Curbing football drills could make high school football safer Tackling drills are typically a staple of high school football practices, but new research suggests dropping them from training might cut the risk of head hits. Oct 13, 2022 0 3
Thirty-seven percent of adults used telemedicine in 2021 In 2021, 37.0 percent of adults used telemedicine in the past 12 months, with use varying by age, sex, and race/ethnicity, according to an October data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... Oct 13, 2022 0 5
WHO emergency panel debates COVID pandemic The World Health Organization's COVID-19 emergency committee met on Thursday to discuss if the pandemic still warrants the highest level of alarm the UN health agency can sound. Oct 13, 2022 0 15
Proposed menthol ban in US would cut littering by 3.8 billion cigarette butts annually Discarded cigarette butts are a top source of plastic pollution, and a new study estimates that banning menthol cigarettes in the United States would lead to 3.8 billion fewer littered cigarette filters each year, saving ... Oct 13, 2022 15 5
How does social behavior lead to clusters of vaccine hesitancy? Geographical pockets of vaccination behavior can be attributed to both pre-existing sociodemographic clusters as well as the way vaccine hesitancy spreads through neighboring societies, according to a new study publishing ... Oct 13, 2022 1 55
New horizons in neural recording systems A new whitepaper, released by the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering, reveals the first neural signals recorded by the ABILITY brain-computer interface (BCI) system. It also lays out the plan for a forthcoming human ... Oct 13, 2022 0 8
Researchers identify compounds that inhibit monkeypox virus replication Monkeypox is a viral zoonosis (a virus transmitted to humans from animals) with symptoms similar to those seen in smallpox patients, although clinically less severe. With the eradication of smallpox in 1980 and subsequent ... Oct 13, 2022 0 13
New testing method could make tuberculosis diagnosis easier Tuberculosis can be tough to detect. Diagnosis usually requires coughing up a sputum sample from the lungs, which can be unpleasant, impractical, and even hazardous. But in a promising new study, a multinational team of researchers ... Oct 13, 2022 0 53
Medical jargon is source of confusion for non-physicians In work published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School researchers examined whether the general public understands the medical jargon that physicians typically use in their introductions ... Oct 13, 2022 0 2
Anti-anaerobic antibiotics associated with increased risk of mortality in critically ill patients A common clinical practice may be inadvertently harming patients, according to new research published October 13 in the European Respiratory Journal. The team of Michigan Medicine researchers behind the study suggest that ... Oct 13, 2022 0 8