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Biomedical Grad School recipients are left in the Limo
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Acceptations for biomedical graduated students and postgraduate scientists are reduced to some universities and medical centers throughout the country, because institutions are struggling with the potential impact of the Trump government order to reduce NIH Research Funding, a team of statscurrent wrote yesterday. The cuts come even if the proposed reductions of indirect costs were temporarily stopped by a federal court, at least to a hearing from the court tomorrow.
At some institutions, official recordings were paused, even for those who offered verbal acceptances. “We had just flown them out, we told them that we love you, we want to admit you, and then everything just stopped,” said Jennifer Unger, a professor who runs a doctorate program in research into health behavior at USC. Read more about the possible damage to young scientists.
746,000
That is how many people died through suicide worldwide in 2021, according to new estimates that were published yesterday in the Lancet Public Health. The standardized global death rate of suicide has fallen from nearly 15 deaths per 100,000 in 1990 to 9 per 100,000 in 2021. The data, of the global burden of diseases, injuries and risk factor research and updated until the years since 2016, is the only estimate of suicide mortality At the global level, the authors write.
Here are even more of the important findings of the study:
- While the total suicide mortality rate fell for three decades, the speed increased in areas referred to as central, Andes and tropical Latin America, as well as North America with a high income.
- Regional death rates are highest in Eastern Europe (19.2 per 100,000) and southern (16.1) and Central (14.4) Africa Bezuiden de Sahara.
- The US, Uruguay and Venezuela have the highest percentages of gun -related suicides. The US has almost double the number of gun -related deaths such as the following two countries, with a percentage of 6.19 firearm -related deaths per 100,000, 3.61 and 3.04 respectively.
- There was no big difference in the global suicide mortality rate before and after the COVID-19 Pandemie. (In 2019 the rate was 9.2 per 100,000.)
There may not be enough hospital beds for the aging American population
The US may be confronted with a national hospital bed within 7 years if there is no reduction Jama Network Open. A shortage takes place when 85% of the hospital beds are occupied throughout the country, the authors of the study write. Their estimates show that the US could reach that occupancy rate in 2032.
Without a meaningful change, the authors have projected the total number of annual hospital admissions in the US to rise from 36,174,000 this year to 40,177,000 in 2035. Data shows that the occupancy rate has already risen since the pandemic – in the year After the end of public health, the US had an occupancy rate of more than 75%, compared to the average percentage of around 64% Between 2009 and 2019.
As usual, there are some comments: there was a substantial variation in the state in occupancy after the emergency situation for public health. For the projections, the authors could not take into account how resources can be shifted (such as running an ICU bed to a floor bed) or how staff can travel. Neither could they take into account possible future trends, good or bad, in the health of Americans.
Participants in clinical test who believe that they will receive Eli Lilly’s next generation of obesity medicine, Stat’s Elaine Chen told that the treatment has been life-changing. For the first time in their lives, they have lost a considerable amount of weight, and many related circumstances – such as knee pain and high cholesterol – are also more under control. At the same time, some said they have found the effects of weight loss of the medicine at Extreme.
“It felt like a game,” a patient Elaine told about his first weight loss, about 10 pounds per month. But looking back: “I lost too fast.” He went from what is considered a obese BMI from 35 to a normal BMI of 25 within eight months. His colleagues told him that he looked tired and lean, and he eventually developed a kidney stone.
Doctors are also concerned about these new medicines. There are risks associated with losing weight too quickly, but there are also potential health effects if they suddenly rely on the treatments – which can happen if the insurance coverage is cut off or the drug is short. Read more in the in -depth story of Elaine with both real, personal patient experiences and expert perspectives.
Muscle building supplements and dysmorphia
The more muscle supplements a young person uses, the more symptoms of muscularniesmorphia they will probably show, according to a study published yesterday in PLOS Mental Health. Researchers analyzed data from more than 2,700 Canadian people aged 16-30 and looked at their use of six communal supplements, including amino acids, creatinemonohydrate, pre-workout drinks or powders, protein bars and whey-protein products.
Under the sample, almost 80% reported the use of at least one muscle building supplement in the past year. In an assessment, 18% scored on or above the clinical cutoff for musclesmorphia, which broke out of the genus as almost 12% of cisgendermeisjes, 19% of trans and gender-fever people and more than 26% of the cisgender boys.
The findings Echo report of Stat’s Alexa Lee from December that showed that muscularniesmorphia is increasing in boys and men, fed by social media. “If people knew the level of suffering that is accompanied by these diseases,” said anthropologist Mair Underwood Alexa, “they would not be so fast to trivialize it and reject it as a matter of vanity.”
What Dr. Oz will give up to run CMS
The stock ownership of Mehmet OZ – in the largest private health insurer in the country, UnitedHealth Group, together with dozens of other companies, including a large hospital chain, drug makers and suppliers of government ethics. In a letter sent earlier this week, OZ promised to sell all those shares and to resign from advisory roles and to divest from various investment funds if confirmed as manager of the centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
OZ has held a low profile since Trump called him as the choice to run CMS, and has attracted much less recoil than Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did before he was confirmed as HHS secretary. Read more of Stat’s Tara Bannow about what we can learn about OZ through his financial disclosures.
What we read
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Trump administration has dismissed health inspectors on some border stations, New York Times
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Airlines accurate to prevent consequences for breaking the wheelchairs of disabled travelers, Mother Jones
- Lobby for medical devices pushes back against Trump’s FDA cuts, Stat
- Vs is the plan to close to close the free COVID test program, Washington Post
- Trump gives Republicans an apparently impossible budgeting task, stat