Same-day discharge after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) or total hip arthroplasty (THA) is safe in some patients classified as “high risk”—with no increase in complications or other adverse outcomes, reports a study in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery….
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Here’s What Ibuprofen Can And Can’t Do For You
Roger Brown Photography/Shutterstock By Adam England/Sept. 9, 2021 1:26 pm EDT If you’ve got a headache, period pains, or some other sort of everyday ache, you might be tempted to reach for the ibuprofen. For almost 50 years, we’ve been using…
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How ADHD And Dopamine Are Connected
Billion Photos/Shutterstock By Rachel Dillin/Sept. 7, 2021 4:16 pm EDT If you or somebody you know has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), chances are you’ve tried to learn something about living with it or treating it. Healthline reported that people with…
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Are colds and flu coming back?
A remarkable side effect of the pandemic has been the near vanishing of colds, flu, and other viruses. All of these can lead to general misery and, in some cases, serious illness and death. Fortunately, mask-wearing and other measures to…
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Restoring proprioception and motor control in diabetes, injury and neuropathy patients
Tapping deep within the brain, a team of researchers from the Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine at The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research has deciphered signals related to movement and touch. Study results were published today in Frontiers in Neuroscience in…
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Campus vaccinations and phased re-openings can help make universities safer
Offering COVID-19 vaccinations on campus, delayed or phased autumn re-openings, and mandatory face mask wearing are among the steps universities and colleges could take to make them safer places for students returning to, or starting, their studies this autumn, say…
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How (and where) the brain analyzes math and language spoken simultaneously
Separate math and language networks segregate naturally when listeners pay attention to one type over the other, according to research recently published in JNeurosci. Mathematical language borrows words from everyday speech, yet the brain processes math and language in two…
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Global and regional alterations in brain structural network in early-onset schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by both brain structural and functional abnormalities. Most of the existing findings, however, were limited to adult patients with established schizophrenia with a long duration of illness. It is still not clear whether the…
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Stress at work and at home increases risk of depression in U.S. workers
Job strain and family strain are found to be linked to major depressive episodes and may have different effects on men and women, according to a study from UCLA researchers published in the August edition of the Journal of Psychosomatic…
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Diet, exercise, and sleep affect heart health, but why?
Hamburgers may not cause heart attacks, but we have long known that lifestyle choices —including diet, exercise, and sleep patterns—play a role in cardiovascular health. What we don’t know is exactly how these factors actually affect our various bodily functions….
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