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Ahead of this year’s awards, we explore why five of this year’s nominees might strike an emotional chord. source https://www.webmd.com/balance/features/grammys-song-psychology?src=RSS_PUBLIC

A top Shanghai official conceded Thursday that the Chinese financial hub had been "insufficiently prepared" for its latest COVID outbreak, as criticism mounts over lockdowns that have caught residents off guard. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-shanghai-virus-response-lacking-city.html

An estimated 112 million (44%) American adults are struggling to pay for healthcare, and more than double that number (93%) feel that what they do pay is not worth the cost. The findings come from two new composite scores developed by the nonprofit, nonpartisan organization West Health and Gallup, the global analytics and advice firm, to assess the healthcare cost crisis. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-million-americans-struggle-healthcare.html

People who survive an ischemic stroke are much more likely to develop major heart complications during the first month after their stroke, and, as a result, they also have an increased risk of death, heart attack or another stroke within five years, compared to people who don't develop heart problems soon after a stroke, according to new research published today in Stroke. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-heart-complications-future-cardiovascular-events.html

The U.N. Population Fund says new research shows that nearly half of all pregnancies worldwide—121 million annually—are unintended, which it calls "a neglected crisis." source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-pregnancies-unintended.html

Federal health advisers on Wednesday narrowly ruled against an experimental drug for the debilitating illness known as Lou Gehrig's disease, a potential setback for patient groups who have lobbied for the medication's approval. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-fda-panel-narrowly-sides-experimental.html

Results from a new study suggest that increasing influenza vaccination rates among home healthcare (HHC) workers may reduce serious respiratory infection-related hospitalizations among patients in home healthcare settings. Published today in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC), the findings are among the first to highlight the association between HHC staff flu-vaccination rates and patient illness at a national level. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-flu-vaccination-home-healthcare-workers.html

Although SARS-CoV-2 has taken the world by storm, it's not the only coronavirus that can infect humans. But unlike SARS-CoV-2, common human coronaviruses (HCoVs) generally cause only mild disease. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Infectious Diseases have shown that infections with two different HCoVs don't generate antibodies that effectively cross-react with SARS-CoV-2. So, prior infection with HCoVs is unlikely to protect against COVID-19 or worsen a SARS-CoV-2 infection through antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), the researchers say. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-common-coronavirus-infections-dont-effective.html

German vaccine-maker BioNTech on Wednesday reported a multi-billion-euro windfall in 2021 from sales of its anti-coronavirus jab, developed together with US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-biontech-profits-soar-global-vaccine.html

The number of people killed by the coronavirus surged by more than 40% last week, likely due to changes in how COVID-19 deaths were reported across the Americas and by newly adjusted figures from India, according to a World Health Organization report released Wednesday. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-covid-deaths-cases-falling-globally.html

Today, the Center for Food As Medicine (famcenter.org) and the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center (nycfoodpolicy.org) released its groundbreaking, 335 page (with more than 2500 citations), first ever, academic narrative review and report of the food as medicine movement, titled "Food As Medicine: How Food and Diet Impact the Treatment of Disease and Disease Management." source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-food-diet-impact-treatment-disease.html

Eating two or more servings of avocado weekly was associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, and substituting avocado for certain fat-containing foods like butter, cheese or processed meats was associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease events, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-avocados-week-linked-cardiovascular-disease.html

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and their international collaborators have discovered that a protein critical in the embryonic stages of life is reactivated in certain cases of mesothelioma, offering clues into the origin of this aggressive cancer. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-critical-protein-role-mesothelioma.html

It's not uncommon to have a lingering injury or nagging pain. In fact, a new national survey by Orlando Health finds nearly one in five Americans (18%) often experience pain while working out and the same number of people (18%) work through the pain rather than resting to heal. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-survey-americans-pain-resting.html

A new study has found that women's health research remains disproportionately focused on the reproductive years—particularly on pregnancy—with few articles on the major causes of illness and death in women. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-shift-focus-bikini-medicine-ailing.html

Though it has been eclipsed lately by SARS-CoV-2, there is another global epidemic still threatening people: HIV/AIDS. According to UNAIDS, a United Nations initiative, some 38 million people worldwide are currently infected with HIV. Almost as many have died as a result of AIDS since the outbreak of the HIV pandemic in the 1980s. In the search for new approaches to antiviral therapies, scientists at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Berlin have now developed a new technology that can be used to analyze and impact key stages of the HIV life cycle. Their findings were published today in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-uncovering-hiv-life.html

In many northern hemisphere countries, people have now adjusted the clock one hour forwards and are enjoying an extra hour of daylight in the evenings. As the weather becomes a little warmer, too, this gives us that pleasant feeling that summer isn't too far away. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-daylight-hour-extra-sunlight-benefit.html

University of Liverpool scientists have taken a significant step towards unlocking the medical potential of a new class of potent antibiotic capable of killing "superbugs" including MRSA without detectable resistance. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-scientists-synthetic-antibiotics-millions.html

A comparative study of premature deaths to COVID-19 has shown that of 20 countries, the oldest citizens in England and Wales had the highest rate. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-premature-death-covid-oldest-citizens.html

For adults undergoing fracture fixation, conditionally essential amino acid (CEAA) supplementation is associated with a reduction in postoperative complications, according to a study published online March 14 in the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-amino-acid-supplementation-beneficial-fracture.html

A two-phase lockdown of Shanghai's 26 million people is testing the limits of China's hard-line "zero-COVID" strategy, which is shaking markets far beyond the country's borders. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-shanghai-lockdown-zero-covid-limits.html

Testing patients for genetic variations that affect how their body will respond to common medicines must be integrated fully, fairly and swiftly into the UK National Health Service (NHS), according to a report published by the British Pharmacological Society and the Royal College of Physicians. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-personalized-safety-effectiveness-common-medicines.html

South Korea's daily average of new COVID-19 cases declined last week for the first time in more than two months, but the number of critically ill patients and deaths will likely continue to rise amid the omicron-driven outbreak, officials said Monday. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-south-korea-omicron-surge-peaked.html

Knowing the signs of brain injury and when to seek emergency care could save a life, an expert says. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-er.html

When COVID-19 ripped through India in 2020-21, several million people are thought to have died. Desperate efforts to stem the pandemic hurt the battle against another huge killer: tuberculosis. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-covid-india-tuberculosis.html

Shanghai will launch a phased lockdown to curb an Omicron-fuelled COVID-19 outbreak that has hit China with its highest caseloads since the early days of the pandemic, the city government said Sunday. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-shanghai-phases-rein-covid-outbreak.html

The next rollout of COVID-19 booster shots in the U.S. could face delays due to a lack of federal funding and declining interest, according to The Guardian. source https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220327/next-u-s-booster-campaign-faces-delays-lack-of-funds?src=RSS_PUBLIC

Consuming artificial sweetener could increase the risk of developing cancer, a large-scale study suggested Thursday, but experts not involved in the research said it was not enough proof to consider changing current health advice. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-consuming-artificial-sweeteners-linked-cancer.html

A team of scientists said Wednesday they had developed a male oral contraceptive that was 99 percent effective in mice and didn't cause observable side effects, with the drug expected to enter human trials by the end of this year. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-male-contraceptive-pill-effective-mice.html

Adults in hospital who have COVID-19 and the flu at the same time are at much greater risk of severe disease and death compared with patients who have COVID-19 alone or with other viruses, research shows. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-covid-flu-severe-illness-death.html

Shanghai on Saturday recorded a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases, but a member of the city's pandemic task force said officials were determined to avoid a full lockdown over the damage it would do to the economy. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-shanghai-wont-covid-spike.html

A preliminary study to be presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon, Portugal (23-26 April), suggests that people living with HIV who are on antiretroviral treatment (ART) with protease inhibitors (PI), may have a lower risk of COVID-19 infection. The study is by Dr. Steve Nguala from the Intercommunal Hospital Center of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges and the General Hospital of Melun in France and colleagues. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-early-long-term-antiretroviral-therapy-protease.html

The COVID-related death rate among Americans who received Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine was more than double that of people who received other vaccines, new data from the Omicron surge show. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-vaccinated-die-omicron-jj-shot.html

As coronavirus infections rise in some parts of the world, experts are watching for a potential new COVID-19 surge in the U.S.—and wondering how long it will take to detect. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-experts-covid-surge.html

Receiving psychosocial and behavioral therapy alongside medications for opioid use disorder leads to better treatment engagement and continuity, according to Rutgers researchers. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-therapy-medication-treatment-opioid-disorder.html

The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in the United States increased 9.4 percent during 2021, according to research published in the March 25 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-incidence-tb-percent.html

Antibody-secreting cells (ASCs) peaked at 3-4 weeks and were still being produced at 3-4 months in patients hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Viral Immunology. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-antibody-production-patients-hospitalized-covid-.html

A novel class of bed net that kills mosquitoes resistant to traditional insecticides by making them unable to move or fly, significantly reduces malaria infection in children, according to new research published in The Lancet. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-flight-bitemosquito-grounding-bed-net.html

Pregnant women with anorexia are at greater risk of having a stillbirth, underweight baby or pre-term birth, yet there are no clear guidelines for how doctors should manage the condition, according to a Monash University-led study. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-hidden-issue-anorexia-pregnancy-world.html

The amygdala is a small structure deep in the brain important for interpreting the social and emotional meaning of sensory input—from recognizing emotion in faces to interpreting fearful images that inform us about potential dangers in our surroundings. Historically the amygdala has been thought to play a prominent role in the difficulties with social behavior that are central to autism. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-amygdala-overgrowth-autism-spectrum-disorder.html

The researchers set out to see if there had been an increase in the numbers of older people who were reporting their first concerns about memory loss or cognitive decline to their doctor and what their chances of developing dementia were after consultation. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-cases-cognitive-decline-older-people.html

Readers weighed in on Best Doctor, Best Medical Film, and other categories in our inaugural movie awards. source https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/meddys-movie-awards?src=RSS_PUBLIC

New Edith Cowan University (ECU) research has revealed Western Australian women with a breech presenting baby may feel pressure to have a caesarean section, without being informed of all options available to them. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-women-left-dark-breech-birth.html

Kessler Foundation researchers published results of a survey of the emotional outcomes of individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Comparison of data collected during the pandemic with pre-pandemic data for the study sample suggests the occurrence of pandemic-specific depression and anxiety. Their article, "Surviving a global pandemic: The experience of depression, anxiety, and loneliness among individuals with multiple sclerosis," was published online in Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders on January 14, 2022. The authors are Lauren Strober, Ph.D., Erica Weber, Ph.D., Anthony Lequerica, Ph.D., and Nancy Chiaravalloti, Ph.D., of Kessler Foundation. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-reveals-pandemic-specific-depression-anxiety-individuals.html

New data published today in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC), suggest that healthcare professionals (HCPs) exposed to SARS-CoV-2 can safely return to work after seven days of quarantine if they are asymptomatic and receive a negative COVID-19 test. The findings, from the first reported study evaluating reduced quarantine duration in a healthcare setting, offer a potential new strategy for mitigating staffing shortages prior to a next wave of COVID-19 cases. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-shortened-quarantine-period-asymptomatic-health.html

While the omicron variant appears to be less harmful than previous variants in terms of severity of disease, hospitalizations and deaths, a virology expert speaking at a special COVID-19 meeting of the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2022, Wed 23 March, ahead of the main congress in Lisbon 23-26 April) says that the evidence so far—from studies using culturable virus as a marker for infectiousness—shows that the period of infectiousness of the omicron variant is not convincingly shorter than of other variants (from around 2 days before symptoms appear to 7 days after). source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-evidence-insufficient-omicron-variant-shorter.html

When the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic hit in the first half of 2020, organ transplantation operations fell significantly across all countries. However, evidence is continuing to build that organ donation from patients with past, resolved COVID-19 is safe, and even organs from donors with an active SARS-Cov-2 infection can be considered if their infection was asymptomatic and they died from causes unrelated to COVID-19. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-evidence-donation-people-dying-positive.html

Health officials in South Korea have instructed crematories to burn more bodies per day and funeral homes to add more refrigerators to store the dead as families struggle with funeral arrangements amid a rise in COVID-19 deaths. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-south-korea-covid-deaths-strain.html

A drive to vaccinate more than 9 million children against polio has been launched this week in four countries in southern and eastern Africa after an outbreak was confirmed in Malawi. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-million-children-vaccinated-polio-africa.html

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects millions of people each year, mostly survivors and witnesses of terrifying or shocking events, such as warfare, assaults or disasters. Because existing treatments don't work for everyone, new therapies are urgently needed. Today, scientists report results and follow-up data from a phase 3 clinical trial of a psychedelic drug, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), known on the street as "ecstasy" or "molly," combined with psychotherapy for the treatment of PTSD. Their preliminary data suggest that the therapy works even in hard-to-treat patients, such as those with drug or alcohol use disorders. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-psychedelic-drug-combined-intense-therapy.html

China locked down an industrial city of nine million people overnight and reported more than 4,000 virus cases on Tuesday, as the nation's "zero-Covid" strategy is confronted by an Omicron wave. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-china-city-million-virus-ripples.html

Researchers and artists from the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) and the University of Newcastle have collaborated to create a tool to help women who have experienced stillbirth. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-video-stillbirth-mother-fault.html

The dramatic toll that COVID-19 has taken on the U.S. is apparent, but as caseloads come down and mandates are loosened it has become increasingly obvious how much of an impact the pandemic had on food service workers in industries like the fisheries. A study from the University of New Hampshire looked at the direct and indirect effects of the global pandemic on U.S. seafood workers by tracking cases and outbreaks and found seafood workers were twice as likely to contract COVID-19 as workers in other food industries. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-seafood-workers-covid-pandemic.html

The pandemic left many GPs around the world feeling depressed, anxious and in some cases burned out, a review of global studies has revealed. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-covid-left-gps-struggling-world.html

A new study from scientists at ChristianaCare's Gene Editing Institute is advancing the safety and efficacy of using CRISPR gene editing in patient treatments by demonstrating how to identify and evaluate the broad-based biological impact of gene editing on targeted tissues, where the edits are designed to fully disable or "knock out" a specific sequence of genetic code. The work, published today in the Nature journal Gene Therapy, supports the Institute's efforts to improve lung cancer treatments by using CRISPR to disable or alter a master regulator gene to prevent it from producing a protein that blunts the impact of chemotherapy. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-team-impacts-gene-dna-code.html

China on Sunday imposed stay-at-home orders on millions more people in the country's northeast as it battles its biggest COVID-19 outbreak in two years. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-china-millions-covid.html

England will begin rolling out its fourth coronavirus vaccine shot this week, the National Health Service (NHS) announced Sunday, with millions of the country's most vulnerable people being offered jabs. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-england-fourth-covid-shot-nhs.html

Hong Kong's leader said Sunday that the government would consider lifting strict social distancing measures as new COVID-19 infections in the city continued trending downward. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-hong-kong-covid-restrictions-cases.html

Just 76% of heart attack patients with dyspnoea or fatigue as their main symptom are alive at one year compared to 94% of those with chest pain as the predominant feature. That's the finding of research presented today at ESC Acute CardioVascular Care 2022, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-shortness-heralds-worse-survival-chest.html

A combination therapy that targets cancer cells from within and without caused tumors to shrink or stabilize in 75% of patients with recurrent or persistent estrogen receptor- (ER-) positive endometrial cancer, results from a recent clinical trial show. Trial leaders from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will present the findings at today's session of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) Annual Meeting. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-drug-combination-effectiveness-patients-recurrent.html

U.S. health officials are watching the steady climb in COVID-19 cases in the U.K., which tends to signal what could happen next in the U.S., according to NPR. source https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220320/u-s-health-officials-tracking-covid-increase-in-u-k?src=RSS_PUBLIC

Women are less likely to receive lifesaving treatment for cardiogenic shock than men, according to research presented today at ESC Acute CardioVascular Care 2022, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-women-die-heart-emergency-men.html

China's national health authorities reported two COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the first recorded rise in the death toll since January 2021, as the country battles an omicron-driven surge. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-china-covid-deaths-year.html

Did you ever think that a simple task like brushing your teeth could actually keep your lungs healthy—in addition to preventing cavities and gum disease? From chewing sticks to using twigs, hog bristles and horsehair, people have been polishing their pearly whites for millennia. Now, EU scientists are investigating whether good oral hygiene can also protect us from chronic lung diseases. They're also checking what saliva says about our overall health. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-flossing-good-lungs.html

Late last year, preliminary studies revealed that the fast-spreading omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant was likely to evade COVID-19 antibodies but, in many people, less so than expected. Now one of those studies from Karolinska Institutet has been published in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases. KI researcher Ben Murrell explains the findings and recalls the rush to understand the new variant. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-scientific-omicron-variant.html

COVID-19 has put a spotlight on the pulmonary and nervous systems, but there is still much to learn about how they interact. Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine recently explored this relationship in the context of a childhood lung disease, but their findings may also apply to COVID-19 symptoms. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-excess-neuropeptides-disrupt-lung-function.html

Moderna announced Thursday it had asked the United States drug regulator for emergency authorization for a second booster shot of the company's COVID-19 vaccine for all adults. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-moderna-covid-booster.html

Even as authorities lock down cities in China's worst outbreak in two years, they are looking for an exit from what has been a successful but onerous COVID-19 prevention strategy. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-china-exit-covid-involved.html

Samoa will go into lockdown from Saturday as it faces its first outbreak of COVID-19 after a woman who was about to leave the country tested positive. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-covid-outbreak-samoa-lockdown.html

Children and adolescents (aged 0-18 years) with disability experience physical, sexual, and emotional violence, and neglect at considerably higher rates than those without disability, despite advances in awareness and policy in recent years, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies involving more than 16 million young people from 25 countries conducted between 1990 and 2020, published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-children-disabilities-globally-experienced-violence.html

A study of more than eight million people published by The BMJ today finds no increased risk of rare neurological events after COVID-19 vaccination. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-rare-neurological-events-covid-vaccination.html

Seven in ten long COVID patients experience concentration and memory problems several months after the initial onset of their disease, with many performing worse than their peers on cognitive tests, according to new research from the University of Cambridge. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-memory-problems-common-covid-scientists.html

New data published today suggest that adding aerosolized hydrogen peroxide (aHP) to hospital infection prevention protocols can effectively reduce Clostridioides difficile infections (CDI), one of the most common healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), among patients in large, acute-care facilities. The findings, which offer the first, long-term evaluation of an aHP disinfection system for reducing CDI in a clinical setting, appear in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC), the journal of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-aerosolized-hydrogen-peroxide-significantly-difficile.html

South Korea reported more than 400,000 new coronavirus cases Wednesday, a new record, as the country continues to ease restrictions despite the Omicron-fuelled wave of infections. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-south-korea-cases-omicron.html

Poor research practice suggests that the true impact of homeopathy may be substantially overestimated, finds an analysis of the current body of evidence on the effectiveness of this type of complementary medicine, published online in BMJ Evidence Based Medicine. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-poor-true-impact-homeopathy-substantially.html

Just one in six (18%) healthcare workers thought mandatory vaccinations were the best solution to encourage more frontline staff to have a Covid-19 jab, finds new research led by UCL and the University of Leicester. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-mandatory-vaccinations-boosting-uptake-nhs.html

Imagine if the real cost to society of the food you buy at the grocery store was built right into each product's price. Everything with added sugar would cost a whole lot more, according to University of Alberta researchers in a new study in The Canadian Journal of Public Health. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-excess-sugar-consumption-canada-health-care.html

Leading infectious disease researchers called for a coordinated response to HIV and COVID-19 globally, building on the successes of key donor programs such as the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program and Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) in a new perspective piece published in The Journal of the American Medical Association. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-global-hiv-covid-response.html

Genomic sequencing of tumors from pediatric cancer patients experiencing a relapse enabled 107 patients to receive an appropriate matched therapy that is not the standard of care, according to data from the international clinical trial MAPPYACTS, published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-genomic-profiling-pediatric-cancer-treatment.html

Brain scans of children ages 9–10 with a type of eating disorder that causes uncontrollable overeating showed differences in gray matter density compared to their unaffected peers, according to a USC-led study. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-experts-brain-differences-young-children.html

"The foot bone's connected to the ankle bone," goes the schoolyard song, highlighting the ways in which each part of our body can affect other parts of the body. Now, researchers from Japan have found that the kidney is connected to the heart, in that kidney malfunction is associated with different types of stroke. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-ischemic-patients-renal-impairment.html

There’s one group the pandemic has hit with a particularly vicious wallop: college students source https://www.webmd.com/brain/features/college-mental-health-crisis-mpi?src=RSS_PUBLIC

Many people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may not receive a diagnosis until adulthood. Adult symptoms can look a little different to those of childhood. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-adhd-adults.html

China's new COVID-19 cases Tuesday more than doubled from the previous day as the country faces by far its biggest outbreak since the early days of the pandemic. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-covid-cases-china-outbreak.html

South Korea had its deadliest day yet of the pandemic on Tuesday, with 293 deaths reported in the latest 24 hours, as the country grapples with a record surge in coronavirus infections driven by the fast-moving omicron variant. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-south-korea-deaths-omicron-surge.html

Cognitive decline is the biggest factor in determining how long patients with Alzheimer's disease will live after being diagnosed, according to a new study from researchers at UT Southwestern. The findings, published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, are a first step that could help health care providers provide reliable prediction and planning assistance for patients with Alzheimer's disease and their families. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-cognitive-decline-key-factor-life.html

The criminal justice system (CJS) is failing autistic people, argue researchers at the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, after a survey of lawyers found that an overwhelming majority of their clients were not provided with adequate support or adjustments. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-autistic-defendants-criminal-justice.html

Eight-year-old Brooklynn Chiles fidgets on the hospital bed as she waits for the nurse at Children's National Hospital. The white paper beneath her crinkles as she shifts to look at the medical objects in the room. She's had coronavirus three times, and no one can figure out why. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-kids-covid-everyday-life-struggle.html

China, the country where the coronavirus was first detected in 2019, is among the last remaining devotees to a zero-COVID approach to the pandemic. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-virus-cases-surge-china-zero-covid.html

Seventeen million people in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen began their first full day under lockdown Monday, as a key factory making iPhones closed and restrictions spread across Shanghai and other major cities in an effort to extinguish the biggest-ever threat to the nation's zero-tolerance Covid strategy. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-chinese-cities-factories-outbreak.html

People living with neurological or psychiatric conditions may have an increased likelihood of having a second such condition in the future, and their sex influences their risk, according to new research.  source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-history-neurological-psychiatric-conditions-likelihood.html

Racialized leaders are considerably under-represented in high-level health care leadership in Canada, although there is gender parity, according to a national study of 3056 leaders published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-stark-paucity-racialized-leaders-canada.html

Chinese health authorities reported nearly 3,400 COVID-19 cases on Sunday, double the previous day, forcing lockdowns on virus hotspots as the country contends with its gravest outbreak in two years. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-china-daily-virus-cases-worst.html

China's government responded Sunday to a spike in coronavirus infections by shutting down its southern business center of Shenzhen, a city of 17.5 million people, and restricted access to Shanghai by suspending bus service. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-china-business-center-shenzhen-virus.html

China instituted new COVID-19 restrictions Saturday that included urging the public not to leave Beijing and closing schools in Shanghai while the leader of Hong Kong warned that its coronavirus outbreak has yet to reach its peak. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-china-tightens-virus-cases.html

France is offering a fourth dose of a coronavirus vaccine to people older than 80 who had their booster more than three months ago, the prime minister said Saturday. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-france-fourth-covid-jab-over-80s.html

Now that COVID-19 surges have subsided in South Florida, patients are arriving at local clinics with neglected medical conditions that have advanced into dangerous stages. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-years-neglecting-medical-patients-clinicsand.html

For years, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, experts on all things sleep, has called for daylight saving time to be abolished. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-doctors-daylight-abolished.html

China reported its highest daily total of coronavirus cases in two years on Friday as authorities in Shanghai and other major cities stepped up targeted lockdowns and testing to halt the highly transmissible Omicron variant. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-china-biggest-covid-surge-years.html

Germany's health minister pleaded with his compatriots Friday not to assume that the coronavirus pandemic is over as the country sees a steady rise in new cases, warning that it is still in a "critical" situation. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-german-health-minister-critical-covid.html

China on Friday ordered a lockdown of the 9 million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the area attributed to the highly contagious omicron variant. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-china-city-million-spike-cases.html

Friday marks two years to the day since the World Health Organization first described COVID-19 as a pandemic, shaking countries into action as the disease ripped around the planet. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-frustration-years-pandemic-declaration.html

Australia said Friday it is buying extra vaccines to fight the potentially deadly, mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis virus, which has spread down the flood-hit east coast for the first time. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-australia-japanese-encephalitis.html

While no medically recognized treatment exists for Long COVID, exercise may break the vicious cycle of inflammation that can lead to developing diabetes and depression months after a person recovers from the virus. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-covid-induced-diabetes-depression.html

Eating a balanced diet including protein from a greater variety of sources may help adults lower the risk of developing high blood pressure, according to new research published today in Hypertension, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-protein-greater-variety-sources-high.html

How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed after two years? source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-covid-pandemic-years.html

China is tackling a COVID-19 spike with selective lockdowns and other measures that appear to slightly ease its draconian "zero tolerance" strategy. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-china-covid-spike-approach.html

Two years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, inflation, money issues and the war in Ukraine have pushed U.S. stress to alarming levels, according to polls conducted for the American Psychological Association. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-inflation-war-stress-alarming-two-year.html

A study published by the scientific journal Addiction has found that prevalence of e-cigarette use in England among young adults between 2007 and 2018 did not appear to be associated with substantial increases or decreases in the prevalence of smoking uptake. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-young-people-e-cigarette-substantial-gateway.html

Both social factors—such as low socioeconomic status and crowded housing—and genetic factors—such as variants in genes related to inflammatory pathways—likely impact COVID-19–related health outcomes. In an article published in Advanced Genetics, researchers propose a framework for considering the interactions between these different factors—similar to those between genes and the environment—for COVID-19 studies. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-social-genetic-environmental-factors-covid-.html

Although firearms do not cause someone to develop thoughts of suicide, risk for suicide increases when a firearm is present in the home, and it may increase further when the firearm is stored unsafely. A study in Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior reveals subgroups of firearm owners within the United States and who they deem credible to discuss safe firearm storage for suicide prevention. The findings may help to improve the effectiveness of firearm safety messaging, which may ultimately reduce suicide rates. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-results-firearm-safety-messaging-suicides.html

People with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, collectively known as psoriatic disease, are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease than others in the general population. In a new study published in Arthritis & Rheumatology that included 1,000 adults with psoriatic disease, elevated blood levels of two indicators of cardiovascular health—cardiac high-sensitivity troponin I (cTnI) and N-terminal pro-brain-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP)—were associated with higher risks of experiencing cardiovascular problems independent of traditional risk factors such as hypertension and high cholesterol. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-blood-markers-heart-health-individuals.html

In a new report, researchers say the challenges of treating long COVID are amplified by a critical issue: We do not know what constitutes long COVID or how to formally diagnose it, an issue that is further exacerbated by limited research data of varying quality and consistency. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-treatment-covid-hampered-lack-consensus.html

Currently, there is little research focused on understanding mechanisms and drug discovery of lymphatic vascular diseases. However, conditions such as lymphedema, a buildup of fluid in the body when the lymph system is damaged, impact more than 200,000 people every year in the United States alone. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-organs-on-chips-lymph.html

Using alcohol to cope with negative emotions after military deployment is known to be common among active-duty servicemembers. But a new study in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs suggests that reservists who return home after deployment may face similar risks—possibly with less support. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-reservists-combat-exposure-alcohol-misuse.html

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a leading cause of sudden death in adolescents and initial detection is often difficult. A new UC San Francisco study finds that Artificial Intelligence-enhanced (AI)-Electrocardiograms (ECG) may help identify the condition in its earliest stages and monitor important disease-related changes over time. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-ai-electrocardiogram-analysis-diagnosis-treatment.html

Women in Australia are more likely to have an unplanned cesarean birth if they give birth in a private hospital rather than a public hospital—independent of their health status during pregnancy or their birth plans. Our recent study showed an unplanned cesarean birth was 4.2% more likely in a private hospital compared with a public hospital. For first-time mums, it was 7.7% more likely. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-private-obstetric-chance-caesarean-birth.html

Back in August, New Zealand's government put the entire nation on lockdown after a single community case of the coronavirus was detected. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-virus-cases-zealand-tack.html