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Newswise — OWATONNA, Minnesota — Tonturas, dores de cabeça, confusão, fadiga, visão embaçada e sensibilidade à luz estão entre os sintomas mais comuns de uma concussão. Uma vez que esses sintomas diminuem e os pacientes começam a retomar suas atividades habituais, eles também podem experimentar efeitos subjacentes frequentemente negligenciados da concussão —zumbido persistente nos ouvidos, sensibilidade…
Newswise — Have you ever seen a label accompanying a product that says it contains chemicals “known to the State of California” that could cause harm? That’s thanks to a law nicknamed Proposition 65, which gives Californians the right to know whether they might be exposed to certain chemicals. Researchers publishing in ACS’ Environmental Science…
[Authors] Wendland, M; Simmer-Beck, M; Scott, J; Godwin, S; Hussain, A; Thompkins, A Newswise — Purpose Oral health care professionals (OHCPs) have the potential to play critical roles in emergency response to public health disasters, both natural and manmade. The purpose of this study was to assess the beliefs, and associated factors, of OHCPs regarding their role…
Newswise — Hip fractures in older adults can lead to serious complications, disability and even death. Traditionally, orthopaedic surgeons have repaired a common fracture of the upper part of the thigh bone, or femur, near the hip using screws and plates to piece together slightly separated pieces of bone. But many surgeons now treat these…
Newswise — Université de Montréal medical professors Nicolas Chomont and Andrés Finzi have secured $5.75 million over five years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to try to develop a treatment capable of permanently eliminating HIV from the body. The projects led by Chomont and Finzi, both professors in the Department of Microbiology, Infectiology,…
Newswise — Many mental health care clinicians don’t ask all of their patients whether they have access to firearms, an important step in firearm injury prevention, according to Rutgers Health researchers. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, examined a report by mental health care clinicians on firearm access screening, barriers to screening and providers’…
Newswise — MIAMI, FLORIDA (Jan. 15, 2025) – The U.S. Surgeon General has recommended that alcoholic beverages carry cancer risk warning labels, citing a growing body of research that shows alcohol as a group 1 carcinogen. But more than half of U.S. residents don’t know that alcohol consumption increases their risk of developing cancer, or…
Newswise — Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine have mapped a critical component of the Nipah virus, a highly lethal bat-borne pathogen that has caused outbreaks in humans almost every year since it was identified in 1999. The advance, described Jan. 20 in Cell, brings scientists a…
Newswise — EAST LANSING, Mich. – Kimberly Dodd is the dean of the Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine, and the former director of the Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, or MSU VDL. Dodd is an expert in laboratory diagnostics and outbreak response for emerging infectious diseases. The MSU VDL is a member of the National Animal…
BYLINE: Ananya Sen Newswise — About 1 in 3 adults in the United States have prediabetes, a condition where blood glucose levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. Affecting 98 million adults, prediabetes can increase the risk of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes. While it can…
