Why You Should Rest —a Lot—If You Have COVID-19
Until recently, running was a major part of Emma Zimmerman’s life. The 26-year-old freelance journalist and graduate student was a competitive distance runner in college and, even after she graduated, logged about 50 miles per week. So she tentatively tried to return to her running routine roughly a week after a probable case of COVID-19 in March, doing her best to overcome the malaise that followed her initial allergy-like symptoms. Each time, though, “I’d be stuck in bed for days with a severe level of crippling fatigue,” Zimmerman says.
Months later, Zimmerman still experiences health issues incl...
Source: TIME: Health - September 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
This biologist discovered that lizards and other organisms can influence their own evolution
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On a hot day in July, evolutionary biologist Martha Muñoz is leading four undergraduate students on a scouting expedition in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. As they hike up a steep trail, Muñoz turns over rocks and pokes leaf litter to assess where they might find salamanders when they return that night. She quizzes the students about how the weather might affect their chances, then demonstrates how the crunch of leaves underfoot is an easy way to assess an area’s dryness. Too much crunch means the sala...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 22, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Genes for seeds arose early in plant evolution, ferns reveal
The emergence of seed-producing plants more than 300 million years ago was an evolutionary watershed, opening new environments to plants and ultimately leading to the flowering plants that brighten our world and supply much of our food. But it was less of a leap than it seems, newly published DNA sequences suggest.
The genomes, from three fern species and a cycad, one of the oldest kinds of seed-bearing plants, show genes key to making seeds are the same as those in the spore-producing machinery of ferns, which emerged tens of millions of years earlier. They evidently existed in a common ancestor but were recruited i...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 22, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
ARPA-H: High-risk, high-reward health research is the mandate of new, billion-dollar US agency
If ARPA-H wants to achieve the success of its predecessor, it will need to operate differently from NIH and NSF, writes Tong Sun, assistant dean of translational health sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - September 19, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Tong Sun Source Type: news
Concussion Aftermath Could Drag Down Teens' Grades
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14, 2022 -- Efforts to prevent concussions from happening at school or school-related sports activities may help keep teens from lagging behind on their academics.
In a new study, researchers at the University of Washington found... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - September 14, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
UCLA leads CDC-funded study on effectiveness of vaccines, boosters in ‘next phase’ of COVID
Key takeaways:A 2021 –22 study by the same researchers showed that vaccines were highly effective at preventing symptomatic infection among health care workers.The COVID-19 landscape has now changed, with more breakthrough infections, the emergence of new variants and the availability of variant-specific boosters.The current study, which will stretch into 2023, will offer insight on how to best protect health workers — and the public — in this new phase of the pandemic.The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA has been awarded a $13.6 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Preve...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - September 13, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Why You ’ re Grinding Your Teeth —And How to Stop
One morning around week six of the COVID-19 lockdown, I woke up to discover I’d gnashed a molar-sized crack down the back of my night guard, the device I wear to protect my teeth from the grinding I do in my sleep. I’d worn the acrylic barrier every night for years with minimal erosion, but suddenly I’d gnawed right through it. Like many Americans who have spent the last few years wondering where the stress and fear building up in their bodies could possibly go, the answer turned out to be my mouth.
Since 2020, dentists and other oral health professionals around the world have recorded a sharp uptick in t...
Source: TIME: Health - September 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Haley Weiss Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 freelance healthscienceclimate Mental Health Sleep Source Type: news
Want to Transform a Population's Health?
By Richard Stanley,
Senior Product Manager, Digital HealthSeptember 09, 2022To transform a population ' s health—including reducing costs and improving equity and outcomes—countries need actionable data. This means combining diverse data sources into coherent analytical tools. A common pain point for many of the governments and organizations we partner with at IntraHealth International is managing the ever-changing metadata about facilities, workforce status, the care provided, and supply chains. As the number of data sources grows, so does the complexity and burden for data managers, scientists, case officer...
Source: IntraHealth International - September 6, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Digital Health Health Workers Source Type: news
Are space scientists ready for Starship —the biggest rocket ever?
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NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission was brutish and short. It began on 9 October 2009, when the hull of a spent Centaur rocket stage smashed into Cabeus crater, near the south pole of the Moon, with the force of about 2 tons of TNT. And it ended minutes later, when a trailing spacecraft flew through and analyzed the lofted plume of debris before it, too, crashed. About 6% of the plume was water, presumably from ice trapped in the shadowed depths of the crater, where the temperature neve...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 11, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Treating cancer by sticking cells in place
Future treatments for advanced cancer could work by sticking cancer cells in place and preventing their spread around the body. A new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, and the University of Washington shows how an antibody strengthens bonds between cells. The work is published Aug. 3 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - August 5, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Doctors with Disabilities Push for Change as Long COVID Affects Their Workforce
As the third year of the pandemic continues, doctors with disabilities are pushing the medical field to improve its treatment of disabled health professionals. An increasing number of people have Long Covid and need accommodations at work, and in the health care workforce, their ability to stay in their profession will be critical to helping patients also suffering from the little-understood condition.
One in five American adults who has been infected with COVID-19 has some lingering symptoms that can be considered Long COVID, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found this spring. While symptoms vary widely, Lon...
Source: TIME: Health - July 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abigail Abrams Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature uspoliticspolicy Source Type: news
HIMSSCast: What does the future of AI in healthcare look like?
With Google, Meta and others pushing the envelope in artificial intelligence research, Chirag Shah, professor at the iSchool at the University of Washington, talks about some practical and ethical considerations. (Source: mobihealthnews)
Source: mobihealthnews - July 18, 2022 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Citizen science project analyzes data to model treetop snowpack and predict melt
Participants in a citizen science project, created by University of Washington researchers and funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation, viewed time-lapse images from Colorado and Washington and tagged photos that had trees with snow on … (Source: NSF News)
Source: NSF News - July 7, 2022 Category: Science Authors: NSF Source Type: news
FDA Authorizes First COVID-19 Vaccines for Infants and Preschoolers
U.S. regulators on Friday authorized the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers, paving the way for vaccinations to begin next week.
The Food and Drug Administration’s action follows its advisory panel’s unanimous recommendation for the shots from Moderna and Pfizer. That means U.S. kids under 5—roughly 18 million youngsters—are eligible for the shots, about 1 1/2 years after the vaccines first became available in the U.S. for adults, who have been hit the hardest during the pandemic.
The FDA also authorized Moderna’s vaccine for school-aged children and teens. Pfizer’s shots ...
Source: TIME: Health - June 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lindsey Tanner / AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Human-like programs abuse our empathy – even Google engineers aren’t immune | Emily M Bender
It ’s easy to be fooled by the mimicry, but consumers need transparency about how such systems are usedThe Google engineer Blake Lemoine wasn ’t speaking for the company officially when he claimed that Google’s chatbotLaMDA was sentient, but Lemoine ’s misconception shows the risks of designing systems in ways that convince humans they see real, independent intelligence in a program. If we believe that text-generating machines are sentient, what actions might we take based on the text they generate? It led Lemoine to leak secret transcripts f rom the program, resulting in his current suspension from the organisatio...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 14, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Emily M Bender Tags: Artificial intelligence (AI) Computing Consciousness Neuroscience Technology Google Alphabet Source Type: news
