higher likelihood of being healthy in terms of maintaining lower blood sugar levels […]
Black South Africans report higher life satisfaction and are at less risk for depression post-migration
Credit: University of Missouri Although relocating can be stressful, a new study at the University of Missouri found Black South Africans who migrated far away from […]
Planting more trees could decrease deaths from higher summer temperatures in cities by a third, modeling study suggests
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain One third of premature deaths attributable to higher temperatures in European cities during summer 2015 could have been prevented by increasing urban […]
‘Constant danger’: Life after leprosy, a long neglected disease
M. leprae, one of the causative agents of leprosy. Credit: Public Domain Dan Izzett has lived with leprosy’s effects on his body for 70 years, and […]
Preeclampsia in mothers linked with four-fold higher risk of heart attack in decade after childbirth
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Women with preeclampsia develop a higher likelihood of heart attack and stroke than their peers within just seven years of delivery, with […]
December 2, 2022
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS), a scientific and educational association with more than 1,000 members dedicated to advancing the specialty of […]
December 28, 2021
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study using artificial intelligence to analyze radiographs from thousands of patients after hip replacement surgery redefines the acetabular “safe zone” to […]
October 10, 2021
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Patients who experience low blood pressure during surgery are at increased risk for postoperative delirium, according to a large study being presented […]
March 10, 2021
(HealthDay)—A new type of surgery offers amputees better control of muscles that remain after surgery, and of their prosthetic limbs, its inventors say. The standard surgical […]
March 7, 2021
The moment Maram al-Amawi gets back from school, she slips on the 3D-printed mask that covers her face and treats her severe burns from a blaze […]
February 23, 2021
(HealthDay)—Deceased organ donation increased among some racial groups, particularly among Black people, from 1999 to 2017, but substantial racial and ethnic differences remain, according to a […]
February 7, 2021
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A man is warning people against using headphones while falling asleep after health care workers had to remove a wireless earbud from […]
February 2, 2021
Obesity and its duration are significant risk factors for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular events, multiple cancers and decreased quality of life. According to the Centers for […]
February 1, 2021
Select patients born with heart defects and who undergo congenital heart surgery recover with few complications and reduced opioid use when a comprehensive, evidence-based enhanced recovery […]