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TUESDAY, June 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- As the use of e-scooters has risen with the introduction of urban rideshare programs, so have serious injuries associated with their use, a new study finds. Neck and head injuries are especially common."Since e-scooters became a popular form of transportation in major cities, the number of injuries jumped significantly because they've become more available to more people," said study co-author Dr. Kathleen Yaremchuk. She's chair of otolaryngology – head and neck surgery with the Henry Ford Health System, in Detroit.App-based e-scooter rideshare systems began appearing in cities across the United States in late 2017. The scooters can travel up to 35 miles an hour and they're cheap to rent and use. But injuries have increased as more people...

MONDAY, June 21, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- A possible link between some COVID-19 vaccines and heart inflammation bears close monitoring, but it's no reason for parents or their teenage children to avoid vaccination.That's what researchers are saying after several reports of the inflammation in teens and adults who had been vaccinated recently.Such cases appear to be rare, said Dr. James de Lemos, a professor of medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. "They don't change the overall dynamic," he said, and people should get vaccinated.As of June 14, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration had confirmed 323 cases of myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle, or pericarditis, inflammation of the sac that surrounds...

MONDAY, June 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Older adults who use certain blood pressure drugs may retain more of their memory skills as they age, a new study suggests.Researchers found the benefit among older people taking medications that are allowed past the "blood-brain barrier," which is a border of specialized cells that prevents toxic substances from crossing into the brain.Those drugs include certain ACE inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) -- two major classes of blood pressure medication.Among nearly 12,900 study patients, those taking the brain-penetrating medications showed less memory loss over three years, versus people on blood pressure drugs that cannot cross the blood-brain barrier.The findings add another layer to the connection between blood pressure...

MONDAY, June 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Whether to share your bed with your infant at night has been the subject of heated debate: The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advises against it, recommending room-sharing but not bed-sharing, while others promote the practice as part of an idea called attachment parenting. Now, a new study finds bed-sharing did nothing to boost mother-infant bonding."I wanted to study this issue because this is one of the most controversial topics in infant sleep research," said Ayten Bilgin, a lecturer in development psychology at the University of Kent, in England. "Our main finding is that parental bed-sharing during the first six months does not affect secure attachments of the baby and the mother, and also mother's bonding with the baby," Bilgin...