There’s nothing like a good extraction video from dermatologist Sandra Lee, MD, a.k.a. Dr. Pimple Popper, to start the week. In her latest Instagram video that she posted Monday afternoon, she removed a golf ball-sized epidermoid cyst from a male patient’s upper back. The video starts with the cyst already…
CDC Says More Than 300 Health Care Workers Have Died of Coronavirus, But Number Is Likely Higher
The novel coronavirus has had a devastating impact on the United States, including on the nation’s health care workers. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which was updated on Sunday, shows that 66,447 health care workers have been sickened by COVID-19, and that 318 have died….
Here’s how to get rid of a sore throat fast
We all know the yucky feeling of waking up with an itchy, raw throat. One of the most common causes is post-nasal drip from seasonal allergies, which affect nearly 80 million Americans each year, according to the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. It also might be the result of…
Pod-based e-cigarettes may foster greater nicotine dependence than other devices
JUUL and similar pod-based e-cigarettes have been popular with teenagers and young adults since they came on the market in 2015, but little has been known about their health effects. A new systematic review led by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that while the products…
Obesity a major risk factor for COVID-19 hospitalization
As patients with confirmed cases of COVID-19 first began arriving at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in March, cardiologist David Kass heard surprising observations from his colleagues in the ICU. First, the patients were younger than expected, in light of reports from China and Italy that the virus mostly endangered…
Speed, compliance and monitoring crucial to test and trace programs
Test, trace and isolate programs could help control the spread of COVID-19 if test results are delivered quickly, contacts are traced and public compliance is high, finds a report co-authored by UCL’s Professor Dame Anne Johnson. The findings were released today by the Data Evaluation and Learning for Viral Epidemics…
Nexplanon, a three-year birth control implant, is now approved for use in Canada
Already available in over 100 countries, Nexplanon is now finally approved for use in Canada. Nexplanon is a contraceptive implant: a small rod, inserted into the upper arm through a tiny incision, that prevents pregnancy for up to three years. It works by releasing a very low continuous dose of…
India’s cautious states open up even as virus cases rise
More states opened up and crowds of commuters trickled onto the roads in many of India’s cities on Monday as a three-phase plan to lift the nationwide coronavirus lockdown started despite an upward trend in new infections. Businesses and shops reopened in many states and the railways announced 200 more…
Iran says virus cases surpass 150,000
Iran said its caseload of novel coronavirus infections passed the grim milestone of 150,000 on Sunday, as the country struggles to contain a recent upward trend. The government has largely lifted the restrictions it imposed in order to halt a COVID-19 outbreak that first emerged in mid-February. But the health…
Corona-pandemic-consequences: More Cardiac arrests during the Lockdown Naturopathy naturopathy specialist portal
More sudden Cardiac arrests during COVID-19-pandemic The Occurrence of sudden heart is still increased levels during the Coronavirus pandemic dramatically, reports in the Italian and French cardiologists. In Paris the number of cases have doubled in comparison to previous years, even. Researchers from the Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou in Paris…