Alternative Medicine News

The COVID-19 pandemic could reverse improvements made in recent decades toward HPV vaccination efforts, according to Mona Saraiya, MD, MPH.

Women who viewed themselves as lower in socioeconomic status experienced a higher allostatic load 1 year after giving birth, which may lead to worse health outcomes in the future, according to findings published in Health Psychology.

Even though the number of patients who visited an acupuncturist about doubled from 2010 to 2019, and insurance coverage for the treatment increased, most patients continued to pay out of pocket, according to recent data.

Middle-aged and older adults with confirmed, probable or suspected COVID-19, even mild cases, experienced worsened mobility and functioning outcomes following infection, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Implementing single-item food substitutions significantly reduced the carbon footprint and water scarcity footprint of participants’ diets, according to findings published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

The American Red Cross has declared, for the first time, a national blood crisis.

SARS-CoV-2 infection, even in asymptomatic cases, can lead to a broad autoantibody response that lasts beyond recovery from infection, according to findings published in the Journal of Translational Medicine.

Three months after a cohort of patients used a home-based therapeutic virtual reality program called EaseVRx, data indicated it was superior to a sham device in several clinical measures related to the user’s chronic lower back pain.

Binge drinking, cigarette smoking and marijuana use at age 18 years were associated with increased odds of prescription drug misuse later in life, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Australian, American, Canadian and British panels that developed clinical practice recommendations most often consisted of white men and excluded historically underrepresented women, researchers reported in The Lancet.