FRIDAY, Feb. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) — It may be safe for many of America’s kids to head back to classrooms, experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday. According to the agency’s new operational guidance, schools can safely reopen if they employ five keyContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) — If you like to take a snooze in the afternoon, your genes may explain your love of daytime naps, researchers say. For their study, investigators analyzed data from the UK Biobank, which contains genetic information from nearly 453,000 people who were asked howContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A new variant of COVID-19 found in Southern California is coursing across the United States and around the world, a new study finds. The variant — called CAL.20C — was first found in July in Los Angeles County. It reappeared in Southern CaliforniaContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 12, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Nelson Zhao grew up in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and as a child started going to a nonprofit community health center. Today, at 29 and with a good job working in the finance sector, he’s never given a second thought to goingContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 12, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Latisha Wilborne was excited. She and her husband had tried for a year to get pregnant, and now, 20 weeks pregnant, she was at a doctor’s visit with her two sisters where an ultrasound would determine if she was having aContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The United States will have enough COVID-19 vaccines to inoculate 300 million Americans by summer, President Joe Biden announced Thursday. During a tour of the National Institute of Health’s Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory, where the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine was created, Biden said his administrationContinue Reading
COVID-19 Vaccines for U.S. Kids Still Months Away Late summer will be the earliest that children in the United States could receive COVID-19 vaccines, experts say. Pfizer and Moderna are conducting clinical trials of their vaccines in children 12 and older and hope to have findings by the summer, TheContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Despite widespread efforts to increase access and awareness, new research shows there’s been virtually no change in the number of people on waiting lists for potentially lifesaving kidneys over the past two decades. For their study, scientists analyzed information on more than 1.3Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 12, 2021, (HealthDay News) — Former President Donald Trump was much more ill than was let on when he came down with COVID-19 in early October, sources close to Trump have told The New York Times. At one point, his blood oxygen levels plunged to the 80s —Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) — When choosing a face mask to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, it seems like the choices are endless. To make the decision a little easier, researchers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, tested several styles in 41 types ofContinue Reading