Southern Nevada Health District releases 2025 Community Health Assessment
LAS VEGAS – The Southern Nevada Health District, in collaboration with community partners, has released the 2025 Community Health Assessment (CHA), a comprehensive evaluation of Clark County’s health needs, strengths and available resources. The assessment is now available on the Healthy Southern Nevada website. As part of the prioritization process, the Health District and community […]
More Than ‘Just a Pinch’? Patients Film Their Expressions Getting IUDs
Welcome to Culture Clinic, MedPage Today‘s collaboration with Northwell Health to offer a healthcare professional’s take on the latest viral medical topics. Young women are filming their faces during insertions of intrauterine devices (IUD) and posting the videos on TikTok, where they are racking up hundreds of thousands of views. In some, patients wince and […]
Beyond Kegels: Brittany Mahomes’ Pelvic Floor Woes Post-Childbirth
Welcome to Culture Clinic, MedPage Today‘s collaboration with Northwell Health to offer a healthcare professional’s take on the latest viral medical topics. Brittany Mahomes, influencer and businesswoman, is married to her high school sweetheart Patrick Mahomes — the Kansas City Chiefs’ star quarterback who recently took home his third Superbowl win. Their daughter was born […]
Tackling Climate Change Starts With a Focus on Health, Lancet Report Says
The eighth Lancet Countdown report — a collaboration between scientists and health practitioners from around the world — paints a dire picture of continued inaction around climate change and its human cost. “In this year’s report, new projections reveal the dangers of further delays in action, with every tracked health dimension worsening as the climate […]
What Is the ‘Carrot Tan’ Trending on Social Media? A Dermatologist Weighs In
Welcome to Culture Clinic, MedPage Today’s collaboration with Northwell Health to offer a healthcare professional’s take on the latest viral medical topics. Social media’s latest aesthetic trend? Overloading on carrots to get a quick tan. Amid the craze, MedPage Today spoke with Silvija P. Gottesman, MD, a dermatologist at Northwell Health’s North Shore University Hospital […]
It’s the Summer of Barbie … Botox?
Welcome to Culture Clinic, MedPage Today‘s collaboration with Northwell Health to offer a healthcare professional’s take on the latest viral medical topics. “Barbie Botox,” also known as trap Botox, has existed for years but Google Trends data revealed that searches for “Barbie Botox” skyrocketed in early July, coinciding with the extensive promotion campaign for the […]
Sampling the deep graveyard of Earth’s earliest crust
In an international collaboration, Earth scientists at the University of Cologne and Freie Universität Berlin discovered that some magmas on Earth, which made their way through the deep terrestrial mantle and erupted at Earth’s surface, originate from mantle portions that contain remnants of Earth’s earliest crust. This ancient material must have been buried in a […]
New study adds more evidence for omicron immune evasion
A new study from Columbia researchers, in collaboration with scientists at the University of Hong Kong, adds more evidence that the omicron variant can evade the immune protection conferred by vaccines and natural infection and suggests the need for new vaccines and treatments that anticipate how the virus may soon evolve. The study was led […]
Gene-editing used to create single sex mice litters, 100% efficiency
Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, in collaboration with University of Kent, have used gene editing technology to create female-only and male-only mice litters with 100% efficiency. This proof of principle study, published in Nature Communications today (Friday 3rd December), demonstrates how the technology could be used to improve animal welfare in scientific research and […]