Category: Health

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. New York City schools have been temporarily blocked from enforcing a vaccine mandate for its teachers and other workers by a federal appeals judge just days before it was to take effect. Workers in the nation’s largest school system were to…

WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) The White House said on Friday that millions of federal contractors must be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec. 8 and that the administration will add clauses to future government contracts mandating inoculations. President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Sept. 9 requiring federal contractors to mandate vaccinations, but many U.S.…

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. A registered nurse holds the hand of a COVID-19 patient in the Medical Intensive care unit (at St. Luke’s Boise Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An advocacy group for older adults has filed a civil rights complaint…

MALANA, India (Reuters) – To visit the Indian village of Malana deep in the Himalayas, a COVID-19 vaccination team scrambled over a landslide that blocked the road the day before, scaled a retaining wall and then began a three-hour trek down and up a river valley. Despite the hostile terrain, the northern state of Himachal…

Micrograph showing inflammation of the large bowel in a case of inflammatory bowel disease. Colonic biopsy. Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 Chronic inflammation in the gut, internationally known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), is a growing problem in the world, especially in developing countries. The Netherlands already has about 90,000 IBD patients. At the European level,…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A commentary by Mayo Clinic Cancer Center researchers published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology Practice suggests that advances in breast cancer prevention research have resulted in new and innovative opportunities to modify breast cancer risk and potentially reduce breast cancer incidence and mortality. “It is prudent for health care providers…

Artistic visualization of the decreased modularity and increased synchronization between brain regions during psychostimulant withdrawal (left hemisphere) compared to control mice (right hemisphere). Credit: Lauren Smith, UC San Diego Health Sciences Addictive psychostimulants, from nicotine in cigarettes to illicit drugs like methamphetamine and cocaine, affect different regions of the brain. The same is believed true…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain US authorities on Monday warned Americans to not buy prescription pills online because they increasingly include lethal doses of fentanyl and methamphetamine. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said the advice applied to counterfeit medicine made to look like real Oxycontin, Vicodin and Xanax or Adderall. Fake pills are widely available on…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain People can limit the negative impact of email, not necessarily by sending less email, but by sending better emails that clearly define response expectations, according to a new study from the ILR School. Email is a tremendous source of workplace stress, as the expectation that every message will be read and…

How much medical care do we need to provide before we begin to call it an office visit? Just the other day, during a usually busy morning practice session, a patient of one of my colleagues did not show up for their appointment, and later that day the patient sent my colleague a portal message…