Health Highlights: June 2, 2022
What people with early-onset dementia want you to know. Alzheimer’s and other dementias can strike people as early as their 50s, but many of these patients end up feeling invisible, advocates say. Read moreGet your vaccines and boosters, the combinati…
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Could beating drums help beat autism? The percussive skill needed to bang out rhythms on a drum seem to help improve socializing, inhibition control and focus among teens with autism, a new study found. Read moreA mutant gene might hold key to Alzheim…
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WHO expert says monkeypox not the next pandemic. Still, it’s not clear how the illness is spreading or whether the halt of mass smallpox immunization decades ago may be boosting its transmission, Dr. Rosamund Lewis said. Read moreYour morning coffee …
Learn MoreEffectiveness of Antiviral Drugs Against Monkeypox Uncertain: Study
WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Up until recently monkeypox infection outside of Africa was rare, but a look back at seven cases occurring in Britain over the past few years gives hints at what drugs work to fight the disease — and which …
Learn More3-Dose Pfizer COVID Vaccine Spurs Strong Response in Youngest Kids
MONDAY, May 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Pfizer/BioNTech says a three-dose regimen of its COVID-19 vaccine appears to provoke a strong immune response in the youngest age group of children — those aged 6 months to 5 years.This is the only age group no…
Learn MoreSenate OKs Bill to Overhaul Infant Formula Rules
FRIDAY, May 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A bill that would allow families in a U.S. government assistance program to buy whatever brand of baby formula they can find is on the way to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.The bill, which is meant t…
Learn MoreU.S. Hospitals Are Facing Shortage of Dye Needed for Life-Saving Scans
THURSDAY, May 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) — U.S. hospitals are running low on contrast dye injected into patients undergoing enhanced X-rays, CT scans and MRIs.The fluid, which makes the routine but potentially life-saving scans readable, helps doctors…
Learn MoreBiden Invokes Defense Act to Boost Supply of Infant Formula
THURSDAY, May 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Faced with mounting pressure to help desperate parents, President Joe Biden on Wednesday invoked the power of the wartime Defense Production Act to get more of the precious product into American homes. Under …
Learn MoreMassachusetts Man Has Monkeypox, Following Clusters in Europe
THURSDAY, May 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The first U.S. case this year of a rare and potentially fatal virus known as monkeypox has been diagnosed in a man in Massachusetts who recently traveled to Canada, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr…
Learn MoreHealth Highlights: May 13, 2022
Big rise in esophageal cancers among middle-aged Americans. Between 2012 and 2019, the rate of this cancer nearly doubled among people aged 45 to 64, and the prevalence of Barrett’s esophagus — a precancerous condition — rose by about 50%, anew stud…
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