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(HealthDay)—Opioid overdose deaths rose in several states during the coronavirus pandemic, according to authors of a new study who say their findings may help identify and assist at-risk people. “Our work represents the first multi-state report with detailed analyses,” said study senior author Mohammad Jalali, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston. His […]
(HealthDay)—For general surgery residents, higher grit scores are associated with lower likelihood of burnout, thoughts of attrition, and suicidal thoughts, according to a study published online June 30 in JAMA Surgery. D. Brock Hewitt, M.D., M.P.H., from the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, and colleagues characterized grit, defined as perseverance and […]
(Reuters Health) – Children who attend a comprehensive preschool program with workshops for families on topics like health literacy and nutrition may have a lower BMI as adults than peers without that early experience, a new study suggests. Researchers examined data on 1,042 adults born in 1979 and 1980 who were part of the Chicago […]
(HealthDay)—Race is the most important predictor of testing positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection but not for outcomes, according to a study published online Feb. 9 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Gabriel J. Escobar, M.D., from Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California, and colleagues evaluated the association of race/ethnicity with SARS-CoV-2 […]
Sleep-related impairment among physicians is associated with increased burnout, decreased professional fulfillment, and increased self-reported clinically significant medical error, according to a study published online Dec. 7 in JAMA Network Open. Mickey T. Trockel, M.D., Ph.D., from the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, and colleagues evaluated associations between sleep-related impairment, clinically […]
JAMAODCOVID.pdf THURSDAY, Dec. 3 — Blame it on the pandemic: For people struggling with drug addiction, 2020 has triggered a big rise in emergency room visits for cardiac arrest tied to drug overdoses, new research shows. The finding was based on data involving 80% of emergency medical services (EMS) “activations” across the United States. It […]
(HealthDay)—Initial implementation of national COVID-19 mitigation measures in the Netherlands was associated with a substantial reduction in the incidence of preterm births in the following months, according to a study published online Oct. 13 in The Lancet Public Health. Jasper V. Been, Ph.D., from the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and colleagues used data […]
Fox News Flash top headlines for October 7 At least one person has died following an outbreak of the novel coronavirus at a hair salon in North Carolina, officials announced this week. Haywood County Health and Human Services in a news release on Tuesday announced that the person died on Oct. 1 at a local […]
In the spring of 2020, as Massachusetts experienced a surge in COVID-19 cases in the Boston area, four area hospitals conducted universal testing among all pregnant patients at the time of admission for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. At the time, Massachusetts had the third highest rate of infection in the country. In an […]
(HealthDay)—Obese and overweight older individuals who lose weight have lower bone mineral density (BMD) in their hips, according to a study published in the November issue of Obesity. Daniel E. Kammire, of the Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and colleagues gathered data from 77 adults (mean age, 67 years) at baseline, 18 months, […]