NIH to start ‘flurry’ of large studies of potential Covid-19 treatments
The National Institutes of Health is preparing to launch a “flurry” of large clinical trials…
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STAT Plus: Eyeing an IPO, Hims expands further into virtual mental health care
San Francisco startup Hims & Hers took a further step into the mental health realm…
Industry Voices—COVID-19 has changed prenatal care. It’s critical to reassure patients – FierceHealthcare
Industry Voices—COVID-19 has changed prenatal care. It’s critical to reassure patients FierceHealthcare Read Original Article: Industry…
How to Choose a Prenatal Vitamin – Lifehacker
How to Choose a Prenatal Vitamin Lifehacker Read Original Article: How to Choose a Prenatal Vitamin…
#BumpDay Highlights Coronavirus And Racial Disparities In Pregnancy – Forbes
#BumpDay Highlights Coronavirus And Racial Disparities In Pregnancy Forbes Read Original Article: #BumpDay Highlights Coronavirus And…
Simple Changes To Baby’s Nap Schedule: Bye Bye 2 Naps A Day
The post Simple Changes To Baby’s Nap Schedule: Bye Bye 2 Naps A Day appeared…
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Market with COVID-19 Impact Analysis, Top Companies like Columbia Nutritional, Herb Pharm – 3rd Watch News
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Market with COVID-19 Impact Analysis, Top Companies like Columbia Nutritional, Herb…
Reversing health care cost trends may be possible with medical partnerships – Cincinnati Business Courier – Cincinnati Business Courier
Reversing health care cost trends may be possible with medical partnerships – Cincinnati Business Courier Cincinnati…
Opinion: Congress should incentivize access to opioid alternatives – Puget Sound – Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)
Opinion: Congress should incentivize access to opioid alternatives – Puget Sound Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)…
Do Foods Cause Kidney Stones?
Kidney stones can form when you have too much dissolved minerals and salts in your…
Is Your Blood Sugar in the Normal Range?
Blood sugar is also called blood glucose. It is a measurement of the amount of…
Health and happiness depend on each other
New research adds to the growing body of evidence that happiness not only feels good,…
Discovery of first active seep in Antarctica provides new understanding of methane cycle
The discovery of the first active methane seep in Antarctica is providing scientists new understanding…
Giant, fruit-gulping pigeon eaten into extinction on Pacific islands
A large fruit-eating bird from Tonga joins the dodo in the lineup of giant island…
STAT Plus: Health tech companies are shelling out more to lobby Washington during the pandemic
In the first half of 2020, the pandemic spurred a surge in the use of…
Despite HPV Vaccine Effectiveness, Many Parents Not Allowing It for Their Kids
According to a new study published in The Lancet Public Health, among the over 4…
Despite HPV Vaccine Effectiveness, Many Parents Not Allowing It for Their Kids
According to a new study published in The Lancet Public Health, among the over 4…
What happens in Vegas, may come from the Arctic?
Ancient climate records from Leviathan Cave, located in the southern Great Basin, show that Nevada…
Earliest humans stayed at the Americas ‘oldest hotel’ in Mexican cave
A cave in a remote part of Mexico was visited by humans around 30,000 years…
Retreat of East Antarctic ice sheet during previous warm periods
Questions about the stability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet are a major source of…
Chemists make tough plastics recyclable
Chemists have developed a way to modify thermoset plastics with a chemical linker that makes…
MPs vote against trade bill amendment that aimed to keep NHS out of future deals
MPs have voted down an amendment to the government’s trade bill that was intended to…
Covid-19: Government failed to protect staff during height of pandemic, experts tell MPs
Healthcare staff working at the height of the covid-19 pandemic in England were not properly…
Does Mom’s Depression During Pregnancy Affect the Children Later in Life?
A new study says that teen girls who have gone through puberty have a higher…
Rapid roll out of SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing: even at high levels of specificity, an important proportion of test results will be false positives
We have published a paper with 12 tables (in a supplementary file) with calculations of…
NICE cautions against using graded exercise therapy for patients recovering from covid-19
We have replaced the word “advises” with “cautions” in the title of this news story…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: U.S. to pay $1.95b for Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine; who decides who gets the first doses?
Good morning. Elizabeth Cooney here, channeling the vacationing Ed Silverman’s Wednesday wisdom: We’ve made it…
Even if you want to, you can’t ignore how people look or sound
Your perceptions of someone you just met are influenced in part by what they look…
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How Much Is Too Much? U.S. Alcohol Consumption Guidelines Changed
Previous dietary recommendations that allow for 2 drinks per day for men and 1 for…
Covid-19: Testing programme for NHS workers must not discriminate, report warns
All NHS workers should be given the same access to covid-19 swab testing to avoid…
In Belgium “real heroes never sleep”
bmj;370/jul22_5/m2904/FAF1faCredit: Evi PolakEvi Polak, a Belgian photographer and former emergency department nurse, returned to Antwerp…
Intensive immunosuppression reduces deaths in covid-19-associated cytokine storm syndrome, study finds
Intensive immunosuppressive treatment with high dose glucocorticoids, followed by an interleukin-6 (IL-6) receptor antagonist where…
Are we responsible for the racial inequalities of covid-19?
The covid-19 pandemic has revealed the depth of social and racial inequalities in the United…
Covid-19: A world without WHO is a world in danger, experts warn
The World Health Organization’s lack of power to ensure its members follow its advice and…
Covid-19 associated chilblain-like lesions in an asymptomatic doctor
These (fig 1) are chilblain-like lesions in a woman in her late 20s.bmj;370/jul22_1/m2245/F1F1f1Fig 1She presented…
Opinion: My patients want the good old days of office visits. That’s not happening any time soon
I recently got a note from my secretary with this message from a patient: “Tell…
Opinion: Clinical trials need to include more Black and other minority participants. Here’s how
The Covid-19 pandemic and the disproportionate devastation it has wrought on Black, Hispanic, and poor…
STAT Plus: Among biotech venture capital firms, Flagship Pioneering got the best single-fund returns
A fund launched in 2012 by the biotech venture capital firm Flagship Pioneering is on…
STAT Plus: Hospitals deploy AI to send patients home earlier — and keep them there
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has a problem familiar to many hospitals: Too many patients…
Confusion spreads over system to determine priority access to Covid-19 vaccines
As manufacturers around the world race to develop Covid-19 vaccines, a parallel effort has begun…
Risks and dangers associated with avoiding conventional cancer treatment in favour of alternative therapies – The BMJ
Risks and dangers associated with avoiding conventional cancer treatment in favour of alternative therapies The BMJ…
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Arlington Receives Grant for Jail-Alternative Mental Health Treatment Program – ARLnow
Arlington Receives Grant for Jail-Alternative Mental Health Treatment Program ARLnow Read Original Article: Arlington Receives Grant…
Israel’s new alternative prime minister pushed for coronavirus response to be managed by military, not heal… – Fox News
Israel’s new alternative prime minister pushed for coronavirus response to be managed by military, not…
Alcohol and Blood Pressure: How Alcohol Can Affect Hypertension
Drinking alcohol raises your blood pressure, even if you are not a heavy drinker. [1,2]…
Update to living systematic review on prediction models for diagnosis and prognosis of covid-19
This living systematic review by Wynants and colleagues (BMJ 2020;369:m1328) has been updated. For the…
Life in the shallows becomes a trap for baby sharks
Baby reef sharks tolerate living in the sometimes-extreme environments of their nurseries — but these…
Lab-made virus mimics COVID-19 virus
Researchers have created a virus in the lab that infects cells and interacts with antibodies…
Magnetic field of a spiral galaxy
A new image from the VLA dramatically reveals the extended magnetic field of a spiral…
STAT Plus: In unusual arrangement, deputy HHS secretary’s wife has been lobbying the agency on behalf of health care companies
WASHINGTON — Emily Hargan, who is married to Department of Health and Human Services Deputy…
STAT Plus: As new users flock to health apps, experts raise questions about public understanding of data privacy
As digital health tools proliferate, health data experts are raising a new round of alarms…