Don’t Make Game Day ‘Superspreader Sunday’
Feb. 5, 2021 — Though Super Bowl Sunday is not a national holiday, it is often treated as one — a daylong celebration full of friends, family, and food. But this year will be different. At least, that’s what doctors are hoping. Medical professionals are pleading with the public to stay physically distanced and […]
Government Seeking More Rapid COVID-19 Tests
Feb. 5, 2021 — The Biden administration is pushing to make quick at-home tests for COVID-19 available to more Americans. In a media call on Friday, Andy Slavitt, the White House senior adviser for the pandemic response, told reporters that the administration was working with six companies to surge manufacturing of at-home test kits […]
Very Little Spread of COVID at Kids’ Day Camps
FRIDAY, Feb. 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Day camps could be considered breeding grounds for coronavirus infection, but a new study shows that when social distancing measures are followed, few illnesses result. Researchers analyzed data from more than 6,800 children and staff members who were at 54 YMCA day camps in the greater Raleigh-Durham-Chapel […]
Young COVID Survivors Can Get Reinfected
Reinfected Marines also had lower levels of antibodies from their initial bout, compared with Marines who didn’t get reinfected. “Two-thirds of the 19 Marines who were reinfected didn’t have measurable neutralizing antibodies,” Sealfon noted, suggesting that some people who get infected don’t generate antibodies. The good news: Having antibodies after infection does protect […]
Breast Cancer Now the Leading Cancer Diagnosis
THURSDAY, Feb. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Breast cancer has surpassed lung cancer as the world’s most commonly diagnosed cancer. In 2020, there were an estimated 19.3 million new cancer cases and nearly 10 million cancer deaths worldwide, according to the Global Cancer Statistics 2020 report from the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the […]
MS Doesn’t Put Pregnant Women at Higher Risk
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) — In a finding that should reassure women with multiple sclerosis (MS) who want to have a baby, new research suggests the disease doesn’t raise the risk of pregnancy complications. “Women with multiple sclerosis may be understandably concerned about the risks of pregnancy,” said study author Dr. Melinda […]
New Campaign Fights Vaccine Disinformation
Feb. 3, 2021 — As health care providers work against the clock to administer as many COVID-19 vaccine doses as soon as possible, logistics aren’t the only thing standing in their way. Misinformation — which has hampered the nation’s coronavirus response — is now hurting vaccination efforts, too. About 1 in […]
‘Escape Mutations’ May Drive New COVID Resurgence
Staying home as much as possible and away from other people through the spring could save some 30,000 lives, according to a model from the IHME The E484K mutation is already causing misery in Manaus, Brazil, a city of 2 million people that sits in the Amazon rainforest. Brazil, like the U.S., fell […]
Tony Bennett Reveals He Has Alzheimer’s
MONDAY, Feb. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — As Tony Bennett releases what may well be his last album, his family has disclosed that the 1950s crooner who became popular with younger audiences decades later has Alzheimer’s disease. His wife, Susan, made the announcement in an interview published in AARP magazine. She said Bennett, 94, […]
Metformin Could Help Prevent Some Breast Cancers
More study is needed to better understand whether there is a cause-effect relationship between metformin and cancer or whether the increased risk owes to an absence of protection from metformin, Sandler said. The findings were published Jan. 29 in the Annals of Oncology. Metformin has been hailed as something of a miracle for […]