Trends in the incidence of juvenile-onset type 1 and type 2 diabetes in the United States, 2002–18: Results from the population-based study SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Abstract Background The incidence of diabetes is increasing in children and youth.Our objective was to describe the incidence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in children and […]
Pisa, 10 Mar. – (Adnkronos) – At work also on Saturdays and Sundays to break down the waiting lists at the University Hospital of Pisa. “Well done,” applauds the president of Tuscany Eugenio Giani. “Offering diagnostic services also on Saturdays and Sundays, in addition to investing in new equipment as we are already doing, is […]
Milan, 24 Mar. (Adnkronos Health) – Regulate ritual circumcisions to protect the health of children, because the interventions performed in our country are clandestine and ‘do it yourself’ in 4 cases out of 10. Foreign doctors in Italy launch an appeal to the Minister of Health, Orazio Schillaci, for “an urgent meeting” on the subject, […]
Venus may lack the plate tectonics that are responsible for most earthquakes and volcanic eruptions on Earth. However, it is undisputed that the planet closest to Earth is also volcanically active: The more than 1000 Venusian volcanic craters that can be seen on radar images are clear evidence of this. Some of these volcanoes may also […]
Around half of all patients with chronic pain report suffering from several parts of the body.Physicians speak of “multi-site chronic pain” (MCP). With the number of pain locations, the risk of dementia also increases, reports a team led by Yiheng Tu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing in the journal”Proceedings of the National Academy […]
That a major hospital reform is necessary – the federal and state governments agree on this. On the other hand, there is disagreement about the “how”. Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is getting more and more headwind from the federal states. 3 federal states now even want to have the reform legally examined. At the […]
Knowledge The European Commission has approved a tetravalent dengue vaccine (live vaccine, attenuated [TAK-003]) for the prevention of dengue virus (DENV) dengue fever for persons aged ≥ 4& years , regardless of previous exposure to DENV.This is the second dengue fever vaccine to be approved in the European Union, following the approval of a first dengue vaccine […]
air pollution causes damage to the lungs and vessels; the particulate matter is even deposited. A study in Canada now adds another to the known fatal consequences: With the air pollutants, the number of suicides also increases, reports a team led by brain researcher Paul Villeneuve in “Environmental Research“. The research group first used a […]
Ludwig van Beethoven wrote a letter to his brothers in 1802. In it, he asked them to have him examined by his doctor after his death and to publish the result. But the doctor’s notes were never found. The list of Beethoven’s health problems is long. These were known to include his progressive hearing loss, […]
For Increasing patients’ physical activity can take advantage of Advent and its proverbial calendar, according to a pilot study published in the special Christmas issue of the British Medical Journal. U The intervention, christened “Active Advent” included services for the abs in the construction of a snowman and a walk for “Christmas deliveries”, and was […]