For outdoor workers, extreme heat poses extreme danger
Working outdoors during periods of extreme heat can cause discomfort, heat stress, or heat illnesses — all growing concerns for people who live and work in Southwestern cities… read more.
Working outdoors during periods of extreme heat can cause discomfort, heat stress, or heat illnesses — all growing concerns for people who live and work in Southwestern cities… read more.
More than half of people diagnosed with one psychiatric disorder will be diagnosed with a second or third in their lifetime. About a third have four or more…. read more.
A new study suggests that antidepressant use by mothers during the first trimester of pregnancy does not increase the chances of epilepsy and seizures in babies. The research… read more.
When a person nearing the end of their life enters hospice care, their hospice agency’s doctors may prescribe a “comfort kit” of small amounts of medications that their… read more.
South Australian scientists have made a significant breakthrough in overcoming drug resistance in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a rare and devastating blood cancer that kills most patients within… read more.
While most of us were baking sourdough bread and watching “Tiger King” to stay sane during the pandemic shutdown, UC Riverside bioengineering professor William Grover kept busy counting… read more.
If you’ve ever struggled to breathe, you’ve had a moment of hypoxia — a lack of oxygen. Hypoxia can have long-term effects. In fact, doctors describe hypoxia as… read more.
Anyone who is taking a diuretic and a renin-angiotensin system (RSA) inhibitor for high blood pressure should be cautious about also taking ibuprofen, according to new research. Diuretics… read more.
New research being presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, Netherlands (4-7 May), suggests that adults (aged 18 or older) with severe obesity generate… read more.
Effective clinical care for patients with psychosis means understanding the ‘lived experience’ of their delusions, say researchers at the Universities of Birmingham, York and Melbourne. By understanding the… read more.
As the most serious type of skin cancer, a melanoma diagnosis carries emotional, financial and medical consequences. That’s why recent studies finding that there is an overdiagnosis of… read more.
In a questionnaire-based study published in Pharmacology Research & Perspectives that included 485 fully trained nurses of 107 home care services, nearly half of all nursing staff made at least… read more.
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