Category: Health

You know the drill: The “gimmes,” the sugar meltdowns, the “are we there yets?” At this time of year, many kids reach a high pitch of excitement and sometimes invent surprising new behaviors that require your best holiday parenting skills. “Parents should start with their own expectations,” says Susan Newman, PhD, a social psychology professor […]

Nov. 29, 2022 – Artificial intelligence could help improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in clinical trials and drug development by overcoming some traditional human bias in these areas, but we’re not there yet, experts say. The technology could also assist doctors with data insights to make diagnosis and treatment more precise.  It starts with quality. […]

Nov. 30, 2022 – Amazon is encouraging patients to “skip the waiting room” with the launch of Amazon Clinic, a virtual health care service that aims to offer treatment for nearly 2 dozen common health conditions. Taking a step beyond a typical telehealth visit, the service promises personalized treatment with no appointments, video calls, or live […]

Nov. 30, 2022 – If there’s one public health message Americans have heard loud and clear, it’s this one:  Move more. Take more steps.  Spend more time doing physical activity – at least 150 minutes a week, according to the latest guidelines.  But hearing the message doesn’t mean we act on it. A whopping 25% of […]

Nov. 30, 2022 – Artificial intelligence is poised to make clinical trials and drug development faster, cheaper, and more efficient. Part of this strategy is creating “synthetic control arms” that use data to create “simulants,” or computer-generated “patients” in a trial.  This way, researchers can enroll fewer real people and recruit enough participants in half […]

By Alan Mozes  HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Nov. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Black adults who undergo a common procedure to open up clogged arteries are readmitted to the hospital more often than their white peers. They’re also more likely to die in the years after treatment, a new study finds.  Researchers looked at how patients […]

When Imadé Borha graduated from Columbia University in 2015 with a master’s degree in nonfiction creative writing, she thought the last thing she’d have to worry about was finding a job. It didn’t happen. “That was around the time of the first suicide attempt,” recalls Borha, 34, now a Durham, NC-based communications professional for a […]

By Gonzalo Laje, MD, as told to Kara Mayer Robinson I’m a psychiatrist, board certified in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. After my own personal experience with depression during my 20s, I’ve been on a lifelong quest to both understand and help others. I spent almost a decade at the National Institutes of Health searching […]

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By Cara Murez and Robin Foster  HealthDay Reporters THURSDAY, Dec. 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) – U.S. Food & Drug Administration policies that have limited blood donations from men who have sex with men may soon ease. At the moment, FDA policy does not allow blood donation from men who have had sex with other men […]