FRIDAY, Feb. 12, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Latisha Wilborne was excited. She and her husband had tried for a year to get pregnant, and now, 20 weeks pregnant, she was at a doctor’s visit with her two sisters where an ultrasound would determine if she was having aContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 12, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Nelson Zhao grew up in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and as a child started going to a nonprofit community health center. Today, at 29 and with a good job working in the finance sector, he’s never given a second thought to goingContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) — “Four pigs were playing a video game” may sound like the start of a joke, but it’s not. Researchers taught four pigs how to play a rudimentary joystick-enabled video game, finding the animals were capable of advanced behavioral and mental flexibility. “It isContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) — It’s known that face masks help protect against COVID-19 infection, but U.S. health officials said Wednesday that the tighter the mask, the better. In lab experiments, wearing cloth or medical masks close to the face cut COVID transmission by 95%, according to aContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 29, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Sam Rafferty fell severely ill after getting infected with COVID-19 at an uncle’s funeral in March, an event that sickened her entire family and left Rafferty and her daughter struggling to breathe. But it’s not her lungs that have kept herContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 20, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — As the U.S. marks one year since the arrival of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus has made history in epic and terrible ways. But it also sparked innovative and inspiring science, say researchers who raced to establish registries of COVID-19 patients. Their effortsContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The bacteria in your gut may play a role in the severity of COVID-19 infection and the strength of your immune system response, a new study suggests. Not only that, imbalances in the microbiome may cause continued inflammatory symptoms, often called “long-haul” COVID,Continue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 11, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — When Zilpa Naomi Lopez walked into the office of The Unity Council in Oakland, California, she couldn’t believe her ears. Not only were staff members immediately addressing her in her native Spanish, she even heard some employees speaking Mam, the MayanContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Don’t fret about whether that fabric mask you made on your sewing machine protects against the spread of COVID-19 as well as the face masks sold in stores, new research reassures. Taher Saif, a professor of mechanical science and engineering at the UniversityContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 2, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Could young people going out and partying be the key to limiting the spread of COVID-19? Possibly, as a new mathematical model argues that herd immunity might be achieved with fewer people becoming immune through infection than was believed, if you take intoContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Leg pain while walking or doing other activities could be a sign of peripheral artery disease, an expert says. Peripheral artery disease (PAD) develops silently, narrowing blood vessels until a shortfall in the supply of nutrients and oxygen causes cramps and leg pain,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Nov. 19, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Tall folks might be able to reach that high top shelf, but there’s a price — they may be more likely to develop a potentially dangerous abnormal heart rhythm than shorter folks. New research finds that a person’s risk of atrial fibrillation (a-fib)Continue Reading
(HealthDay News) — Trillions of microscopic organisms live in and on your body. While that may be a scary thought, most of them are good for you, says the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Your body’s bacteria can help you digest food, protect against infection and maintain your reproductive health.Continue Reading
(HealthDay News) — Celiac disease is an overactive immune system disorder affecting about 1 in 100 people worldwide, says the Celiac Disease Foundation. People with celiac disease may well damage their intestines by eating foods that contain gluten. Currently, the only treatment is a strict gluten-free diet. Foods with wheat,Continue Reading