Another Study Shows COVID’s Danger to Pregnant Women
THURSDAY, Aug. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Pregnancy significantly increases the odds of devastating outcomes from COVID-19, a new study confirms.Complications from the virus to pregnant women can include heart attack, arrhythmias, heart failure and …
Learn MoreIncrease in Pediatric Intracranial Abscess Cases Seen During COVID-19
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Cases of pediatric isolated intracranial abscess and sinusitis complicated by intracranial abscess increased during the early COVID-19 pandemic, according to research published in the Aug. 5 issue of the…
Learn MoreLa nariz podría ser el arma secreta de los niños contra la COVID
MARTES, 9 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) — Unos investigadores australianos informan queel revestimiento de la nariz de los niños es más capaz que el de los adultos de proteger de la infección con la COVID-19, un importante descubrimiento.”Los ni…
Learn MoreEl cambio climático empeora incluso más a 218 enfermedades infecciosas
MARTES, 9 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) — Las inundaciones, las olas de calor y las sequías han hecho que un 58 por ciento de las enfermedades infecciosas empeoren, afirma un nuevo análisis.En la revisión de estudios anteriores, que se publicó e…
Learn MoreTPOXX Is the Only Monkeypox Treatment — If You Can Get It
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) — What if a rare viral illness with the potential to cause excruciating pain was in fact treatable, but the only drug for that use was nearly impossible to get, despite being in plentiful supply?That is preci…
Learn MoreFDA Stretches Monkeypox Vaccine Supply by Authorizing Smaller Doses
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 10, 2022 (HealthDay) — As at-risk Americans stand in long lines across the country, trying to get the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine, U.S. officials on Tuesday announced they will modify dosing instructions for the shot to help stretch the…
Learn MoreHepatitis C Infection Can Kill, But Less Than a Third of Patients Get Treatment
Vital Signs Aug (HCV) Press Statement_EMBARGOED_ (1).pdfWEDNESDAY, Aug. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Less than one-third of people with hepatitis C get treatment for this potentially deadly, but curable, infection within a year of their diagnosis, a n…
Learn MoreClimate Change Making 218 Infectious Diseases Even Worse
TUESDAY, Aug. 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Flooding, heat waves and drought have made 58% of infectious diseases worse, a new analysis claims.For the review of previous studies, published Aug. 8 in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers found t…
Learn MoreNoses Might Be Kids’ Secret Weapon Against COVID
TUESDAY, Aug. 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) — This discovery is nothing to sniff at.The linings of kids’ noses are better able than those of adults to guard against SARS-CoV-2 infection, Australian researchers report. “Children have a lower COVID-19 infec…
Learn MoreNoses Might Be Kids’ Secret Weapon Against COVID
TUESDAY, Aug. 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) — This discovery is nothing to sniff at.The linings of kids’ noses are better able than those of adults to guard against SARS-CoV-2 infection, Australian researchers report. “Children have a lower COVID-19 infec…
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