The Latest: Kentucky Sees Near-Record Number of New Cases U.S. News & World Report SOURCE: "health news" - Google News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Drug used to control blood pressure may improve cancer patients’ response to immunotherapy
The same biochemical triggers that spur a "fight or flight" response when we encounter threats may help tumor cells to thrive. SOURCE: The Medical News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
SARS-CoV-2 virus may target red marrow and prevent the formation of new erythrocytes
Specialists from the Department of Fundamental Medicine of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) with Russian and Japanese colleagues have probed into mechanisms of COVID-19 inside-the-body distribution linked to erythrocytes damaging. SOURCE: The ... [Continue Reading]
Advisers To CDC Debate How COVID-19 Vaccine Should Be Rolled Out
Children with minor perinatal brain bleeds have normal cognitive development at two years of age
In 2007, UNC researchers published unexpected and surprising results from a study based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of newborn brains. SOURCE: News Medical Child Health News Feed - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
The 35 Best Gifts for Gamers This Holiday Season
They'll never leave the couch. SOURCE: Latest Content - Men's Health - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Antibody Binding Changes with Age and Can be Used to Build an Immune Aging Clock
In recent years, researchers have used omics data to construct an ever broadening variety of clocks that measure biological age. This is a natural consequence of plentiful computing power and its effects on materials science, one outcome of which is ... [Continue Reading]
Mobile smartphone technology is associated with better clinical outcomes for OHCA
Mobile smartphone technology can accelerate first responder dispatch and may be instrumental to improving out of hospital cardiac arrest (OCHA) survival. That is the conclusion of a study published in the October 2020 issue of Academic Emergency ... [Continue Reading]
Novel adoptive cell transfer method shortens timeline for T-cell manufacture
Researchers find a new way to generate T-cells faster, making immediate treatment with this therapy possible. SOURCE: Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Coronavirus mutation may have made it more contagious
A study involving more than 5,000 COVID-19 patients in Houston finds that the virus that causes the disease is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious. This mirrors a study published in July that found that ... [Continue Reading]
Local Girl Scout organizes health fair to fight childhood obesity – The Hudson Reporter
Local Girl Scout organizes health fair to fight childhood obesity The Hudson Reporter SOURCE: "obesity" - Google News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Virus Hospitalizations Are Up in N.Y.C. But This Time, It’s Different.
Patients with serious cases are spending less time in the hospital on average and are less likely to be put on ventilators. Fewer are dying. SOURCE: Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Temporary VAT holiday on PPE set to finish
VAT on PPE is set to resume at 20% from the end of October after the Treasury ended its ‘tax holiday’. The tax was cut on the 1 May to ‘relieve the burden’ on frontline workers of purchasing PPE. The Guardian believes the cut ... [Continue Reading]
Weekly Link Love – Edition 105
Research of the Week Ramadan fasting appears to lower cancer markers and improve metabolic health (albeit from baseline, not compared to a control group). The genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs. Exercising and eating better improve physical and ... [Continue Reading]
Canada lags in adopting innovation
Canadians are right to be proud of their healthcare system, but one area where challenges exist – and where some practical changes could bring about big improvement – is in the adoption of innovative medical technologies. Too often, Canadians have ... [Continue Reading]
Cold, Flu or COVID-19? Here’s How to Tell the Difference
An expert offers advice for those worried sick about their symptoms The post Cold, Flu or COVID-19? Here’s How to Tell the Difference appeared first on Healthy Aging ®. SOURCE: Healthy Aging ® - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Intermittent fasting: Does a new study show downsides — or not?
Intermittent fasting (IF) is an approach to eating based on timing. The idea is that fasting for long enough allows insulin levels to fall low enough that our body will use fat for fuel. Growing evidence in animals and humans shows that this approach ... [Continue Reading]
Coronavirus Chronicles — More on the Dietary Guidelines
So, we were talking about the Dietary Guidelines that are issued by the Department of Agriculture every five years, leading up to an examination of how those guidelines and the pandemic relate to one another. Of course, everybody comes at this from a ... [Continue Reading]
‘It’s Science, Stupid’: A School Subject Emerges as a Hot-Button Political Issue
At the top of Dr. Hiral Tipirneni’s to-do list if she wins her congressional race: work with other elected officials to encourage mask mandates and to beef up COVID-19 testing and contact tracing. Those choices are backed up by science, said ... [Continue Reading]
A $200 Debit Card Won’t Do Much for Seniors’ Drug Costs
If they’ve been listening to President Donald Trump, seniors may be expecting a $200 debit card in the mail any day now to help them pay for prescription drugs. He promised as much this month, saying his administration soon will mail the drug ... [Continue Reading]
KHN on the Air This Week
KHN chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed the current surge in COVID-19 cases, health policy in the election and the Affordable Care Act case before the Supreme Court with NPR’s “All Things Considered” on Sunday and ... [Continue Reading]
If They Sweep on Election Day, Dems Still Face a Challenge Meeting Health Promises
Democrats are favored to win both chambers of Congress after years of campaign-trail promises about health care. But with a pandemic, a more conservative Supreme Court and lingering disagreements between progressives and moderates, it could be ... [Continue Reading]
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