Month: May 2022

With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments awaiting the help they desperately need. View original article Contributor: Matt Richtel and Annie Flanagan

It turns out that short bursts of exercise can make a big difference to your health. View original article Contributor: Christie Aschwanden

Officials said the fake pills could contain fentanyl. Two Ohio State University students died this week in what the police said were apparent overdoses. View original article Contributor: Arya Sundaram

With a colleague, he created a miniaturized defibrillator that could be implanted inside patients suffering from potentially fatal arrhythmia. View original article Contributor: Richard Sandomir

The projections for fall and winter are part of a pitch for additional funding for vaccines, treatments and tests. View original article Contributor: Yasmeen Abutaleb

From condoms to IUDs to tubal ligation, experts weigh in on how to assess and obtain birth control options. View original article Contributor: Dani Blum and Nicole Stock

You know eating vegetables is good for you, but did you know that applying vegetables to your skin can help with wrinkles? Research shows that using certain vegetable extracts in … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

My first thought after attending a four-hour symposium on the health benefits of tea was I need a tall cool glass of iced tea. And I ought to be drinking … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

It’s only been about six months since the Omicron variant emerged and changed the landscape of the pandemic, sending case-counts soaring and causing breakthrough infections even among those who were fully vaccinated and boosted. The virus continues to keep scientists guessing, mutating into subvariants almost as fast as researchers can assign them names. First there … Read more