TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Living through the pandemic has not been easy for kids, but it has really thrown off children who have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), new research warns. Though they were not more likely to catch COVID-19, they were more likely to experience symptoms if theyContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Americans, get up out of that chair and get moving. If everyone between 40 and 85 years of age were active just 10 minutes more a day, it could save more than 110,000 U.S. lives a year, a large study reports. “Our projectionsContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Pfizer Inc. announced Tuesday that it has launched a trial that will compare its existing COVID-19 vaccine against a new version tailored to beat back the highly contagious Omicron variant. “While current research and real-world data show that boosters continue to provide aContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — It has begun to feel like a pandemic that will never end, but public health experts now say the Omicron variant may be ushering in a “new normal,” where COVID-19 becomes an endemic, but manageable, disease. “I do feel that we are movingContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — European Union residents should be able to move freely between the 27 member nations if they’ve been vaccinated in the past nine months or have recently recovered from coronavirus infection, bloc officials said Tuesday. The announcement was made a day after the WorldContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Coronavirus infections before or after vaccination provide equal levels of increased immunity, and the key to this so-called “super immunity” is to be vaccinated, researchers report. “It makes no difference whether you get infected-and-then-vaccinated, or if you get vaccinated-and-then-a-breakthrough infection,” said study co-seniorContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Support from family and friends, along with exercise and sufficient sleep, have helped protect teens’ mental health during the pandemic, new research shows. The study also found that teen girls have been more likely than boys to suffer mental distress during the pandemic.Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — Christina Saldivar felt well-rested and energetic when she headed to her elementary school in Newport News, Virginia, on a Monday morning in February 2020. At 26, she was enjoying her first year of teaching music at the same campus instead ofContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Weeks after Omicron began ravaging the United States, experts are now seeing statistical signs that suggest the wildly contagious variant might be losing steam. More states have now reported they have passed their peaks in new cases, and new cases have begun toContinue Reading
Is Omicron on the downswing? After swamping America with new COVID cases, there are signs the Omicron variant surge may be ebbing, new data shows. Read more Women at higher risk of a stroke at a young age. New research suggests that women age 35 and younger were 44% moreContinue Reading