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Make Summer a Season for Safe Listening, Says ASHA
With the unofficial kickoff to summer on Memorial Day Weekend, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is urging the public to remember to use hearing protecti...
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Depression, Loneliness Associated With Increased Hospitalization Risk After Covid-19, NIH-Funded Study Suggests
People who reported in a survey that they felt worried, depressed or lonely had a greater chance of being hospitalized after a COVID-19 diagnosis, suggests a study funded by t...Full Article
NIH-Funded Studies Reveal Credible Estimates For Alzheimer’s-Like Brain Disorder Prevalence
New National Institutes of Health-funded research shows that the prevalence of brain changes from Limbic-predominant Age-related TDP-43 Encephalopathy (LATE) may be roughly 40...Full Article
Is My Scratchy Throat Allergies or Omicron?
Around 60 million Americans suffer from itching, coughing, and sneezing caused by seasonal allergies each spring, according to the CDC. And while these symptoms aren’t typical...Full Article
Study: Medicine for Inflammatory Bowel Disease May Protect Against Severe COVID-19
Getting the COVID-19 vaccination strengthened one type of immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients even though they were taking imm...Full Article
Treating Chronic Hypertension In Early Pregnancy Benefits Parents, Babies
Adults treated with medication for high blood pressure present before or during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy, defined as chronic hypertension in pregnancy, had fewer advers...Full Article
Electrical Pulses To The Back Of The Neck Found To Restore Breathing After Drug Use
Breathing difficulties are the main cause of death following opioid use. In the UK, the number of adults entering treatment for opioid use was 140,863 in 2020/211 and opioid u...Full Article
UCI Research Finds Parents’ Unpredictable Behavior May Impair Optimal Brain Circuit Formation
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine are conducting pioneering research into the concept that unpredictable parental behaviors, together with unpredictable envi...Full Article
Brain Cell Activity Plays Critical Role in CNS Disorder Outcomes
Investigators at Cedars-Sinai have comprehensively mapped molecular activity in the brain and spinal cord that is responsible for regulating the body's response to central ner...Full Article
Aphasia: Relatively Unknown but Common
Despite affecting millions of American adults, most people are not familiar with aphasia. During June, recognized nationally as Aphasia Awareness Month, the American Speech-La...Full Article
Five Ways To Keep Your Skin Safe While Enjoying The Sunshine
With temperatures hitting a whopping 95 degrees in the Northeast this weekend, everyone is craving some serious outdoor time! However, too much exposure to ultraviolet (UV) ra...Full Article
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Expands Clinical Trial Resources for Patients
The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF), the nation’s leading pulmonary fibrosis research, education, and advocacy organization, has developed new materials and tools for peop...
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Scientists Identify Characteristics To Better Define Long Covid
A research team supported by the National Institutes of Health has identified characteristics of people with long COVID and those likely to have it. Scientists, using machine ...Full Article
NIH Begins Clinical Trial Evaluating Second Covid-19 Booster Shots In Adults
A Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating various additional COVID-19 booster shots has begun enrolling adult participants in the United States. The trial aims to understand if diff...Full Article
First-of-its-kind Physician Assistant (PA) Training for Sickle Cell Disease Brings Knowledge, Addresses Health Equity
In response to severe shortages of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) expertise among health care providers, Networking California for Sickle Cell Care, California’s first and only SCD...Full Article
POCN Launches New APP Community Leader Initiative and Announces First Honoree, Regina Welkie, MSPAS, PA-C
POCN, the largest Nurse Practitioner (NP) and Physician Associate (PA) network in the U.S., has launched its first-ever APP Community Leader initiative. Announced quarterly, P...Full Article
Good Hydration May Reduce Long-Term Risks For Heart Failure
Staying well-hydrated may be associated with a reduced risk for developing heart failure, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health. Their findings, which ...Full Article
New Tablet Controller Improves Home Use Of Epidural Stimulation For Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury
When Keith Smith recently got a new tablet, it wasn’t for watching videos or scanning social media. Instead, this tablet allows Smith, who has tetraplegia, more independent ...Full Article
Cedars-Sinai Experts Explain How They Track COVID-19 Variants and What It Will Take to Finally Beat the Pandemic
As mask mandates disappear across the U.S., many are eager to return to pre-pandemic life. But scientists warn against letting down our guard too soon, pointing out that new v...Full Article
Gastrointestinal Issues Linked With Anxiety, Social Withdrawal For Kids With Autism
Children with autism spectrum disorder tend to experience gastrointestinal issues, such as constipation and stomach pain, at a higher rate than their neurotypical peers. Some ...Full Article
Meet the Omaha Nurse Inspiring People Living with MS
How can you exercise safely and effectively if your body doesn’t always do what your brain says to do? This is a question faced by millions of people who live with Multiple S...Full Article
NIH’s All of Us Research Program Releases First Genomic Dataset of Nearly 100,000 Whole Genome Sequences
Nearly 100,000 highly diverse whole genome sequences are now available through the National Institutes of Health's All of Us Research Program. About 50% of the data is from in...Full Article
Inflation, War Push Stress To Alarming Levels At Two-Year Covid-19 Anniversary
Two years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, inflation, money issues and the war in Ukraine have pushed U.S. stress to alarming levels, a...Full Article
Lead As a Social Determinant of Child and Adolescent Physiological Stress and Behavior
Lead is an environmental neurotoxicant that causes neurocognitive deficits and cardiovascular and metabolic disorders. It also disproportionately affects socially disadvantage...Full Article
Clinical Decision Support System Reduces Cardiovascular Risk In Patients With Serious Mental Illness
In a new study, researchers demonstrated that they can significantly lower cardiovascular risk for patients with severe mental illness (SMI) by using a clinical decision suppo...Full Article