Holiday gift-giving can be magical, especially when you’re giving a beloved child that perfect present. But it can also be hazardous. In 2021, emergency rooms in the U.S. treated more than 152,000 children younger than 15 for toy-related injuries, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). To help protect the children in your life, be …
By Stefani Shea-Akers, as told to Keri Wiginton In 2013, when I was an English professor at a community college, teaching became difficult. I struggled to speak during class. I had some general weakness and trouble breathing. I had to drive between classes because I could no longer walk between them. I told a nurse …
By Anita Chatigny, PhD, as told to Hallie Levine If you have a diagnosis of myasthenia gravis (MG), studies show that you have a higher risk of developing depression. This isn’t surprising. MG is a disease that causes symptoms such as muscle weakness, eyelid droop, and difficulty swallowing and breathing. All of these changes affect …
Quizzes > Weekly News Quiz — You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our year-end quiz by MedPage Today Staff December 23, 2022 The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily throughout the year …
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“Is this an underestimate of the harm?” — Martin J. Landray, PhD, of the University of Oxford in England, on preprint data from the RECOVERY trial showing higher corticosteroid doses raised the risk of death in non-ventilated COVID-19 patients with hypoxia. “I was talking to some other doctors about it online, and there was a …
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Welcome to this week’s edition of Healthcare Career Insights. This weekly roundup highlights healthcare career-related articles culled from across the web to help you learn what’s next. Telehealth key in mitigating staffing issues – A staffing expert shows how telehealth is stepping in to fill the staffing shortage (Healthcare IT News) Grow your income by …
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Evidence shows it is the emotional, rather than the medical, complications of pregnancy that are most impactful on the long-term well-being of the parent and child. These emotional complications, known as perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs), may occur during pregnancy until the first few years after giving birth. PMADs include the most widely known …
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Physician suicide rates are unacceptably high at baseline and go even higher during the holidays. However, the holiday increase in suicide rates is not unique to physicians. According to a 2021 survey, three in five Americans feel their mental health is negatively impacted by the holidays. Suicide is a problem that goes beyond the U.S. …
Yellow Dog Productions//Getty Images We’ve all heard it before: All adults should get seven to nine hours of sleep per night. But really, six hours of sleep is just short of seven so really, how bad is that? According to Peter Polos, M.D., an associate professor of sleep medicine at Hackensack JFK Medical Center in New …
katleho Seisa//Getty Images If walking is so good for you, then why does it make your fingers swollen sometimes? And what about after a nice, large meal? According to Rami Hashish, Ph.D., DPT, a body performance and injury expert and an adjunct clinical faculty member at the University of Southern California’s division of biokinesiology and …