“This is not the time to be funny or to make a patient the laughingstock of the department.” — Lauren Westafer, DO, of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, discussing patients presenting to the emergency department with sex-related injuries.
“These people don’t want to be seen as partisans; they want to be seen as serious jurists.” — Mary Ziegler, JD, of Florida State University in Tallahassee, speculating about what Justice Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court might mean for healthcare.
“I think these studies need to move to look for molecular clues.” — Logan Spector, PhD, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, discussing research on increased childhood cancer risk in IVF babies born with major birth defects.
“Even seemingly mundane linguistic abilities — such as object naming — engage extensive brain networks.” — Elif Eyigoz, PhD, of IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, New York, about an artificial intelligence model that uses language patterns to predict Alzheimer’s disease.
“Bisexual young people might experience stigma from both the heterosexual population as well as from within the LGB+ community.” — Alyssa F. Harlow, MPH, of Boston University School of Public Health, on how stress among young people coming out is associated with an increased risk of smoking initiation.
“Given the extent of vascularization in the brain, it is not surprising that a particular region and associated cognitive function were not selectively affected.” — Stephen Rapp, PhD, of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, about why aggressively targeting lower blood pressure did not benefit specific cognitive functions like memory.
Source: MedicalNewsToday.com
