Cities and states fighting a historic measles outbreak find themselves undermined by the Trump administration as they struggle to provide crucial vaccinations and overcome disinformation. As of this week, cases were nearing 650 in 22 states, on track to reach a 34-year high.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends primary care behavioral counseling interventions to support breastfeeding, according to a final recommendation statement published online April 8 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Widely used by the agri-food industry, food additives are mainly found in the ultra-processed products sold in our supermarkets. Until recently, safety evaluations of these additives have been conducted substance by substance due to a lack of data on the effect of them being ingested together.
Though the sense of touch underlies how we and most other animals interact with the world around us, much remains unknown about how this sense is processed in the brain. Researchers from Heidelberg University and Ludwig Maximilian University Munich in Germany measured the neuronal activity differences between active touch and passive touch in mice.
Lowering the tackle height in men’s rugby has successfully reduced the rate of head collisions among players, a study suggests.
Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) have discovered new potential therapeutic targets for multiple sclerosis (MS). While current treatments prevent further damage, the current findings may form the starting point for the development of new treatments for tissue recovery in MS.
Researchers have shown a new drug compound can prevent long COVID symptoms in mice—a landmark finding that could lead to a future treatment for the debilitating condition.
MERVIS MUSONDA THE Africa Health and Economic Transformation Initiative (AHETI) has announced that cervical cancer cases have increased by 23 percent in Zambia, describing the development as “scary.” According to Globocan Zambia, the country has the second-highest cervical cancer burden globally, with an incidence rate of 65.5 per 100,000 women and a mortality rate of […]
As a specialty registrar in pediatric dentistry, I’ve seen first-hand the pain children experience because of poor oral health. Tooth decay happens when teeth are damaged by acids produced by oral bacteria breaking down sugar from foods and drinks—and although it’s largely preventable—it’s the most common reason for hospital admission in children aged between 5 and 9 in England.
A recent publication in the International Journal of Cardiology, “Pulmonary artery denervation in pulmonary hypertension: A comprehensive meta-analysis” has shed light on the potential of pulmonary artery denervation (PADN) as an innovative intervention for pulmonary hypertension (PH), a condition that places patients at risk for right heart failure and death. Co-authored by Dr. James Jenkins, a cardiologist at Ochsner Health, the study analyzed data from multiple clinical trials to assess the therapeutic and clinical impact of PADN in PH patients.