Gyms still aren’t open, and you’re probably running out of ideas for living room workouts at this point. Adding a resistance band to your home gym equipment is a great way to give yourself an additional challenge, without needing to invest in expensive or bulky weights. Resistance bands can enhance your warm-up stretches, intensify your workouts and help to build […]
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Parents may worry that spending time on their smartphones has a negative impact on their relationships with their children. However, a new comprehensive analysis published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry found that this is unlikely to be the case. In the analysis of data from 3, 659 parent-based surveys, the authors tested 84 different possibilities to assess […]
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High blood pressure is when the blood pressure, the force of blood flowing through the blood vessels, is consistently too high. Over time, this causes the blood vessels to lose their elasticity restricting the amount of blood which flows through them. Restricting the supply of blood to the heart could trigger dangerous health complications including heart attack or stroke. Consuming […]
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Neurological complications of Covid-19 can include delirium, brain inflammation, stroke and nerve damage, finds a new UCL and UCLH-led study. Published in the journal Brain, the research team identified one rare and sometimes fatal inflammatory condition, known as ADEM, which appears to be increasing in prevalence due to the pandemic. Some patients in the study did not experience severe respiratory […]
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(HealthDay)—Workers from ethnic and minority groups make up nearly all meatpacking employees who’ve been infected during COVID-19 outbreaks at their facilities, a new government study reveals. The stats show that nearly 1 of every 10 workers in affected plants were diagnosed with COVID-19, based on figures from 14 states that reported the total number of workers in facilities with outbreaks. […]
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(HealthDay)—In a case series of 31 patients, published online June 25 in JAMA Dermatology, chilblains did not appear to be directly associated with COVID-19. Anne Herman, M.D., from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Brussels, and colleagues examined whether chilblains are associated with COVID-19 in a monocentric case series conducted at a tertiary care hospital. Thirty-one patients who had recently […]
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A Brazilian man infected with the AIDS virus has shown no sign of it for more than a year since he stopped HIV medicines after an intense experimental drug therapy aimed at purging hidden, dormant virus from his body, doctors reported Tuesday. The case needs independent verification and it’s way too soon to speculate about a possible cure, scientists cautioned. […]
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LOINC, created and maintained by the Regenstrief Institute, is amplifying its global work to help track the coronavirus by releasing new standardized codes for healthcare systems’ laboratory tests, clinical observations and other data. Health systems often have their own format for recording patient information which makes sharing and tracking data between systems difficult. LOINC is a lingua franca that is […]
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Australia on Tuesday ordered millions of people locked down in its second-biggest city to combat a surge in coronavirus cases, as nations across the planet scrambled to stop the rampaging pandemic. While some countries are worried about second waves of infections, the worst-hit—the United States—was still “knee-deep” in its first, its top expert warned, with cases also surging in India […]
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Increased sensitivity to light drug Blood pressure lowering drugs, pain relievers, antibiotics, millions of people in Germany are taking medicines that make the skin more sensitive to the sun. As a result, the sun fire danger increases. Concerned should, therefore, in the summer, good sun protection. Cough, headache, dizziness, gastro-intestinal complaints: The possible side effects of medicines are varied. What […]
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