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MONDAY, July 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The virus responsible for COVID-19 is widespread among wildlife, a new study finds. SARS-CoV-2 was detected in six common backyard species, including deer mice, opossums, raccoons, groundhogs, cottontail rabbits and red bats, researchers reported July 29 in the journal Nature Communications. Further, antibodiesContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Women are often being sold a fertility test that paints a misleading picture of their ability to conceive a child, a new study warns. The anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) test uses a blood sample to estimate the number of eggs available in the ovariesContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Arizona health officials are reporting an increase in hantavirus infections, which are spread by rodents and can cause severe respiratory illness. In a recent health alert, the Arizona Department of Health Services announced there have been seven confirmed cases and three deaths inContinue Reading
SUNDAY, July 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As yet another batch of variants fuel a COVID surge this summer, one expert offers advice on how to navigate the threat. “We’ve seen a bit of a seasonal pattern emerge, where we’ve had an uptick in COVID in the summer and thenContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — You’re far less likely to develop Long COVID now than you were in the midst of the pandemic, promising new data shows. Changes in strains of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are playing a role in the lowered risk, but so areContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People’s odds for Long COVID appear to be declining with the advent of new variants of the virus, along with repeat infections and vaccinations, new research shows. That suggests that the average person’s chances of developing long-term symptoms is falling over time, concludedContinue Reading
FRIDAY, July 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Secondhand smoke from cigarettes is much worse than that from vaping, in terms of exposing children to nicotine, a new study finds. Children exposed to vaping indoors absorb less than one-seventh the amount of nicotine as kids exposed to indoor smoking, blood testsContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Support provided by someone who has personally lived with addiction is an effective way to follow-up with ER patients after an opioid overdose, new research shows. Patients who have had a non-fatal overdose are at great risk of a fatal overdose in theContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A newly discovered hormone could help fight osteoporosis and quickly heal broken bones, researchers say. The research team identified Maternal Brain Hormone while trying to figure out why the bones of breastfeeding women remain relatively strong, even as calcium is stripped from theContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An experimental cancer drug might be able to help prevent the organ damage caused by severe COVID infections, a new study finds. The drug, called eganelisib, inhibits an immune system enzyme called PI3K gamma that boosts damaging inflammation in cancerous tumors. But labContinue Reading