Credit: CC0 Public Domain A recent paper published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, outlines a pulse-pressure-induced pathway of cognitive decline that sheds light on why previous treatments for dementia may have failed and proposes promising new directions for the prevention and treatment of dementia. "Over the last couple years, a sea change in dementia and Alzheimer's…
A pulse oximeter provides a quick read on the saturation of oxygen in your blood. Some doctors believe it is a helpful device to have at home during the coronavirus pandemic. Others aren't so sure. vgajic/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption vgajic/Getty Images A pulse oximeter provides a quick read on the saturation of oxygen…
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Clinicians have been fighting COVID-19 wrong, says an emergency medicine physician who has been on the front line of the COVID-19 surge in New York City. "Everybody's coming in too late." Richard Levitan, MD, spent 10 days in early April working…
April 24, 2020Updated 12:01 p.m. ETAfter working for 10 days at Bellevue Hospital in New York, Dr. Richard Levitan decided to share what he had learned about Covid-19. Too many patients were showing up at the hospital with perilously low oxygen levels, putting them at risk for severe complications and death.But a simple home gadget…
That viral New York Times op-ed makes some good points. But the timelines here are way off. Sandrine Mulas/Reuters Slate is making its coronavirus coverage free for all readers. Subscribe to support our journalism. Start your free trial. Of all the great number of things that we want right now and cannot have, I’d wager that…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…