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Dr Zoe Williams advises getting a 'squatty potty' for constipation We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on…

Republican lawmakers in a handful of conservative states have stumbled on a roadblock to what they thought would be a clear path to setting new restrictions on abortion if the Supreme Court upends the landmark Roe v. Wade decision: right-to-privacy…

Atopic dermatitis, a common skin condition affecting both children and adults, is often thought of as an inflammatory disease that arises from a breakdown in the barrier function of the skin. Now a new study pinpoints a cascade of inflammatory…

Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are full of misinformation about COVID-19, and public-health officials and the media are spending a lot of time and energy to counter it. But is it worth it? Fact checks can indeed correct…

According to an article in ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) spot compression view could help characterize equivocal DBT findings, thus reducing further workup for benign findings. Noting that DBT spot compression increased both intrareader and…

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Private equity firms are increasingly investing in behavioral services for troubled youth, according to a new report released on Thursday by the nonprofit Private Equity Stakeholder Project. Services private equity firms are buying into include those…

Family or species, color or size, grouping things into categories is efficient for the brain. But those categories can also create biases in perception, studies show. People perceive things that are in the same group as more similar to each…

Since 2016, hospital system Mass General Brigham (MGB) has delivered hospital-level care to more than 2,000 acutely ill patients in the comfort of their own homes, securing its place as a leader in the hospital-at-home (HaH) movement in the United…

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* pre-print server, a team of researchers used cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to determine the spike (S) structures of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant to understand how the mutations…

There are two types of people in the world: those who care what others think about them, and those who rarely give it a second thought. The former usually seek external validation from others – that is, their self worth…