Top in cardiology: AHA's ‘Life's Essential 8' tool; coronary artery calcium scoring
The American Heart Association updated its “Life's Simple 7” measurement tool for cardiovascular health to “Life's Essential 8,” which now includes sleep health metrics. Other...
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UTI study finds high rates of resistance to common antibiotics
A study of nearly 150,000 patients who presented to the ED with complicated UTIs found many were resistant to commonly used oral antibiotics, according findings published in...
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How Did the Baby and Womb Connection Develop in Mammals?
Using gene expression patterns to reconstruct the evolution of the placenta will predict what the placenta of the last common ancestor of eutherian mammals looked like.
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NSW reports second diphtheria case in unvaccinated child
The six-year-old in northern NSW is a close family contact of the first case announced on Saturday of a toddler, who remains in intensive care.
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Judge urged 10-year-old rape victim to stay pregnant
It is the case that divided Brazil, and has many Americans worried that it may be a sign of what is to come following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade.
6 hours ago - Sydney Morning Herald
Self-Determination Theory and Preventive Medication Adherence: Motivational Considerations to Support Historically Marginalized Adolescents with Asthma
Using self-determination theory, we explored relationships between autonomous motivation and perceived competence with previously validated measures of motivation and...
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Blood cytology in children with down syndrome
Down syndrome is associated with various congenital anomalies and metabolic alterations such as hematological alterations. Values for the major hematological indicators vary...
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Reliability and structural validity of the Danish Short 4-item version of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children in adolescents
The 4-item version of the Center of Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale is a self-reported questionnaire used to measure depressive symptoms in adolescents, but the...
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Adolescent suicide assessment and management in primary care
To understand how suicide management occurs within the primary care setting in terms of follow-up assessments and referral practices.
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Children with 'long Covid' actually have a mental illness, suggest health chiefs
A Government official told the mother of a child suffering from the chronic condition that some children had struggled 'to adapt to the challenges presented by the Covid-19...
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Deaths from fungal infections increased during COVID-19 pandemic
Deaths from fungal infections increased in the United States in 2020 and 2021 compared with previous years, with Aspergillus and Candida infections driving COVID-19-associated...
'Massive uncertainty': Health care providers seek answers in wake of Roe v...
With the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, health care providers are questioning how to help patients legally navigate reproductive care. After the ruling...
Cognitive behavioral therapy improved symptoms of headache, PTSD in US veterans
Headache-related disability and PTSD symptom severity improved with cognitive behavioral therapy compared with usual care in United States military veterans with posttraumatic...
Infertility, pregnancy complications increase risk for future stroke
Infertility and certain pregnancy complications increased women's risk for stroke later in life, according to an analysis in the BMJ. “Our research shows that miscarriage and...