What Happens To Your Brain And Body When You Work More Than 40 Hours A Week
Work long enough, and you’ll eventually face the common pressure to work longer hours and get more done. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and new CEO of Twitter, made headlines this week as Twitter managers told some employees to work 12-hour shifts for seven days a week in a sprint to meet Musk’s new […]
If You’re Rubbing Your Eyes, Stop Right Now
Long days on the computer, pollen-filled air or just a repetitive habit? Whatever the reason, many of us are rubbing our eyes too much, and experts say it’s not a good idea. “The skin under your eyes is the thinnest on your body,” said plastic surgery nurse Tara Adashev. “You should think of it as […]
APRNs: Get Your X-Waiver to Help in the Opioid Abuse Public Health Crisis
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Healthcare providers with advanced practice credentials should consider getting federal waivers to prescribe buprenorphine in the ongoing fight against the opioid epidemic, experts said. “There are a whole slew of benefits for patients who end up on medications for their opioid use disorder [OUD]. These medications do save lives,” said Amanda […]
Implicit Bias Training Betters Psychiatric Care at One Seattle Hospital
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Staff training in implicit bias curbed racial disparities in the use of mechanical restraints at one Seattle hospital, a researcher reported. From 2015-2017, about 13% of ethnic minority patients were restrained in the psychiatric units at Harborview Medical Center versus just over 8% of white patients, explained Timothy Meeks, MN, RN, […]
How Safe Are Lash Lifts? Here’s What Experts Want You To Know
For generations, people have sought out long, dark eyelashes. Between mascara, fake eyelashes, lash serums and eyelash curlers, many tools can help achieve this look temporarily. Now, though, semipermanent chemical processes, like lash lifts, can give eyelashes a boost, curling them upward to remove the need for mascara and making your eyes appear bigger and […]
Opinion | Can Radical Empathy Fix Our Healthcare System?
The history of medicine has been a long story of increasingly minute specialization. When we celebrate momentous breakthroughs in healing — authorizing the COVID-19 vaccine or performing the first successful heart transplant — what we applaud is the ability of our researchers and physicians to zero in on one condition and deliver increasingly efficient treatments […]
Long COVID: It’s Not Just Adults
Post-COVID-19 conditions (PCCs), aligning with what’s come to be known as long COVID, persisted at 3 months for many children who sought emergency care for acute illness, according to an international pediatric hospital network study. Out of 1,884 children diagnosed with COVID-19 infections who received a 90-day follow-up, 5.8% of those who had been seen […]
Special Brain Scans May Diagnose Early Parkinson’s – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Neurology News TUESDAY, July 19, 2022 It may not be long before highly sensitive scans might spot Parkinson’s disease in its early stages, researchers report. A disease of the brain that is characterized by shaking hands, Parkinson’s is a condition that worsens over time, compromising a person’s ability to walk, hold items or even […]
Long COVID Patients Turn to ‘Blood Washing’ Procedure
With long COVID patients becoming increasingly frustrated with the lack of available treatments, some have now taken to traveling to Cyprus, Germany, and Switzerland for experimental “blood washing,” according to a recent investigation by The BMJ and ITV News. Over the past year, people experiencing this often debilitating condition have visited private clinics for apheresis, […]
River belt discovery helps scientists understand ancient rivers
Long after a river has dried up, its channel belt lives on. Made up of swaths of sediment surrounding the river, channel belts, once hardened into rock, preserve the paths of rivers that once were. However, reconstructing details about an ancient river from channel belt deposits is a notoriously difficult task. New research from scientists […]