ASTRO survey: Fewer patients despite enhanced safety measures at radiation oncology clinics

ARLINGTON, Va., May 20, 2020 – Despite facing challenges such as limited access to personal protective equipment (PPE) following the COVID-19 outbreak, radiation oncology clinics quickly implemented safety and process enhancements that allowed them to continue caring for cancer patients, according to a new national survey from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). All…

Pandemic likely to cause long-term health problems, Yale School of Public Health finds

The coronavirus pandemic’s life-altering effects are likely to result in lasting physical and mental health consequences for many people–particularly those from vulnerable populations–a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health finds. Assistant Professor Sarah Lowe and colleagues studied low-income women from New Orleans who were surveyed the year prior to, and at…

High blood pressure during and after exercise may be markers for disease later in life

(Boston)–Higher blood pressure during exercise and delayed blood pressure recovery after exercise are associated with a higher risk of hypertension, preclinical and clinical cardiovascular disease and death among middle-aged to older adults. Blood pressure responses to exercise are significant markers of cardiovascular disease and mortality risk in young to middle-aged adults. However, few studies…

Every heart dances to a different tune

Sophia Antipolis – 20 May 2020: Play the same piece of music to two people, and their hearts can respond very differently. That’s the conclusion of a novel study presented today on EHRA Essentials 4 You, a scientific platform of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). This pioneering research revealed how music triggers individual effects…

The Time for ‘The Talk’ Is Now

As a palliative care doctor in the Covid-19 era, I meet many families struggling to make decisions for loved ones who become too sick, too fast, to make their own health care choices. Recently, the son of a critically ill patient asked that we postpone major decisions about his father’s care until he had improved…