A study by the University of Kentucky has solved the origins of the coal found on Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge. Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate…
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Disrupted Rhythms of Rest and Wakefulness Contribute to Worse Symptoms in Schizophrenia Patients
Summary: Those with schizophrenia who had more erratic sleep patterns, excessively rigid daily routines, and dysregulated patterns between sleep and wake transition had worse symptoms associated with schizophrenia and poorer…
Anti-mifepristone court decisions rely on medical misinformation about abortion and questionable legal reasoning
An early April 2023 decision by a U.S. district judge in Texas to reverse 23 years of approval of the abortion pill mifepristone has sparked explosive debate. Mifepristone is a…
Excavation leads to discovery of gold coins
Image Credit : Lower Silesian Voivodship Conservator of Monuments Archaeologists excavating in the Polish city of Wrocław have discovered gold coins dating from the 18th century. The discovery was made…
What does the end of the public health emergency for COVID really mean?
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When does the COVID-19 pandemic end? Epidemiologists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may have one answer. Restaurant-goers on Peachtree Street surely have another.…
International consensus highlights the importance of molecular testing for antibiotic resistance in tuberculosis
A multidisciplinary group of tuberculosis experts from the TBnet and RESIST-TB networks have reached a consensus on key issues related to the molecular prediction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antibiotic sensitivity or…
About 100,000 US nurses left workforce during pandemic
During the pandemic, nearly 100,000 U.S. registered nurses called it quits, a new survey shows. Why? A combination of stress, burnout and retirements created a perfect storm for the exodus.…
Austria has catching up to do in prevention and care of mental illness during the first year after pregnancy
Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Conceptual Model, WA model of care. Credit: Perinatal and infant mental health care models and pathways (2023). The Austrian Institute for Health Technology Assessment (AIHTA)…
Health care-associated infections higher for patients hospitalized with COVID-19
The incidence of health care-associated infections (HAIs) was higher among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 than for patients without COVID-19, according to a study published online April 13 in JAMA Network…
Roman coins found on island in Baltic Sea
Archaeologists from Södertörn University have discovered two Roman coins during a research project on Gotska Sandön, an uninhabited island in Gotland County, Sweden. During the Roman Period, Svealand (“land of…
