Farmers are being paid millions to trap carbon in their soils. Will it actually help the planet?
Lance Unger has been doing things a little differently lately on his farm near the Wabash River in southwestern Indiana. After last fall’s harvest, rather than leaving his fields fallow, he sowed some of them with cover crops of oats and sorghum that grew until the winter cold killed them off. And before planting corn and soybeans this spring, Unger drove a machine to shove aside yellowing stalks—last season’s “trash,” as he calls it—rather than tilling the soil and plowing the stalks under. For these efforts, a Boston-based company called Indigo paid Unger $26,232 in late 2021 and an even larger chunk la...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 27, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

A Hive Mind of Doctors Can Mean Better Care for Patients
If you’re like an unlucky 5% of American adults, you’ll visit a doctor with a medical complaint this year, only to be misdiagnosed and, often, misprescribed a treatment. If you’re like a far less lucky one of 100,000 hospitalized Americans, such a misdiagnosis will cost you your life. There are a lot of reasons for medical errors: inexperienced caregivers; ambiguous symptoms; understaffed hospitals, underlying conditions.  [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] But according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), there’s one more little...
Source: TIME: Health - July 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

Ankylosing Spondylitis: The Long Hunt for a Right Diagnosis
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a rare type of arthritis in the spine whose main symptom -- back pain -- is a common, everyday complaint. That’s just one reason why so many people with AS wait years for a correct diagnosis. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - July 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Mick Mars' 'painful struggle' with 'crippling degenerative disease' - condition explained
Mick Mars's "crippling" condition is known to cause extreme tiredness and back pain. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - July 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Why some mortgage renewal payments could rise into 2025 even with rates projected to drop
Variable-rate mortgage borrowers best hope the Bank of Canada gets inflation back to target by its mid-2025 estimate. That is, if a report from Desjardins on Thursday is any indication. A slower pace of rate cuts – let alone higher rates – would “translate into more pain for households at…#bankofcanada #desjardins #roycemendes #refinitiv #eachbankofcanada #bankofcanadas #canadians #carolynrogers #hanifbayat #usfederalreserve (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

How John Fetterman Came Out of the Darkness
When he looks back on the past year—a year in which he nearly died, became a U.S. Senator, and nearly died again—it is the debate that John Fetterman identifies as the ­breaking point. “The debate lit the mitch,” he says, then shakes his head in frustration and tries again. The right word is there in his brain, but he struggles to get it out. “Excuse me, that should be lit the mitch—” He stops and tries again. “Lit the match,” he says finally. Oct. 25, 2022: the date is lodged in his mind. “I knew I had to do it,” he tells me. “I knew that the vote...
Source: TIME: Health - July 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Molly Ball Tags: Uncategorized Congress Cover Story Exclusive feature uspoliticspolicy Source Type: news

6 Healthy Ways to Deal With Anger
One of the easiest things about experiencing anger is finding a colorful word or phrase to describe it: Steaming. Fuming and fired up and furious. Pissed off. Ready to flip your lid. Livid. Such an extensive lexicon speaks to the universality of anger, one of the most primitive emotions humans experience—and in some ways one of the most complex. “People don’t like to feel angry, and most people who do feel angry want to get rid of the anger,” says Brad Bushman, a professor of communication at Ohio State University who studies the causes, consequences, and solutions to human aggression and violence. ...
Source: TIME: Health - July 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Angela Haupt Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Mental Health Source Type: news

Are posture-correcting devices helpful? Straight talk from experts.
The relationship between posture and back pain is complicated. Experts talk about trendy devices meant to help you sit up straight. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - July 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Catherine Roberts Source Type: news

Student, 20, given weeks to live after lower back pain revealed to be rare blood cancer
Despite chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant, doctors have said his condition is terminal. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - July 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

How Are Keloids Treated?
Discussion Wound healing is a complex process and abnormalities are common. Hypertrophic or keloid scarring are the two types of excessive scarring with both having excessive scar tissue that is elevated above the normal skin. Hypertrophic scarring occurs usually only within the wound and can regress. They are common after burns and develop within 3 months of skin injury. Keloid scarring spreads beyond the original wound and does not regress, and often recur. They can occur even 1 year after injury. Keloids have an incidence of 5-15%. “Compared to normal fibroblasts, keloidal fibroblasts have longer lives, higher pro...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - July 17, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

I'm a massage therapist - this is the one stretch that can instantly cure your back pain
Suffering from agonizing back pain? Licensed massage therapist James Moore, from Kentucky in the US, says one simple stretch can alleviate the ache that affects one in eight Brits. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

As Suicide Rates Rise, Bereavement Camps Bring Healing to Kids Left Behind
One by one, children toss notecards into the flames, each one bearing the name of a loved one lost to suicide: fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters. Each card makes the fire burn a little brighter, a burst of light and memory as the paper singes and crumples. When each child has had their turn, they embrace in a group hug—some crying, some smiling, together in both grief and healing. Tomorrow, the 72 children, teens, and young adults attending Comfort Zone Camp’s three-day suicide-bereavement camp in rural New Jersey, as well as the parents who accompanied them and the “big buddies” with whom the kid...
Source: TIME: Health - July 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme and Kara Milstein Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Mental Health Source Type: news

"Back pain is part of sport … I'm just gonna have to live with it": exploring the lived experience of sport-related low back pain in adolescent athletes - Wall J, McGowan E, Meehan W, Wilson F.
OBJECTIVES: To examine the lived experience of adolescent athletes reporting an episode of sport-related low back pain (LBP), including effects on daily life, relationships with parent/guardians, teammates, and coaches with relation to LBP, experiences of ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Opioid analgesia for acute low back pain and neck pain (the OPAL trial): a randomised placebo-controlled trial - Jones CMP, Day RO, Koes BW, Latimer J, Maher CG, McLachlan AJ, Billot L, Shan S, Lin CWC, McLachlan H, Webb M, Hamilton M, Ahedi H, Barber A, Mak W, Mathieson S, Petrova V, Bompoint S, Shan S, Murnion B, Buckley N, Demirkol A, Wrigley P, Needs C, Brooks L, Cantori S, Preisz P, Aitken J, Allan S, Burke M, Cameron G, Cepeda FJV, Davis C, Dullur J, Emmanuel J, Errey C, Fieuw-Makaroff S, Gaudry A, Genua L, Longhurst I, McCroary K, Merhi D, Nguyen T, Obayd ZR, Penm M, Pobbathi S, Poh WS, Schnitzler P, Shahnaz S, Tan V, Tang D, Tan B, Thu WK, Triantopolous T, Venkatesan R, Wong WCF, Yang SC.
Background Opioid analgesics are commonly used for acute low back pain and neck pain, but supporting efficacy data are scarce. We aimed to investigate the efficacy and safety of a judicious short course of an opioid analgesic for acute low back pain and n... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

DR MARTIN SCURR: Is gallbladder op to blame for back pain? 
DR MARTIN SCURR: In my view, any pain so severe it requires a very strong painkiller - such as the tramadol (an opioid painkiller) you've been prescribed - merits further investigation. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news