Research shows LGBTQI+ health-related content in medical school has increased
Credit: cottonbro studio from Pexels Reducing barriers to comprehensive and affirming health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) populations requires physicians to receive LGBTQI+ health content…
Study identifies APOE4 homozygotes as high-risk group for Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers from the Research Area on Neurological Diseases, Neuroscience, and Mental Health at the Sant Pau Research Institute, led by Dr. Juan Fortea, Director of the Memory Unit of the…
How I Talk About It to Others
By Bianca Palmisano, as told to Hope CristolI talk a lot about what it means for me to be disabled, both with my friends and in the workplace. So talking…
Clinicians Often Use Stigmatizing Language for OUD Patients
About 85% of patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) are described in clinical notes as being abusers, addicts, junkies, or with other stigmatizing terms, preliminary results of a new study…
FTC Seeks More Information on the $16.5B Novo-Catalent Deal, Leading to Another Delay
Novo Holdings’ planned acquisition of Catalent is facing another delay. Just weeks after Novo Holdings decided to resubmit its application to the Federal Trade Commission, the agency is seeking more…
Identifying wellness challenges can improve training environment for future doctors
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Data highlight need to control cow outbreak to halt bird flu spread
A new study looking at the distribution of receptors that flu viruses can attach to in different cow tissues may help to explain the pattern of illness being seen in…
Repurposed cancer drug could treat diabetes by nudging pancreatic acinar cells to produce insulin
Acinar-derived insulin-producing (ADIP) cells infiltrate pre-existing endocrine islets. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47972-4 In 2016, University of Pittsburgh researchers Dr. Farzad Esni, Ph.D., and Jing Hu, Ph.D., did an…
Sedentary behavior and low activity levels in childhood linked to heart strain in adolescence
According to a recent Finnish study, conducted at the University of Jyväskylä, high levels of sedentary behavior and physical inactivity from childhood strain the heart in adolescence. High cardiac workload…
Major Depressive Disorder: Dealing With the Stigma
By Sonja Wasden, as told to Kara Mayer RobinsonI’m a mental health advocate living with major depression.I speak with Fortune 500 companies, women’s prisons, firefighters, police officers, drug rehabilitation centers, nonprofit…