TUESDAY, Aug. 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a new U.S. study serves as a reminder of how severe the seasonal flu can be. Researchers found that among 90,000 Americans hospitalized with the flu, 12% had a serious heart complication, including heart attack and sudden heart failure.Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) — As the race to develop a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine unfolds around the globe, experts say the sheer logistics of vaccinating the masses might be even more daunting. “The challenge we face now is really the largest and most complex mass vaccinationContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) — As the World Health Organization cautioned on Monday that using plasma from COVID-19 survivors to treat other patients is still an experimental therapy, American scientists challenged a key statistic cited by U.S. officials as grounds for emergency approval of the treatment. In announcingContinue Reading
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Worlds’ First Confirmed Case of Coronavirus Reinfection Reported in Hong Kong
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SUNDAY, Aug. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) — It may seem like a paradox, but giving someone a gift to help them save money is a sure way to make them hate it. The reason: It will make the recipient feel inferior to you, researchers say. In contrast, a gift thatContinue Reading
SATURDAY, Aug. 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) — With the arrival of late summer, it’s essential to know the signs of heat exhaustion and how to intervene before it escalates to a more severe condition like heat stroke, emergency medicine experts say. Heat exhaustion comes with symptoms including: heavy sweating; breathlessness;Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The Trump administration has blocked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from regulating a wide swath of laboratory tests, including ones for the coronavirus. The new policy, which was posted Wednesday and is strongly opposed by the FDA itself, stunned health experts andContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Fall is approaching, and so is the possibility of what public health officials are calling a “twindemic” — overlapping epidemics of both COVID-19 and influenza. A bad flu season coupled with continued COVID-19 outbreaks could increase people’s risk of fatal illness and overwhelmContinue Reading
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Extract From Deadly Plant Touted as COVID-19 Cure by Trump Donor
Trump Administration Advisory Panel Rejects Nearly All Proposals For Fetal Tissue Research
Fauci Has Vocal Polyp Removed
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THURSDAY, Aug. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Back-to-school season can be a time of stress for many kids — even in the best of times. But pandemic fears add to the anxiety many kids will experience with the start of the 2020-2021 academic year, according to David FitzGerald, a childContinue Reading