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Scalp massage is one of those simple pleasures that come loaded with beauty benefits—similar to sliding on a hand cream or carving your cheekbones with a facial roller, it's both a dreamy and entirely functional experience. Read: Just a few presses of your fingertips or rounds with a scalp brush can help release tension, loosen buildup, and encourage healthy hair growth. Not bad for a five-minute practice.  "We know stress tightens the scalp and impedes circulation and hair growth," says Bridgette Hill, certified trichologist and founder of Root Cause Scalp Analysis. With regular massage, you can release that tension and encourage blood flow to the area—which, in turn, delivers oxygen and hair-healthy nutrients to the follicle. Researchers have even associated the practice with increased hair thickness—but you can read more about that here. If you'd like to incorporate scalp massage into your hair care routine, you're in luck: Below, Hill shares her go-to...

Purpose: The aim of this study is to assess donor rim culture results and predict ocular infections after corneal transplantation to determine the relationship between positive corneoscleral rim cultures and post-keratoplasty infection. Design: This is a retrospective study. Methods: The microbiology results of positive donor rim culture and clinical outcomes of all contaminated grafts at Dhahran Eye Specialist Hospital (DESH) in the Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia between October 2016 and February 2020 were reviewed. Results: A total of 684 corneal transplantation procedures were performed at DESH during this period. Routine donor rim cultures were done for all cases with six positive cases (0.88%). There were five positive fungal donor rim cultures (0.73%), and one corneal rim was positive for both bacterial and fungal cultures (0.15%). Among these six patients, two patients (33.33%) who received graft positive with candida developed an infection. Both cases required ...

By all accounts, Lauren Morgan Tweedale had a bubbly personality. She was outgoing, loved to sing karaoke, and to go to the gym with her buddies. Forty-seven years old, Tweedale was also trim and healthy. So it was a huge shock to her family and friends when last year, on the morning of April 6th , 2021, she was found unresponsive in her bed. The doctors told the family that Tweedale died of a sudden cardiac event . However, just eight days before she died, Tweedale had gotten her first dose of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine against COVID-19. "Like a well-oiled machine," she posted privately on Facebook, tagging the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. "Nicely done, team!" The Epoch Times also verified her vaccination card. To date, well over 300 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine have been administered in the United States, according to Statista.com . While millions of people have had these vaccines with only temporary, mild, or even no side effects at all, 1,255,35...

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The new building, which opened Monday, will allow Bridgeway Recovery Services to make treatment for mental health, chemical dependency and problem gambling more available in Salem A ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday, May 19, 2022, celebrating the opening of Bridgeway Plaza in Salem. (Ardeshir Tabrizian/Salem Reporter) When Tim Murphy set out to find a place to serve as a hub for mental health and addiction treatment in Salem, he didn't think it would take him eight years. But on Monday, a new hub opened that will combine Bridgeway Recovery Services' mental health, chemical dependency and problem gambling programs to increase access where providers say it is lacking. Murphy, Bridgeway's founder and CEO of Bridgeway Recovery Services, said the opening of Bridgeway Plaza on Northeast Front Street will make treatment more available in Salem for the roughly 450 people his organizations treats monthly. Murphy said he chose that location because he wanted a place d...

(CNN) The United States might need to update its Covid-19 vaccines each year, according to a trio of top US Food and Drug Administration officials, and "a new normal" may include an annual Covid-19 vaccine alongside a seasonal flu shot. "Widespread vaccine- and infection-induced immunity, combined with the availability of effective therapeutics, could blunt the effects of future outbreaks. Nonetheless, it is time to accept that the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is the new normal. It will likely circulate globally for the foreseeable future, taking its place alongside other common respiratory viruses such as influenza. And it likely will require similar annual consideration for vaccine composition updates," Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research; Principal Deputy Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock; and new FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf wrote in a paper published in the medical journal JAMA ...

The new platform adds another player to the competitive primary care market, and could push healthcare providers, ranging from large networks to the solo doctor, to embrace telehealth and digital health as a means of keeping patients and attracting new ones. The competition for primary care services is getting more crowded. CVS Health has announced the launch of CVS Health Virtual Primary Care, a new telehealth service being rolled this year to CVS Caremark members and next year to eligible Aetna members. The new platform gives members an on-demand virtual care link to primary care providers, as well as urgent care, chronic care management and behavioral care services, with the option of being seen via telehealth or in person through an in-network provider or MinuteClinic visit. "We're meeting people where they are on their healthcare journey and providing care that is more convenient and easier to access," Creagh Milford, DO MPH, FACOI, vice president of enterprise virtu...

In this article PFE A healthcare worker administers a Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a child at vaccination site in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Pfizer and BioNTech's three-dose Covid vaccine for children 6 months to 5 years old was 80% effective at preventing illness during the omicron wave, according to preliminary clinical trial results released Monday. A third dose of the vaccine elicited a strong immune response and was well tolerated by the kids with a majority of the side effects mild to moderate, according to the companies. BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin said the companies plan this week to complete their application asking the Food and Drug Administration to authorize the vaccine for emergency use. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said he hopes the vaccine will be available to younger kids as soon as possible. Hours after Pfizer released the data, the FDA announced its committee of independent vaccine experts...

Arlene S. Bierman, MD, MS, of the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality discusses two kinds of research in health care. Arlene S. Bierman, MD, MS, is director of the Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement in the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service. She also is a general internist, geriatrician and researcher. In this video segment, Bierman explains health care research deals with at least two topics: conditions and diseases of the body, and the science of care, which include the systems to deliver health services to people. AHRQ conducts health services research to find out what leads to the best primary care, and the best return on investment.

Nagpur: To make Nagpur filaria-free, ensure that you and all your family members and community members consume anti-filaria medicines, said Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) chief Radhakrishnan B, in a statement during mass drug administration (MDA) launch on May 25. He expressed his commitment to ending lymphatic filariasis, or filaria, by consuming the drugs himself. In line with the commitment by the state public health department to eliminate filariasis by 2030, MDA rounds were launched in the district on Wednesday. The NMC chief highlighted the urgent need for community participation in order to make this programme a success. "That is why, for a healthy Nagpur, we must make all health-related programmes as mass movement," he said. Zilla parishad president Rashmi Barve inaugurated the programme in rural areas of the district. She also consumed anti-filariasis drugs during the launch, to show her support and trust in the programme. All efforts will be made to ensure that ...

Rotavirus and norovirus infections are common causes of stomach flu, clinically referred to as viral gastroenteritis . This inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract causes diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, and sometimes fever. Even though both infections cause these symptoms, there are critical differences between the two viruses. Whereas norovirus is the most common source of infections in adults and people of all ages, rotavirus is more common among children and infants under age 5. This article breaks down the differences between these viruses, as well as when to contact your healthcare provider, the treatments available, and how to prevent infection.        FG Trade / Getty Images Symptoms of Rotavirus vs. Norovirus Since both rotavirus and norovirus lead to viral gastroenteritis, the symptoms largely align. Both conditions cause: Nausea and vomiting ...

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Teresa Kim Pecinovsky is terrified she will have a miscarriage. The 38-year-old Houston mother of two children is in the second trimester of a high-risk pregnancy, but uncertainty about Texas abortion laws means that she — and her gynecologist — are worried about her access to proper medical care if that nightmare were to come true. "She actually couldn't give me a solid answer, which was horrifying to me," said Pecinovsky, who is an ordained minister. Late last year, the lesser-known abortion restriction known as Senate Bill 4 went into effect, making it a state jail felony in Texas for medical personnel to administer the ulcer drug misoprostol to induce an abortion after seven weeks of pregnancy. Misoprostol is commonly used for miscarriages, and the law doesn't ...