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Snapshot survey data from the 7th National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anesthetists (NAP7) published in Anaesthesia reveals an extremely worrying picture of increasing age, rates of obesity, and complexity of surgical patients requiring anesthesia in the U.K.

Loss of muscle strength can be one of the most damaging outcomes when someone is unable to move a part of their body for a long period of time.

A good night’s sleep can solve all sorts of problems—but scientists have now discovered new evidence that sleeping well may make you less vulnerable to infection. Scientists at the University of Bergen recruited medical students working in doctors’ surgeries to hand out short questionnaires to patients, asking about sleep quality and recent infections. They found that patients who reported sleeping too little or too much were more likely also to report a recent infection, and patients who experienced chronic sleep problems were more likely to report needing antibiotics.

QUT and Dutch scientists have identified two new genes involved in hemiplegic migraine, a rare, debilitating subtype of migraine that causes weakness along one side of the body during the aura phase.

It’s a familiar story: you feel a twinge in your back and next thing you know, you can’t get out of bed. From back pain to achy joints, musculoskeletal pain, while common, can be life-changing and debilitating. But does it have to be?

Being overweight in childhood and in early adulthood are discrete risk factors for blood clots later in life, a University of Gothenburg study shows. The study is based on the early BMI history of more than 37,000 men and information about their thrombi, if any, in adulthood.

 SOME fishermen on the Zambezi have rescured Judge Wilfred Muma 58 after he attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself on the river. Yesterday Judge Muma left a ‘suicide’ note before he went missing. Police Deputy Public Relations Officer Danny Mwale said Judge Muma left home around 23:00 hours and his whereabouts were unknown. Mr […]

Physicians in the largest safety-net hospital system in the United States used two electronic health record (EHR)-focused interventions to significantly reduce inappropriate urine cultures among hospitalized patients. Findings from their study, published in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC), suggest low-resource approaches could help reduce the overdiagnosis and overtreatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria.

A pair of clinical statisticians at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has found that abstinence reboot interventions promoted by some online groups can lead to mental health issues. In their paper published in the journal Sexualities, Nicole Prause and James Binnie describe the results of a survey-based study they conducted to learn more about the mental state of people who have participated in such interventions.

Dominique Tremblay and Élie Boghossian, plastic surgeons at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital (MRH) and researchers at the the Université de Montréal Faculty of Medicine, have developed a new approach to nerve transfer that essentially consists of moving certain healthy nerves from eligible patients to an inactive nerve, in order to reanimate the muscles of their hands and arms that were no longer functioning. This was achieved in the case of a young quadriplegic patient of Drs. Tremblay and Boghossian, Ms. Jeanne Carrière, who regained the use of her arms and hands with this new surgical technique.