‘I’m one of the lucky ones’: Mental Health Australia chair’s 25% suicide reduction target
Talking points The chair of Mental Health Australia will launch a campaign calling on the federal government to set a national target to reduce suicide by 25 per cent by 2025. In 2020, there were 3139 deaths by suicide in…
Read MoreData Shows J&J Vaccine Deaths Higher, Shot Lasts Longer
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The COVID-19 death rate among people who got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was more than double the rate of other vaccinated Americans during the Omicron…
Read MoreCould COVID-19 spread through wastewater in the Thames?
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spreads primarily through droplet infection. Breathing, coughing, and singing can cause droplets of water vapor with suspended viral particles to be inhaled by another individual. To prevent this, governments around the world…
Read More‘Dancing’ laboratory rats show how the brain learns, perfects, then unconsciously performs a skillful movement
Learning a complex skilled movement like tying your shoes or playing an instrument takes practice. After repeating the same movements over and over, people often develop a formulaic way of performing the task, and may not even have to think…
Read MoreHIV patients on antiretroviral treatment with protease inhibitors may have lower COVID-19 risk
A preliminary study to be presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon, Portugal (23-26 April), suggests that people living with HIV who are on antiretroviral treatment (ART) with protease inhibitors (PI), may…
Read MoreWhy your vivid dreams could be a sign of unharnessed creativity
Welcome to Stylist’s Sleep Diaries, where we’re taking a deep-dive into one of the most important (and elusive) factors in our day-to-day lives: sleep. To help us understand more about it, we’re inviting women to track their bedtime routines over…
Read MoreUninsured Americans Could Pay Nearly $200 for COVID Tests
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Americans without health insurance now have fewer options to receive free COVID-19 tests, ABC News reports. Federal funding that covered the cost of coronavirus testing and…
Read MoreAwake Prone Positioning Cuts Need for Intubation in Some COVID Patients
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Awake prone positioning reduces the need for intubation in non-intubated COVID-19 patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, particularly among intensive-care unit (ICU) patients who need advanced respiratory support, according to a systemic review and meta-analysis….
Read MoreCharacterizing electrode coatings in lithium-ion battery production
Online metrology represents an efficient and accurate means of ensuring quality, safety and consistency – all of which are critical considerations in the battery industry. These tools are particularly useful in terms of the electrode coatings used in lithium-ion batteries….
Read MoreSpinal fluid sampling used to track treatment response in pediatric glioma
Treatment for glioma has long relied on MRI imaging to track tumor markers and treatment response. But findings from a team at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, led by Carl Koschmann, M.D., pediatric neuro-oncologist at University of Michigan…
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