Telehealth services may help smokers in rural prisons quit tobacco smoking Telehealth smoking cessation treatment programs can reduce tobacco-related disparities among incarcerated smokers, according to a Rutgers study. Sep 21, 2021 0 3
Left breast radiation therapy doubles heart disease risk compared to right breast radiation therapy in young women Radiation therapy is an effective and widely used treatment for breast cancer. While the benefits of radiation therapy for breast cancer are clear, long-term complications related to radiation therapy may occur. According ... Sep 21, 2021 0 4
Scientists develop 'living nerve circuit' to fight opioid epidemic In 2019, nearly 50,000 people in the United States died from opioid overdoses, bringing the total of number of deaths from the opioid crisis to half a million over the past 10 years, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease ... Sep 21, 2021 0 4
Study reveals how saline solution can inhibit replication of SARS-CoV-2 Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have shown that a hypertonic saline solution inhibits replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and have elucidated the biochemical mechanism involved. ... Sep 21, 2021 0 184
One in three LGBTQ2S homeless youth have attempted suicide since pandemic onset More than one-third (36 percent) of Toronto-area LGBTQ2S youth experiencing homelessness have attempted suicide since the COVID-19 pandemic began and 82 percent have engaged in self-harm, according to a new CAMH-led study. Sep 21, 2021 0 31
Sticking to low-fat dairy may not be the only heart healthy option, study shows New research amongst the world's biggest consumers of dairy foods has shown that those with higher intakes of dairy fat—measured by levels of fatty acids in the blood—had a lower risk of cardiovascular disease compared ... Sep 21, 2021 0 457
COVID-overwhelmed hospitals postpone cancer care and other treatment It's a bad time to get sick in Oregon. That's the message from some doctors, as hospitals fill up with COVID-19 patients and other medical conditions go untreated. Sep 21, 2021 0 5
The number of babies infected with syphilis was already surging. Then came the pandemic The woman said she was racked with pain and disbelief on the hospital bed, her belly slick with ultrasound gel, when a hospital worker delivered the news: There was a baby inside her. Sep 21, 2021 0 28
How weather can affect pain tolerance Can the weather affect pain from conditions like arthritis or migraine? It may sound like an old superstition—but on some standard quantitative sensory tests, weather-related factors do indeed affect pain tolerance, suggests ... Sep 21, 2021 0 18
Could future coronavirus variants fully dodge our immune system? With every new variant of SARS-CoV-2 that emerges to cause a surge in cases, a worrisome question also arises: Could the virus eventually arrive at a set of mutations that would enable it to fully evade our immune response? Sep 21, 2021 1 125