Burnout ties medical student status to higher alcohol abuse
Mayo Clinic researchers surveyed 12 500 medical students finding about 1 400 in the subgroup reported clinical alcohol abuse or dependence. Younger age, unmarried status and higher debt linked to abuse while burnout factors elevated risk. They call for wellness curricula and easier access to mental health services.
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Rochester, Minn
Mayo Clinic
Academic Medicine
Liselotte Dyrbye
M.D
Mayo
U.S
Mayo Medical School
Eric Jackson
Tait Shanafelt
Omar Hasan
Daniel Satele
American Medical Association
Optimism Endures for Woman with Rare Fibrosing Mediastinitis
Despite dire prognosis, Lark, living on a Bremer County farm with husband Tim and four children, remains hopeful as specialists at USHC use innovative techniques to manage fibrosing mediastinitis. Eight stents and a nebulizer aid breathing while researchers seek better cures. She chronicled her fight in a 2015 self published book and blog to raise awareness.
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Liz Zabel
the Gazette
Rebecca Lalk
Tim Lalk
Asher
Waverly
Lalk
Iowa
USHC
Hornick
Lark
Bremer County
Tim
Skyler
Nathan
Leah
Gray hair gene IRF4 linked to aging pigment loss
University College London researchers study 6500 people across Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Chile and Peru and implicate IRF4 in hair graying. The study also ties other genes to curly hair beard thickness and unibrow while noting environment factors drive about 70 percent of gray or white hair. The team aims to delay or prevent graying and learn aging biology.
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University College London
Nature Communications
Mexico
Brazil
Colombia
Chile
Peru
August-born children at higher ADHD diagnosis risk
A Taiwan study of 378,881 children aged 4 to 17 finds August birthdays raise ADHD diagnosis odds, with August-born boys most affected. Authors urge factoring age within a grade for diagnosis and treatment decisions as school cutoff Sept 1 makes August kids the youngest in class.
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Journal of Pediatrics
Taiwan
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