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In a study published in JAMA Network Open today, Kaiser Permanente scientists report that diabetes patients who used the Kaiser Permanente patient portal and mobile phone app improved their diabetes management outcomes. The large study, involving more than 111,000 patients, was unique in assessing the relationship between the use of online tools and medication adherence […]
Chinese doctors SAVE a critically-ill coronavirus patient by hooking them up to a life-support machine to bypass their lungs and allow them to recover A hospital in Wuhan has used the procedure for the first time in this outbreak The ECMO machine replaces a patient’s heart and lung function temporarily An outbreak of the new […]
How similar do you think you are to your second cousin? Or your estranged great aunt? Would you like to have people assess your behaviour from what your great aunt has done? How would you feel if courts used data gained from them to decide how you are likely to behave in the future? Scientists […]
We have every reason to want to pack light when we travel. Especially when we’re traveling on budget fare tickets, checking a bag can cost us extra for just about every domestic flight, and the size of cabin storage seems to shrink every time we look. Also, there are a ton of things we shouldn’t pack […]
The children who experience a school shooting but live to see their parents and friends again are often called survivors. But by at least one measure of mental health, they too are among a gunman’s victims, new research finds. In the two years after a fatal school shooting, the rate at which antidepressants were prescribed […]
People who abuse cigarettes, alcohol and/or heroin are less likely to drop out of a substance use disorder treatment than those who are addicted to cocaine, according to a new study led by a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The study, which was led by Sara Lappan, Ph.D., a former postdoctoral scholar […]
(HealthDay)—There are fewer problem “potheads” today than before the wave of marijuana legalization that’s swept the United States, a new analysis of federal survey data shows. Researchers found an across-the-board decline in daily or near-daily pot users who could be diagnosed with cannabis use disorder, according to results published in the Dec. 1 issue of […]
Fox News Flash top headlines for Nov. 13 Fox News Flash top headlines for Nov. 13 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com A woman in China temporarily lost sight in one eye after staying up all night playing on her cellphone, reports say. The woman, who was not identified, had allegedly burst a blood […]
Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine is initiating a new clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of using biologic augmentation during anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, reconstruction surgery. This minimally invasive technique uses a mixture of bone marrow concentrate, autograft bone and demineralized bone matrix to fill the tunnels within the […]
Wastewater-based epidemiology is a rapidly developing scientific discipline with the potential for monitoring close to real-time, population-level trends in illicit drug use. By sampling a known source of wastewater, such as a sewage influent to a wastewater treatment plant, scientists can estimate the quantity of drugs used in a community from the measured levels of […]