Medications

India fights to protect its traditional home remedies

For centuries, Indian housewives have used homemade remedies based on cow's milk to cure constipation—but in 2009 Swiss giant Nestle applied for a patent to protect a similar product of its own.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Minnesota Amazon warehouse has 88 COVID-19 cases

Amazon.com Inc.'s giant fulfillment center in Shakopee, Minn., has joined the ranks of the state's workplaces with a large number of employees sickened by coronavirus, with at least 88 of its approximately 1,000 workers testing ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Phone attachment linked with mental health stress

Thinking about your mobile when you're not using it, worrying about whether people can reach you and interrupting what you're doing when you're contacted on your phone are linked to increased depression and stress, according ...

Diabetes

The doctor will text you now: Post-ER follow-up that works

Diabetic patients treated in the emergency department who were enrolled in a program in which they received automated daily text messages improved their level of control over their diabetes and their medication adherence, ...

Health

Walking and texting at the same time? Study says think again

(Medical Xpress) -- Talking on a cell phone or texting while walking may seem natural and easy, but it could be dangerous and result in walking errors and interfere with memory recall. Researchers at Stony Brook University ...

HIV & AIDS

Are HIV self-tests an economically feasible method of testing?

HIV testing is a first step and key to stemming the rate of HIV infections around the world. In sub-Saharan African countries, HIV testing rates continue to be suboptimal, creating an urgent need to explore strategic and ...

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