Can Supercomputers Really Keep Up With the Human Brain?
An adult brain contains about 86 billion neurons and even more supercomputing power to closely monitor the entire human brain. All those neurons have trillions of synapses — or connection points — that make up the circuitry the brain uses…
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Lifestyle changes can be critical for kidney transplant patients’ long-term survival
Cancer, infections and heart disease pose the greatest risk to kidney transplant recipients ― not organ rejection ― according to a recently published Mayo Clinic study. Researchers discovered that recipient death due to factors other than organ rejection is the…
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Stomach bloating: Best diet to help eliminate trapped gas and reduce your painful symptoms
Easy Ways to Live Well: Steph McGovern discusses bloating 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 our…
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Canada health authority approves Pfizer’s anti-COVID pill
Canada’s health authority said Monday it has approved Pfizer’s anti-COVID pill, Paxlovid, for adults at high risk of progressing to serious disease. The oral treatment was approved after an “expedited review,” Health Canada said in a statement on its website,…
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Arthritis-related gene also regenerates cartilage in joints and growth plates
The IL-6 family of proteins has a bad reputation: it can promote inflammation, arthritis, autoimmune disease and even cancer. However, a new USC-led study published in Communications Biology reveals the importance of IL-6 and associated genes for maintaining and regenerating…
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American Red Cross blood crisis: How to help
The American Red Cross announced this week that it is facing its first-ever blood crisis amid a surge in cases of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2. Due to restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic, 68% of blood centers in the United…
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Senate committee backs califf nomination to head FDA
(HealthDay)—The nomination of former U.S. Food and Drug Administration head Robert Califf, M.D., to again lead the agency now heads to the full Senate for a vote, after a Senate committee on Thursday voted 13-8 for approval. Among those who…
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Finger cramp after writing: What is writer’s cramp? 4 ways to stop it
How to stop painful leg muscle cramps 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 our understanding. You…
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Which Patients With COVID-19 Should Get Scarce ICU Beds: Survey
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new survey finds most Americans are in favor of allotting “the last ICU bed” to the patient with the highest probability of surviving COVID-19. Responses from 2,000 respondents from the nationally representative YouGov internet…
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CDC encourages more Americans to consider N95 masks
U.S. health officials on Friday encouraged more Americans to wear the kind of N95 or KN95 masks used by health-care workers to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Those kinds of masks are considered better at filtering the air. But…
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