Category: 4. Health

Should you get this on your chest as opposed to off it? You may have seen people wearing what are called “weighted vests” while walking on hiking trails, treadmills or TikTok for that matter. These weighted vests kind of look like space-age versions of sweater vests but instead of ridicule they hold weights. The argument is that wearing such a vest can help…

Epic Systems is launching several new artificial intelligence tools for medical care providers and patients…

• Microbes, or microorganisms, are all around us and play an important role in bodily functions. MSU researchers found that microbes can also impact brain development.
• This work is significant because modern obstetric practices like peripartum antibiotic use and Cesarean delivery disturb the microbiome of mothers and newborns.

New research from Michigan State University finds that microbes play an important role in shaping early brain development, specifically in a key brain region that…

Therapy has a supply problem. Depending on the dataset you pick, roughly half of U.S. adults with a mental illness don’t receive treatment — a gap driven by cost, coverage and capacity. That unmet demand and with hopes of scalability is why AI therapists look irresistible to venture capital firms and patients alike — until…

Published recently in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the University of Florida study showed that like a one-two punch, pairing the test vaccine with common anticancer drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors triggered a strong antitumor response.

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In the study, sensitivity was defined as a personality trait that reflects people’s capacity to perceive and…

Blood vessels gradually become stiffer with age, but the new study suggests that Covid could accelerate this process. Researchers say this is important since people with stiffer blood vessels face a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke and heart attack.

The study was led by Professor Rosa Maria Bruno…

Ketamine is an anaesthetic commonly used for procedural sedation and short-term pain relief. Ketamine is also frequently prescribed off-label to manage chronic pain conditions such as nerve pain, fibromyalgia and complex regional pain syndrome. It is one of several NMDA receptor antagonists — a group of drugs thought to reduce pain by blocking certain brain receptors…

The Texas Department of State Health Services announced on Monday that the measles outbreak in the western part of the state has ended. But officials also noted that the threat of new cases remains. And they reiterated that vaccination is the most effective means of…