|
|
Zavrieť Schovať lištu | ||||||||||||||
Updated 3:50 pm 10/5/20: There were no significant changes regarding Trump’s health made public at the Monday news conference. Dr. Conley provided no additional information on the president’s medications, scans, or date of disease onset. He said Trump’s tweets are an indication of his mental status.
Donald Trump is not doing well. Or he’s doing great! Depends on whom you ask. The President’s medical team has been cagey and at times deliberately misleading about his condition, but we do have some information about the progression of his illness over the weekend.
Despite the rosy picture painted by the White House physicians, Trump — who is in several high-risk categories based on his age, weight, sex, and medical history — is currently being treated as if his case of Covid-19 is severe. In a briefing given Sunday, however, it sounded as if his condition is improving. …
Early on in the pandemic, it became clear that a large percentage of the deaths caused by Covid-19 were related to cardiovascular problems. In March, a study revealed that more than 25% of people hospitalized for the novel coronavirus had signs of heart damage, and nearly a third of those people had no underlying cardiovascular disease. A more recent evaluation of autopsies performed on people who died from Covid-19 found inflammation and injury to the heart in 86% of cases.
Perhaps even more alarming, evidence of heart damage has not only been reported in serious cases of Covid-19, but also in mild or asymptomatic ones. One study looking at college athletes who’d tested positive for the virus but had mild or even no symptoms found signs of inflammation in cardiac MRI scans in 15% of the athletes. And researchers from Germany found that 78% of people who’d recovered from Covid-19 showed similar abnormalities on MRI scans of their hearts taken two months later. …
Yesterday, three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. The discovery led to a curative treatment for the widespread, fatal virus, which infects somewhere between 71 million and 170 million people worldwide. …
This is a modified excerpt from Inside Your Head 🧠, a weekly newsletter exploring why your brain makes you think, feel, and act the way you do, written by me, Elemental’s senior writer and a former brain scientist. Subscribe here so you won’t miss the next one.
Your brain is working overtime to keep you safe right now. It has adjusted to a whole new reality and learned in a relatively short amount of time that what was once benign is now dangerous. For many people, these new fear associations are so strong they can even be triggered when the threat isn’t imminent. …
Dreams often reflect the things humans worry about and can be influenced by wars, natural disasters, or other crises, previous research has shown. Multiple new studies now reveal how the pandemic is infusing our sleep-time fantasies with an evolving series of anxieties and negative emotions.
Since the start of the pandemic, people have been experiencing more vivid, memorable, and bizarre dreams and more nightmares, both of a general nature and specifically related to the coronavirus, Covid-19, and the economic fallout of the crisis. …
Sound can be many things, take on many forms, and conjure a vast array of emotions. Sound can bring us to rage or laughter, or it can calm our nerves, invoking an almost sedative, relaxing quality. While chiropractic work is known for many therapeutic things, soothing sounds aren’t primary among them.
I am a practicing chiropractor. And no less than once a week, I find myself speaking to a patient — in person or over the phone — asking for what I call “the Youtube special.” Can you do that thing I’ve seen on Youtube? That “thing” they’re referring to is a chiropractic adjustment, also called a spinal correction or manipulation. …
Everyone dies — and yet, no one wants to talk about that. Even as we continue to find ourselves in a pandemic with a death toll so destabilizing, so different from the familiar I face as a hospice and palliative care social worker. We’re dying, and we’re grieving, and there is no end in sight. I write this as a call to soothe — to offer a space to this grim, untranslatable experience.
In my work, I have witnessed thousands of deaths over the past 21 years — all within a 30-mile radius of Los Angeles. I have sat with those in transition and those who have just died. I have calmed patients and families in crisis. I have joined with centenarians, babies, children, teens, adults, brand-new parents, veterans, newlyweds, Holocaust and internment camp survivors, the newly retired, political leaders, celebrities, royalty, doctors, CEOs, artists, healers, musicians, and hermits. …
This story contains descriptions of people attempting to end their life, which may be disturbing to some readers. If you or someone you know need help, consider calling the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1–800–273-TALK (8255) for English, 1–888–628–9454 for Spanish.
Bailey McCormick felt like nothing in her life was going right. It was May 2019 and her relationship with her family was strained, and she wasn’t getting along with her soon-to-be ex-boyfriend. Amid the stress, McCormick underwent a nonfatal suicide attempt.
During the attempt, the 30-year-old Missouri native called her psychiatrist and asked if she could come in for an emergency session. But rather than connect McCormick with her psychiatrist, the psychiatry office called the police as well as her mother who was upstairs in the house. Soon, six police officers showed up in her bedroom in the basement. She says her mind felt foggy at the time but that she remembers being handcuffed, strapped to a gurney, and sedated en route to a holding room until a regional hospital bed opened. …
The staff at the Berkshire Theatre Group desperately wanted the show to go on.
In March, theaters across the globe began canceling their productions, but Alex James, the company manager of the rural Massachusetts theater group, says she and her co-workers were determined to find a safe way to stage a show in the summer.
One of her colleagues came across a story about how Tyler Perry Studios planned on shooting four of its shows by creating a “Covid bubble.” …
If you or someone you know need help, consider calling The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1–800–273-TALK (8255) for English, 1–888–628–9454 for Spanish.
The last thing suicide attempt survivors think about in the first days and weeks of recovery is their medical bills. And yet as Elemental reported on Monday, many Americans who attempt suicide face the stress of paying off bills for their medical care.
Elemental spent several months reporting on self-harm and medical debt and asked a combination of suicide attempt survivors and health experts for some best practices for survivors looking for help with their medical bills. …
