It’s pretty likely you’ve heard of burnout—and you may have even experienced it. Caused by chronic work stress, it’s characterized by signs such as emotional exhaustion, lack of energy, and loss of satisfaction with work—and has been linked to a wide range of physical conditions such as cardiovascular diseases and musculoskeletal pain.
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Organ transplantation is one of the success stories of modern medicine. Around 139,000 transplants are performed annually across the world. One of the most recent success stories is a double-lung transplant for a patient with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, in China.
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A new system combining artificial intelligence (AI) with human knowledge promises faster and more accurate cancer diagnosis.
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(HealthDay)—Anticholinergic burden (ACB) is associated with adverse outcomes in a middle- to older-aged population, according to a study published in the March/April issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.
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It might be closer to spring than winter, but it’s still flu season. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there will be 34 million flu illnesses and 350,000 hospitalizations, as well as 20,000 deaths from the flu for the 2019-2020 season. The number of deaths include 136 children.
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Life expectancy is influenced not only by the traditional lifestyle-related risk factors but also by factors related to a person’s quality of life, such as heavy stress. The biggest causes for shortened life expectancy for 30-year-old men are smoking and diabetes. Smoking takes 6.6 years and diabetes 6.5 years out of their life expectancy. Being under heavy stress shortens their life expectancy by 2.8 years.
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Free weights have 362 times more bacteria than a toilet seat, according to a study performed by EmLab P&K, a finding that could bring sweat to your brow before you even launch into your first bicep curl—especially with the new coronavirus in mind.
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Intestinal bacteria operate as a self-sufficient organ: they influence the immune system and the brain via their metabolites.
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You may know that people who are overweight have an increased risk of heart disease and other conditions. Dr. Stephen Kopecky, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, says what you might not know is that body fat is more than just excess baggage. It’s an active substance that can negatively affect your heart health.
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A research team led by Prof. Qiu Weibao from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has introduced a novel micro-ultrasound capsule endoscopy (μUSCE). It’s a capsule equipped with micro-ultrasound (μUS) transducers, capable of imaging below the gastrointestinal wall surface, thereby offering a complementary sensing technique to optical imaging capsule endoscopy.
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