TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The great outdoors can soothe the soul, but new research suggests that working outside might also guard against breast cancer. The study wasn’t designed to say how working outside affects chances of developing breast cancer, but vitamin D exposure may be the drivingContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The death rate among COVID-19 patients in intensive care has fallen since the start of the pandemic, largely because of better treatments. But a new study review suggests that those advances in care may have plateaued. The new analysis looked at data fromContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Black and Hispanic children who land in the emergency room are less likely than white kids to receive X-rays, CT scans and other imaging tests, a new study finds. Looking at more than 13 million ER visits to U.S. children’s hospitals, researchers foundContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) — College football players suffer more concussions and head hits in practice than they do actually playing the game, a new study suggests. Across five seasons of football, 72% of concussions and 67% of head impacts incurred by players on six National Collegiate AthleticContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Dr. Lisa Iezzoni is all too familiar with the discrimination that patients who have a disability can face: Having lived with multiple sclerosis for more than four decades and now in a wheelchair, she has also studied health care experiences and outcomes forContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — About every other month for nearly a year, Cherée Johnson would wake up in the middle of the night with a sharp pain in her chest. Sometimes it lasted a couple of minutes, sometimes as long as 20 minutes. She wasContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) — If new, more contagious variants become dominant in the United States, a high rate of Americans who have already suffered through a case of COVID-19 will likely get re-infected. Therefore, “you need to get vaccinated when it becomes available as quickly and asContinue Reading
Russian COVID-19 Vaccine Safe and Effective: Study Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine appears safe and effective, according to early results of a late-stage study. The trial of the vaccine, called Sputnik V, involved about 20,000 people in Russia last fall. It found that the vaccine is about 91% effective and also appearsContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Stroke survivor Ken Allsford focused intensely on how he wanted to bend his elbow. And then the robot exoskeleton attached to his left arm obeyed his unspoken command, moving his crippled limb. “It was a combination of exciting and trepidation, because sometimes nothingContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) — There has been a sharp decline in heart surgeries and an increase in heart surgery patient deaths in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers say. An analysis of national data revealed a 53% decrease in all adult heart surgeries, including aContinue Reading