In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. The public health crisis accelerated “what’s next” for health care delivery, detailed in A New Era of Virtual Health, a report published by TripleTree. TripleTree… Read More »
The Coronavirus Outbreak liveLatest Updates Maps and Cases Global Inoculation Troubles Risk Near You Vaccines and Virus Variants Scott Cohen of Plainview, N.Y., nearly died from the effects of Covid-19 and received convalescent plasma as part of his treatment. When he later recovered, he went on to donate his own plasma 11 times.Credit…Desiree Rios for… Read More »
Episode 5 of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, entitled “Trust,” set up a huge climactic showdown between the Flag Smashers and our heroes just in time for next week’s finale, but it also found time to drop in even more callbacks and comic book references, as viewers have now come to expect. A recent… Read More »
How do different parts of the body communicate? Scientists at St. Jude are studying how signals sent from skeletal muscle affect the brain. The team studied fruit flies and cutting-edge brain cell models called organoids. They focused on the signals muscles send when stressed. The researchers found that stress signals rely on an enzyme called… Read More »
It’s remarkable how closely hit sports video game franchises like Madden are beginning to resemble real life broadcasts. A new YouTube video from gamer Samuel Brown—who goes by RBT on the platform—drives home just how much the gaming experience has evolved in the roughly three decades since the release of the original Nintendo home entertainment… Read More »
A new poll found that 49% of Republican men said they won’t get vaccinated for Covid-19 and Dr. Vin Gupta said that “will determine the trajectory of this pandemic” to the detriment of all Americans. “All forecasts right now say that we’re going to be past the worst of this with normalcy by say end… Read More »
How many calories does skiing burn? How many calories burned skiing depends on the level of effort you’re exerting, your body weight and the terrain you’re skiing on. Downhill skiing will burn approximately 300 to 600 calories per hour, although it depends on your body weight. A downhill skier weighing 155 pounds can burn 446… Read More »
Every physician has had the experience. The moment you ask yourself, “Why am I doing this?” It could be when you look into the waiting room where there are more patients to be seen and know if you take a break, it will set you back even further. It could be on the final stretch… Read More »