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
COVID-19: Ethics and the Unvaccinated COVID-19: Ethics and the Unvaccinated
WebMD ' s Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, Director, Division of Medical Ethics, New York University, about the ethical issues around criticizing and triaging the unvaccinated in hospitals.WebMD (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - January 14, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases Expert Interview Source Type: news
We Need to Start Thinking Differently About Breakthrough Infections
For most of 2020, avoiding the novel coronavirus was at the heart of almost every piece of public-health advice. Then, vaccinations largely gave Americans their lives back. Breakthrough infections were remarkably rare in the early months of mass vaccination. Only about 10,000 people—or 0.01% of the 101 million U.S. adults who had been fully vaccinated—reported one by the end of April 2021, illustrating that post-vaccine infections were possible, but unlikely.
That changed when the more contagious Delta variant began spreading over the summer and sickening more people who’d had their shots. Now—thoug...
Source: TIME: Health - December 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Jim Malatras, SUNY Chancellor, to Resign After Disparaging Cuomo Victim
Jim Malatras, the chancellor of the State University of New York, said he would resign after text messages showed he had belittled a woman who later accused Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment. #textmessages #sunychancellor #jimmalatras #andrewcuomo #cuomovictimjimmalatras (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 9, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why Prescription Opioids Aren ’t Only a Problem for White Americans
Media and pop culture often portray prescription opioid addiction in the U.S. as a scourge of white communities. But recent data suggest a changing reality. While white Americans were more likely than Black Americans to die from overdoses in 2019, the rate of opioid overdose deaths rose 38% among Black Americans from 2018 to 2019, according to a recent study of hard-hit communities in four states published in the American Journal of Public Health. There was no change in the number of overdoses among other racial groups in the states assessed.
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The demographic gaps are closing whe...
Source: TIME: Health - December 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tara Law Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Eating breakfast before 7am could help you live longer because eating late disrupts 'food clock'
Researchers from City University of New York tracked more than 34,000 Americans aged over 40 for several decades and matched eating times with death rates. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 26, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How to Celebrate Holidays Safely in 2021 Amid COVID-19
Last year, the predominant public health advice before Thanksgiving and other holiday gatherings was simple: don’t go, but if you must, be really, really careful. This year, now that all American adults, along with children over age 5, are eligible to receive at least one of an arsenal of highly effective vaccines, many infectious disease experts cautiously acknowledge that the risks of gathering are generally lower.
Still, you would be hard-pressed to find a COVID-19 expert willing to declare Thanksgiving 2021 fully “safe.” The reality, they say, is that there is going to be some amount of risk of spread...
Source: TIME: Health - November 18, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tara Law Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
VR experiment with rats offers new insights about how neurons enable learning
Scientists have long understood that the region of the brain called the hippocampus is important for memory, learning and navigation.Now, scientists in a UCLA lab led by neurophysicist Mayank Mehta are gaining a deeper understanding of how the hippocampus works on a circuit level — that is, functions involving networks of millions of neurons. That knowledge could be an important step toward the development of treatments for neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and epilepsy, all of which are related to dysfunction in the hippocampus.In their latest study, published in the journal Nature, the...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - October 21, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Pig-to-human transplants come a step closer with kidney experiment
Scientists at New York University temporarily attached a pig's kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - October 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Science Source Type: news
In a First, Surgeons Attached a Pig Kidney to a Human
A kidney grown in a genetically altered pig functions normally, scientists reported. The procedure may open the door to a renewable source of desperately needed organs. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - October 20, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-science Kidneys Transplants Pigs Genetic Engineering Surgery and Surgeons Organ Donation New York University Langone Health Research Source Type: news
In a First, Surgeons Attached a Pig Kidney to a Human — and It Worked
A kidney grown in a genetically altered pig seemed to function normally, potentially a new source for desperately needed transplant organs. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - October 20, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-science Kidneys Transplants Pigs Genetic Engineering Surgery and Surgeons Organ Donation New York University Langone Health Research Source Type: news
Medicine Grand Rounds October 15
Please mark your calendars for Friday, October 15th at 8:00 AM which will be the next in our Biomedical Grand Rounds series. The presenter is Kathryn J. Moore, PhD, the Jean and David Blechman Professor of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at New York University School of Medicine. (Source: News at Dartmouth Medical School)
Source: News at Dartmouth Medical School - October 5, 2021 Category: Hospital Management Authors: NonPerson Geisel Web Service Acct Tags: Announcements Events News grand rounds Source Type: news
