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People with more empathy and cosmopolitan beliefs are more likely to support the international sharing of coronavirus vaccines, a new study shows. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many residents of high-income countries were eligible for COVID-19 vaccine boosters, while many residents of lower-income countries had not yet received a first dose. Researchers analyzed the levels and […]

Are you a business owner looking to build a successful ecommerce website? If so, then SEO should be at the top of your list. Search engine optimization can make or break an online store – optimizing for search engines is essential for any ecommerce website if you want to stand out from the competition and […]

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a draft decision memo on carotid-artery stenting (CAS) that would expand Medicare coverage of the procedure and remove certain requirements for CAS facilities and operators. The new memo follows a national coverage analysis for CAS that was initiated in January 2023 and considers 193 public […]

A new $3.9 million grant from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will allow researchers with the Center for Tobacco Research at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center to evaluate effects of e-cigarette flavors on the smoking behaviors of current adult smokers. The study, co-led by Theodore Wagener, PhD, director of Ohio State’s […]

In today’s overcrowded social media world, learning how to create viral short videos is a great idea. Viral marketing videos spread almost online and get millions of likes, shares, comments, and views. And that’s not all. Short-form video is dubbed the most engaging type of in-feed social content by 66% of marketers. No wonder, 33% […]

SAN DIEGO – The landmark Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) follow-up study has entered a new phase, focusing on a relatively recent phenomenon: aging in type 1 diabetes. New funding for 2022-2027 for the DCCT long-term observational follow-up study, the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC) will go toward investigating aspects of type […]

In an Editor’s Statement in the peer-reviewed journal Transgender Health on the importance of access to gender affirming care for our nation’s youth, Journal Editor-in-Chief Robert Garofalo, MD, MPH, states “LGBTQ youth need love, support, and acceptance , not misinformation and hate thinly veiled as compassion.” Although recent attempts to distort science and disseminate misinformation […]

As a marketing mogul, you’re probably no stranger to the importance of creating content that stands out and keeps your reader hooked. However, brainstorming ideas, crafting and editing content, and promoting it can be time consuming, overwhelming, and let’s face it: you’d rather outsource it or, at the very least, get some help. You may […]

A teenager who weighed 300 lb and was homeschooled because he was too big to fit in a classroom chair is among the patients Manal Habib, MD, has seen in her pediatric endocrinology practice. The boy, a social butterfly who hated isolation and blamed himself for his “poor choices,” turned out to have an MC4R […]

Starting this July, people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s before age 65 will have a new opportunity to connect with others while exploring the great outdoors through a program called SOAR. The name is an acronym for Shared Outdoor Adventures for Resilience. Offered by the UW Medicine Memory and Brain Wellness Center, SOAR will feature free monthly […]