There appears to be a silver lining to forced school and business closures during early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study: Fewer kids used e-cigarettes. Compared to the previous quarter, vaping rates fell among 15- to 20-year-olds while widespread stay-at-home orders were in place from March 14 to June 29, 2020,… read on > read on >
Extra padding around the belly can spell trouble for the heart, even if you’re not technically overweight. That’s among the conclusions of a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA), where experts lay out the heart risks of being “apple-shaped.” It encourages doctors to dust off those old-fashioned tape measures and make waist… read on > read on >
COVID-19 “breakthrough” infections, where someone who’s been fully vaccinated becomes infected nonetheless, are exceedingly rare, a new study suggests. Researchers at Rockefeller University in New York City said they uncovered just two breakthrough infections in a group of 417 university employees who were all more than two weeks out from their second dose of either… read on > read on >
Waking up briefly throughout the night may do more than leave you feeling grumpy and tired in the morning. Disrupted sleep may actually increase your odds of dying early from heart disease or any other cause, and women seem to be harder hit by these effects than men. “The data underscores all the more reasons… read on > read on >
THURSDAY, April 22, 2021 (HeathDay News) — April 16 was the first day that any Californian aged 16 or older became eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine. And at a bustling vaccination center in Pomona, Calif., 16-year-old Ashley Madera was in line to get her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. “I think that this… read on > read on >
It’s no secret that too much sugar and saturated fat aren’t good for you, but what food combos put you at greater risk for heart disease and death in middle age? The answer, from a new University of Oxford study, is likely to disappoint a lot of folks. Researchers found that diets heavy in chocolate… read on > read on >
It may not be a good idea to take a daily low-dose aspirin if you’re also taking a widely used class of blood thinners called direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), researchers caution. DOACs include drugs such as Eliquis (apixaban), Pradaxa (dabigatran), Lixiana (edoxaban) and Xarelto (rivaroxaban). They’re used to help prevent strokes from atrial fibrillation or… read on > read on >
If you’re in a public restroom, you may not want to hang around too long, because lots of airborne pathogens are hanging around, too. Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science conducted flush tests in a public restroom with both a toilet and a urinal. “After about three hours of tests… read on > read on >
Black and Hispanic survivors of a bleeding stroke are more likely than white survivors to have changes in small blood vessels in the brain that increase the risk of another bleeding stroke, researchers say. ‘Bleeding’ strokes, also called hemorrhagic stroke, comprise about 13% of all strokes. They occur when an artery in the brain leaks… read on > read on >
Autism appears to develop differently in girls and boys, so the findings of research conducted mainly with boys might not apply to girls, a new study suggests. Autism spectrum disorder is four times more common in boys, which may help explain why there’s far less research about autism in girls. “This new study provides us… read on > read on >
