Health Highlights: Jan. 25, 2022
Is Omicron on the downswing? After swamping America with new COVID cases, there are signs the Omicron variant surge may be ebbing, new data shows. Read moreWomen at higher risk of a stroke at a young age. New research suggests that women age 35 and y…
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Is Omicron on the downswing? After swamping America with new COVID cases, there are signs the Omicron variant surge may be ebbing, new data shows. Read moreWomen at higher risk of a stroke at a young age. New research suggests that women age 35 and y…
Learn MoreFDA Limits Use of Two COVID Antibody Treatments
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (healthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is curtailing the use of two monoclonal antibody treatments that do not appear to work against the highly contagious Omicron variant.The combo treatments bamlanivimab/etes…
Learn MoreAHA News: Faith-Based Nonprofit Gives Teen Moms a Path to Diplomas and Jobs
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — At age 16, Barbara Palmer became a single mom. Suddenly, she felt trapped in a community where she had felt so free.As the middle-class daughter of two police officers, she did not expect to b…
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U.S. teens in mental health crisis. Data shows that young Americans were already suffering high rates of anxiety and depression before the COVID crisis shut down schools and overturned daily life. Experts and teenagers themselves tell HealthDay Now ab…
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Pot vendors are aiming their ads at kids. Some recreational pot shops are using tricks from the old playbooks of alcohol and tobacco companies to target underage users on social media, a new study reports. Read moreCOVID booster shots can keep you out…
Learn MoreDoctors Transplant Gene-Modified Pig Kidneys Into Brain-Dead Patient
THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) — In another breakthrough for animal-to-human organ transplantation, U.S. researchers say they’ve transplanted two genetically modified pig kidneys into a living human.The recipient was Jim Parsons, 57, a brai…
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Ordering groceries online? Good luck finding nutrition info. Use of online home delivery services skyrocketed during the pandemic, but many websites are making it hard to find nutrition information on their products, a new study shows. Read moreVaccin…
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Kids with COVID-linked condition recover heart function. The rare but serious inflammatory condition called MIS-C can strike kids weeks after they’ve recovered from their COVID infection. But new data now shows that children tend to recover completely…
Learn MoreWhite House Launches Website for Free Home COVID Tests One Day Ahead of Schedule
TUESDAY, Jan. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) — It was slated to debut on Wednesday, but the federal government quietly launched its website for Americans to order free at-home COVID tests one day early.Go to COVIDTests.gov and you can quickly order four t…
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