Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain While the Chargers were warming up in Denver last Sunday, Jim Harbaugh felt his heart racing. He knew that feeling, having experienced it as a player…
Category: Health & Medicine
Study finds RSV vaccine highly effective in protecting older adults against severe disease, hospitalization and death
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A multi-state study, published in The Lancet, is one of the first real world data analyses of the effectiveness of the RSV—short for respiratory syncytial virus—vaccine.…
Vaping rates hit record lows for U.S. high school students
Is vaping finally losing its coolness for American teens? The latest tally of federal data finds that 550,000 school kids, mostly high schoolers, quit using e-cigarettes in 2024. Vaping rates…
Novel procedure may bridge the treatment gap for symptomatic flexible flatfoot
A SESA screw stabilizing a patient’s foot and preventing bones from returning to a flat position. Credit: Children’s Hospital Boston Most children develop arches in their feet by early adolescence.…
Children with multiple long-term conditions hospitalized with COVID are almost three times more likely to die
Credit: Monstera, Pexels (CC0, creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Individuals with multiple long-term conditions are two and a half times more likely to die following COVID-19 infection than others. When children were assessed separately,…
Sound-based diagnostic system could deliver bedside blood test results in an hour
The acoustic pipette uses sound waves to test for biomarkers in blood. Credit: Patrick Campbell/CU Boulder Go to the doctor to provide a blood sample, and you’re typically faced with…
No evidence for belief that nut allergens spread through aircraft ventilation systems, say experts
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There is no evidence for the commonly held belief that nut allergens can be spread through aircraft ventilation systems, say allergy and aviation medicine specialists in…
Study suggests around 40% of postmenopausal hormone positive breast cancers are linked to excess body fat
Credit: Bryce Carithers from Pexels Around 40% of postmenopausal hormone positive breast cancer cases may be linked to excess body fat, suggests Spanish research published online in the Journal of…
AI and optimization model leads to equitable treatment resource distribution
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The opioid epidemic is a crisis that has plagued the United States for decades. One central issue of the epidemic is inequitable access to treatment for…
In depth analysis explains why preschoolers are less likely to develop severe COVID-19
Outline of the study for the detection of SARS-CoV-2-reactive CD4+ T cells in different groups of patients. Credit: Science Translational Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adl1997 Five years ago, at the outset…
