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2021

Most Dermatology Patients Like 'Telehealth' Visits: Survey

Most Dermatology Patients Like `Telehealth` Visits: SurveyWEDNESDAY, Feb.3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A majority of dermatology patients are happy with telehealth appointments in place of in-person office visits, a new study finds.The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many medical specialties to move from in-person to online appointments, but dermatology had already seen increased use of telehealth visits over the last decade, according to the George Washington (GW) University researchers. "Teledermatology boasts a number of benefits, including increased access to care, cost savings for patients, convenience, and, with the current pandemic, avoids physical contact," study co-author Samuel Yeroushalmi said in a university news release. He's a third-year medical student at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C. However,...

How Your Neighborhood Can Hamper Your Teen's Sleep

3 February 2021
How Your Neighborhood Can Hamper Your Teen`s SleepWEDNESDAY, Feb. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Living in a noisy neighborhood with less green space negatively affects teens' sleep, which may lead to poorer memory and thinking skills, according to a pair of studies.In a study on residential environment, researchers found that as noise levels steadily increased, so too did the time needed for teens to fall asleep. They also didn't sleep as long as kids in quieter, greener neighborhoods. But as the average number of trees rose, teens dozed off sooner and slept longer."For adolescents, the harms of insufficient sleep are wide-ranging and include impaired cognition [thinking skills] and engagement in antisocial behavior," said study author Stephanie Mayne. She's assistant professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and...

Could Working Outside Help Prevent Breast Cancer?

2 February 2021
Could Working Outside Help Prevent Breast Cancer?TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The great outdoors can soothe the soul, but new research suggests that working outside might also guard against breast cancer.The study wasn't designed to say how working outside affects chances of developing breast cancer, but vitamin D exposure may be the driving force, the researchers suggested. "The main hypothesis is that sun exposure through vitamin D production may decrease the risk of breast cancer after age 50," said study author Julie Elbaek Pedersen, of the Danish Cancer Society Research Center in Copenhagen. Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to a host of diseases and conditions including breast cancer.Vitamin D is often called the "sunshine vitamin" because your body produces it when exposed to the sun's ultraviolet B rays. The...

Advances in Treatments Against Severe COVID-19 May Have...

2 February 2021
Advances in Treatments Against Severe COVID-19 May Have StalledTUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The death rate among COVID-19 patients in intensive care has fallen since the start of the pandemic, largely because of better treatments. But a new study review suggests that those advances in care may have plateaued.The new analysis looked at data from 52 studies in North America, Europe, China and elsewhere, conducted up to October 2020 and including more than 43,000 patients.There was good news: The researchers found that the death rate for COVID-19 patients admitted to ICUs had fallen by 36% compared to death rates seen in a prior study released in July. Already, in that earlier analysis, deaths among COVID-19 patients treated in ICUs had fallen from almost 60% at the end of March to 42% at the end of May -- a decrease of about...

Why Do Black Children Get Fewer Scans When They're Seen in ERs?

2 February 2021
Why Do Black Children Get Fewer Scans When They`re Seen in ERs?TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Black and Hispanic children who land in the emergency room are less likely than white kids to receive X-rays, CT scans and other imaging tests, a new study finds.Looking at more than 13 million ER visits to U.S. children's hospitals, researchers found that white children underwent imaging tests one-third of the time.That was true for only 26% of visits made by Hispanic children, and 24% of those by Black children.The disparities were seen across all types of imaging, including standard X-rays, ultrasound, and CT and MRI scans. Those exams can be key in diagnosing an array of conditions, from broken bones to appendicitis to head injuries.The reasons for the racial differences are unclear, said lead researcher Dr. Jennifer Marin of the University...

Concussions More Likely in Practice Than Play for College Football Players

2 February 2021
Concussions More Likely in Practice Than Play for College Football PlayersTUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- College football players suffer more concussions and head hits in practice than they do actually playing the game, a new study suggests.Across five seasons of football, 72% of concussions and 67% of head impacts incurred by players on six National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams happened during practice rather than on game day, researchers found.The incidence of concussion and head impacts also were disproportionately higher in the preseason than the regular season, said lead researcher Michael McCrea, director of the Brain Injury Research Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee."Our data suggest modifying preseason training activities and football practice throughout the season could lead to a...

Too Many U.S. Doctors Biased Against Patients With Disabilities: Study

2 February 2021
Too Many U.S. Doctors Biased Against Patients With Disabilities: StudyTUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Dr. Lisa Iezzoni is all too familiar with the discrimination that patients who have a disability can face: Having lived with multiple sclerosis for more than four decades and now in a wheelchair, she has also studied health care experiences and outcomes for people with disabilities for more than 20 years.But her new survey on doctors' attitudes towards disabled patients still surprised her -- not for the attitudes the survey uncovered, but how widespread those attitudes were."I did expect that there would be a lot of physicians who viewed quality of life of people with disabilities worse than that of other people," said Iezzoni, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston. "I just didn't expect it to be over 80%. That's most...

Poll Finds Americans Highly Stressed by Politics, Pandemic

2 February 2021
Poll Finds Americans Highly Stressed by Politics, PandemicTUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Stress levels are on the rise as Americans grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and bitter political divisions, a new American Psychological Association (APA) survey shows.On a 10-point scale where 1 means little to no stress and 10 means a great amount, adults' average stress level clocked in at 5.6, according to the Stress in America: January 2021 Stress Snapshot.That's higher than levels reported in APA surveys since April.Eighty-four percent of respondents in the latest survey reported feeling at least one emotion associated with prolonged stress in the prior two weeks. The most common were anxiety (47%), sadness (44%) and anger (39%).And two-thirds said they feel overwhelmed by the number of issues facing the nation.Significant sources of...

AHA News: The Night Before a Big Presentation,...

TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- About every other month for nearly a year, Cherée Johnson would wake up in the middle of the night with a sharp pain in her chest....

Researchers Use Computers and 'Exoskeletons' to Help...

TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Stroke survivor Ken Allsford focused intensely on how he wanted to bend his elbow.And then the robot exoskeleton attached to his left arm obeyed his...
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