Healthcare and other essential workers took a victory lap Wednesday along the “Canyon of Heroes” in New York City with a ticker-tape parade held in their honor. The parade began in Battery Park at the bottom of Manhattan with a view of the Statue of Liberty just across the Hudson River. It swept up Broadway and ended in City Hall […]
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Heart attack: Experts claim a vegan diet can 'help prevent' them We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info A heart attack is a medical emergency whereby the […]
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(HealthDay)—Nearly two-thirds of adults have had a dental visit within the past 12 months, according to a July data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics. Amy E. Cha, toradol gapapentin ketamine Ph.D., and Robin A. Cohen, Ph.D., from the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, used data from […]
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Lesbian, gay, and bisexual Veterans from the Vietnam era report PTSD and poorer mental health more often than their heterosexual counterparts, according to an analysis of data from the Vietnam Era Health Retrospective Observational Study (VE-HEROeS). A greater burden of potentially traumatic events among LGB Veterans, advair no prescripton such as childhood physical abuse, adult physical assault, and sexual assault, […]
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A new study has linked a July 2015 ceasefire of conflict violence in Colombia with better pregnancy outcomes for women who conceived after the ceasefire began. Giancarlo Buitrago of Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia, and Rodrigo Moreno-Serra of the University of York, U.K., present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine. Previous research has suggested the possibility […]
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ZURICH/BENGALARU (Reuters) – World Health Organization emergencies head Michael Ryan urged countries on Wednesday to use extreme caution when lifting COVID-19 restrictions so as “not to lose the gains you’ve made”. Ryan’s comments come as England, hosting Europe’s soccer championships, prepares to end many COVID-19 restrictions on July 19, European countries ease travel curbs and Indian states relax their lockdowns, […]
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A research team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified potential new treatment targets for Alzheimer’s disease, as well as existing drugs that have therapeutic potential against these targets. The potential targets are defective proteins that lead to the buildup of amyloid in the brain, contributing to the onset of problems with memory and thinking that […]
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A joint research group from KAIST and Institut Pasteur Korea has identified repurposed drugs for COVID-19 treatment through virtual screening and cell-based assays. The research team suggested the strategy for virtual screening with greatly reduced false positives by incorporating pre-docking filtering based on shape similarity and post-docking filtering based on interaction similarity. This strategy will help develop therapeutic medications for […]
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The Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, is trying something new to help patients with cancer who are facing crippling medical debt: a financial toxicity tumor board. The 35 or so members of the board meet monthly to brainstorm solutions for cancer patients struggling to stay above water financially. Since it launched in 2019, the board […]
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The use of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor injections has been linked to an increased risk of mortality in patients with diabetic retinopathy in a new study, sounding a note of caution regarding the cardiovascular safety of these agents in clinical practice, an investigator said. There was no increased risk of MI or stroke risk associated with intravitreal anti-VEGF injections versus […]
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