THURSDAY, July 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) — It’s the Holy Grail for containing the spread of coronavirus, but contact tracing only works if it is done quickly, researchers report. The modeling study showed that even if all contacts are successfully traced, a delay of three days or more between theContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Irene Johnson noticed a big, blue bus bearing the words “Breathe Easy” outside the Benton, Tenn., library during the 2019 Labor Day weekend. Inside, a librarian told Johnson that the bus was a mobile CT unit that travels around screening smokers for lungContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The rate of second strokes among Mexican Americans has declined steeply since the turn of the century, a new study finds. Between 2000 and 2013, the rate of recurrent stroke fell faster in Mexican Americans than in white people. By 2013, there wasContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) — As the number of U.S. coronavirus cases topped 3.5 million on Wednesday, more states, cities and major retailers turned to face mask mandates to try to stem the spread of COVID-19. Increasingly seen as a last hope to slow soaring infection rates acrossContinue Reading
Record Number of Overdose Deaths in U.S. Last Year
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Childhood Vaccinations Decline During Coronavirus Pandemic
WEDNESDAY, July 15, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Even as new coronavirus infections soar in the United States, a new study offers one piece of good news: Severely ill COVID-19 patients are significantly more likely to survive now compared to a few months ago. In fact, deaths for COVID-19 patients inContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 15, 2020 (HealthDay News) — It has been the sole silver lining in the coronavirus pandemic — cleaner air and water on the planet. But will it continue? A new study says that isn’t yet clear. “The pandemic raises two important questions related to the environment,” said studyContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 15, 2020 (HealthDay News) As 64,000 new U.S. coronavirus cases were reported Tuesday and states struggled to control the spread of the virus, the Trump Administration stripped the country’s leading public health agency of the ability to collect hospitalization data on COVID-19. Instead of patient information going toContinue Reading
CDC Will No Longer Receive Hospitals’ COVID-19 Data
Baby May Have Been Infected With Coronavirus During Pregnancy: Study
CDC Has “Toxic Culture” of Racism, Employees Say
Squirrel With Bubonic Plague Found in Colorado Town
Most U.S. Parents Think Reopening Schools is Risky: Survey
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TUESDAY, July 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The world’s population is shifting, with a new analysis predicting it will peak in 2064 at around 9.7 billion people and fall to 8.8 billion by the end of the century. The United States will have population growth until just after mid-century (364Continue Reading