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9 out of every 10 people hospitalized with the flu have at least one underlying medical condition

Leading health organizations are urging people to get a flu shot if they haven't already done so. Compared to last year's mild flu season, the U.S. has already seen more than three times the number of flu-related deaths.

6 Feb 2023

How does vaping affect your health?

According to the significant review, using nicotine e-cigarettes increases the risk of various adverse health outcomes, especially in youth, including taking up smoking, addiction, poisoning, seizures, burns, and lung injury.

6 Feb 2023

Urine-diverting toilets can reduce a person’s exposure to virus particles

Parents often give their children useful advice: Wash your hands, cover your cough and put the toilet lid down before flushing.

6 Feb 2023

New Cochrane review: Taking vitamin D supplements does not reduce the risk of asthma attacks

Taking vitamin D supplements does not reduce the risk of asthma attacks in children or adults, according to an updated Cochrane review.

6 Feb 2023

The role of autonomic dysfunction and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) in post-acute COVID-19

A new clinical outlook in Nature Reviews Cardiology aimed to analyze the post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 that can pose a threat to patients, their doctors, and the healthcare system.

6 Feb 2023

Mandating cognitive screening for older drivers associated with decrease in motor vehicle collisions and increase in road injuries

It is generally assumed that older people make more mistakes and cause more crashes when driving, but there has been very little research to back up this assumption.

6 Feb 2023

New research may explain why some patients suffer from long-COVID

A review article published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation deciphers the relationship between rare inborn errors of type I interferon immunity and the development of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia.

6 Feb 2023

A novel multiplexed assay to diagnose Mpox and other viruses

Researchers evaluate the performance of novel assay to identify Mpox viral infection.

6 Feb 2023

What do gut microbiota have to do with Alzheimer's and dementia?

Researchers explore the preventive and therapeutic potential of gut microbiome modulation in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.

6 Feb 2023

Diet, microbial metabolites, and cytokine levels correlate with depression and anxiety symptoms in obese individuals

Researchers determine the association between diet, microbe-derived metabolites, and cytokine levels with anxiety and depression among obese adults.

6 Feb 2023

How did human mobility affect COVID-19 case growth?

A new study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server investigated how human mobility influenced SARS-CoV-2 transmission, based on a network-based approach and panel regression methods.

6 Feb 2023

Study examines clinical risk factors for kidney function decline in children with CKD

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in children is rare, which makes it difficult to study and leaves major gaps in the quantity and quality of evidence that informs the care of pediatric patients with the condition.

6 Feb 2023

Study: Most patients are getting small doses of rehab therapy after stroke

Many patients don't receive much rehabilitation therapy following a stroke, despite strong evidence that higher amounts can reduce long-term disability, according to a new UCLA-led study that tracked over 500 patients across 28 acute care hospitals in their first year following a stroke.

6 Feb 2023

Adherence to healthy lifestyle linked to lower risk of long COVID

Women who followed most aspects of a healthy lifestyle, including healthy body weight, not smoking, regular exercise, adequate sleep, high quality diet, and moderate alcohol consumption, had about half the risk of long COVID compared with women without any healthy lifestyle factors, according to a study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

6 Feb 2023

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9 out of every 10 people hospitalized with the flu have at least one underlying medical condition

How does vaping affect your health?

Urine-diverting toilets can reduce a person’s exposure to virus particles

New Cochrane review: Taking vitamin D supplements does not reduce the risk of asthma attacks

The role of autonomic dysfunction and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) in post-acute COVID-19

Mandating cognitive screening for older drivers associated with decrease in motor vehicle collisions and increase in road injuries

New research may explain why some patients suffer from long-COVID

A novel multiplexed assay to diagnose Mpox and other viruses

What do gut microbiota have to do with Alzheimer's and dementia?

Diet, microbial metabolites, and cytokine levels correlate with depression and anxiety symptoms in obese individuals

How did human mobility affect COVID-19 case growth?

Study examines clinical risk factors for kidney function decline in children with CKD

Study: Most patients are getting small doses of rehab therapy after stroke

Adherence to healthy lifestyle linked to lower risk of long COVID

Detecting novel SARS-CoV-2 variants via rapid RT-PCR assays

Gender norms linked to long-term pain may result in medically unjustified treatment disparities

Changes in the cerebral neural network could function as a biomarker for neurocognitive disorders

Diagnosis of developmental language disorders in girls made more difficult by sexist myths or stereotypes

Recent therapeutic strategies for renal cell carcinoma and the effects of the tumor microenvironment on systemic therapy

Combination of time-restricted eating and high-intensity interval training can help reduce belly fat

How Pulp Fixin Is Turning Paper into High-Performance Sustainable Labware

A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

Obesity, GLP-1s, and metabolic care

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