THURSDAY, April 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) — There appears to be a silver lining to forced school and business closures during early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study: Fewer kids used e-cigarettes. Compared to the previous quarter, vaping rates fell among 15- to 20-year-olds while widespreadContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Waking up briefly throughout the night may do more than leave you feeling grumpy and tired in the morning. Disrupted sleep may actually increase your odds of dying early from heart disease or any other cause, and women seem to be harder hitContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 22, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Getting vaccinated may be everyone’s best protection against COVID-19. But giving everyone fair access to vaccines will take more than just providing needles and vials, community health experts say. Vaccines have not been reaching everyone equally, statistics show. Overall, Black andContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 22, 2021 (HeathDay News) — April 16 was the first day that any Californian aged 16 or older became eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine. And at a bustling vaccination center in Pomona, Calif., 16-year-old Ashley Madera was in line to get her first dose of the PfizerContinue Reading
COVID-19 Vaccines Safe for Pregnant Women: Study A new study adds to growing evidence that the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines are safe for pregnant women. It included more than 35,000 pregnant women in the U.S. who received either of the vaccines, and found that their rates of miscarriage, prematureContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) — As demand for COVID-19 vaccination in the United States shows signs of declining, President Joe Biden on Wednesday offered businesses new incentives to help more workers get their shots. He asked — but did not mandate — that businesses give employees paid timeContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) — It’s no secret that too much sugar and saturated fat aren’t good for you, but what food combos put you at greater risk for heart disease and death in middle age? The answer, from a new University of Oxford study, is likely toContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) — It may not be a good idea to take a daily low-dose aspirin if you’re also taking a widely used class of blood thinners called direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), researchers caution. DOACs include drugs such as Eliquis (apixaban), Pradaxa (dabigatran), Lixiana (edoxaban) andContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) — If you’re in a public restroom, you may not want to hang around too long, because lots of airborne pathogens are hanging around, too. Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science conducted flush tests in a public restroom withContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Black and Hispanic survivors of a bleeding stroke are more likely than white survivors to have changes in small blood vessels in the brain that increase the risk of another bleeding stroke, researchers say. ‘Bleeding’ strokes, also called hemorrhagic stroke, comprise about 13%Continue Reading