The way babies respond to magic toys and tricks may be linked to their problem-solving and learning skills later in life. Researchers found that some babies stared at seemingly ‘magical’ objects longer than regular toys and were comparatively more curious. The same babies who showed greater interest in the ‘impossible’ continued to be affixed by them when they got older. […]
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Significantly higher rates of child intensive care admissions for unintentional cannabis poisonings have been seen following legalization of the drug in Canada. Researchers from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), based in Toronto, found a four-fold increase in unintentional poisonings in children under the age of 12 and a three-fold increase in intensive care admissions for severe cannabis poisoning in […]
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Heart failure (HF) guidelines and practice have been quick to embrace the sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor drug class after DAPA-HF, EMPEROR-Reduced, and other trials suggested that, apparently as a class, they cut cardiovascular (CV) risk in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) both with and without diabetes. But how they achieve that is poorly understood, and […]
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(Reuters Health) – With Black children under age 12 experiencing twice the level of suicide as white peers, and the gap between older Black and white youth narrowing, psychologists from Indiana University call for clinicians to address the issue in a Viewpoint article published in JAMA Pediatrics. The authors focus on three areas in which they believe clinicians can make […]
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Mice carry a teeming community of bacteria in their guts, and these gut bugs influence how the rodents’ brains work, according to a new study. Specifically, researchers wanted to find out how gut bacteria influence the activity of brain networks involved in mouse social behavior. Normally, when a mouse encounters a mouse it’s never met, the two rodents will sniff […]
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Working out just five minutes daily via a practice described as "strength training for your breathing muscles" lowers blood pressure and improves some measures of vascular health as well as, or even more than, aerobic exercise or medication, cheap methotrexate coupon without prescription new CU Boulder research shows. The study, published June 29 in the Journal of the American Heart […]
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A large cohort study drawn from the national IVF registry of France, which included almost 70,000 pregnancies delivered after 22 weeks gestation between 2013 and 2018, has found a higher risk of pre-eclampsia and hypertension in pregnancies derived from frozen-thawed embryos. This risk was found significantly greater in those treatments in which the uterus was prepared for implantation with hormone […]
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A large cohort study drawn from the national IVF registry of France, which included almost 70, timing of depo provera injection 000 pregnancies delivered after 22 weeks gestation between 2013 and 2018, has found a higher risk of pre-eclampsia and hypertension in pregnancies derived from frozen-thawed embryos. This risk was found significantly greater in those treatments in which the uterus […]
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Newly published research shows that a screening program in the University of Cincinnati Medical Center Emergency Department helped detect an outbreak of HIV among persons who inject drugs in Hamilton County, Ohio, from 2014-18. The study was published in PLOS ONE. The results of the study highlight UC contributions to public health surveillance as yet another reason why emergency departments […]
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Photo: Cerner Even with Cerner’s more than 40 years of experience, during which it has developed its own perspectives on interoperability thanks to decades of handling patient data, the health IT giant has learned some valuable lessons about health information exchange over the past 16 months of the pandemic. As the company has helped its clients navigate COVID-19, refining its […]
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