Dementia: Frequent colds, flu could worsen cognitive decline
Studies in humans have shown that greater exposure to microbial infections during one’s lifetime is associated with a greater decline in cognitive function with aging. A new animal study assessed the impact of inflammation caused by repeated microbial infections on…
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Nursing union REJECTS 5% pay offer and announces new strike dates
Nursing union REJECTS 5% pay offer and announces new strike dates: RCN to stage 48-hour walkout later this month and will NOT staff emergency, intensive and cancer care The Royal College of Nursing confirmed 54% of balloted members reject the…
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DOJ asks Supreme Court to block federal court rulings restricting abortion pills
Photo: STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images The Justice Department on Friday asked the Supreme Court to immediately block federal court rulings that imposed restrictions on the widely used abortion pill mifepristone. Why it matters: Justices have another high-profile abortion fight…
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DEA seized enough fentanyl in 2022 to kill everyone in the U.S.
A bag of assorted pills and prescription drugs dropped off for disposal on April 24, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced Tuesday that it seized over 379 million…
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66 clinics stopped offering abortions after Roe was overturned
More than 80% of abortion clinics in 15 states with strict abortion bans have stopped offering the procedure in the 100 days since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to a new report from the Guttmacher Institute, a…
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Hearing aids may lower risk of dementia 40%, Lancet study suggests
Hearing aids may lower risk of dementia by more than 40 PERCENT, Lancet study suggests People with hearing loss without aids had a 42 percent higher risk of dementia It forces the brain to work harder in other regions at…
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Horny men less likely to suffer an early death than their peers: study
Men with higher libido are 69% (yes, really) less likely to die young than their peers, study suggests Researchers in Japan tracked 21,000 people for seven years for the study Men who were interested in sex were up to 82…
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Prediction-driven decision rules, randomized control study design and survival analysis in health care practice
Predictions are becoming more and more a part of our lives, and they are becoming increasingly useful in medical science as the science evolves. Increased understanding of disease and its treatments allows us to use predictions based on predictive biomarker…
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Advice for distance runners from physical therapy experts
Training safely and slowly Treating injury What to know during the race Recovery is key Source: Read Full Article
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Why focusing on COVID deaths undercounts the health harms of the pandemic: New research
More than three years into the COVID pandemic, both the virus and the measures taken to control its spread have affected people’s lives across the globe. But how can we fully quantify these effects? While we have estimates of how…
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