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9 months ago
Wellness

How to Soothe a Bad Sunburn

Oops.It's the first day of your beach vacation and you stayed out in the sun a little (or a lot) too long.Now your skin is paying the price and you're in need of some relief.A sunburn is your skin cells' reaction to damage from the sun's ultraviolet radiation.In a first-degree sunburn, the top layer of skin, called the epidermis, is injured, resulting in redness, pain and swelling.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
Health

Complications during pregnancy linked to a higher risk of heart disease, study finds

Five major pregnancy complications are strong lifelong risk factors for ischemic heart disease, a new study finds, with the greatest risk coming in the decade after delivery.Ischemic heart disease refers to heart problems, including heart attack, caused by narrowed or dysfunctional blood vessels that reduce blood and oxygen flow to the heart.
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1 year ago
Health

Not sleeping enough may harm your immune system and trigger inflammation

Chronic sleep deprivation in a small group of healthy adults increased production of immune cells linked to inflammation while also altering the immune cells' DNA, a new study found.
TODAY.com
1 year ago
Parenting

4 out 5 preschool apps are tricking kids into spending more time and money, study finds

The longer play continues, the more ads children watch and the more money the app developers make, explained the study's lead author, Dr. Jenny Radesky, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.
TODAY.com
1 year ago
Parenting

4 out 5 preschool apps are tricking kids into spending more time and money, study finds

The longer play continues, the more ads children watch and the more money the app developers make, explained the study's lead author, Dr. Jenny Radesky, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
Health

Prescription cannabis products with more THC may ease chronic pain, at least a little, study finds

(CNN)People who suffer from chronic pain may find small-to-moderate pain relief for the short-term when using certain prescription cannabis products with higher THC to CBD levels, but there are some worrisome side effects, according to new research.
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9 months ago
NYC music

Opinion | Taylor Swift Has Rocked My Psychiatric Practice

A few months ago I started joking that half of the treatments in my psychiatric practice had become Taylor-based.Many of my patients are adolescent girls and young women, and they have leaned on Taylor Swift as a kind of big sister through the daily agonies of being a teenage girl: unsteady friendships, the 24-hour firing squad of the internet, and of course, the endless longing to feel seen and valued.
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9 months ago
Wellness

What to Know About Eclampsia

On Tuesday, an autopsy report shared with The New York Times showed that the Olympic sprinter Tori Bowie, who was found dead in May, was eight months pregnant and in labor at the time of her death.She was 32 years old.The report identified complications of childbirth as the cause of death, listing eclampsia and respiratory distress as possible factors.
www.cnn.com
2 years ago
Health

Prediabetes has more than doubled among American children. Here's how to reduce your kids' risk

(CNN)Prediabetes in America's youth is following a concerning trend: Rates among children have more than doubled in about 20 years, according to a new study.
Chicago Tribune
10 months ago
Chicago

Police: 1 dead, 1 critically injured in Garfield Park shooting

Two people were shot, one fatally, as they sat in a parked car in Garfield Park early Sunday morning, Chicago police said.Around 2:09 a.m., a 35-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman were in a car on the 4100 block of W. Taylor Street when shots were fired, police said.The man, who had a gunshot wound to the head, was transported by the Chicago Fire Department to Mount Sinai Hospital and pronounced dead.
Chicago Tribune
10 months ago
Chicago

Medical debt initiative on track to erase $80 million in unpaid doctor bills for nearly 73,000 Cook County residents

A Cook County initiative to address the effects of medical debt has so far erased more than $25 million in past-due bills and is expected to wipe out about $55 million more in the coming weeks for 73,000 county residents total, officials told the Tribune.The first round of debt-buying has spent down just $800,000 of the county's allotted $12 million for the federal funded program.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Elderly woman dies in hit-and-run accident in Austin neighborhood, police say

An elderly woman died Thursday afternoon after she was struck by a Porsche SUV while she was crossing the street in the Austin neighborhood, Chicago police said.Shortly before 12:30 p.m. ,police said the 93-year-old victim was in a crosswalk in the 300 block of South Laramie Avenue when a Porsche Cayenne drove around a stopped vehicle, into the bike lane and through the crosswalk striking the victim, police said.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

14 people, including 3-year-old, shot in Halloween night drive-by shooting at Garfield Park, police say

At least 14 people were shot, including a 3-year-old and two other minors, during a drive-by shooting Halloween night in East Garfield Park on the city's West Side, police said.The other minors were an 11-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy, according to police.A group was standing on a the corner of South California Avenue and West Polk Street for a vigil when two people from inside a dark SUV began shooting.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Man killed and 4 wounded in Humboldt Park shooting

A man was fatally shot and four others wounded in an incident Sunday night that drew a SWAT team response to a home in the 4400 block of West Walton Street, according to the Chicago Police Department.
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10 months ago
New York City

Strike by Resident Doctors at Elmhurst Hospital Ends

Resident doctors ended a three-day strike at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens after reaching a tentative deal on Wednesday that they say brings them closer to earning as much as their counterparts in Manhattan.The strike was the first by hospital doctors in New York City in more than 30 years, and it drew widespread attention in part because of where it occurred.
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10 months ago
New York City

Resident Doctors Go on Strike at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens

More than 150 trainee doctors went on strike Monday morning at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, the first physician strike at a hospital in New York City in more than 30 years.Chief among their grievances is the fact that they are generally paid less working at a public hospital in Queens, where they care for poor patients, than their counterparts are paid at wealthier Manhattan institutions.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

New York nurses end strike after reaching tentative deals with hospitals

A supporter stands through the sunroof of a passing vehicle in front of Mt.Sinai Hospital in the Manhattan borough of New York Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, as nurses stage a strike following the breakdown of negotiations with the hospital hours earlier.(AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)Thousands of New York City nurses ended their strike at two major hospital systems and will return to work Thursday after reaching tentative agreements with management on improved staffing and compensation.
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1 year ago
New York City

Nurses Extend Strike to Second Day at 2 Major New York City Hospitals

More than 7,000 nurses at Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center returned to the picket lines on Tuesday as New York City's largest nurse strike in decades continued into a second day.At Montefiore in the Bronx, nurses and management were scheduled to return to the bargaining table for continued talks on Tuesday morning.
Brooklyn Eagle
1 year ago
Public health

4 Brooklyn hospitals still in negotiations with nurses' union

Four private sector hospital systems in Brooklyn continue to negotiate with the nurses' union as a potential Monday strike looms at hospitals across the city.Contracts expired on Dec. 31 for roughly 17,000 members of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) at a dozen New York City hospitals.And after the last three traumatic years of COVID-19, overcrowded hospitals and staff shortages, nurses without a new contract say they are ready to walk.
Gothamist
1 year ago
Public health

Some NYC hospitals prepare for 10,000 nurses to strike as negotiations continue to stall

A handful of New York City hospitals are scaling back services and preparing to bring in temporary staff as they brace for a potential nurses' strike that could start Monday morning.Members of the New York State Nurses Association at seven hospitals and health systems across the five boroughs submitted 10-day strike notices on Dec. 30 after voting to authorize a strike last month.
Gothamist
10 months ago
Public health

Early career doctors at Elmhurst Hospital prepare to strike over uneven wages

More than 160 resident physicians at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens are preparing to go on strike for five days starting on Monday if they don't reach a new contract agreement before then.This is the second time doctors-in-training with the union CIR SEIU have threatened to strike at Queens-based hospitals this month over wage increases.
Chicago Tribune
10 months ago
Chicago

Car hits CTA bus shelter, 3 injured, officials say

A car crashed through a Chicago Transit Authority bus shelter in North Lawndale Sunday afternoon, leaving three people hospitalized with injuries, police and fire officials said.Two cars crashed at the intersection of South Kedzie Avenue and 16th Street shortly after 4 p.m., the Chicago Fire Department said on Twitter.
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
10 months ago
Mental health

Population Study Finds Depression Is Different Before, During, and After Pregnancy

* Research Highlight
Perinatal depression is a common but serious mood disorder.The DSM-5, which is the classification system used to diagnose mental disorders, defines perinatal depression as a depressive episode with onset either during pregnancy or in the first 4 weeks after pregnancy (postpartum).
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10 months ago
Health

Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Small Trial

Five years ago, a small group of cancer scientists meeting at a restaurant in a deconsecrated church hospital in Mainz, Germany, drew up an audacious plan: They would test their novel cancer vaccine against one of the most virulent forms of the disease, a cancer notorious for roaring back even in patients whose tumors had been removed.
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1 year ago
Health

Long Covid Patients More Likely to Have Gastrointestinal Problems, Study Finds

Stomach pain, constipation, diarrhea, vomiting, bloating these are symptoms frequently reported by people with long Covid.Now, a large new study reports that Covid patients were significantly more likely to experience gastrointestinal problems a year after infection than people who were not infected.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Health

Unvaccinated more likely to have heart attack, stroke after COVID, study finds

A bout of COVID-19 is known to increase a person's long-term risks of having a major cardiovascular event, such as a heart attack or stroke.But being fully vaccinated or even partially vaccinated appears to bring that risk down, according to a study published this week in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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1 year ago
Health

New York City nurses end strike after reaching a tentative agreement

Nurses from Mount Sinai Hospital strike outside the hospital on Monday in the Upper East Side neighborhood of New York City.Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images A strike involving more than 7,000 nurses at two of New York City's biggest hospitals has ended.After three days on the picket line, the New York State Nurses Association union said it reached tentative deals with Mount Sinai Health System and Montefiore Health System.
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1 year ago
Health

Thousands of nurses in New York City began striking today for a fair contract

Thousands of nurses began striking Monday at two of New York City's biggest hospitals.They have already disrupted patient care, but nurses say they won't return until they get a fair contract.JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Thousands of nurses began striking today at two of New York City's biggest hospitals, Montefiore Medical Center and Mount Sinai Hospital.
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1 year ago
Health

Omicron poses about half the risk of long COVID as delta, new research finds

The omicron variant, though much more contagious than the delta strain, is still prevalent in the U.S. but is less likely than delta to cause long COVID, according to a new study.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
Wellness

How Do I Get Rid of Skin Tags?

Q: As I've gotten older, I've noticed more and more skin tags sprouting in odd places on my body.What are they, exactly?And is there anything I can (and should) do to get rid of them?They can pop up in unusual places: on your neck, under your arms, maybe even around your groin.And for many people, they can be extremely irritating especially if they get caught on jewelry or clothing, or if they occasionally bleed.
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11 months ago
Wellness

U2's Music Shaped My Life. Then It Helped Save It.

The Radiation Oncology department in the basement of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York does not seem like a regular home for rock 'n' roll.But every business day for almost seven weeks this year, U2 blared over the speakers at my request.I became a fan in the late 1980s and have attended nine of the band's concerts, though I probably fall short of superfandom.
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1 year ago
Wellness

How an Allergist Gets Through Allergy Season

Hannah SeoSniffling in Brooklyn Birds are chirping and flowers are blooming, which means one thing: Spring allergy season is here.So we asked Dr. Shradha Agarwal, an allergist immunologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, how she prevents her own allergy symptoms from getting in the way of her life.
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1 year ago
Wellness

New Treatment Could Help Fix the Heart's Forgotten Valve'

For the first time, patients with damaged tricuspid valves in their hearts might have a safe treatment that actually helps.More than 1 million mostly older Americans have seriously leaking tricuspids, a valve on the right side of the heart that lets deoxygenated blood flow between the right atrium and the right ventricle.
ESPN.com
1 year ago
Wellness

One year later, an update from Chris Evert on her cancer journey

A year ago, I started a journey to protect myself and my loved ones from the risks associated with the BRCA-related ovarian cancer that took my sister Jeanne's life.Jeanne wasn't BRCA positive, but genetic testing revealed she had a BRCA-1 variant that was of "uncertain significance."The doctors didn't recommend genetic testing for me or my siblings, and we stayed focused on Jeanne's treatment.
Nytimes
2 years ago
Wellness

Will Getting Botox Now Prevent Future Wrinkles?

Or are injections just a temporary, addictive fix?
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Acm
10 months ago
Digital life

Wearables Measure Workers' Resilience

Applying machine learning models to data collected from wearable devices can identify a worker's degree of resilience and well-being, according to investigators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.The findings, reported in , support collecting physiological metrics from wearable devices, such as the Apple Watch, as a way to monitor and assess psychological states remotely without requiring the completion of mental health questionnaires.
Acm
1 year ago
Digital life

Researchers Construct Computer-Derived Marker for Coronary Artery Disease

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai developed a computer-derived marker for coronary artery disease (CAD) using machine learning and clinical data from electronic health records (EHRs), mapping CAD characteristics on a spectrum for the first time.The machine learning model ISCAD (In Silico Score for Coronary Artery Disease) was trained on 95,935 EHRs from the BioMe Biobank of the Mount Sinai Health System and the U.K. Biobank.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
Medicine

Eli Lilly Trial Finds Alzheimer's Drug Can Slow Progress of Disease

The drug manufacturer Eli Lilly announced on Wednesday that a clinical trial of an experimental Alzheimer's drug showed it can slow progress of the feared disease and allow patients to have more time when they can still live independently, performing tasks like cooking meals, going to the store and driving a car.
amNewYork
1 year ago
Medicine

Plight of short nurse staffing continues, NYSNA rallies outside of City Hall | amNewYork

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New York nurses rallied Wednesday on the steps of City Hall over what they are calling a staffing crisis in city hospitals.The noon gathering of NYSNA members came directly before a City Council oversight hearing on the state of nursing in NYC, including what many feel is a dangerously low level of nurses on staff.
time.com
1 year ago
Public health

Why the U.S. Nursing Shortage Keeps Getting Worse

Updated Jan. 12 Nurses in both the U.S. and U.K. flexed their bargaining muscle over the last few weeks amid increasing pressure on the countries' respective health care system due to COVID-19.About 7,000 nurses from two New York City hospitals, Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, returned to work on January 12 after going on strike for three days.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Striking New York Nurses Win Tentative Deal With Hospitals

The deal includes safe staffing ratios so there will be enough nurses to provide safe patient care, the union says.Nurses demonstrate during their third day on strike, at Mount Sinai Hospital on January 11, 2023, in New York City.Leonardo Munoz / VIEWpress via Getty Images New York City nurses and two major hospitals reached a tentative agreement on Thursday that the healthcare workers' union celebrated as a "historic victory" after three days of striking for a fair contract.
Brooklyn Paper
1 year ago
Brooklyn

Strike avoided at Maimonides Medical Center, two other city hospitals as nurses reach tentative contract agreement * Brooklyn Paper

Three city hospitals have reached tentative contract agreement with nurses, avoiding a planned strike against understaffing, according to a New York State Nurses Association representative.On Dec. 31, roughly 16,000 nurses spread across eight city hospitals including NewYork-Presbyterian, Montefiore Medical Center, Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Maimonides Medical Center, BronxCare Health Systems, Richmond University Medical Center and Flushing Hospital Medical Center delivered ten-day strike notices to their hospitals to protest against staff shortages causing risk to nurses and patients.
SFGATE
1 year ago
SF real estate

What on Earth? Live Among the Stalagmites and Stalactites in a Colorado Cave

MLS via Realtor.comA 3,000-square-foot dwelling built into the caves near Glenwood Springs, CO, is a rocky sight to behold.Cave of Chimes is a one-of-a-kind home nestled in the walls of the Glenwood Springs Canyon.It could be yours for the steep price of $2,450,000.The cave home is only a small portion of the property.
Nytimes
1 year ago
NYC parents

'A Concert of Parents Wrapped in Memories': Readers on 'Goodnight Moon'

An essay celebrating the story's 75th anniversary prompted an outpouring from our readers.
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RMNB
1 year ago
Washington Capitals

Tom Wilson tore his ACL against Panthers, will miss the next six to eight months due to knee surgery

Washington Capitals right wing Tom Wilson is expected to miss the start of the 2022-23 season after undergoing knee surgery.
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