FRIDAY, Feb. 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Just having a chat in a hair salon can spread the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, a new study finds. The same is likely true in many health care settings, the same research showed. Most research on exhaled air and the spread of theContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 12, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Latisha Wilborne was excited. She and her husband had tried for a year to get pregnant, and now, 20 weeks pregnant, she was at a doctor’s visit with her two sisters where an ultrasound would determine if she was having aContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 12, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Nelson Zhao grew up in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and as a child started going to a nonprofit community health center. Today, at 29 and with a good job working in the finance sector, he’s never given a second thought to goingContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) — “Four pigs were playing a video game” may sound like the start of a joke, but it’s not. Researchers taught four pigs how to play a rudimentary joystick-enabled video game, finding the animals were capable of advanced behavioral and mental flexibility. “It isContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) — It’s known that face masks help protect against COVID-19 infection, but U.S. health officials said Wednesday that the tighter the mask, the better. In lab experiments, wearing cloth or medical masks close to the face cut COVID transmission by 95%, according to aContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 29, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Sam Rafferty fell severely ill after getting infected with COVID-19 at an uncle’s funeral in March, an event that sickened her entire family and left Rafferty and her daughter struggling to breathe. But it’s not her lungs that have kept herContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 20, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — As the U.S. marks one year since the arrival of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus has made history in epic and terrible ways. But it also sparked innovative and inspiring science, say researchers who raced to establish registries of COVID-19 patients. Their effortsContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The bacteria in your gut may play a role in the severity of COVID-19 infection and the strength of your immune system response, a new study suggests. Not only that, imbalances in the microbiome may cause continued inflammatory symptoms, often called “long-haul” COVID,Continue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 11, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — When Zilpa Naomi Lopez walked into the office of The Unity Council in Oakland, California, she couldn’t believe her ears. Not only were staff members immediately addressing her in her native Spanish, she even heard some employees speaking Mam, the MayanContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Don’t fret about whether that fabric mask you made on your sewing machine protects against the spread of COVID-19 as well as the face masks sold in stores, new research reassures. Taher Saif, a professor of mechanical science and engineering at the UniversityContinue Reading