DENVER — Results presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting showed socioeconomic variables may impact patient outcomes following multiligament knee injury. “Patients with lower incomes, those who did not graduate from college and those who are Hispanic and non-white had worse patient-reported outcomes following surgery for [multiligament knee
nearly 7 million seniors, or about 1 in 11 Americans aged 60 and older, faced hunger in 2022, according to a new report by Feeding America. The report revealed that 6.9 million seniors were food-insecure in 2022, with another 4.9 million older adults aged 50 to 59 also experiencing food insecurity. This represents a 25% increase from the previous year.
A blood sample analysis using Raman spectroscopy, combined with statistical modeling, was sufficient to diagnose fibromyalgia, according to data published in Biomedicines.“A rapid test which can be conducted at evaluation sites can lead to peace of mind for the patient and can also achieve considerable cost savings,” study author Kevin V. Hackshaw, MD, a rheumatologist at the
Hundreds of infants’ lives would be saved and millions of children would breathe easier across the US if the nation’s power grid depended on clean energy and more drivers made the switch to zero-emission vehicles, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.
Health practitioners should consider how their patients use these products in their plans for achieving asthma control, Emilie Pacheco Da Silva, MS, doctoral student at Université Paris-Saclay and the French
Study: Foods like ice cream, chips and candy are just as addictive as cigarettes or heroin
An analysis of 281 studies in 36 countries, published in the British Medical Journal this month, found that your inability to put down the ice cream, chips and candy may have less to do with your self-control and more to do with the addictive quality of ultra-processed foods or UPFs.
“The combination of refined carbohydrates and fats often found in UPFs seems to have a supra-additive effect on brain reward systems, above either macronutrient alone, which may increase the addictive potential of these foods,” the study said.
Using the same guidelines for measuring substance abuse, the researchers found that 14% of adults and 12% of children were addicted to ultra-processed foods.
There’s an age-old question: Can money buy happiness? Well,
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CDC and WHO have once again sounded alarm about STI
