TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — For more than two years, COVID-19’s direct harm has been visible in overflowing intensive care wards and grim statistics. Now, some of its indirect effects are coming into focus. Studies are linking the pandemic to higher rates of fatal heart disease and stroke, deaths from addiction-related… read on > read on >
Outdoor sports season is nearly here, and with rough play comes the risk of concussion. But one of the most-used tools to assess sports-related concussion from the sidelines isn’t as precise as one might like, a new study argues. Intense exertion from playing sports could cause some of the symptoms listed on the Sports Concussion… read on > read on >
People who choose to skip sleep to study, work or play late into the night may find they’ve extended not just their waking hours but also their tummies. A small new study found that the basic problem sources back to the fact that people who don’t get enough sleep tend to eat more. Even worse,… read on > read on >
In an effort to modernize an agency that has come under fire for its handling of the pandemic, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that the agency would undergo a monthlong review of its inner workings. In an email sent to agency employees, Dr. Rochelle Walensky said she… read on > read on >
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, wrote William Shakespeare. It appears he was correct. The smells that people like or loathe are determined not by cultural experiences but mostly by the structure of the odor molecule, according to a new international study. “We wanted to examine if people around the world… read on > read on >
While hospitals and clinics are known for being slow to turn new evidence into actual practice, they picked up the pace during the pandemic. A research team led by scientists from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and the University of California, San Francisco, collected data from more than 50 academic medical centers across the United… read on > read on >
Your pet’s poop and pee may give you clues to how many cancer-causing toxins have taken up residence in your home. “Our findings suggest that pets are coming into contact with aromatic amines that leach from products in their household environment,” said study author Sridhar Chinthakindi, a postdoctoral fellow at NYU Langone Health in New… read on > read on >
Almost no one in the world is breathing good air, according to a new World Health Organization report, which issued a call for reducing the use of fossil fuels. Air quality is the worst in WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean and Southeast Asia regions, but 99% of the global population breathes air that exceeds air quality limits… read on > read on >
As sign-ups for youth football get underway this spring, a new study reveals that Americans may love their football, but half now believe that kids should not play the tackle version of the game. The researchers found that of nearly 4,000 U.S. adults surveyed, only 45% agreed that tackle football is an “appropriate sport for… read on > read on >
Efforts to cut back on risky opioid use for pain after surgery are trickling down to kids. New research shows that fewer Americans under the age of 18 were prescribed narcotics to treat surgical pain between 2014 and 2017, and these numbers dropped even more rapidly beginning in late 2017. While opioids can help kids… read on > read on >
