Bedside EEG test can aid prognosis in unresponsive brain injury patients Assessing the ability of unresponsive patients with severe brain injury to understand what is being said to them could yield important insights into how they might recover, according to new research. Jan 5, 2021 0 24
Looking forward rather than backward safeguards wellbeing during COVID-19 lockdowns Practicing gratitude and looking to the future will help safeguard our mental wellbeing during future COVID-19 lockdowns, a new study in the Journal of Positive Psychology reports. Jan 5, 2021 0 11
Uncovering the social factors lurking within diabetes risk For assistant professor of sociology James Doucet-Battle, diabetes research is personal. His grandmother was diabetic, and that's part of what inspired him to delve into the issue through the lens of African American experience. Jan 5, 2021 0 3
Britain to try mix-and-match COVID-19 vaccinations If a second dose of the first COVID-19 vaccine is not available or the maker is not known, then another vaccine may be used, new British guidelines say, The New York Times reported Sunday. Jan 5, 2021 0 6
Link found between self-control in childhood and success later in life An international team of researchers has found a link between degree of self-control during childhood and success later on in life. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describe ... Jan 5, 2021 report 2 546
Shame and pain: Lung cancer's stigma exerts psychic and physical toll Lung cancer kills more than 150,000 Americans each year, accounting for a quarter of all cancer deaths, and remains the nation's No. 1 cancer killer. Though few survive it—just 4.5% to 8% remain alive the five years following ... Jan 5, 2021 0 3
Just 1% of Californians immunized amid slow vaccine rollout Distribution hiccups and logistical challenges have slowed the initial coronavirus vaccine rollout in California, setting a pace that's "not good enough," Gov. Gavin Newsom said. Jan 5, 2021 0 2
Long COVID: Who is at risk? For most people, infection with SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—leads to mild, short-term symptoms, acute respiratory illness, or possibly no symptoms at all. But some people have long-lasting symptoms after ... Jan 5, 2021 0 7
Five tips to help you keep exercising this new year Exercising more is one of the most common new year resolutions people make. But more than a quarter of people fail to keep their resolutions, and only half maintain some of them. Jan 5, 2021 0 2
It's lockdown No. 3 for England, at least six weeks at home England is entering a third national lockdown that will last at least six weeks, as authorities struggle to stem a surge in COVID-19 infections that threatens to overwhelm hospitals around the U.K. Jan 5, 2021 0 0