I Had A Terrifying Postpartum Complication — And I Want To Prevent Anyone Else From Experiencing It
A few days after coming home from the hospital, I knew something was seriously wrong. I’d just given birth, and my baby was fine, but I had a blinding headache, which was soon compounded by chest pain. Five days later, I found myself gasping for breath during simple actions like walking around the house. By […]
Opinion | ‘We Needed to Do Something Different’: What We Heard This Week
“It was very clear just over the last 10 years … we needed to do something different.” — AnnaMarie Connolly, MD, chief of education and academic affairs at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, on next season’s changes made to the application process for ob/gyn residency programs. “Legislative efforts on a more local/state level […]
Opinion | ‘We’re Doing God’s Work’: What We Heard This Week
“Treating patients and getting them well, it’s something — we’re doing God’s work.” — Steven Feldman, MD, PhD, of Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina, on treating patients with atopic dermatitis. “It’s kind of overkill.” — Raman Madan, MD, a dermatologist with Northwell Health in New York, on people under 25 getting […]
This Is Why You Forget Some Things And Remember Others
Westend61 via Getty Images Remembering to do something is actually a complex cognitive process. This morning, heading out the door to take my 9-year-old daughter to school, I patted my pockets to confirm “phone-keys-wallet.” This is a little ritual intended to keep me from having to run back for any of these essential items, or, […]
Have You Ever Experienced ‘Jamais Vu’? Here’s What It Is And Why It Happens.
Photo by Rafa Elias via Getty Images If something you’ve seen a million times, like a word or a celebrity, suddenly looks unfamiliar, jamais vu could explain why. Déjà vu is a transitory mental state that, according to one study, as much as 97% of the population have experienced at least once in their life. […]
Opinion | Are We Ready for the Long COVID Long-Haul?
“I just don’t know what is wrong with me, but something is off, and I am so forgetful. I feel like I have dementia,” a good friend said to me recently. I recalled that she had been sick with COVID-19 this past year. I remembered her illness well because I had been very concerned about […]
Coffee with milk may have an anti-inflammatory effect
Can something as simple as a cup of coffee with milk have an anti-inflammatory effect in humans? Apparently so, according to a new study from the University of Copenhagen. A combination of proteins and antioxidants doubles the anti-inflammatory properties in immune cells. The researchers hope to be able to study the health effects on humans. […]
Mapping the brain stem’s control of eating could lead to better treatments for obesity: An atlas of neuronal circuits could help predict targets for medications to control appetite
Every meal you sit-down-to makes an impression, with foods filed away as something delicious to be sought out again, or to be avoided in disgust if we associate the flavor with gut malaise. How this decision is made turns out to be so fundamental to our wellbeing — determining what foods to seek and avoid […]
Researchers use MRI to show brain changes, differences in children with ADHD
Multitasking is not just an office skill. It’s key to functioning as a human, and it involves something called cognitive flexibility — the ability to smoothly switch between mental processes. UNC scientists conducted a study to image the neural activity analogues to cognitive flexibility and discover differences in the brain activity of children with ADHD […]
Snorkeling Discovery Proves Something To Smile About
There must have been something in the water. A Mississippi man snorkeling in the Gulf of Mexico this month discovered something another man lost in the waves earlier in the week: his teeth. Advertisement “As I stuck my head in the water, they were literally sitting there on the bottom, just smiling at me,” Welborn […]