Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was invigorating and inspiring, because that oh-too predictable routine of online meetings, phone calls, and deadlines has returned. But what can you do? The world, such as it is, continues to spin. So to give it a nudge in a better…
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 during undergraduate medical education (UME). With more than 7% of the U.S. adult population, 4% of the Canadian adult population and 20% of persons in…
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 Neurology Service at the same hospital, have found that over 95% of individuals over 65 years old who have two copies of the APOE4 gene…
By Bianca Palmisano, as told to Hope Cristol I talk a lot about what it means for me to be disabled, both with my friends and in the workplace. So talking about depression is quite common. I do have a physical disability: a hypermobility spectrum disorder. It means some of my joints bend way past…
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 suggest. Female healthcare providers and social workers used stigmatizing language at a relatively high rate, investigators found. The researcher also showed that demeaning language was…
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 information about the deal. The transaction was originally expected to close by the end of this year, but this timeline may not be as solid…
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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 the outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. dairy cattle — and also is sparking debate about the implications of the cow outbreak for human…
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 experiment in mice where they deleted one of two copies of the gene encoding an enzyme called focal adhesion kinase (FAK). They were interested in…
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 predicts heart failure and other heart diseases. In light of the findings, increasing moderate and vigorous physical activity from childhood onwards is particularly important in…
