Month: March 2022

Don’t try to assess yourself. Rather, enlist a close friend or family member to detect whether you are having a problem. View original article Contributor: Sara Manning Peskin

TAVR, a fascinating, relatively new procedure, doesn’t get much attention but it has saved numerous lives — including mine. View original article Contributor: Allan Sloan

Research is sparse on this issue. But the few studies that do exist suggest masks do not inhibit kids from learning how to communicate. View original article Contributor: Jamie Friedlander Serrano

Don’t try to assess yourself. Rather, enlist a close friend or family member to detect whether you are having a problem. View original article Contributor: Sara Manning Peskin

TAVR, a fascinating, relatively new procedure, doesn’t get much attention but it has saved numerous lives — including mine. View original article Contributor: Allan Sloan

Clinicians can help patients recover from strokes while they’re anywhere in the world—even states or countries far away from each other—by using a combination of robotics and virtual-reality devices. It’s happening at Georgia Institute of Technology, where Nick Housley runs the Sensorimotor Integration Lab. There, patients undergoing neurorehabilitation, including those recovering from a stroke, are … Read more

In May 2020, a 33-year-old mother of three in North Carolina started experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. Four days later, a different set of symptoms set in. She stopped sleeping well and started having paranoid delusions that people were tracking her through her cell phone—culminating in a frantic scene at a fast-food restaurant, in which she … Read more

Purdue Pharma reached a nationwide settlement Thursday over its role in the opioid crisis, with the Sackler family members who own the company boosting their cash contribution to as much as $6 billion in a deal intended to staunch a flood of lawsuits facing the maker of OxyContin. The deal follows an earlier settlement that … Read more

The program will start in hundreds of locations next week with the goal of increasing access to lifesaving treatments, Biden officials say. View original article Contributor: Katie Shepherd