After Doctors Cut Their Opioids, Patients Turn to a Risky Treatment for Back Pain
Category: New York Times
Original article by By Sheila Kaplan, July 31, 2018 WASHINGTON — An injectable drug that the manufacturer says is too dangerous to use along the spine is growing in popularity for back pain as doctors turn away from opioids. The anti-inflammatory drug, called Depo-Medrol and made by Pfizer, is approved for injection into muscles and joints. Once a drug is approved, however, doctors may legally prescribe it however they see fit. And doctors have long given Depo-Medrol
Original article by Irina Zhorov and Davis Land, July 24, 2018 After Hurricane Harvey, researchers in Houston started looking for ways to stop stress from affecting the genes of developing babies. They’ve been recruiting women who were pregnant during or right after the storm. They’re testing whether a writing exercise could help. It’s part of a body of research looking at stress brought on by natural disasters, starting with an ice storm in Canada. Vincent Turcotte
Dignity Health, UCSF Health Partner to Improve the Digital Patient Experience
Category: Uncategorized
Original Article by Rajiv Leventhal Date: July 18, 2018 Two California health systems, Dignity Health and UCSF Health are collaborating to develop a digital engagement platform that officials believe will provide information and access to patients when and where they need it as they navigate primary and preventive care, as well as more acute or specialty care. The platform, which ultimately aims to serve as a model for health systems nationwide, will be hosted by
Article by Yasmin Anwar, Media Relations for UCB Berkeley News, June 28, 2018 Want to be a supercentenarian? The chances of reaching the ripe old age of 110 are within reach — if you survive the perilous 90s and make it to 105 when death rates level out, according to a study of extremely old Italians led by the University of California, Berkeley, and Sapienza University of Rome. Researchers tracked the death trajectories of nearly 4,000 residents
Original Article by Deirdre O’Donnell for Evolving Science Scientists have been saying that alcohol consumption, affects cardiac function since the 1970s. However, the evidence to corroborate these claims has come from anecdotal sources or small-scale studies. A much more extensive, large-scale project on the subject might give the theory more weight. An example of such a study is the Munich Beer Related Electrocardiogram Workup (MunichBREW) undertaking. This project was actually conducted at the 2015 Oktoberfest,
