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People who get influenza could be six times more susceptible to having a heart attack in the days following a flu diagnosis, a new study from the Netherlands has found. The study’s conclusions were scheduled to be presented on April 18 at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases in Copenhagen, Denmark, as […]
A British coroner recently determined that a healthy, young doctor in the United Kingdom died from a rare reaction to AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Stephen Wright, 32, passed away in January 2021 ten days after receiving his first dose. He worked as a psychologist in London, according to the BBC. Wright suffered a cerebral blood […]
Argentine, fighting one of its worst outbreaks of dengue in recent years, is sterilizing mosquitoes using radiation that alters their DNA before releasing them into the wild. The South American country has this year recorded over 41,000 cases of the disease transmitted by mosquitoes, far above the equivalent level in previous years of major outbreaks […]
The Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that older individuals and those with weakened immune systems are eligible for another dose of the updated COVID-19 booster. According to the FDA’s announcement, most people who received a single dose of the booster are not eligible for a second dose. But people over the age of […]
Forty-eight million people in West and Central Africa face acute food insecurity in the coming months, a 10-year high spurred by insecurity, climate shocks, COVID-19 and high prices, United Nations humanitarian agencies warned on Tuesday. West and Central Africa has faced increasing risks caused by higher temperatures and erratic rainfall. War in Ukraine has contributed […]
With 37.3 million people in the U.S. living with diabetes — 8.5 million of whom are undiagnosed, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the disease is one of the deadliest and most expensive in the country. Cedar Gate Technologies, a medical tech development company in Greenwich, Connecticut, announced on Tuesday a new […]
Scientists say they’ve found a way to turn seaweed into “super seaweed” by increasing its health and medicinal value, according to a report from SWNS. The researchers are hoping the “boosted” seaweed can be used in “the superfood, drug and cosmetic industries of the future,” the British news service said. Scientists from Tel Aviv University […]
The number of people serving as sole caregivers for other adults is growing. In 2020, 53 million people in the U.S. provided unpaid care to an adult, according to the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC), based in Washington, D.C. Caregiving duties can include bathing, grooming, administering medications and providing emotional support, as well as day-to-day […]
During the first year of the COVID pandemic, as people were stuck at home and were less likely to visit their primary doctors for preventative care, a study found that new cancer diagnoses were 14.4% lower than in past years, a study has found. Published in JAMA Network, the study was led by Loma Linda […]
ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot from OpenAI, could potentially rival Google one day as an online health resource, many people say — but how reliable are its responses right now? Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) were eager to find out. In February, they created a list of 25 questions related […]
A contract worker at the Billerud Paper Mill in Escanaba, Michigan, has died from an ongoing fungal outbreak that may have infected nearly 100 employees with blastomycosis, according to a press release issued from Public Health Delta & Menominee Counties (PHDM) on April 14. “Everyone at Billerud is deeply saddened by this news,” said Brian […]
Hibernating bears can’t help us escape long plane flights or unforgiving winters — but they may help us prevent blood clots. The bears, during hibernation, prevent blood clots in their own bodies by keeping a low level of a key protein in their blood, according to a new study published in Science. Now, the researchers hope […]
