Every year, British researcher Christina Victor, PhD, spots advertisements for charitable programs designed to ensure that no senior spends the Christmas holiday alone. Those ads, though well-intentioned, epitomize common misconceptions about loneliness, says Victor, a professor of gerontology and public health at Brunel University London. In reality, studies suggest loneliness afflicts both young and old and [...]
igh in the snowfields atop the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, things are not as pristine as they used to be. Dust from the desert Southwest is sailing into the Rockies in increasing quantities and settling onto the snow that covers the peaks, often streaking the white surface with shades of red and brown. The amount [...]
Antibiotic resistance has caused a fall in life expectancy for the first time, the Office for National Statistics has said. Life expectancy in future years has been revised down after the statistics authority said that "less optimistic views" about the future had to be taken into account. Opinions on "improvements in medical science" had declined, [...]
Abstract Blowflies and houseflies are mechanical vectors inhabiting synanthropic environments around the world. They feed and breed in fecal and decaying organic matter, but the microbiome they harbour and transport is largely uncharacterized. We sampled 116 individual houseflies and blowflies from varying habitats on three continents and subjected them to high-coverage, whole-genome shotgun sequencing. This [...]
No matter what your favorite restaurant is serving, you can still practice healthy dining. Sports Nutritionist, Katherine Patton, MEd, RD, LD, CSSD, says, “Regardless of the restaurant, it’s important to watch your portions and look for balance in your meals.” Here are some of her tips for ordering at specific types of restaurants: Italian restaurants [...]
We routinely use low-volume (2-L) polyethylene glycol electrolyte preparations such as Moviprep and Miralax in split-dose regimens, in which patients drink half of the preparation the day before the procedure and the other half the day of the procedure. In our experience, these are well tolerated by patients with a history of bariatric surgery and [...]
Although antibiotics can be life-saving and cure bacterial infections, detrimental side effects such as simultaneously killing the “good bacteria” that populate the gut microbiome, and disabling effects on tendons, muscles, joints, nerves and the central nervous system can occur, adding further support for the call for appropriate antibiotic use. Now, researchers on a new study have added [...]
Edmond Hooker, MD, DrPH, professor, Health Services Administration at Xavier University, and emergency physician at the University of Cincinnati, discusses the reasons behind why hospital rooms are not being disinfected properly. Watch here... Interview Transcript (modified slightly for readability): “Time is the big thing, okay? Hospitals are asking Environmental Services (EVS) workers to turn a [...]
Extract Severe asthma, especially if associated with a T2 phenotype, often responds well to new emerging therapies, which have led to a reduction in the use of systemic oral corticosteroids (OCS) [1]. However, OCS-dependent patients still exist and are affected by the well-known (and potentially severe) side effects of such dependency. Longitudinal data that document [...]
If you enjoy a good roasted chicken and would like to continue to do so, you might want to stop reading now. Because chicken as we know it—breasts cut up on onto a Caesar salad, nuggets fried in pieces in a bucket, drumsticks wrapped in plastic in the supermarket—is hardly the Little Red Hen of [...]
