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Most people who end up in patient care got there through something specific. A relative who needed long-term care. A volunteer shift where the work felt genuinely useful. A hospital stay that made the people doing the caring visible in a way they had not been before. Whatever it was, it pointed somewhere. The realistic […]

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Can 5 minutes of jumping and clapping really sharpen a child’s thinking? The research says yes — and it’s more specific than you’d expect. Twenty-three randomized studies with 2,857 children have found that doing a cognitive task while on the move (as opposed to the same cognitive task without movement) increased the power of movement […]

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Paediatricians warn parents that boys who spend too much time on social media find breaking the habit much harder if they are susceptible to ADHD. In a large cohort study of over 11,000 kids aged 10 and over, researchers found that ADHD and social media addiction are co-travellers. With an especially strong link in boys. […]

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Babies with Down syndrome may benefit from car seat tolerance testing before leaving the hospital, according to recent findings from researchers at the University of Maryland.
The car seat tolerance test involves monitoring babies in their car seats before leaving the hospital to ensure they can breathe properly. The test is typically administered by bedside nurses, but pediatricians determine which babies should be tested.
“The goal is to try to identify babies who aren’t breathing well when they are in their car seat position, because it is not a normal position for babies to be in,” Natalie

Plans are underway to launch a phase 3 trial of an existing Ebola vaccine to fight the ongoing deadly outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, WHO told Healio.
The trial could begin by mid-September, a much faster timeline than the 5 to 12 months typically needed for clinical trials being conducted outside an outbreak zone, WHO noted.
Currently, no approved vaccine exists for the rare species of Ebola, Bundibugyo ebolavirus, that is causing the outbreak, which has killed more than 2,000 people in the DRC as of Aug. 9, according to the CDC.
Instead, the phase 3 trial will use a vaccine,

A real-world study has identified what researchers believe is the optimal metric to determine the effectiveness of therapy for metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer.
Patients whose PSA levels dropped below 0.2 ng/mL within 9 months of treatment initiation exhibited 54% lower risk for death than patients whose PSA did not fall below that level, a retrospective analysis of Veterans Health Administration data showed.
The survival benefit persisted regardless of the percentage of PSA decline.
“It is pretty profound when you think about cutting the risk for death in half,” Stephen J.

A 37-year-old right-hand dominant concrete contractor with no significant medical history presented to the outpatient orthopedic clinic for evaluation of left shoulder pain after an acute injury.
He sustained an acute shoulder injury while wrestling with his brother 6 days before clinical presentation. He recalled hearing three distinct popping sounds from the left shoulder, followed by an immediate sensation of displacement. Three days after the injury, he presented to the ED for initial evaluation where three-view radiographs of the left shoulder revealed a closed, isolated left greater

MONTREAL — In a phase 2b study, an intravitreal gene therapy reduced the treatment burden in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration, according to a study.
“4D-150 is an [adeno-associated virus] that has evolved to cross retinal barriers well, to have high gene expression and to minimize immune reaction,” Carl C. Awh, MD, FASRS, said in a presentation at the American Society of Retina Specialists annual meeting. “It delivers a dual transgene payload resulting in production of aflibercept and an inhibitory RNA against VEGF-C.”
Patients received one 2 mg intravitreal

Type 2 diabetes may substantially increase and worsen menopause symptoms in South Korean women, according to a study published in Menopause.
“These findings not only highlight the need to recognize and address menopause symptoms in women with diabetes but also underscore the menopause transition as an important opportunity to identify and manage cardiovascular risk factors in all women,” Stephanie S. Faubion, MD, MBA, medical director of The Menopause Society, said in a press release.
The research also builds upon current literature on associations between cardiovascular health and menopause,

College students experiencing migraine face a variety of challenges, including lack of understanding, inconsistent implementation of accommodations and unmet academic needs, according to survey results published in Headache.
The survey was launched to add more qualitative data to existing quantitative data on the social and academic impacts of migraine among college students, according to Mia T. Minen, MD, MPH, a neurologist with NYU Langone Health, and colleagues.
“Currently, the literature surrounding the impact of migraine on college campuses does not extensively capture the lived