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Yi “Edwin” Sun, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and member of the Beckman Institute’s Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory headed by Stephen Boppart, explored how deep learning methods can make polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography, or PS-OCT, more cost-effective and better equipped to diagnose cancer in biological tissues. The […]
Health experts and medical groups are pushing to stamp out the growing use of a decades-old parasite drug to treat COVID-19, warning that it can cause harmful side effects and that there’s little evidence it helps. With a fourth wave of infections, more Americans are turning to ivermectin, a cheap drug used to kill worms […]
Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), in collaboration with Global TIES for Children and researchers at University of California Davis (Paul Hastings and Lindsey Partington) as well as Hashemite University in Jordan (Rana Dajani), have used a hair cortisol test to detect the impact of COVID-19 on stress levels in families. Titled “Adrenocortical and psychosocial […]
Bjoern Wylezich/Shutterstock By Elizabeth S. Mitchell/Aug. 24, 2021 7:26 pm EDT The throat chakra, also called the Vishuddha Chakra, is associated with the communication center of a person, both physically and emotionally/spiritually (via Arthanta Yoga). Physically, this energy center is located at the base of the throat, where your larynx is. It represents and is said to […]
When researchers at FIU’s Center for Children and Families conducted a study to look at the impact of COVID-19 on mental health and substance use among teens, they expected substance use would increase. However, they found that vaping and substance use were down—but they predict not for long. “Given the unanticipated, sudden and sustained disruption […]
Heart failure hospitalizations and costs related to methamphetamine use jumped sharply over a decade in California, according to new research published today in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal. “Our study results should bring urgent attention to this insidious yet rapidly growing form of severe heart failure—methamphetamine-related heart failure, which is […]
As an Olympic triathlete in 2000, Joanna Zeiger, SPH ’01 (Ph.D.), would never have envisioned a future researching cannabis, which until recently was on the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s banned list. But that was before Zeiger’s devastating career-ending bike crash at the 2009 Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Clearwater, Florida—and her subsequent chronic pain. Zeiger suffered […]
Canada’s most populous province is resuming use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, but only as a second dose for those who’d received it initially, officials said Friday. Ontario and several other provinces stopped giving out first doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca earlier this month on concerns over reported links to rare blood clots, which previously led some […]
For patients undergoing spinal surgery, the diagnosis of cannabis use disorder is associated with higher complication rates, including substantially increased risks of stroke and respiratory complications, reports a study in Spine. “Chronic cannabis use among patients undergoing spine surgery is associated with higher rates of inpatient neurovascular, thromboembolic, and pulmonary complications, and less favorable overall […]
A new Veterans Affairs study finds that combat experience is associated with a higher risk of alcohol use to cope with PTSD symptoms. But the connection is weaker when accounting for the severity of the PTSD. The findings appeared online in the Journal of Dual Diagnosis in March 2021. In an observational study of more […]