by University of Aberdeen A new study conducted during the height of UK hospital admissions from COVID-19 has found that the regular use of painkillers including ibuprofen, naproxen and diclofenac did not increase the risk of death from the disease. Published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine, the study is the first to report on...
Even after all of their symptoms are gone, people who have had a concussion take longer to regain complex reaction times, the kind you need in most real-life driving situations on the road, according to a preliminary study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s Sports Concussion Virtual Conference from...
A study found that eating too much rice could lead to heart disease and death. A research team from the University of Manchester and the University of Salford analyzed the link between rice consumption and heart diseases in England and Wales, which are caused by arsenic exposure, according to Daily Mail. The research findings were...
Researchers at McMaster University and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have reported the discovery and diagnosis of an aggressive malignant bone cancer — an osteosarcoma — for the first time ever in a dinosaur. No malignant cancers—tumours that can spread throughout the body and have severe health implications—have ever been documented in dinosaurs previously. The...
by Shelly Miller, The Conversation The vast majority of SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs indoors, most of it from the inhalation of airborne particles that contain the coronavirus. The best way to prevent the virus from spreading in a home or business would be to simply keep infected people away. But this is hard to do when...
Could the coronavirus lead to chronic illness? While lung scarring, heart and kidney damage may result from COVID-19, doctors and researchers are starting to clock the potential long-term impact of the virus on the brain also. Younger COVID-19 patients who were otherwise healthy are suffering blood clots and strokes. And many “long-haulers,” or COVID-19 patients...
The time has come for routine health care visits to include some form of dietary assessment and counseling, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association published today in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal. The statement, written by a group of nutrition and cardiovascular disease experts, recommends...
University of Oregon study finds that parental views of lay theories influence what meals they serve to children and how children develop their food preferences EUGENE, Ore. – Aug. 7, 2020 – Young children naturally like sugar and salt in food and develop food preferences based on what their parents serve them, but new research...
by University of California, Los Angeles A test designed by UCLA researchers can pinpoint which people with gonorrhea will respond successfully to the inexpensive oral antibiotic ciprofloxacin, which had previously been sidelined over concerns the bacterium that causes the infection was becoming resistant to it. In research published in the peer-reviewed journal Clinical Infectious Diseases,...
A new study found the majority of Chinese patients recovering from COVID-19 still suffer from lung damage three months after being discharged from the hospital. Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University Intensive Care Director Dr. Peng Zhiyong published his findings on his research on the impact of COVID-19 on patients’ health after recovery. This was the...
