Several things can cause a person’s feet to ache at night, including some lifestyle factors and certain medical conditions. However, a range of accessible treatments can help relieve the pain. There may be a dull pain that does not go away or a throbbing pain in different parts of the feet, from the ball, heel,...
A complete blood count (CBC) is a common test that can help identify many different conditions. It is useful in monitoring a person’s recovery from injuries, surgery, or another health condition. This article discusses what a CBC measures and what the results mean. What is a CBC? Thana Prasongsin/Getty Images A CBC is a common procedure that...
by Bond University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Have you ever run into a work colleague at the supermarket and failed to recognize them? Blame your brilliant, lazy brain. A new study led by Assistant Professor Oliver Baumann of Bond University sheds fresh light on the way the body’s most complex organ captures memories. Researchers looked...
MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN In the first months after their COVID-19 hospital stay, patients face a high risk of ongoing health problems, trips back to the hospital, and death, a growing number of studies has shown. But the first week and a half may be especially dangerous, according to a new study in JAMAby...
MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN The light at the end of the pandemic tunnel is getting brighter. This week, the first health care workers will receive the first doses of an FDA-approved coronavirus vaccine. Soon, so will other front-line workers in health care and beyond, and residents of long-term care facilities. The availability of...
by Julie Langelier, Gladstone Institutes Credit: CC0 Public Domain An important part of the brain’s immune system, cells called microglia constantly extend and retract “branches” from their cell body to survey their environment. Think of an octopus, not moving its body, but reaching its tentacles in every direction. That’s how microglia operate. In the span of...
JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE CREDIT: GRAPHIC CREATED BY M.E. NEWMAN, JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE, WITH PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES. COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the disease, have caused health care providers to change how they treat patients. Clinicians are now frequently using telemedicine to see their patients for routine checkups, saving office visits for emergencies. The same...
by University of Tsukuba Credit: University of Tsukuba Although schizophrenia is increasingly understood as a neurodevelopmental disorder, environmental factors are known to play an important role in the disease onset and progression. But now, researchers from Japan have found that exercise during a specific postnatal period may prevent the development of behaviors associated with schizophrenia. In...
by University of Adelaide Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The largest investigation of testosterone treatment ever undertaken has shown that, over and above the effect of a lifestyle program, treatment with testosterone prevents or reverses newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes in men. The study, known as T4DM (Testosterone for the prevention of Diabetes Mellitus), was led by...
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH Bottom Line: Esophageal adenocarcinoma is occurring more frequently in adults under age 50, and these younger adults are more likely to be diagnosed at advanced stages. Journal in Which the Study was Published: Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research Author: Prasad G. Iyer,...
