In recent years, “femtech” has attracted increasing attention and venture funding, with dozens of startups to springing into existence, from digital health apps to, more newly, regenerative medicine … [+4812 chars]
Medical professionals are seeing changes in people’s health, and one disturbing change is the increase in the number diagnosed with cardiovascular disease, in the wake of the “new normal” brought abo… [+3275 chars]
A recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server compared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related hospitalizations in children below 18 years with influenza-associated hospitalizations. Stu… [+6147 chars]
Chandigarh, Mar 18 (IANS): Do you sleep 'soundly' yet feel sluggish throughout the day? Do you wake up often during the night? Do you snore? If the answer to either of the questions is a yes then yo… [+3670 chars]
It seems that we hear of yet another family facing dementia just about every day at AgingParents.com. They want to understand options about how to pay for care, what to do with sibling fights about t… [+4913 chars]
Environmental services (EVS) staff are always striving to improve cleaning protocols to help reduce the instances of health care-associated infections (HAIs) in patients. A new study published in the… [+2235 chars]
Metastases in cancer are often caused by a few abnormal cells. These behave more aggressively than the other cancer cells in a tumour. Miao-Ping Chien and Daan Brinks are working together, from two d… [+4465 chars]
SALINAS As protections against COVID-19 such as face coverings continue to be relaxed, the omicron BA.2 sub-variant is accounting for nearly a quarter of new COVID-19 cases in the United States, acco… [+2611 chars]
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic that started more than two years ago still threatens human life worldwide. Because of the invention of mRNA vaccine, the danger to human life because of Covid-19, a disease ca… [+5989 chars]
Transmission of coronavirus from a mother to baby before, during and after childbirth is quite possible, but such cases are rare, recent studies have shown. However, transmissions are more likely to … [+2177 chars]
A new study has found that most people who are hospitalised as a result of Covid-19 are likely to experience long Covid symptoms within three months after their discharge. The preliminary study, pub… [+399 chars]
Heavy alcohol use is associated with missing work, but the scope of that relationship has not been well understood. Now, based on survey data from more than 110,000 U.S. adults with full-time jobs, r… [+5341 chars]
