By Dennis ThompsonHealthDay Reporter MONDAY, July 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) Hospitals have put in place strict no-visitation rules meant to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but these precautions have led to another heart-wrenching dilemma. People are dying alone, gasping their last breath without any family or friends there to provide […]
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GENEVA — A new Access Initiative for Quitting Tobacco aims to help the world’s 1.3 billion tobacco users quit. Stopping smoking is more important than ever as evidence reveals that smokers are more likely than non-smokers to have severe outcomes from COVID-19. The project gives people free access to nicotine […]
Rome – More people are going hungry, an annual study by the United Nations has found. Tens of millions have joined the ranks of the chronically undernourished over the past five years, and countries around the world continue to struggle with multiple forms of malnutrition. The latest edition of the […]
Latest Mental Health News THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) Safe injection sites for users of illicit drugs such as heroin: They’ve been tried and legalized in countries such as Canada and the Netherlands, and a new study suggests they might save American lives, too. In the study, […]
THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) A simple blood test may predict the severity of a concussion as accurately as an invasive spinal tap, researchers report. They focused on a biomarker called neurofilament light chain. This nerve protein can be detected in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid when nerve cells […]
Latest Infectious Disease News THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (American Heart Association News) Factors smaller than a cell and as large as the planet are at play when a virus leaps from an animal to a human. The question of how that happened with SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease […]
THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) Many more American workers caring for children, the sick or aged, as well as bus drivers, subway workers and those involved in food production took time off work in April — probably due to fears of contracting COVID-19, a new government report finds. In […]
FRIDAY, July 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The new coronavirus can linger in small airborne droplets indoors, the World Health Organization acknowledged on Thursday, after being urged to do so by hundreds of experts. The WHO now says transmission of the coronavirus by tiny droplets may have been responsible for […]
By Serena McNiffHealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) If you have a bad hip and lower back pain, a new study suggests that hip replacement surgery may solve both issues at once. Researchers at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City focused on 500 patients who […]
By Amy NortonHealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) Doctors at one Ohio hospital system have discovered yet another possible consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic: More cases of “broken heart syndrome.” The condition — which doctors call stress cardiomyopathy — appears similar to a heart attack, with symptoms such […]