A Brazilian study linked dengue infection with an elevated risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). GBS risk peaked 2 weeks after dengue symptom onset. Multiple case reports have discussed dengue-related GBS, but risks had not been previously quantified. Dengue infection was associated with an elevated risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) up to 6 weeks after symptom…
It’s one of the most annoying things a website can do: You visit a page, take a look, and decide for whatever reason you need to head back to the previous page you were on. Only when you click the back button, or you use a keyboard shortcut to go back a page, the current…
Donated blood usually comes from anonymous volunteers, and is screened for safety Getty Images A hospital in the US has had to concede to an unusual request from patients requiring blood transfusions: that they come from donors who haven’t been vaccinated against covid-19. This has led to delays in treatments that caused one individual to…
BMJ’s Journal of Medical Genetics retracted nearly all the papers published in a 2019 guest-edited issue after an investigation revealed the papers were “irreparably compromised.” In all, seven of eight papers and one editorial were retracted. The journal’s investigation found that the peer review process was compromised in almost all articles and that the guest…
What do you primarily use Spotify for? Enjoying music? Keeping up with your favorite podcasts? Listening to audiobooks? Well, the next time you open it (at least on Android) you might just use it to shop for a book—not just an ebook, mind you, but a physical book. Spotify is officially a bookseller As reported…
The family of influencer Ashlee Jenae is asking the public for help after she died earlier this month under mysterious circumstances on a trip abroad. Jenae had been staying at a luxury villa in Zanzibar, Tanzania, with her fiancé, crypto trader Joe McCann, whom she had been dating for more than a year. But two…
Polly Toynbee is right that it is time to stop the doctors’ strikes (Both doctors and the government are handling this strike badly – that’s why there is no end in sight, 10 April). She suggests that doctors are not feeling the pain of industrial action, but this is far from true. We are anxious…
Orthopedic surgeons commonly use vancomycin and tobramycin powder intraoperatively to reduce infection risk. A randomized trial showed that adding tobramycin was no better than vancomycin alone at preventing deep surgical site infections among patients with tibial fractures at high risk of infection. The combination therapy’s posterior probability of being superior to vancomycin alone was only…
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When Lorne Lucree first met with investors to pitch his allergy-care brand Wizard Wellness, he included a flow chart in his presentation. Lucree, a 20-year product development veteran for brands like Tatcha, Clinique, and One/Size, had to find a way to get people to care about a deeply “unsexy category.” Through the flow chart, Lucree…
