A new understanding of how the human brain controls the hands
Understanding how the brain controls certain actions—such picking up a knife in the correct way—is important for many reasons. One of these is working towards the...
Category: Health
How better conversations can reduce vaccine hesitancy for COVID-19 and other shots
New parents have many decisions to make soon after their baby is born. One of them is about vaccination.
Intranasal COVID-19 vaccine candidate shows sterilizing immunity in preclinical tests
University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers report additional preclinical evidence of the potency of a single-dose, intranasal COVID-19 vaccine candidate—AdCOVID—that was created by Altimmune Inc., a...
High rates of childhood obesity alarming given anticipated impact of COVID-19 pandemic
In some countries of the WHO European Region, 1 in 3 children aged six to nine years is living with overweight or obesity. Mediterranean countries have...
Fat around waist more important than obesity in predicting severity of COVID-19
New research presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (held online, 10-13 May) shows that fat around the waist (abdominal obesity) is more important than...
Tumor molecular profiling could reduce endometrial cancer therapy by 20%
A retrospective study conducted by scientists from the Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) of MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital found that compiling a tumor molecular profile...
How to confront and overcome the discomfort of starting something new
COVID-19 catapulted our society on a mass scale into the online environment, and often we weren’t prepared. Many of us were forced to equip ourselves with...
Speaking up to give voice to the severely disabled
The question of who speaks for patients with traumatic brain injuries when considering medical decisions is the subject of a commentary in the American Journal of...
Study: Long-term benefits of mindfulness intervention to reduce stress, burnout
A new study is one of the first to show sustained benefits more than a year after completing a voluntary eight-week Mindfulness in Motion (MIM) intervention...
Caution in the use of patient-reported outcome-based performance measures
In a new paper released today, the American College of Physicians (ACP) acknowledges the potential for patient-reported outcome-based performance measures that are methodologically sound and evidence...
