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MONDAY, April 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) — DJ Khaled, Halsey and other musicians are selling electronic cigarettes to young people through product placement in music videos that receive hundreds of millions of views, a pair of new studies report. Overall, music videos identified as featuring e-cigarette product placements during aContinue Reading

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FRIDAY, April 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) — COVID-19 might have a tough new foe: The sun. New research shows that sunnier regions of the United States have lower COVID-19 death rates than cloudier areas, suggesting that the sun’s UV rays might somehow provide some protection against the disease. The effectContinue Reading

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THURSDAY, April 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A new clinical trial will investigate whether people who are highly allergic or have what’s known as a mast cell disorder are at higher risk for a sudden allergic reaction to the Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines. “The public understandably has been concernedContinue Reading

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WEDNESDAY, April 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Two people in the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine trial developed Guillain-Barré syndrome, but it’s highly doubtful the vaccine is to blame, according to a just-published case study. Although both people were in the same trial, one was given the vaccine and theContinue Reading

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TUESDAY, April 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) — There’s good news for the millions of Americans who’ve already received a dose or two of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine: New research shows the vaccine should protect against illness for at least six months. The new study tracked 33 participants in the trials thatContinue Reading

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TUESDAY, April 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) — When the pandemic first hit last spring, screening mammograms fell by the wayside as COVID-19 became the most pressing medical concern in the country, but U.S. testing rates rebounded by mid-summer, a new study shows. But even though things have returned to normal,Continue Reading

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TUESDAY, April 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists thought twice about studying North American bats in their winter habitats. But they’ve now determined that the risk of humans passing the coronavirus to bats under these conditions was low. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) led theContinue Reading

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MONDAY, April 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A new U.S. study offers more evidence that a single dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine may provide enough protection to people who’ve previously been infected with the coronavirus. “Our findings extend those from smaller studies reported elsewhere and support a potential strategyContinue Reading

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THURSDAY, April 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — More than one-quarter of U.S. parents don’t plan to vaccinate their kids for COVID-19, and roughly as many oppose school-required coronavirus shots, a new study finds. This opposition was more common among moms than dads, and was especially common among white mothers whoContinue Reading