How New Federal Legislation Might Cut Your Drug Costs
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay ReporterHealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The Inflation Reduction Act is expected to bring out-of-pocket drug costs down for many U.S. seniors, but most of its benefits aren’t immediate. Under the law, Medicare will now be allowed to negotiate the cost of some drugs. That should eventually bring […]
CDC’s New COVID Rules Mark Change in the Pandemic, How We Live
CDC: “Summary of Guidance for Minimizing the Impact of COVID-19 on Individual Persons, Communities, and Health Care Systems – United States, August 2022.” Rachel Bruce, MD, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Forest Hills, NY. David Berger, MD, Wholistic Pediatrics & Family Care, Tampa, FL. Statement, Daniel P. McQuillen, MD, president, Infectious Diseases Society of America, […]
CDC Ends Some COVID Safety Rules, Emphasizes Personal Risk
Aug. 11, 2022 – The CDC today announced that because there’s now less risk of “medically significant” COVID-19, some public health measures the agency recommended may no longer be necessary. For example, CDC recommendations on social distancing, quarantining, and testing children for COVID-19 while allowing them to stay in school – known as the test-to-stay […]
Large Study Confirms COVID Vaccines Safe for Pregnant Women
Aug. 11, 2022 – Pregnant women should feel confident that Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines against COVID-19 are safe, according to a large new study published today. In fact, pregnant vaccinated women had lower odds of a significant health event, compared with nonpregnant vaccinated women, after both doses of either mRNA vaccination, the researchers reported in […]
Long COVID’s Grip Will Likely Tighten as Infections Continue
Aug. 10, 2022 – COVID-19 is far from done in the United States, with more than 111,000 new cases being recorded a day in the second week of August, according to Johns Hopkins University, and 625 deaths being reported every day. And as that toll grows, experts are worried about a second wave of illnesses […]
Regular Fasting Linked to Less Severe COVID: Study
Aug. 10, 2022 – Intermittent fasting was not linked with a smaller chance of getting COVID-19, but it was linked with getting a less severe infection, according to the findings of a new study. The study was done on men and women in Utah who were, on average, in their 60s and got COVID before […]
Meet a Champion Climber with Type 1 Diabetes
Aug. 9, 2022 – Managing type 1 diabetes is never easy. But if you ask 16-year-old climbing star Katie Bone, she’ll tell you that she will never let this disease get in the way of her goals. “My motto is the same one as Bethany Hamilton’s – the surfer who lost her arm in a […]
Weight Loss Surgery Has a Big Effect on Marriage
Aug. 9, 2022 – Kristal was only in her mid-30s when she decided to have surgery. Her doctor said it was too early. But the Oregon mom of three had found herself in the hospital twice for obesity-related lung complications before her 35th birthday. So she got the gastric sleeve. And at first it seemed […]
Keeping Your Laundry Free From Monkeypox
Aug. 8, 2022 – Is your laundry a way to spread monkeypox? As monkeypox cases rise globally, health officials have warned that the virus mainly spreads through direct skin-to-skin contact with a monkeypox lesion. But according to the CDC, poxviruses like the monkeypox can survive in linens and clothing, and live particularly well in “dark, […]
Grease Star Olivia Newton-John Dies at 73
Aug. 8, 2022 – Olivia Newton-John will forever be known for her feel-good ballads, sunny disposition, and her star turn as a goody-two-shoes in the hit musical Grease. But the singer-songwriter wanted to be remembered for more than the love songs and the role that defined her decades-long career. After her first bout with breast […]