Author: Anna Green

American Airways posted a third-quarter loss on Thursday and trimmed its revenue forecast for the yr, partly in response to greater gasoline costs.The service stated Thursday it expects to earn between $2.25 and $2.50 a share, on an adjusted foundation, for the yr, down from an estimate in July of $3 to $3.75 however largely consistent with analyst expectations. American stated it expects a full-year adjusted working margin of seven%, down from a earlier forecast for as huge a margin as 10%.For the fourth quarter, American estimated it will break even.Here is how American Airways carried out within the third quarter in…

Ukraine is dealing with a brand new Russian onslaught within the jap metropolis of Avdiivka, senior navy officers have warned.Russian forces subjected the frontline metropolis within the partially-occupied Donetsk area to fierce assaults final week, however the shelling had tapered off in the previous couple of days.Ukraine appeared to have pushed again preliminary Russian advances, destroying dozens of armoured automobiles, based on analysists.However Oleksandr Shtupun, spokesperson for the southern group of Ukrainian forces, informed nationwide tv there was now fixed strain on Avdiivka. “They regrouped and launched new assaults there,” he stated.Avdiivka lies simply 9 miles from the Moscow-held metropolis…

Doctors Discover Three-Inch Worm Living in Woman’s Brain Doctors in Australia had screened, scanned and tested a woman to find out why she was sick after being hospitalized with abdominal pains and diarrhea. They were not prepared for what they found. A three-inch red worm was living in the woman’s brain. The worm was removed last year after doctors spent more than a year trying to find the cause of the woman’s distress. The hunt for the answer, and the alarming discovery, was described this month in Emerging Infectious Diseases, a monthly journal published by the Centers for Disease Control…

The Biden Administration Announces Price Negotiations for Medicare Medicines Landmark Program to Reduce Drug Spending, Faces Opposition from Pharmaceutical Industry The Biden administration on Tuesday announced the first 10 medicines that will be subject to price negotiations with Medicare, kicking off a landmark program that is expected to reduce the government’s drug spending but is being fought by the pharmaceutical industry in court. The medications on the list are taken by millions of older Americans and cost Medicare billions of dollars annually. The drugs were selected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services through a process that prioritized medications…

The Author and Psychologist Lisa Damour The Impact on Parents The author and psychologist Lisa Damour has become somewhat of a celebrity among many parents of teenagers. Rebecca Gold, a mother of three from Great Barrington, Mass, said, “I’ve been Damour-alizing myself big time for about a month now.” She loves Damour so much that she even created a verb in her honor. Gold has been consuming Dr. Damour’s books, listening to her podcast, and trying to channel her advice. Katie Eastwood, a parent from Seattle, also raved about Dr. Damour’s book “Untangled,” a guide to a girl’s seven developmental…

Improving Indoor Air Quality in Schools On a sunny afternoon in a cluttered music room at East High in Denver, two sophomores practiced violin while their music teacher, Keith Oxman, labored over a desk in an adjoining office. The ceiling fans were off to prevent the sheet music from scattering. The windows were sealed shut. East High is Denver’s largest high school and among the oldest, and there is no modern ventilation system. As the pandemic broke out, Mr. Oxman, 65 and a cancer survivor, feared getting sick or carrying the virus to his 101-year-old father. So he left the…

Use of Mental Health Care Increased During the Coronavirus Pandemic, Study Finds Use of mental health care increased substantially during the coronavirus pandemic, as teletherapy lowered barriers to regular visits, according to a large study of insurance claims published Friday in JAMA Health Forum.From March 2020 to August 2022, mental health visits increased by 39 percent, and spending increased by 54 percent, the study found. Its examination of 1,554,895 claims for clinician visits also identified a tenfold increase in the use of telehealth.The study covers visits for around seven million adults throughout the country who receive health insurance through their…

The NewsA state judge in Missouri on Friday denied a request to temporarily block a state law passed this year that restricts gender-related medical treatments for minors. The ruling was issued by Missouri Circuit Court Judge Steven Ohmer, three days before the ban is set to go into effect. A legal challenge to the ban brought by civil rights groups is ongoing. Why It Matters: Adolescents and adults are likely to have difficulty accessing gender-related health care.Under Missouri’s law, clinicians will not be allowed to treat any minor who is not already receiving gender transition care, which includes drugs that…

The Effectiveness of Written Exposure Therapy for PTSD The two therapies were found to be equally effective, and only 12.5 percent of subjects dropped out of the written exposure group before completing a course of treatment, compared with 35.6 percent in the prolonged exposure group. In 2018, a study by the same team found that written exposure therapy was as effective as cognitive processing therapy, another first-line, or most highly recommended, PTSD treatment. Writing down traumatic memories may be easier for some people, if they feel shame or embarrassment about what happened to them, said Denise Sloan, a psychologist who…

The Small Midwestern Gender Clinic Faces High Demand and Controversy An Overwhelming Surge in Demand The small Midwestern gender clinic was struggling to keep up with the increasingly high demand for its services. Each month, dozens of young patients were seeking appointments, far outnumbering the two psychologists available to screen them. Meanwhile, doctors in the nearby emergency room were alarmed by the number of transgender teenagers arriving in crisis, receiving hormones without therapy. A Godsend Turned Political Storm The clinic, which opened in 2017 at a children’s hospital affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis, was initially hailed as a…