Exercise - Fitness / 21.01.2025

  In recent years, fitness enthusiasts and athletes have been exploring innovative ways to improve their performance and maximize the efficiency of their workouts. One of the groundbreaking trends taking the fitness world by storm is Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS). Once reserved for rehabilitation and professional athletes, this technology has become accessible to a broader audience, offering a new perspective on fitness training. EMS might be the game-changer you need if you’re looking to transform your routine and achieve faster results. What is Electrical Muscle Stimulation? Electrical Muscle Stimulation, or EMS, involves using low-frequency electrical impulses to contract muscles. These impulses mimic the natural signals the nervous system sends during physical activity. EMS enhances muscle engagement by targeting specific muscle groups, making workouts more intense and efficient. The technique has been widely used in physical therapy for years, helping individuals recover from injuries by maintaining muscle mass and strength. Now, it's making waves in gyms and fitness centers for its ability to amplify workout results. (more…)
Addiction, Author Interviews, COVID -19 Coronavirus, JAMA, Opiods, UCLA / 03.12.2020

MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Joseph Friedman, MD/PhD student David Geffen School of Medicine UCLA MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: Numerous researchers, clinicians, officials, harm reduction agencies, and people who use drugs have sounded the alarm that the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating the United States overdose crisis. However, data sources typically used to track overdoses in the US often have long lags that impede timely monitoring and response. For example, the CDC released preliminary overdose figures for 2019 in July 2020, and even these numbers may change. As they are available in near real-time, emergency medical services (EMS) data have increasingly been used as a source of up-to-date information to monitor epidemiological shifts during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we used data from the National EMS Information System (NEMSIS), a large registry of over 10,000 EMS agencies in 47 states that represented over 80% of all EMS activations nationally in 2020. We used the data to track shifts in overdose-related cardiac arrests observed by EMS.   (more…)
Author Interviews, Emergency Care, JAMA, Race/Ethnic Diversity / 09.09.2019

MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Amresh D Hanchate, PhD Research Assistant Professor Department of Medicine, School of Medicine Boston University MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: National guidelines require EMS transportation to the nearest suitable hospital. To what extent this occurs and whether this varies by the race and ethnicity of the patient is unknown since there is little to no prior research on destination patterns of EMS-transported patients to hospitals. (more…)