WASHINGTON — A new study has shown that engaging in virtual reality can significantly reduce pain and anxiety in children undergoing intravenous catheter placement. The study “Effect of an Immersive Virtual Reality Intervention on Pain and Anxiety Associated With Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Placement in the Pediatric Setting” is published in the journal “JAMA Network Open.” It isn’t […]

WASHINGTON — Older adults on a walk, hike, or just going about their daily routines seem to experience more significant fatigue than their younger counterparts. Such fatigue may ultimately affect their ability to participate in meaningful activities and help keep them healthy. A University of Massachusetts Amherst team of scientists in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences is […]

WASHINGTON — Self-efficacy, optimism, hope, and resiliency help inoculate employees from the adverse effects of working through a pandemic, according to a new West Virginia University study. The study “I’ll do it myself: self-leadership, proactivity, and socialization” is published in the “International Journal of Workplace Health Management.” A management professor, Jeffery D. Houghton, studied how college students coped with […]

TOKYO — Japan’s health ministry said on Aug. 25 that foreign materials were confirmed in some portions of the unused doses of Moderna Inc’s Covid-19 vaccine. The use of around 1.63 million doses manufactured in the same production line has been suspended as a precaution. The Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare said foreign substances have been confirmed since Aug. […]

A breakthrough technology uses sunflower pollen to produce 3D ink used for human-tissue engineering, drug delivery and toxicity testing. In a new study, scientists developed an ink derived from sunflower pollen that holds its shape while remaining flexible. It offers an alternative to 3D printing inks used in the biomedical field, also known as bioprinting. […]

WASHINGTON — Opioids are powerful painkillers, but their use is hindered because patients become tolerant of them, requiring higher doses, and it can cause respiratory depression and death. In their recent study, researchers at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience contradict current thinking about how opioid drugs cause tolerance and respiratory depression and suggest a new, balanced approach to […]

WASHINGTON — A new study on more than 35,000 smokers found that even though women smoke fewer cigarettes than men, they are less likely to quit. The research is submitted to ESC Congress 2021, which starts on Aug. 27, 2021. “In our study, women who used smoking cessation services had higher rates of overweight or obesity, depression, […]

BARCELONA, Spain — A new study has found that exposure to tobacco smoke in early life is associated with accelerated biological aging. The findings of the study titled, “The early-life exposome and epigenetic age acceleration in children,” were published in the journal “Environment International.” Accelerated biological aging is associated with exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy […]

WASHINGTON — According to the findings of new research, half of the adults aged between 20-39 with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have had a substance use disorder (SUD) in their lifetime. The study “Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Alcohol and Other Substance Use Disorders in Young Adulthood: Findings from a Canadian Nationally Representative Survey” is published in the journal […]

WASHINGTON — The development of cellular agriculture, which is the food grown in factories from cells or yeast, depending on how it occurs, contains the potential to either provide beneficial alternatives to the status quo or accelerate socioeconomic inequality, a study said. The new study was led by Penn State University researchers, who assessed the potential trajectories for a new […]

NEW DELHI — India should now focus on vaccinating as many people as possible to curb the spread of Covid-19, and the idea of booster doses can wait, for now, said Randeep Guleria, Chief, All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), India’s leading medical institute. He said that Sero Survey suggested that there may not be […]

HYDERABAD, India — A vaccine to attack the Chikungunya virus is in the works, with Phase II and III trials being conducted in Costa Rica, according to the International Vaccine Institute and Indian biotech company Bharat Biotech. The news comes days after another vaccine candidate for the tropical disease developed by French biotechnology company Valneva showed early signs of […]

A French medical student is “operating” on food on TikTok — and millions have watched him. Surgeons often practice complex procedures on fruit, but Robin Goncet added a backstory. He draws faces on them, creates a narrative, and fills their insides with the “organs” prepped for an operation. Then he produces videos in which he […]

WASHINGTON — Thinking of leisure as wasteful and unproductive activity leads to feelings of dissatisfaction, higher stress, and depression, new research led by Ohio State University suggests. The study was published in the “Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.” In a series of studies, researchers examined the effects of a common belief in modern society that productivity […]

ONTARIO, Calif. — During a new study, researchers from Canada have developed a treatment for cancer by using acoustic waves to target and destroy cancerous tumors. While doctors have used low-intensity ultrasound as a medical imaging tool since the 1950s, experts at the University of Waterloo are extending models that help capture how high-intensity focused ultrasound can work […]

Tras la aprobación total de la vacuna contra el coronavirus de dos dosis de Pfizer-BioNTech por parte de la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA por sus siglas en inglés), queda por ver cuántos estadounidenses más se vacunarán. Algunos analistas de políticas públicas y encuestas indican que la aprobación de la FDA dará lugar a […]

WASHINGTON — Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new strategy that could offer much more precise control of prosthetic limbs. After inserting tiny magnetic beads into muscle tissue, they can accurately measure the length of a muscle as it contracts. This measurement can be relayed to a robotic prosthesis within milliseconds. In a new […]