WEDNESDAY, July 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) — From the ongoing pandemic and the monkeypox outbreak to the charged political landscape, New York City mom and entrepreneur Lyss Stern has been increasingly anxious. Stern worries that she will pass all of this fretting down to her 8-year-old daughter, and a newContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows states to ban abortion isn’t expected to have an immediate effect on in vitro fertilization, according to an analysis by the nation’s leading reproductive health society. However, the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade opens upContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Had COVID? You might want to clean your freezer out. A new study suggests that cousins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus can survive on frozen meat and fish for up to 30 days. The research — prompted by COVID outbreaks in Asia in whichContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) — People with lupus benefit from a COVID-19 booster shot after full vaccination, with a new study showing they are half as likely to experience a COVID infection afterward. “Our study results offer people living with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) clinical confirmation that vaccinesContinue Reading
What do abortion bans mean for people using IVF? The decision to overturn Roe v. Wade opens up a host of knotty moral and ethical questions regarding the storage and disposal of unused embryos, experts warn. Read more Social media has big impact on people taking up smoking, vaping. PeopleContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The COVID pandemic has eaten into the progress made against drug-resistant infections, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency reported that hospital-related infections and deaths grew by 15% during the pandemic’s first year, 2019 to 2020. The increaseContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Genetically altered pig hearts could soon become a viable transplantation alternative for people with life-threatening heart disease, new experiments show. A team at NYU Langone Health has successfully transplanted two such pig hearts into brain-dead humans on life support, making advances that mayContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Want to get fit and stay fit? Arlington, Va., may be the city for you: For the fifth year in a row, it has been named the fittest city in America. Meanwhile, the title of the least fit city goes to Oklahoma City,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, July 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If you’ve ever hesitated to text or email friends you haven’t seen in a while, a new study has a reassuring message: They’ll probably appreciate it more than you think. In a series of experiments involving nearly 6,000 adults, researchers found that, inContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 12, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — A week after Christopher Holton got a clean bill of health from his doctor at his annual physical, he set out for his daily walk on a wooded trail near home. Holton, a 52-year-old former youth football league coach and multiple-mile-a-dayContinue Reading