Millions of women who take hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to ease their transition through menopause may be unknowingly upping their risk for asthma. The concern follows a study that spent more than two decades tracking a potential link between HRT and late-onset asthma among roughly 380,000 Danish women. Two New York City physicians who were… read on > read on >
TUESDAY, Aug. 3, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — At-home schooling was no vacation for Francis Huang and her 11-year-old daughter, Cheyenne Kuo. The COVID-19 pandemic thrust remote learning upon their family in spring 2020. With it came the stresses now familiar to millions of families. “I think the whole year, we just tried to… read on > read on >
Americans who get their COVID-19 news and information solely from Facebook have much lower vaccination rates than the general population. That’s the takeaway from a new survey of nearly 20,700 people across the United States. The researchers asked them in June which of six sources they use for COVID-19 news and info. The six included:… read on > read on >
In a sign that the pandemic may have spared pregnant women and their newborns, a new Canadian study suggests there was no increase in preterm births or stillbirths during the first year of the pandemic. Some studies found preterm birth rates in countries such as the Netherlands, Ireland and the United States fell during the… read on > read on >
Kids who are around people who use marijuana may be at risk for more colds and respiratory infections due to secondhand smoke, according to a new study. In a survey of 1,500 parents and caregivers, those who regularly smoked or vaped marijuana reported more respiratory viruses among their children in the preceding year, compared to… read on > read on >
U.S. health officials have some reassuring news about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine in young people: Among millions of U.S. teens who’ve received Pfizer’s shots, serious side effects have been rare. As of July 16, close to 9 million teens, aged 12 to 17, had received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine — the only one okayed… read on > read on >
All pregnant women should be vaccinated “without delay” against COVID-19, two leading groups of U.S. obstetric specialists recommend. That advice — from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) — is based on tens of thousands of cases over the past several months showing that vaccination during… read on > read on >
A rise in cases of a common childhood disease called respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is unfolding just as coronavirus infections are increasing among children. RSV is a highly contagious, flu-like illness that causes symptoms such as runny nose, coughing, sneezing and fever, and is more likely to affect children and older adults, The New York… read on > read on >
Florida reached another grim milestone on Sunday when it broke a previous record for COVID-19 hospitalizations that was set before vaccines were available. The new hospitalization record came a day after the state recorded the most new daily COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic, the Associated Press reported. As of Sunday, Florida had… read on > read on >
Kids may be able to swim their way to a deeper vocabulary. That’s the takeaway from a study in which researchers taught 48 kids ages 6 to 12 a few new words before they swam, did CrossFit-type exercises or coloring. The swimmers did 13% better in follow up tests of the new words — an… read on > read on >
