Written by Maria Cohut, PhD Medical News Today A preliminary study suggests that more than 80% of people aged 20 and under may show no symptoms after contracting SARS-CoV-2. This may have important implications for virus transmission. Experts from the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, Italy, in collaboration with colleagues affiliated to the ATS Lombardy COVID-19 […]
Read MoreBy Joe Elia NEJM Journal Review Smoking cigarettes — even one or less per day — is associated with increased mortality risk, a JAMA Network Open study shows. Researchers combined data from several federal smoking surveys performed between 1992 and 2011. In those surveys, some 500,000 adults reported their smoking histories. National mortality data showed that, compared […]
Read MoreBy Robert Preidt HealthDay News Eating disorders — such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia and binge-eating disorder — cost the U.S. economy nearly $65 billion in one recent year, a new report shows. About 75% of that ($48.6 billion) was due to lost productivity, according to the researchers. “Our study lays bare the devastating economic impact that eating disorders […]
Read MoreAuthor: Marco, Alan P. MD, MMM Anesthesia & Analgesia: July 2020 – Volume 131 – Issue 1 – p 120-123 As leaders in perioperative service management, anesthesiologists are familiar with requests from our proceduralist colleagues to come in early or stay late to get cases done. While this is clearly desirable from the proceduralist’s perspective, […]
Read MoreAuthors: Suen, Colin M. MD, PhD*,†; Hui, David S. C. MBBS‡; Memtsoudis, Stavros G. MD, PhD§; Chung, Frances MBBS*,† Anesthesia & Analgesia: August 2020 – Volume 131 – Issue 2 – p 318-322 As health care providers tackle the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many questions have arisen regarding management of populations at increased risk […]
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