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Thursday, 28 March 2024

Is a mobile app as good as seeing a therapist?

For the past two months, your mood has been low, you’ve lost your appetite, and you can’t sleep well. Your family is concerned because you are no longer interested in cooking or reading, activities you had previously enjoyed. The stress of the pandemic has changed your routine, and you struggle…

Study offers new model for coordinating pandemic policies

In a public health crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic, imposing lockdowns across entire states or regions and enacting other sweeping policy measures aren’t practical because individual communities may be at different stages of an outbreak. Instead, a “place-based approach,” in which policies are customized and coordinated across interconnected regions…

Sickle cell advocate petitions for standardized care

When Atlanta resident Blaze Eppinger has a sickle cell pain crisis bad enough to need emergency room care, he sometimes has to wait hours for treatment. That’s despite 2014 guidelines from the National Institutes of Health that state medical personnel should “rapidly initiate analgesic therapy within 30 minutes of triage…

To Help Process the Pandemic, One Doctor Turns to Art

For Justin Fiala, MD, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, a paintbrush and canvas have been a saving grace throughout the pandemic. As one of the countless doctors on the front lines of the ICU, Fiala has witnessed horrors that can be incredibly difficult to…

Colchicine holds promise to reduce the risk of severe COVID-19

Colchicine is one of the oldest medicines with potent anti-inflammatory functions, widely used to treat rheumatic diseases such as gout, calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease (CPDD), and familial Mediterranean fever (FMF). The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is continuing to pose…

‘Encouraging’ New National Data on Chronic Pain Management

Most adults in the US who have chronic pain favor a combination of non-drug and non-opioid approaches to control their pain, which is “encouraging,” new research shows. A national survey reveals 55% of adults with chronic pain used pain management techniques that did not involve any opioids at all during…

Why you keep grinding your teeth at night – and how to stop

Ever experienced a sore jaw or a tension headache when getting out of bed in the morning? Or maybe you’ve noticed your mouth is clenched throughout the day? You could be suffering from bruxism, a condition where people clench their teeth for periods of time during the day or grind…