High-intensity yoga for less than 30 minutes, twice a week, may be the best workout routine for catching high-quality shut-eye, a new study shows. But before people jump on the yoga trend, researchers say more experiments are needed to…
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Physician Starting Pay Hits $400,000 A Year
The average starting salary for physicians has eclipsed $400,000 on average with orthopedic surgeons “at the high end” at $576,000 and pediatricians on the “low end” of the pay scale at $258,000, according to an AMN Healthcare report.
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Johns Hopkins scientists grow a mini human brain that lights up and connects like the real thing
Johns Hopkins University researchers have grown a novel whole-brain organoid, complete with neural tissues and rudimentary blood vessels — an advance that could usher in a new era of research into neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism.
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Alzheimer’s risk may start at the brain’s border, not inside it
The brain’s health depends on more than just its neurons. A complex network of blood vessels and immune cells acts as the brain’s dedicated guardians — controlling what enters, cleaning up waste, and protecting it from threats by forming the…
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Resource-Sharing Consortium Charts The Future In Student Mental Health
Education concepts for success.
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In 2024, Higher Ed Drive detailed how a credit reporting agency warned that higher education would face significant financial pressures in 2025. Data suggests that these financial pressures have increased…
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‘Days Of Wine And Roses’ Depicts The Rapture And Ravage Of Alcoholism
‘Days of Wine and Roses’ is one of many films showcasing the glitz, glamor and gore of alcohol. But Hollywood needs to show that recovery is possible using medications and therapy.
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Over the…
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Fetal autopsies could help prevent stillbirths, but too often they are used to blame mothers for pregnancy loss
About 60 pregnancies per day in the U.S. end in stillbirth.
The best way to find out why a stillbirth occurred is a fetal autopsy – yet these procedures are performed in only 1 in 5 of the over 20,000 stillbirths that occur each year. As…
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With OpenAI Set To Launch GPT-5, Here’s How To Monetize Healthcare GenAI
How will generative AI be monetized in healthcare? Two competing visions are emerging.
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Generative AI is advancing faster than any technology in modern memory. GenAI capabilities continue to double annually, and OpenAI’s GPT-5 model is…
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Researchers discover key social factors that triple long COVID risk
Mass General Brigham investigators led a nationwide study that found that financial hardship, food insecurity, lack of healthcare access, and other social risk factors are linked to higher risks of long COVID.
Long COVID includes a wide range of…