IF TRUE, THE FINDING PRESENTS A DIRE THREAT TO INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO CONTAIN THE OUTBREAK. BY DAN ROBITZSKI / JANUARY 31 2020 In a grim development, scientists believe they’ve identified a case in which a patient transmitted the coronavirus 2019-nCoV to another person — before they started to have any symptoms. Last week, a man...
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New ACIP adult immunization schedule recommends changes to several vaccines
by American College of Physicians The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) released its 2020 Recommended Immunization Schedule for adults with changes to the administration of the influenza, human papillomavirus (HPV), hepatitis A, hepatitis B, meningococcal B, and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines. The schedule, which can be complex and challenging to implement, features revised content, format,...
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HOW MUCH SLEEP KIDS GET AFFECTS THEIR MENTAL HEALTH
FEBRUARY 4TH, 2020 POSTED BY ALICE SCOTT-WARWICK There’s a link between children’s sleep duration and depression, anxiety, impulsive behavior, and poor cognitive performance, researchers report. In a new paper in Molecular Psychiatry, researchers examine the relationship between sleep duration and brain structure in 11,000 children ages 9-11 from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development dataset. The...
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New hope for COPD patients possible with in-home device
MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER, Minn. — In a new paper published Feb. 4 in JAMA, Mayo Clinic researchers describe the benefits of in-home noninvasive ventilation therapy ? which includes a type referred to as bilevel positive airway pressure, or BiPAP ? for many patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The team identified a number of...
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Chronic stress can cause heart trouble
by American Heart Association Sometimes stress can be useful. But constant stress can affect overall well-being and may even impact heart health. Credit: CC0 Public Domain When stress is short-lived, it can help with performance in meeting a major deadline, interviewing for a new job or achieving another goal. Stress and its impact on the...
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The Case Against Stretching
Scientists are increasingly skeptical of the benefits of flexibility, but the fitness world doesn’t want to hear it To be honest, writing another “stretching is useless” article feels a little bit like spiking the football. A decade ago, whenever I wrote about evidence suggesting that traditional static stretching doesn’t have any obvious benefits and might...
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New study adds to evidence of diabetes drug link to heart problems
by British Medical Journal A new study published by The BMJ today adds to evidence that rosiglitazone—a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes—is associated with an increased risk of heart problems, especially heart failure. This study is the most comprehensive evaluation of the cardiovascular risk of rosiglitazone ever done. Rosiglitazone belongs to a class...
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Normal resting heart rate appears to vary widely from person to person
by Public Library of Science A person’s normal resting heart rate is fairly consistent over time, but may vary from others’ by up to 70 beats per minute, according to analysis of the largest dataset of daily resting heart rate ever collected. Giorgio Quer of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, California, and...
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Adults With Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Gregory Olson, MD1; Andrew M. Davis, MD, MPH2 Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA. Published online February 6, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.21118 Guideline title Diagnosis and Treatment of Adults With Community-Acquired Pneumonia Developers American Thoracic Society (ATS); Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Release date October 1, 2019 Prior version 2007 Funding source ATS/IDSA Target population Adults with...
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Half of lupus rashes harbor high levels of bacteria responsible for infections
by University of Michigan A new study finds that one side effect of lupus could also make patients with the autoimmune condition more vulnerable to a skin infection, or spreading the infection to others. In the paper, published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, researchers found that 50% of skin rashes in patients with lupus...