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Face masks help reduce coronavirus transmission, which has prompted mandates and expert recommendations for their use where social distancing is difficult. As the world emerges from shutdowns, wearing face masks for extended periods of time in settings such as offices will increase. While these protective measures are essential to combating COVID-19’s spread, a new phenomenon is emerging: increasing reports of […]
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The key to living longer could be to eat a healthy, balanced diet – including at least five portions of fruit and vegetables every day – as well as regular exercise. But you could boost your life expectancy by regularly drinking coffee, it’s been claimed. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle, including a well-rounded diet is crucial to prolonging your lifespan. You […]
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The Aspen Institute estimates that 30 million to 40 million people in the country may be at risk for eviction in the coming months. The looming eviction crisis is also a public health crisis due to the negative consequences that housing insecurity has on mental and physical health. Crowded conditions in homeless shelters and people moving in with other family […]
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Motic Digital Pathology this week announced the global launch of its telepathology program, which allows pathologists to connect with labs and patients around the world. The company says the platform supports most slide formats on the market, allowing for multi-site management, international pathology and other collaborative projects. WHY IT MATTERS The cloud-based platform allows hospital users to create cases from […]
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(HealthDay)—The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends behavioral counseling interventions for preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in adolescents and adults at increased risk. These recommendations form the basis of a final recommendation statement published in the Aug. 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Jillian T. Henderson, Ph.D., M.P.H., from the Kaiser Permanente Evidence-Based Practice Center […]
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With the coronavirus still spreading widely, it’s time to start thinking seriously about influenza, which typically spreads in fall and winter. A major flu outbreak would not only overwhelm hospitals this fall and winter, but also likely overwhelm a person who might contract both at once. Doctors have no way of knowing yet what the effect of a dual diagnosis […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about rapid innovation in mental health care, and the move to telemedicine is likely here to stay to at least some degree, but new research led by UCL and King’s College London cautions that serious barriers still need to be overcome. In a new survey in the UK and an international review of evidence from […]
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Sara Montoya shared the warning from her hospital bed, where she was on oxygen and struggling to breathe after contracting COVID-19: “Put your masks on. Don’t go out if you don’t have to.” She shared the video on her Facebook page on July 5, just over a month before she died from the virus. The mom of three, from El […]
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Leading coma experts have created an ambitious plan to help doctors better care for comatose patients and answer that most awful question: “Will my loved one wake up?” The three-part plan outlines key steps physicians and researchers should take in the coming years to improve patient care and deepen our understanding of coma and other conditions that reduce consciousness. The […]
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Physicians at City of Hope, working in collaboration with scientists at Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), have found that greater gut microbial diversity in patients with metastatic kidney cancer is associated with better treatment outcomes on Food and Drug Administration-approved immunotherapy regimens. Their findings are outlined in a study published today in the journal European Urology. “We also reported the […]
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