All posts by LadyLively

  • Urinary Implant Helps Alert When Patients ‘Gotta Go’

    It’s hard for some folks who suffer illness-related urinary incontinence to judge whether they’ll be able to hold it until they get home, or if they should rush to a bathroom now. There might soon be a...

    • Posted March 26, 2024
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  • Rural Americans Are Going Without Meds to Fight Opioid, Alcohol Addictions

    Less than 9% of rural Americans who abuse both opioids and alcohol are prescribed medications to treat both disorders, new research reveals. Naltrexone treats both opioid use disorder and alcohol use disorder. Other drugs such as buprenorphine,...

    • Posted March 26, 2024
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  • Total Solar Eclipse in 2017 Linked to Brief Rise in Traffic Accidents

    Ahead of a total solar eclipse arriving April 8, new research finds there was a temporary rise in U.S. traffic accidents around the time of a solar eclipse back in 2017. The area in the United States...

    • Posted March 25, 2024
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  • FDA May Ban Electroshock Devices Used on Some Psychiatric Patients

    Federal regulators are taking a second stab at banning the controversial use of electroshock devices to manage the behavior of patients with intellectual and developmental disorders. The devices deliver electric shocks to a patient’s skin, in an...

    • Posted March 25, 2024
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  • Eli Lilly Warns That 2 Insulin Products Will Be in Short Supply

    Drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co is announcing a temporary shortage of two of its insulin products. “The 10 mL vials of Humalog® and Insulin Lispro Injection are or will be temporarily out of stock at wholesalers...

    • Posted March 25, 2024
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  • Many Kids Worry About Missing School Due to Illness: Poll

    Most parents are torn about letting their middle or high school students take a sick day. “In some cases, the decision to keep kids home from school is clear, such as if the child is vomiting or...

    • Posted March 25, 2024
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  • Survey Finds Americans Conflicted About Plant-Based Diets

    Most folks know they’d be healthier if they ate more plant-based foods, but only a quarter are willing to follow through and do it, a new study shows. Surveys reveal that Americans’ beliefs about eating more plants...

    • Posted March 25, 2024
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  • Tally of Infant SIDS Deaths Shows Many Unsafe Sleep Practices

    Babies who die unexpectedly in their sleep often are subjected to many hazards that could have contributed to their deaths, a new study reports. Multiple unsafe sleep practices are at play in three-quarters (76%) of Sudden Unexpected...

    • Posted March 25, 2024
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  • Most New Doctors Have Faced Sexual Harassment, Study Shows

    The #MeToo movement has done little to blunt sexual harassment among health care professionals, a pair of new studies report. More than half of all new doctors are subjected to sexual harassment during their first year on...

    • Posted March 25, 2024
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  • Mouse Study Yields Clues to Why Psoriasis Worsens

    Australian researchers say they have identified a gene mutation that causes the skin disease psoriasis. A chronic inflammatory condition, psoriasis causes red, scaly, itchy patches on the skin. Some patients also develop psoriatic arthritis, a condition marked...

    • Posted March 25, 2024
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