MONDAY, Jan. 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Intravenous (IV) lines are generally associated with medical centers — picture a patient in a hospital bed, an IV drip-dropping needed fluids, nutrients and medicines into their arm. But millions now are receiving IV treatments at home, and a new study warns thatContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The COVID-19 Omicron variant caused fewer cases of a rare but sometimes deadly complication for children than the earlier Delta variant did, new research shows. “Our study is one of the first to show that during the change to Omicron, MIS-C has becomeContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The pandemic brought the utility of testing wastewater to gauge viral spread to the fore. Now, experts at the independent National Academies of Sciences (NAS) have issued a report outlining a roadmap for the broader surveillance of Americans’ wastewater. The report “reviews theContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — A probiotic supplement appears to clear the body of a type of bacteria that can cause serious antibiotic-resistant infections, a new study finds. More research is needed, but experts said the work could lead to a way to prevent infections with the bacteria,Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The new coronavirus continues to dodge, duck, dip and dive, mutating again and again to find its way past people’s immune defenses. The latest COVID variant to gain a foothold in America is called XBB.1.5, which has rapidly started to crowd out otherContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Wastewater research isn’t for the squeamish, but it can get to the bottom of questions about such things as the effectiveness of COVID-19 air travel restrictions. Tests of toilet tank water from flights entering the United Kingdom helped Welsh scientists determine that stepsContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) — As colds, flu and COVID continue to circulate this winter, a new U.S. government study finds that young children infected with COVID plus a second virus tend to become sicker. While severe COVID is rare among children, kids can and do fall illContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) – Going into the holiday season, many public health experts feared a “tripledemic” of flu, COVID-19 and RSV cases. New government data now shows that didn’t happen. Reports of flu-like illness are down for the sixth straight week, the U.S. Centers for Disease ControlContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 12, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Infants too young to be vaccinated for COVID-19 get some protection from their mothers’ breast milk, researchers say. The new study follows up on findings published in 2021 that showed the breast milk of vaccinated people contained antibodies against the COVID-19 virus. ForContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The updated COVID-19 vaccine boosters intended to defend people against emerging Omicron variants don’t appear to provide any better protection than the original shot does, two new studies find. The new mRNA bivalent boosters produced by Moderna and Pfizer only attack the COVID-19Continue Reading