State Preemption Laws Threatens Local Ability to Implement Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes
The beverage industry has framed soda taxes as “grocery taxes” to confuse voters...
24 February, 2021
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Chronic Kidney Disease: More Patients Would Benefit from Lower Blood Pressure Targets
Controlling blood pressure is a public health priority and particularly important for the 1 in 7 US adults with chronic kidney disease, a population with high cardiovascular disease risk....
24 February, 2021 -
An Online Masters in Mental Health Counseling: The Basics
Studying for a masters in mental health counseling online can open up many different career paths. It is a great step in deciding what kind of counseling you would excel best in, and helping prepare you for the challenges to come....
23 February, 2021 -
COVID-19: Costs of Closing Schools Far Outweighs Any Benefit
What's important about our study is that the voluntary actions people took in the Spring to come together and change their behaviors to prevent COVID--those things really worked. ...
22 February, 2021 -
Glioblastoma: Inovio’s Novel Combination of DNA Medication Plus Immunotherapy Boosts Survival
This is a first-of-its-kind clinical trial in which a DNA medicine encoding for tumor-specific antigens is combined with an immune checkpoint inhibitor, and given together with the standard of care, in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma....
22 February, 2021 -
Helping Your Child with Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy might be caused by an infection that the mother had while she was pregnant, but it might have developed due to an injury during your pregnancy or childbirth....
22 February, 2021 -
COVID-19: Immune Cells Act Quicker in Children Than Adults
These quick and robust innate immune responses were not observed in adults with COVID-19....
19 February, 2021 -
Moving Closer to a Urine Analysis Test for Cancer Diagnosis
Analysis of DNA fragmentation patterns in urine is a promising and cost-effective approach for developing cancer diagnostics. ...
18 February, 2021 -
How to Progress Your Career in Nursing- A Guide
The population is expanding, and nursing is behind. Nurses also happen to be the very backbone of the healthcare industry, so it is one of the most secure, sensible careers to get into. If you care about others and are a caretaker at heart, there is no better position available. ...
18 February, 2021 -
Dermatology: Financial Reimbursements Better for White Males, Primarily Due to Treatment of Premalignant Lesions and Biopsies
Outpatient dermatology encounters for patients of color and females led to lower clinical productivity metrics and reimbursement....
18 February, 2021 -
Diet Plays a Role in Colon Cancer Incidence
Emerging evidence supports a possible role for overall dietary patterns that, in totality, emphasize habitually consuming fruits, vegetables, grains, and low-fat dairy and reducing red meat and alcohol intakes....
18 February, 2021 -
Maternal Cardiovascular Health Linked to Offspring’s Heart Health in Adolescence
The key message is that optimizing the total intrauterine environment, through the mother's CVH levels, may be an important way to help her offspring have better CVH in childhood and less CVD later in life...
18 February, 2021 -
Evaluation of Dietary Supplements in Reducing Memory Loss Associated Brain Tangles
Reduction of brain plaques and tangles leads to improved memory, focus, concentration and executive function as has been shown by over 30 years of scientific studies in major medical journals....
18 February, 2021 -
A Guide to Staying Healthy as You Get Older
Your brain needs as much exercise as your body, so install mind-testing apps and buy some puzzle books to give it the workout it needs....
18 February, 2021 -
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome in COVID Long-Haulers May be Helped by Ivabradine
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome significantly impairs quality of life for patients as they are not able to do activities that involve standing up....
17 February, 2021
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