In 1993, neurologist Camilo R. Gomez, MD, coined a phrase that for a quarter century has been a fundamental rule of stroke care: “Time is brain!” “Unquestionably the longer therapy is delayed, the lesser the chance that it will be successful,” Dr. Gomez wrote in an editorial 25 years ago. “Simply stated: time is brain!” […]
Yes, You Should Still Get The Flu Shot Even Though It Was Super-Crappy Last Year
The flu shot was kind of a crapshoot last year after a ton of people went under the needle but got the flu anyway because of a “vaccine mismatch,” according to a commentary in The New England Journal of Medicine. But yeah, that still doesn’t mean you should be thinking about skipping this year’s injection. […]
Woman had two days to live after dismissing her cancer as stress
The woman given just two days to live after dismissing her cancer symptoms as divorce stress Woman, 32, who dismissed her exhaustion and headaches for divorce stress was horrified to discover they were signs of blood cancer and she had just 48 HOURS to live Kate Stallard thought her headaches were down to her adapting to […]
Pets Weekly: The Bay Area Pet Fair & Adoptathon and More – Fetch! Pet Care
Pets Weekly is a series that highlights the top stories trending in pet news this week. In this issue of Rescue News Weekly: – The Bay Area Pet Fair & Adoptathon – Nation No Kill Conference Postponed Until 2015 – Fix Long Beach has Fixed Over 1700 Pets The Bay Area Pet Fair & Adoptathon […]
What happens when a puppet of a dog hangs out at the local dog park? – Fetch! Pet Care
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Public Breastfeeding Is Now 'Protected' in All 50 States, but the Internet Is Skeptical
Though legislation may not stop critics from shaming nursing mothers, women can finally legally breastfeed in public in all 50 states. For years, both Utah and Idaho did not have laws in place to protect breastfeeding mothers who needed to feed their babies in public spaces, but new legislation in the two states means that breastfeeding […]
Adolescent health undervalued and under-invested across the globe
Melbourne’s Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, in partnership with Harvard Medical School, has discovered that adolescent health programs across the developing world receive only a tiny share of international aid, even though young people make up 30 per cent of the population of low-income countries. Published in JAMA Network Open, researchers from the US and Australia […]
Machine-learning system determines the fewest, smallest doses that could still shrink brain tumors
MIT researchers are employing novel machine-learning techniques to improve the quality of life for patients by reducing toxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy dosing for glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer. Glioblastoma is a malignant tumor that appears in the brain or spinal cord, and prognosis for adults is no more than five years. Patients […]
Is Evolution of the Human Brain to Blame for Some Mental Disorders?
THURSDAY, Aug. 9, 2018 — Evolutionary changes in the human brain may be responsible for psychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, new research suggests. The researchers identified long, noncoding stretches of DNA (called “repeat arrays”) in a gene that governs calcium transport in the brain. Their findings were published Aug. 9 in the […]
Scientists identify key to slowing the clock for people with abnormally fast heart beats
Scientists in Japan have found a potential marker to identify which people with abnormally fast heartbeats are at high risk of developing heart failure. The results were published in June in Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine, a journal from the American Heart Association. Atrial fibrillation, or chronically, abnormally fast heartbeat, can be a symptom of […]