Reviewed If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741. The GoFundMe request jumped out at me as I was scrolling through posts on LinkedIn. Nora Super, executive director of the 2015 White House Conference […]

TOPLINE: Men are 37% more likely to misuse prescription stimulants and 75% more likely to abuse methamphetamine than women, results of a national annual drug use survey show. METHODOLOGY: Investigators analyzed 5-year data (2015-2019) from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which included 282,500 US participants aged 12 and older and asked them about […]

Scientists have developed a potentially transformative new technique that could aid in the discovery and development of new therapeutics for a number of globally prevalent autoimmune diseases. Conditions such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)—as well as failures within transplanted cells—are all caused by altered cytokine secretion of immune cells within the […]

Reviewed Abiomed, part of Johnson & Johnson MedTech, announces the first patient in the world has been enrolled in the landmark RECOVER IV randomized controlled trial (RCT). The on-label, two-arm trial will randomize 548 patients to assess whether Impella support prior to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is superior to PCI without Impella in patients with […]

In a recent article published in Npj Digital Medicine, researchers utilized electrocardiogram (ECG) data from a large retrospective cohort to extract various heart rate variability (HRV) measures. This data was used to develop a machine learning (ML)-based real-time predictive model for sudden cardiac arrest predictions in critical care settings. The study validated the model on registry data […]

Revealed: As few as a FIFTH of NHS staff have had Covid and flu jabs this winter Experts say low uptake could see more patients infected over the busy winter READ MORE:  Video shows crowds piling into an ‘overwhelmed’ Beijing hospital Two thirds of frontline NHS staff have shunned Covid and flu vaccines this winter, MailOnline can […]

Revealed: How many alcoholic drinks you’d need to consume to gain exactly one pound of fat A TikToker shared how many popular drinks you can have before gaining weight You could have as many as 15 cocktails and 66 shots before putting on a pound  READ MORE: This is what happens to your body just 30 […]

James Martin tells viewers to ‘turn away’ if they like healthy food A social media video has gone viral after a doctor warned that five foods we once thought were healthy actually aren’t, ‘at least from an insulin resistance perspective.’ In the video on TikTok that has had over 1.2 million views, Dr Midge, whose […]

Ingenza and Phibro Ethanol – a division of Phibro Animal Health Corporation – have joined forces to engineer a novel yeast strain that will increase yield in the commercial production of bioethanol under both challenging and conventional environmental conditions, further driving the switch to clean biofuels. This latest innovation – arising from a productive and long-standing partnership between […]

A new intervention for men with urinary problems trialed across GP practices has shown a sustained reduction in symptoms. Findings from the University of Bristol-led Treating Urinary Symptoms in Men in Primary Health care (TRIUMPH) study, involving over 1,000 participants and 30 GP practices, have been published in the British Medical Journal(BMJ). The severity and […]