SUNDAY, July 26, 2020 (HealthDay News) Summer means long, carefree days outside, but don’t let that sabotage your slumber, sleep experts say. An American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) survey found that 36% of U.S. adults said they sleep less in the summer, with the highest rates in the West […]
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Latest Infectious Disease News FRIDAY, July 24, 2020 (HealthDay News) In a finding that could inform the world’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, researchers say they determined how public health measures beat an outbreak of typhus in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Using mathematical modeling and […]
WHO takes this opportunity to remind Member States that are Parties to the WHO Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (FCTC) of their obligations under the Convention. Heated tobacco products are tobacco products, meaning that the WHO FCTC fully applies to these products. (Decision FCTC/COP8(22)) Specifically, Article 13.4(a) obliges Parties, to […]
The proportion of children under five years of age chronically infected with hepatitis B (HBV) dropped to just under 1% in 2019 down from around 5% in the pre-vaccine era (the period between the 1980s and the early 2000s), according to new estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO). This […]
By Steven ReinbergHealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) Obesity. Diabetes. Heart disease. COPD. Kidney disease. These chronic medical conditions all raise the risk of suffering a severe case of COVID-19, but a new government report shows some parts of the United States are far more vulnerable to these […]
By Amy NortonHealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, July 24, 2020 Scientists are working on a blood test that may catch five common cancers years sooner than current methods. The blood test, which is still experimental, hunts for certain genetic “signatures” associated with tumors. Researchers found that it can detect five types of […]
By Serena GordonHealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) If the stress of the current pandemic has you reaching for chocolate, a new review may give you just the excuse you need. The study found that people who ate one or more servings of chocolate a week were up […]
Latest Nutrition, Food & Recipes News THURSDAY, July 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) If you want to live longer, you should choose beans over beef for your protein, a new analysis suggests. “These findings have important public health implications as intake of plant protein can be increased relatively easily […]
THURSDAY, July 23, 2020 (American Heart Association News) In Hubbard, Ohio, a truck-stop town off Interstate 80, Kendel Christoff had her pick of fast food. One day for lunch, she downed a double cheeseburger with a side of nuggets. The next, it was a roast beef and cheddar sandwich with […]
By Amy NortonHealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) The steroid medication dexamethasone has been proven to help people severely ill with COVID-19. Now a new study hints that other drugs in the same class may also work — in the right patients. The findings are from a review […]