More infectious COVID-19 variants are spreading in the U.S. at the same time as cases are falling and the national vaccination campaign is picking up steam. Put it all together, a Harvard epidemiologist said Friday, and it may all add up to a lucky break for us, and we may […]
People with severe mental disorders have a significantly increased risk of dying from COVID-19. This has been shown in a new study from Umeå University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. Among the elderly, the proportion of deaths due to COVID-19 was almost fourfold for those with severe mental disorders compared […]
Having a hard time. John Stamos’ 2-year-old son, Billy, is struggling being apart from his dad after the actor’s third exposure to the novel coronavirus. Famous Fathers Who Had Kids Late in Life “My son went to bed last night crying and woke up crying because he can’t be with […]
Making a change. Eva Mendes recalled a very important parenting lesson that she recently learned thanks to one of her young daughters. Evan Rachel Wood and More Celebrities Who Took Social Media Breaks On Saturday, January 23, the Ghost Rider actress, 46, shared a piece of advice courtesy of Latinx […]
Democrats have argued for more generous pandemic relief, more pressure on drugmakers to lower prices and more attention to systemic racism in health care. On Jan. 20, with control of the Senate and the House of Representatives, they’ll have the power to choose which health care proposals get a vote […]
Two Japanese babies ‘caught’ cancer from their mothers when they inhaled cervical tumor cells during childbirth and developed lung cancer years later, case report suggests About one in 1,000 women have cancer during pregnancy One in half a million of those may ‘transmit’ cancer to their children A case report […]
How a new £244-a-year heart failure drug saved a 44-year-old father-of-two from needing a life changing transplant and could help thousands of NHS patients annually Dapagliflozin costs £244-a-year and was first used to treat Type 2 diabetes A clinical trial of 5,000 people found it also helps those with heart […]
It was over breakfast on the wintry morning of January 24 that Ozlem Tureci and her husband Ugur Sahin decided, “we need to fire the starting gun on this”. Sahin “had concluded from a publication describing coronavirus cases in Wuhan… that there was a high probability that a pandemic could […]
Cancer treatment isn’t just a matter of shrinking or removing a tumor. It also involves preserving or improving the patient’s quality of life. Rehabilitation services—such as behavioral therapies to alleviate pain and exercise to reduce fatigue—are a valuable way to do that. But they often aren’t included in cancer patients’ […]
One night in January 2020, I couldn’t sleep. I kept waking to check my phone for news from Kangaroo Island, off South Australia. Fires had already burned through several sites where I’d researched the island’s endangered glossy black cockatoos, and now it was tracking towards two critical habitat areas. The […]