No such thing as safe alcohol consumption, study says
You might want to remember this during your next visit to a bar.
Category: Health
Researcher identifies new mode of transmission for bacteria
Campylobacter infection, one of the most common foodborne illnesses in the Western world, can also be spread through sexual contact, according to a new research discovery...
Ontario resuming use of AstraZeneca, but only as second dose
Canada’s most populous province is resuming use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, but only as a second dose for those who’d received it initially, officials said...
Pfizer-BioNTech pledge 2B doses to less wealthy nations
American pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German company BioNTech pledged Friday to deliver 2 billion doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to middle- and low-income countries over the...
CDC: Self-administered subcutaneous DMPA should be made available
(HealthDay)—Self-administered subcutaneous depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA-SC) should be made available as an additional approach for contraception, according to research published in the May 21 issue of...
Pivotal results from clinical trial for the chronic condition atopic dermatitis
The findings of a clinical trial by Trinity College Dublin researchers of treatment for atopic dermatitis have been published today in The Lancet journal (Friday, 21st...
Itch insight: Skin itch mechanisms differ on hairless versus hairy skin
Chronic skin itching drives more people to the dermatologist than any other condition. In fact, the latest science literature finds that 7% of U.S. adults, and...
Minority of those with AUD referred to, receive treatment
(HealthDay)—Individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD) frequently utilize health care and receive screening for alcohol use, but few are referred to or receive treatment, according to...
Infants recognize rapid images, just like adults
It has previously been reported that the human visual system has a temporal limitation in processing visual information when perceiving things that occur less than half...
Medication use in hospitalized patients with COVID-19
A record of medicine utilization patterns assembled by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California, Irvine and the UC San Diego School of...
