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Increased Risk of Miscarriage in Summer Heat
Extreme summer heat is miserable for all of us, but new research is finding it may be especially dangerous for pregnant women who may face an increased ris | Health And Medicine → Read More
What's Being Done to Make COVID Vaccines More Effective Against Future Strains?
Were you boosted, got Omicron, and still felt like death warmed over twice? It happens, and it’s no secret that endless boosting with the origin | Health And Medicine → Read More
Are Cardiac Complications More Common After COVID-19 Infection or Vaccination?
Myocarditis was a well-known reported side effect of COVID-19 vaccines, but heart issues were also a reported symptom of COVID-19 infection. The CDC publis | Health And Medicine → Read More
Taboo Bird Flu Vaccines Considered in Europe Amid Poultry Outbreak
Vaccines are yet again a subject of controversy, but this time it's got nothing to do with COVID. An outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu, in Europ | Health And Medicine → Read More
What to Know About the Recent Monkeypox Outbreak
First COVID, then mysterious hepatitis cases among children, now monkeypox – a rare viral illness being detected in clusters in Europe and now the US | Health And Medicine → Read More
Second COVID Boosters Not Recommended for All Adults
In previous studies in Israel, vaccine-induced COVID immunity was reported to decrease as early as three months after first boosters in some | Health And Medicine → Read More
JAMA Reports US Nursing Home Industry Needs Fundamental Overhaul
The Journal of the American Medical Association reported on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's blueprint for overhauling t | Health And Medicine → Read More
Is There a Link Between Personality and Cognitive Decline?
No one is shocked when the perpetual Netflix-binging couch potato develops dementia. But can personality traits actually predict who will develop cognitive | Health And Medicine → Read More
Potential for New Anxiety Med in an Alcohol Dependence Drug
Don't look to alcohol to reduce your anxiety. Look to disulfiram, a drug that helps alcoholics stay way from alcohol. A new study in Frontiers in Pharm | Health And Medicine → Read More
Melatonin Under Investigation
The safety of melatonin, a commonly used over-the-counter sleep aid, is under question in a new investigation by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.&nb | Health And Medicine → Read More
New Study States Natural Immunity to COVID Lasted up to 15 months in the Majority of Their Cohort
From the beginning of the pandemic to late January 2022 during the Omicron wave, the CDC estimates that 43% of the US population have had COVID. New r | Health And Medicine → Read More
How to Make the Golden Years Golden
Life can be hard at times, there's no denying that. With modern medicine and hygiene come longer lifespans. What can we do now to increase ou | Health And Medicine → Read More
What Are the Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Long COVID?
As if dealing with a symptomatic COVID-19 infection wasn't bad enough, those with long COVID are dealing with changes to their thoughts and mood months | Health And Medicine → Read More
Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Increased Risk of COVID Infection and More Severe Symptoms
A century ago before effective antibiotics were available, tuberculosis patients were placed outside on sunny days because sunlight was thought to improve | Health And Medicine → Read More
Effective Covid-19 Multidrug Treatment Using Repurposed Time-Tested and Inexpensive Drugs
Ivermectin has been a drug of controversy in the COVID-19 treatment debate. Last year, it got a bad rap from the mainstream media as a horse-deworming, fal | Health And Medicine → Read More
The Search for Genetic Links in Sudden Unexplained Child Deaths
Sudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC), similar to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), occurs when children between the ages of 1 year old and 18 ye | Health And Medicine → Read More
COVID-19 Infection Increases Heart Disease Risk Months Later
It's no coincidence that some people have strokes after COVID-19 infection. But, according to a recent study in Nature Medicine, the increased risk of | Health And Medicine → Read More
Why You Feel Groggy After Drinking the Night Before
Let's say you've had a drink or two before bedtime to wind down and get sleepy. You feel relaxed and easily lose consciousness when your head hits | Health And Medicine → Read More
Promising New Myasthenia Gravis Drug Completes Phase 3 Trial
Zilucoplan, a peptide inhibitor under investigation for the treatment of generalized myasthenia gravis in adults, was found to be well tolerated in a phase | Health And Medicine → Read More
COVID-19 Nasal Spray Vaccines in the Making
Bharat Biotech, a biotechnology company in India, is expected to be the first to offer a COVID-19 nasal spray vaccine with their phase 3 trials now underwa | Health And Medicine → Read More