THURSDAY, Nov. 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) – Add an inexpensive gout drug to the growing list of medications touted as potential COVID-19 treatments — only to offer no apparent benefit. The anti-inflammatory drug colchicine doesn’t lessen COVID severity, the risk of death or shorten hospital stays, a new study reports. Nor does it lower the… read on > read on >
Protection can gradually fade after a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by Pfizer-BioNTech, which suggests that a booster shot might be necessary, researchers report. They analyzed data from more than 80,000 adults in Israel, average age 44, who had no previous evidence of infection and who had received a PCR test at least three… read on > read on >
New treatment options are giving hope to patients with stomach cancer. Also known as gastric cancer, the disease is the world’s sixth most common cancer with 1.09 million new cases in 2020, according to the World Health Organization. It’s an abnormal growth of cells that can affect any part of the stomach, but typically forms… read on > read on >
Parents and children who were separated under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy have shown lasting psychological trauma — even after being reunited, a new study finds. Between 2017 and 2018, more than 5,000 children were separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border under the policy, which aimed to deter asylum seekers. The… read on > read on >
A wearable device that could inject a lifesaving antidote for an opioid overdose might be on the horizon. A new study shows that the device, worn on the stomach like an insulin pump, can detect when someone stops breathing from an overdose and inject the drug naloxone to restore breathing. “Fatal drug overdoses in the… read on > read on >
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 24, 2021 The number of people who were hospitalized for eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia doubled in May 2020, about two months after the COVID-19 pandemic was officially declared a national emergency. The new study didn’t look at why there was such a surge in eating disorders during that time, but… read on > read on >
Republican lawmakers in several states are pushing vaccine mandate exemptions for workers who have so-called natural immunity due to a previous COVID-19 infection. That’s despite evidence that vaccination can reduce the risk of COVID-19 even for those with a history of infection, and the fact that there’s no easy way to assess the protection provided… read on > read on >
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 24, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — In this day of over-the-top, gender-reveal parties, Traci Poore was different. She and her first husband didn’t want to know whether they were having a boy or a girl. They didn’t find out with their firstborn before she came into the world, and they planned the… read on > read on >
People will probably need regular booster shots for COVID-19 over the next few years to keep their immune systems on guard against a potentially deadly infection, an infectious disease expert says. COVID mutations and high transmission rates in some parts of the country mean that even the vaccinated remain at risk for a breakthrough infection,… read on > read on >
Debate rages over access to abortion, but experts say the collected medical evidence makes one thing clear — it is a fundamentally safe procedure for women. Abortion is safer than childbirth and it’s also safer than a host of other common procedures — colonoscopy, tonsillectomy and plastic surgery, said Dr. Sarah Prager, a professor of… read on > read on >
