We request the Indian government, as part of its health initiatives to spread awareness among young children in schools about the perils of diabetes Dear team NCERT, We wish to bring to your kind attention the alarming rise of diabetes in India and also health degradation arising out of close contact/ relative marriages. As you […]
Thyroid nodules are one of the most prevalent endocrine system diseases. Studies have shown that about 70% of the population worldwide have thyroid nodules, most benign and malignant nodules account for approximately 10%-15%.1–3 Ultrasound imaging is simple and rapid with high resolution. Its value in detecting and evaluating thyroid nodules has gradually been recognized in […]
Country singer Renee Blair revealed that she lost over two liters of blood while giving birth to her first child. Blair announced on Instagram Friday that she and her husband Jordan Schmidt welcomed a son in a black and white image of the new family in a hospital bed. Alongside the photo, Blair included a series […]
SAN BERNARDINO – LifeStream Blood Bank has sent 60 pints of blood products to the Blood Bank of Hawaii to aid the victims of the wildfires in Maui, where over 50 people are confirmed dead and dozens more are injured. According to a press release from LifeStream, LifeStream blood donors are essential to maintaining a […]
ROCHESTER — The American Red Cross has seen a shortfall of about 25,000 blood donations in the first two months of the summer, which makes it hard to keep hospital shelves stocked with lifesaving blood products. By making an appointment to give blood or platelets in August, donors can keep the national blood supply from […]
Image: Getty Just how underrepresented this topic is was quantified by Stanford University, who reported that a search for ‘menstrual blood’ on medical database PubMed brought up just 400 results from the last several decades, while a search for ‘erectile dysfunction’ had approximately 10,000 results from the same period. In keeping with this trend, the […]
Over the course of her weeks-long admission to neonatal intensive care units last summer, an Ontario family’s premature baby suffered low oxygen levels and acquired an infection after being fed a stranger’s breast milk — but her family says, ultimately, it was a lack of communication from the Toronto area hospitals’ staff that has “forever […]
Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Scientists have extended the lives of old mice by connecting their blood vessels to those of young mice, an advance that may lead to new therapies for rejuvenating […]
Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), especially Methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA), has been disseminated across communities and hospitals, associated with severe infections and organ failure. In order to understand the clinical epidemiological characteristics of S. aureus stains in the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University in 2018, the prevalence and the drug resistance of S. […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released new guidelines for prescribing opioid painkillers, aiming to provide more flexible and individualized approaches to pain care. The guidelines no longer include a recommended ceiling for opioid dosage and encourage healthcare providers to consider non-opioid therapies as the first line of treatment. The revised guidelines […]