by Mike Stobbe A man prepares to smoke fentanyl on a park bench in downtown Portland, Ore., on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, according to a study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, Feb. 15,...
By Joe Hernandez In January, a man living on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula died of Alaskapox. Pictured is Bear Glacier in the Kenai Fjords National Park on Sept. 1, 2015, in Seward, Alaska. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesAlaska health officials reported last week that a man died in January after contracting a virus known as Alaskapox....
by Shobi Sivathamboo, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock When 20-year-old Disney Channel star Cameron Boyce died of “sudden unexpected death in epilepsy” (known as SUDEP) in 2019, his parents had not even heard of the condition. “We didn’t know about SUDEP. We have family members who are doctors who never heard of SUDEP,” Cameron’s father Victor said in an interview. “We...
George D. Lundberg, MD June 26, 2023s Death is not the enemy. Human death is normal; we all die. The real enemies are premature death, disability, pain, human suffering, and the prolongation of dying. All the rest is mostly noise. —George Lundberg George D. Lundberg, MD At its core, the likelihood of an American experiencing premature death is...
Credit: CC0 Public DomainBacterial infections are the second leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for one in eight of all deaths in 2019, the first global estimate of their lethality revealed on Tuesday. The massive new study, published in the Lancet journal, looked at deaths from 33 common bacterial pathogens and 11 types of infection...
by South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) Credit: Shutterstock New research from the Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA) at SAHMRI has linked medication reviews to a lower risk of death for aged care residents. The study, led by Dr. Janet Sluggett and funded by the Australian Association of Consultant Pharmacy (AACP), followed 57,719...
by Kimberlee D’ardenne, Stanford University Medical Center Elderly residents receive COVID-19 vaccines in Londrina, Brazil, in February 2021. Jason Andrews and Brazilian researchers have shown that people who acquired COVID-19 and recovered benefit from full vaccination. Credit: Isaac Fontana/Shutterstock.com People who have recovered from COVID-19 still benefit from vaccination, according to a new study led...
by Frontiers Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying human brain and discovered rhythmic brain wave patterns around the time of death that are similar to those occurring during dreaming, memory recall and meditation. Now, a study on these findings published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience brings new insight into a possible...
by Johns Hopkins University A model of a patient’s heart is constructed from the MRI and PET scans. Color bands represent the electrical wave of the irregular heartbeat. Johns Hopkins scientists used data from the heart models to train their prediction algorithm. Credit: Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University scientists have developed a new tool for...
Humans evolved in an environment of physical exertion, and our biochemistry requires physical exertion in order to trigger mechanisms of cell maintenance and metabolic regulation. Populations that exercise vigorously into late old age, such as the Tsimane in Bolivia, exhibit very much lower levels of cardiovascular disease. Further, living a sedentary lifestyle shortens life expectancy and increases disease risk when compared...
