It is important to take care of your mental health in the winter, especially in the middle of a pandemic. Healthcare professionals have been placing heavy emphasis on being aware of one’s mental health. As a reminder (since we’ve covered this previously, but feel it is important to remind people periodically to be careful and …

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The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic is not a unique event, though there likely aren’t any people who can remember the events of the last one. When World War I was ending in 1918, there was an influenza pandemic. There are many similarities between that pandemic and the COVID-19 pandemic. The primary differences are fairly obvious. There …

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While patients may know their bodies better than medical professionals, when it comes to something as complicated as lumbar surgery, doctors tend to be far more accurate in their assessment of a patient’s recovery and capability after surgery. Patients tend to be more optimistic about what they will get from the surgery than professionals. Lower …

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The article details the professional history of Swiss neuroengineer professor Silvestro Micera and his pursuit of revolutionary prosthetics. His interest in them began when he was a teenager who loved reading comic books, particularly Spiderman with the eight-tentacled Doc Oc. This developed into a desire to create prosthetics that were beneficial in the real world. …

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The year 2020 has highlighted a need for a method of sending differentiated warnings for dire health risks. The World Health Organization (WHO) has begun to look at different alert system to send notifications to at least the members of the organization after governments appeared to react too slowly to the early threat from the …

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Humans have been making anti-venom for a couple of centuries, and the process has changed significantly since the early days. Instead of the complicated process, scientists have found a way to safely create anti-venom in the lab instead of needing to milk venom from snakes. Netherland researchers used glands from nine venomous snakes and stem …

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Stress can occur for many reasons, so it is best to know how to ensure you don’t over eat because of that stress. There is a good chance you already know most of the reasons – they tend to be common sense or we’ve heard them many times before – but it is good to …

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As people spend more time inside because of the pandemic, they are less likely to seek relief for back pain. The article discusses the experience of a firefighter who suffered from chronic back pain. At the time of publication, it had been a year since he had  back surgery, but he was already suffering from …

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The subject of the article had undergone spinal surgery (fusion) 14 years earlier, but the pain had returned to the point that he was in pain just walking a few steps. When he returned to hear the results of an MRI, the doctor sat down and looked at his screen, making the patient particularly nervous …

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Insomnia is one of the most common sleep disorders. Although some issues are genetic, all people go through periods of insomnia because of mood, situation, or stress. During 2020, there has been a spike in stress induced insomnia. Yoga can help someone suffering from stress to reduce stress levels so that it does not take …

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