Cart is empty Self-care means many things to many people. To Dr. Beth Frates, director of lifestyle medicine and wellness in the department of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, it boils down to “caring for your body, mind and soul.”
Crossmodal plasticity in hearing loss: Visual communication before cochlear implant use does not harm deaf children
Humans have five senses to perceive their environment: Sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. If a person loses one of these, the remaining senses partially compensate for the loss. People born deaf then have enhanced visual abilities. “Cross-modal plasticity” is what science calls the brain’s ability to turn to another sensory system when one is lost.
More children and adolescents in mental health crisis since beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, finds Australian study
During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a spike in the number of Australian children and adolescents presenting to hospital with mental health issues, according to a new study from UNSW Sydney researchers. The number of emergency department (ED) visits and inpatient admissions declined slightly after COVID-19 restrictions eased, but remained higher than pre-pandemic levels.
HH calls for Africa to enhance intelligence capabilities
By NATION REPORTER
PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has called on Africa and the world at large to embrace and explore ways of enhancing intelligence capabilities and information sharing to manage security challenges.
President Hichilema implored Africa to forge mutual civil-military relations between the civilian and military sectors by being accountable to the people and ensuring they operated within the rule of law.
President Hichilema made the call when he officiated at the Conference of the “Africa Centre for Strategic Studies” at Taj Pamodzi Hotel in Lusaka yesterday. “Our fundamental role as a government is to ensure the continuation of peace and stability so that our economic agenda of providing livelihoods to our citizens is not disrupted. To that end, we urged the participants to be alive to the increased threats of terrorism and extremism, as they create fear and instability that can hinder economic development. We have always maintained that instability anywhere is instability everywhere,” President Hichilema said.
He said he was delighted to have officiated at the summit which comprised of participants from several countries across Africa and beyond who were meeting to discuss, among other things, how to manage peace and stability and how these factors relate and are critical to the economic sustainability of our countries now and in the future. “We recognised the fact that without strong political leadership, it would be difficult to achieve security goals and therefore promised to support our military and security services, to attain their objectives,” he said. He expressed profound gratitude to the Africa Centre for Strategic Studies for choosing Zambia to host this important conference.
Video-based smoking cessation program found to help HIV-positive smokers quit tobacco
Nearly 40% of participants in a pilot study quit tobacco after completing a video-based smoking cessation intervention developed by a University of Massachusetts Amherst community health researcher for HIV-positive smokers in Nepal.
Tackling the problem of safe participation in women’s rugby
Trinity researchers highlight the complexity of tackle skill learning and tackle injury mitigation in women’s rugby union by uncovering how rugby culture and interactions with teammates, coaches, clubs and wider society shape player behaviors and experiences.
COVID created an expanded social safety net. Activists are now quietly working to bring it back
In March 2020, the economy grinded to a halt as the COVID-19 pandemic forced widespread shutdowns of businesses. As Congress watched the economy collapse, it responded by doing something lawmakers have resisted since the 1960s: a large expansion of the social safety net.
Pink eye may be a sign you have COVID. What to know about the new virus symptom
A common and relatively mild malady is yet another symptom people should watch for in the fight against COVID-19, experts say.
Bell palsy incidence higher with SARS-CoV-2 infection than vaccine
Incidence of Bell palsy is significantly more common following severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection than after receipt of SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations, according to a review published online April 27 in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.
Bloodstream infections in preemies may originate from their gut microbiomes
Dangerous bacterial bloodstream infections in preemies may originate from the infants’ gut microbiomes, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Such infections are of substantial concern, as about half of infants who are extremely preterm or have very low birth weights experience at least one episode of the life-threatening infection after 72 hours of life. The findings are published May 3 in the journal Science Translational Medicine.