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Category: Health
CDC Panel Backs COVID Boosters for Nearly All Adults
If CDC Director Rochelle Walneksy, MD, signs off on the panel’s recommendations – and she is expected to do so – boosters could be...
Is Grit and Resilience Real? And How Do You Get It?
Besides a history of handling tough times, optimism and confidence are other traits associated with resilience.
Air and Noise Pollution Linked to Increased Heart Failu...
New observational data suggests that exposure to air pollution and road traffic noise is associated with an increased risk for new...
COVID Vaccine vs. Flu Vaccine: What to Know
The COVID and flu vaccines are important, and both are quite effective at preventing serious illness or death. But that’s where mu...
E-cigarettes No Guarantee Against Relapse for Smokers
This is the first study to look at whether cigarette smokers can switch to electronic cigarettes without relapsing to smoking with...
Pfizer Vaccine for Kids 90% effective in Preventing COV...
As of the first week of October, 16 participants in the placebo group had gotten a symptomatic, lab-confirmed COVID-19 infection c...
breathalyzer-for-disease
A device designed to detect disease from exhaled breath takes devices beyond alcohol measurement.
People Hospitalized After Taking Animal Drug Ivermectin...
People using the medicine -- typically for horses and cattle -- prompted a spike in calls to poison control centers across the cou...
White House Announces Vaccination Plans for Younger Chi...
States were allowed to begin pre-ordering the shots this week. They can’t be delivered into kids’ arms, however, until both the FD...
Need Help With a Colon Cancer Diagnosis? Text COLON to ...
The Colorectal Cancer Provider Outreach Program, CRC POP, brings newly diagnosed patients helpful information about support servic...
Kidney Grown in Pig Successfully Transplanted Into Man
If the technique proves generally successful it could revolutionize organ transplant, greatly expanding the pool of available orga...
Broken Heart Syndrome: On the Rise, Especially in Women...
New research suggests that broken heart syndrome, while still not common, is not as rare as once thought. And it's on the rise, es...