With the COVID-19 pandemic raging on and a big part of it involving throat and chest pain, you may be starting to rethink your smoking habits. You might be thinking that supporting your body’s full health is what you want to do. Quitting smoking can reduce anxiety, lung damage, and throat pain significantly. Quitting cold… Read More: What Is The Smoker’s Flu And How Can You Spot… »
More than three decades of scientific research suggests that repeatedly telling children that they are especially smart or talented leaves them vulnerable to failure, and fearful of challenges. Children raised this way develop an implicit belief that intelligence is innate and fixed, making striving to learn seem less important than seeming smart; challenges, mistakes, and… Read More: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids »
Metformin, a drug used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, may have a role in reversing weight gain in people with HIV on antiretroviral treatment, a small preliminary study suggests. The drug’s impact on weight gain in people with HIV needs to be tested in larger studies, especially in women with HIV of African… Read More: Diabetes drug may aid weight loss in people with HIV »
As a first-year medical student, the transition to an online curriculum has posed a unique set of challenges. I am often asked, “How exactly can you become a doctor without having seen a patient, without having put a stethoscope on another human being?” I’ve been told many times already by my professors that to listen… Read More: The pandemic has only further strengthened my passion to become… »