People hitting the gym during the pandemic are adjusting to a new normal of exercising while wearing a face covering. While some might feel discomfort in a mask during a workout, a physical therapist at Baylor College of ...
Jan 12, 2022
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Sleep-disordered breathing in early pregnancy is associated with insulin resistance or difficulty clearing glucose from the blood, suggests a small study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The results strengthen ...
Jan 6, 2022
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Doctors in Lisbon report on the case of a 61-year-old man who received a double lung transplant after his lungs were irreparably damaged by COVID-19, in a case report being presented at Euroanaesthesia, the annual meeting ...
Dec 16, 2021
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Owlet's Smart Socks, baby monitoring socks programmed to track a baby's sleep patterns, have halted sales after a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Nov 30, 2021
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Blood carries vital oxygen through our circulation system to muscles and organs. Acoustic tools can create small bubbles in our blood, capable of changing in response to oxygen and signifying oxygen levels.
Nov 29, 2021
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When 4-year-old McCoy Tittsworth met his sister, Molly, hours after she was born, he held her swaddled body and kissed her on the cheek. She was the little sister he'd prayed to have.
Nov 4, 2021
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Until her clinical rotation in the earliest months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Valeria Valbuena, M.D., then a surgical resident at University of Michigan Health, had never seen so many patients who looked like her on the intensive ...
Oct 28, 2021
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A large international study in hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 has shown that while a higher dose of steroids did not significantly reduce mortality, there was a trend towards benefit without increased side effects.
Oct 22, 2021
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Ice hockey has been linked to the spread of COVID-19 in the sports community—including among youth—with multiple case transmissions in the past year being attributed to infected players exposing their teammates to the ...
Oct 20, 2021
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Blood transfusions save lives, yet the precious fluid is in desperately short supply, not just in the U.S. but around the globe. But what if transfusions don't always require blood?
Oct 19, 2021
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