By Dennis ThompsonHealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Sept. 28, 2020 (HealthDay News) Folks whose hearts stop due to a severe case of COVID-19 are very unlikely to leave the hospital alive, a new study shows. Out of 54 patients at a Michigan hospital who suffered cardiac arrest while battling COVID-19, none survived […]
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Latest Infectious Disease News TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 Climate change could give West Nile virus a boost in some areas of the United States, but reduce its spread in other regions, a new study suggests. The mosquito-borne virus spreads most efficiently in the United States at temperatures between […]
MONDAY, Sept. 28, 2020 (HealthDay News) High out-of-pocket health care costs for low- and middle-income Americans with kids have fallen due to “Obamacare,” but more needs to be done to reduce their medical-related financial struggles, a new study claims. The researchers examined data from 2000 to 2017 on more than […]
Latest Prevention & Wellness News By Robin Foster and E.J. MundellHealthDay Reporters MONDAY, Sept. 28, 2020 (Healthday News) Less than 10 percent of Americans have antibodies to COVID-19 in their systems, a new U.S. study finds. The percentages varied by region — averaging 3.5% in the West to […]
MONDAY, Sept. 28, 2020 (HealthDay News) The coronavirus pandemic and the upcoming flu season could pose a double threat, but many U.S. parents plan to skip flu shots for their kids, a new survey finds. Though public health experts stress the need for people of all ages to get the […]
By Amy NortonHealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Sept. 28, 2020 (HealthDay News) When babies with hearing impairments get help very early in life, they are more likely to be “kindergarten-ready” when the time comes, a new study finds. In the United States, all states have government-funded “early intervention” programs designed to assist […]
MONDAY, Sept. 28, 2020 (American Heart Association News) Justo Méndez Arámburu’s idea to start a nonprofit alternative school in Puerto Rico came to him in a dream. His 15-year-old daughter, Ana Mercedes, who had died in a car accident a few months earlier, appeared to him and encouraged him to […]
MONDAY, Sept. 28, 2020 (HealthDay News) Babies born to mothers with COVID-19 only rarely suffer from effects of the virus, a new study suggests. These newborns generally do well in the six to eight weeks after birth, but more are admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) if their […]
Latest Women’s Health News TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 It’s often thought that older women lose interest in sex, but many women continue to rate sex as important, a new study finds. “In contrast to prior literature reporting that the importance of sex decreases as women move through midlife, […]
By Robin Foster and E.J. MundellHealthDay Reporters TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 (Healthday News) The global coronavirus pandemic reached a grim new milestone on Tuesday: One million dead. Americans made up more than 200,000 of those deaths, or one in every five, according to a running tally comprised by Johns Hopkins […]