Are you going through a fit-life crisis?
You’ve heard of the mid-life crisis, but what about the fit-life crisis? Sore knees, an aching back and joint pain are just some of the things associated with getting older. But while intense cardio, endurance runs and heavy lifting might…
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Nauru vaccinates all its adults in ‘world record’ effort
The tiny Pacific nation of Nauru has congratulated itself for a “world record” COVID-19 vaccination drive which resulted in all its adult population receiving their first jab. The remote island nation, one of the few places in the world to…
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Average Covid cases fall to fewer than 40K, first time since September
Average daily US Covid cases fall to fewer than 40,000 for the first time since September 15 as average daily deaths fall to a low since July 6 Average new daily Covid cases fell to 38,826 on Monday, the lowest…
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What It's Like Being Uninsured & Pregnant In 2021
Being pregnant amid a global health crisis is terrifying as is. Even more so is the prospect of also losing insurance while pregnant — which is exactly what happened to millions of people over the course of the pandemic. Related…
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Pulsed Field Ablation Effective Against Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pulsed field ablation (PFA), a new nonthermal ablation approach that preferentially ablates myocardial tissue, results in durable pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) and a low rate of recurrence of atrial arrhythmia, according to one-year outcomes of…
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How do you rate your medical care? Your answer might be affected by your insurance
For patients seen at a urology clinic, patient satisfaction scores vary by insurance status—with higher scores for patients on Medicare and commercial insurance, but lower scores for those on Medicaid, reports a study in Urology Practice, an Official Journal of…
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Power Outages Are Increasing. Can Medical Equipment Users Adapt?
For four decades, David Taylor has relied on a ventilator to breathe, the whoosh, whoosh of the machine part of the background metronome of daily life. Then, on the night of Feb. 14, an Arctic blast began to overwhelm the…
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Lab reveals how an oral antiviral drug confuses the replication machinery of SARS-CoV-2
A University of Alberta virology lab has uncovered how an oral antiviral drug works to attack the SARS-CoV-2 virus, in findings published May 10 in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The researchers demonstrated the underlying mechanism of action by which…
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Disparities persisted as orthopaedic visits shifted to telemedicine
Like other medical specialties at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, orthopedic surgery rapidly pivoted from in-person visits to remote appointments via telemedicine. Analysis of that initial experience finds that some groups of patients faced persistent or worsening disparities as…
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Vegetarians Have Better Cholesterol Levels, and More, Than Meat-Eaters
Vegetarians have more favorable levels of a number of biomarkers including cardiovascular-linked ones — total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, and apolipoprotein A and B — than meat-eaters, shows the largest study of its kind to date. Results of the…
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