Sports medicine & Kinesiology

Q and A: Avoiding shoulder injuries while shoveling snow

Last winter, I slipped and fell shoveling snow. I have arthritis in one of my shoulders. I'm concerned about having another injury. How common are shoulder injuries during the winter due to shoveling snow and other activities? ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

What do you know about Raynaud's disease?

In Raynaud's disease, smaller arteries that supply blood to your skin become narrow, limiting blood flow to affected areas. This causes some areas of your body, such as your fingers and toes, to feel numb and cold in response ...

Medical research

Hypothermia may go unnoticed when exercising in the cold

In a study published this month in Physiology & Behavior, research teams at the University of Tsukuba, led by Takeshi Nishiyasu, and at Niigata University of Health and Welfare, led by Tomomi Fujimoto, have found that, when ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Identifying the main culprit of the COVID-19 disaster

A research team led by Professor Jianping Huang from Lanzhou University has launched a Global Prediction System for the COVID-19 pandemic. Their recent work explored the periodicity and mutability in the evolutionary history ...