Warning over cannabis 'edibles' as doctors urge parents to store them far away from children
Researchers at New York University found 22 products that could be mistaken for regular snacks at 'first glance'. Parents were urged to keep them out of reach of children. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Weight Loss Surgery Effective Regardless of Age of Teens
WEDNESDAY, April 20, 2022 -- Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is an effective approach to surgical weight loss in adolescents, according to a study published online April 11 in Surgical Endoscopy.
Jun Tashiro, M.D., from New York University... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - April 20, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Psilocybin Could be a Therapeutic Breakthrough For Addiction
To the uninitiated, psilocybin—the substance that gives ‘magic mushrooms’ their psychedelic qualities—could be dismissed as a recreational drug. Like many other psychedelics, it is banned by the U.S. government as a Schedule 1 substance, meaning it supposedly has high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical use in treatment. However, to many medical science researchers, psilocybin is much more: a promising treatment for a range of health issues. In particular, experts increasingly see the chemical as a potentially effective, low-risk tool to help patients break their dependencies on ot...
Source: TIME: Science - April 18, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Tara Law Tags: Uncategorized Addiction healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Columbia, Howard and New York University Presidents to Step Down
Columbia’s Lee Bollinger marks third Ivy League president this year to announce departure. #newyorkuniversity #presidents #ivyleague #leebollinger #stepdowncolumbia (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Validation and revision of the Household Emergency Preparedness Instrument (HEPI) by a pilot study in the City University of New York - Heagele TN, Adams LM, McNeill CC, Alfred DM.
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to pilot test the Household Emergency Preparedness Instrument (HEPI) with a diverse sample, allowing for assessment of reliability and validity of the instrument. The HEPI is an international, all-hazards questionnaire ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 28, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
Programming the immune system to supercharge cancer cell therapies
The first FDA-approved gene therapies are living drugs: immune cells taken from cancer patients engineered to target tumor cells. However, for many patients, these advanced therapies do not result in a long-lasting remission. Now, scientists at the New York Genome Center and New York University have developed a genetic screening platform to identify genes that can enhance immune cells to make them more persistent and increase their ability to eradicate tumor cells. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - March 16, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Evidence Grows for Vaping ’s Role in Gum Disease
Feb. 22, 2022Washington, DC – February 22, 2022 – A series of new studies by researchers at New York University ' s College of Dentistry highlights how e-cigarettes alter oral health and may be contributing to gum disease. The latest, published in mBio, an open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, finds that e-cigarette users have a unique oral microbiome —the community of bacteria and other microorganisms—that is less healthy than nonsmokers but potentially healthier than cigarette smokers and measures worsening gum disease over time. “To our knowledge, this is ...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - March 10, 2022 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
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NIH & NIDCR Release “Oral Health in America: Advances and Challenges”
In December, NIDCR announced the release of a report that provides a comprehensive snapshot of oral health in America, detailing 20 years of advances and challenges and drawing on data from public research and evidence-based practices. For mo...
Source: NIDCR Science News - March 3, 2022 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
How the Coronavirus Steals the Sense of Smell
The virus does not infect nerve cells that detect odors, researchers have found. Instead, it attacks nearby supporting cells. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-science Smell (Olfaction) Chronic Condition (Health) Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Smells and Odors Immune System Proteins Cell (Journal) Columbia University New York University Langone Health University of California, Davis Source Type: news
COVID-19 Vaccines Are Unlikely to Trigger Rare Inflammatory Condition in Kids
COVID-19 vaccines are unlikely to trigger a rare inflammatory condition linked to coronavirus infection in children, according to an analysis of U.S. government data published Tuesday.
The condition, formally known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, involves fever plus symptoms affecting at least two organs and often includes stomach pain, skin rash or bloodshot eyes. It’s a rare complication in kids who have had COVID-19, and very rarely affects adults. The condition often leads to hospitalization, but most patients recover.
First reported in the United Kingdom in early 2020, it is sometimes mistaken ...
Source: TIME: Health - February 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lindsey Tanner / AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
The Tobacco Giant That Won ’t Stop Funding Anti-Smoking Programs for Kids
Tobacco giant Altria, which owns the maker of Marlboro cigarettes and a stake in vaping company Juul Labs, has for years quietly funded substance-use-prevention training for middle and high school students, despite ample research suggesting that industry-sponsored school programs do not discourage teenagers from smoking—and may in fact do the opposite.
Altria has for more than a decade provided funding to support the University of Colorado Boulder Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence’s (CSPV) implementation of the Botvin LifeSkills Training program. The program—which was created by behavioral s...
Source: TIME: Health - February 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
The Potent Drug Mix Causing Unprecedented Rates of Black Americans to Overdose
Opioid overdoses have killed so many Americans in recent years that experts say the epidemic is in its fourth wave. But the current wave of the opioid epidemic presents a new and particularly insidious threat: opioids, including the extremely potent synthetic opioid fentanyl, are increasingly being mixed with other drugs, whether the user knows it or not. As of 2019, more than 75% of drug overdose deaths involving cocaine now include an opioid, for example, as well as half of all deaths from stimulants like methamphetamine.
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When combined with other drugs, opioids are proving par...
Source: TIME: Health - February 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tara Law Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Micromanagement, credit stealing, bullying: Are you a jerk at work?
We ’ve all been there: driven half mad by the colleague who micromanages, the boss who bullies, the co-worker asleep on the job… So how do we navigate the messy world of office politics?Twenty years ago, the American psychologistTessa West began arriving early to the department store at which she worked, so she could avoid the salespeople she spent most of her time with. Really, she was hoping to escape just one colleague – someone with whom she disagreed about shop-floor etiquette. (Her: don’t steal clients. The co-worker: why not?) In the early mornings, West could be sure they wouldn’t run into each other, sav...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 30, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Alex Moshakis Tags: Work & careers Psychology Guardian Careers Health wellbeing Life and style Source Type: news
U.S. Researchers Test Pig-to-Human Transplant in Donated Body
Researchers on Thursday reported the latest in a surprising string of experiments in the quest to save human lives with organs from genetically modified pigs.
This time around, surgeons in Alabama transplanted a pig’s kidneys into a brain-dead man—a step-by-step rehearsal for an operation they hope to try in living patients possibly later this year.
“The organ shortage is in fact an unmitigated crisis and we’ve never had a real solution to it,” said Dr. Jayme Locke of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who led the newest study and aims to begin a clinical trial of pig kidney transplants....
Source: TIME: Health - January 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: LAURAN NEERGAARD / AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
The Covid-19 Pandemic Is Breaking The U.S. Healthcare System – But That’s Only A Symptom Of The Underlying Disease
Dr. Stephen Thomas, a practicing infectious diseases physician at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University, explains how the pandemic has made visible many of the underlying problems in America ’s healthcare system. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 19, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Stephen Thomas, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Editors' Pick editors-pick Coronavirus Source Type: news
