Older adults with COVID-19 who survive hospitalizations and return to their homes confront substantial health challenges and an unpredictable future. Early evidence suggests that complex and long-term physical, functional, cognitive, and emotional negative health consequences will be the norm for them. However, the trajectories of health care needs of older adults with COVID-19 in the weeks and months following hospital […]
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Viral memes with wild health claims run rampant on Instagram. Mikhail Varshavski, D.O., or Doctor Mike, tackles misinformation from popular memes in his latest video. Doctor Mike starts with the claim that super ripe bananas with brown spots enhance the properties of white blood cells to boost immunity. Of course a healthy diet full of fruits and vegetables, like bananas, […]
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Even before soaring unemployment caused millions of Americans to lose their health insurance, 18.2 million individuals at increased risk of severe COVID-19 were either uninsured or underinsured, according to a new study published today (June 10) in the Journal of General Internal Medicine by researchers at Harvard Medical School and CUNY’s Hunter College. Although most of those at high medical […]
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Eczema – you don’t need to have had the skin disorder as a child for it to make a scaly appearance later on in life. The condition can flare-up at any age, in any season, anywhere. The National Eczema Association stated: “Keeping your skin’s moisture intact is one of the most important things you can do to help control your […]
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Glassman’s tweet set off an outcry among the thousands of CrossFit gym members, owners, professional athletes and many of the brands that have long been affiliated with it. Reebok, which has been the exclusive maker of all official CrossFit apparel and the title sponsor of the annual CrossFit games for the last 10 years, said that they would drop their […]
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(HealthDay)—When COVID-19 strikes the young, the lion’s share of patients still show symptoms, a new report on a coronavirus outbreak aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier suggests. In late March, the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt arrived in Guam after numerous sailors on the ship developed COVID-19. In April, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigated […]
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Current cigarette smoking and the number of cigarettes smoked per day are associated with more than twice the risk for all stroke—ischemic and hemorrhagic—among African Americans compared to nonsmokers, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access journal of the American Heart Association. In a study investigating the relationship between cigarette […]
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Sex hormones influence the structure and function of the brain, but little is known about the effect of hormone therapies (HT) on changes in the brain during menopause. A new study shows smaller increases in structural brain changes related to aging were associated with hormone-level changes from transdermal estradiol or oral conjugated equine estrogen. Study results are published online in […]
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Living in close proximity to oil and gas operations may increase the risk of preterm birth, according to new research on births in California’s primary oil-producing region. The work could inform discussions about the state’s implementation of setbacks from oil and gas extraction facilities. Researchers examined 225,000 births from mothers who lived within about six miles of oil and gas […]
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Yesterday, the World Health Organization announced that it’s “rare” for COVID-19 to be spread by people who don’t have symptoms of the disease. Now, doctors warn the announcement isn’t the good news you probably think it is. During a media briefing on Monday, the WHO said current data shows that asymptomatic people do not have a big role in transmitting […]
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