Category: 5. Health

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers found that the possibility of parental disclosure through online patient portals led older adolescents to hesitate in sharing complete health information with doctors, putting them at risk of missed diagnoses and treatments. The paper noted that confidentiality… Continue Reading

When the arm is on the lap or the side, a blood pressure reading can be erroneously high. But when the arm is supported and at heart height, a blood pressure reading is more likely to be right. In a clinical trial, researchers investigated the effect that different arm positions… Continue Reading

When Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered a new molecule they called microRNA in the 1980s, it was a fascinating diversion from what for decades had been called the central dogma of molecular biology. Recognized with the 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, Ambros and Ruvkun… Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, DC: Lina Khan is Chair of the Federal Trade Commission. Her agency is suing the three … [+] largest pharmacy benefit managers for their alleged role in driving up insulin prices. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit last… Continue Reading

The air quality in the City Hall subway station in downtown Philadelphia is much worse than on the sidewalks directly above the station. That is a key finding of our new study published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. We are an environmental scientist and a… Continue Reading

Five health workers, dressed in head-to-toe “Ebola suits” leave in a pick-up truck 09 April 2005 in … [+] Uige, about 300km north of the capital, Luanda, to collect a man dying from haemorrhagic fever. Uige, a town devastated by years of civil war is the epicentre of an outbreak of the killer… Continue Reading

The United States has few rules governing egg and sperm donation, a Wild West being supercharged by influencers touting it as a cash-cow to millions of young followers. Americans conceived through donors are using social media to fight back. By Alexandra S. Levine, Forbes Staff Afew weeks ago,… Continue Reading

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.”  The prize recognizes the “discovery of a fundamental principle governing how gene… Continue Reading

Hurricane Helene’s flood-related damage to a key production facility last week in Marion, North Carolina (Baxter International North Cove plant) has serious potential to impact patient care nationally because it manufactures 60 percent of intravenous fluids (IV fluids) used by healthcare… Continue Reading

CHICAGO – OCTOBER 8: Three 10-dose Influenza Virus Vaccine vials are seen at Ballin Pharmacy … [+] October 8, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images) Getty Images The U.S. FDA recently approved FluMist as a self or caregiver-administered nasal spray flu vaccine to… Continue Reading