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	health Daily update ⋅ November 17, 2020
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	The New York Times Moderna's Covid Vaccine: What You Need to Know The New York Times Does the mean the end of the pandemic? Who was in the trial? Is it part of Operation Warp Speed? And other questions answered. Image. A volunteer received an injection of Moderna's vaccine candidate earlier this year.Credit...Henry Ford Health System, ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Good news on the vaccine front shows 'light at the end of the tunnel.' For now, the Covid crisis is unabated CNN (CNN) On a day his state and others reported staggering coronavirus numbers, one Midwestern governor said he could see through the darkness to better days ahead. But he acknowledged it will remain a difficult journey. Moderna hours before had ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Echoes of a pandemic: Experts fear lessons from the 2009 H1N1 vaccine drive are being ignored Washington Post News that a vaccine would be available in record time brought relief to Kelly Moore, director of the Tennessee Immunization Program, and a whole new set of worries: how to build a network of pandemic vaccine providers from scratch and guarantee equitable ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fortune The Fortune/IBM Watson Health 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals Fortune In January 2020, several weeks before "COVID" became the world's most feared acronym, the National Center for Health Statistics announced the 10 leading causes of death in the U.S. for 2018, the latest year for which final data is available. Once again, the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com Deadly hemorrhagic fever in Bolivia can spread between people Livescience.com A deadly animal virus that causes fevers, abdominal pain, vomiting, bleeding gums, skin rash and pain behind the eyes can now spread between people, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Monday (Nov. 16). Advertisement. Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape Abnormal Anal Paps in People With HIV Can Go More Than a Year Without Follow-Up, Increasing Anal Cancer Risk Medscape It took an average of 380 days for people who had received an abnormal anal Pap test result after having been diagnosed with HIV to undergo high-resolution anoscopy (HRA), which is recommended as follow-up. That delay "revealed missed opportunities ... Flag as irrelevant
	CIDRAP Cardiac Arrest in COVID-19 Pandemic: 'Survival is Possible' Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. In the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, rates of sustained return of spontaneous circulation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times The Deadliness of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak Was Not Inevitable The New York Times FEVERS, FEUDS, AND DIAMONDS Ebola and the Ravages of History By Paul Farmer. In the early months of 2014, a team of medical professionals from the global health organization Doctors Without Borders began tracking a troubling outbreak, centered in ... Flag as irrelevant
	CBS News Wedding with more than 300 guests linked to at least 17 COVID-19 cases and two outbreaks CBS News A large wedding held in Washington state is linked to at least 17 COVID-19 cases and two subsequent outbreaks, officials in Grant County, Washington said. More than 300 people attended the event, which was held on November 7 in a "private location" near ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Confidence Drops in Prescription-Strength Fish Oil WebMD By Steven Reinberg and Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporters. MONDAY, Nov. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Does high-strength fish oil help the heart or doesn't it? Prior research into a prescription medicine derived from fish called Vascepa, announced ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD 'Polypill' May Cut Heart Attack, Stroke Risk By 40% WebMD By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, Nov. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A single pill loaded with cholesterol and blood pressure medications can reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke by as much as 40%, a new international study ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Combo 'Polypill' May Cut Heart Attack, Stroke Risk Up to 40% HealthDay MONDAY, Nov. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A single pill loaded with cholesterol and blood pressure medications can reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke by as much as 40%, a new international study reports. The "polypill" containing three generic ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healthline Travel Plans? This Interactive Map Will Show Your Risk for COVID-19 Healthline A new interactive map may help travelers decide whether leaving home is worth the risk. The study authors say they were motivated by "superspreading" of the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that was documented at indoor events or large gatherings where a ... Flag as irrelevant
	Outbreak News Today Chapare virus in Bolivia 2019: New evidence shows human-to-human transmission Outbreak News Today By NewsDesk @bactiman63. Researchers have discovered that a deadly virus found in Bolivia can spread from person to person in healthcare settings, raising potential concerns of additional outbreaks in the future, according to new findings presented today ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medscape COVID-19 Data Dives: A Biostatistician's Primer on Vaccine Efficacy Medscape To put it another way when explaining this to your patients, a vaccinated person has a 50% chance of becoming sick in the situation of exposure to the amount of infectious virus that would make an unvaccinated person sick. Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Covid-19 is sending Black, Latino and Native American people to the hospital at about 4 times the rate of others CNN (CNN) Black, Hispanic and Native American people infected with Covid-19 are about four times more likely to be hospitalized than others, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows. In the eight-month period between March 1 to ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report AHA News: Worse Outcomes for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests in Early Weeks of Pandemic U.S. News & World Report By American Heart Association News, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Nov. 16, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- The rate of resuscitation for cardiac arrests outside of a hospital setting decreased during the first weeks of the COVID-19 ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Restful Sleep Could Help Ward Off Heart Failure WebMD By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, Nov. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- People who regularly get a good night's sleep may help protect themselves from heart failure , a large, new study suggests. Researchers found that of over 400,000 adults, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters WHO takes aim at cervical cancer to reduce cases, deaths Reuters GENEVA (Reuters) - Vaccinating nine in 10 girls under 15 against cervical cancer, and improved screening and treatment of women could reduce infections by 40% and save 5 million lives by 2050, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Restful Sleep Could Help Ward Off Heart Failure HealthDay Studies have found that people with insomnia have higher risks of heart disease. The same is true of people with sleep apnea -- a chronic disorder where breathing pauses repeatedly throughout the night. In fact, many ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Warming Planet Ups Risk of Deadly Tick-Borne Fever WebMD Nov. 16, 2020 -- Climate change, already linked to more frequent wildfires, longer droughts, and more tropical storms, may also increase the risk of getting the potentially deadly tick-borne disease known as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, new research ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN More women than men struggle to fall asleep in both Europe and the US, study finds CNN Cognitive behavior therapy, or CBT, helped chronic insomnia patients to go to sleep 20. Photos: Insomnia tips. Train your brain instead – ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post 2nd virus vaccine shows striking success in US tests Washington Post A second experimental COVID-19 vaccine — this one from Moderna Inc. — yielded extraordinarily strong early results Monday, another badly needed dose of hope as the pandemic enters a terrible new phase. Follow the latest on Election 2020. Moderna ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN School warnings about children's weight don't work, study says CNN (CNN) The letter or report card is from your child's school, but this grade doesn't have anything to do with school performance or behavior. Instead, it's a measure of your child's body mass index or BMI -- designed to warn you when your child is overweight or ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Don't rely on a negative test result to see your family for Thanksgiving CNN It can take days before a new infection shows up on a Covid-19 test. "We know that the incubation period for Covid-19 is up to 14 days. And before that, you can be testing negative, and have no symptoms," emergency medicine physician Dr. Leana Wen said. Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Deadly New Ebola-Like Disease Emerges in Bolivia U.S. News & World Report By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Nov. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A deadly South American virus that causes Ebola-like bleeding can spread human-to-human, public health officials have learned from its second-ever ... Flag as irrelevant
	Today.com Everything you need to know about the anti-inflammatory diet Today.com The jury may be out on why exactly certain foods help reduce inflammation, but experts all agree that this eating plan is a healthy one. Healthy lunch bowl salmon and broccoli with asparagus and rice. A salmon, brown rice and veggie bowl is packed with ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Hill Moderna's vaccine doesn't need to be stored in deep-freeze conditions The Hill The positive news comes just a week after Pfizer, in collaboration with BioNTech, reported its vaccine appeared to be more than 90 percent effective. But Moderna's vaccine comes with a critical advantage. It doesn't need to be stored in deep-freeze conditions ... Flag as irrelevant
	Outbreak News Today COVID-19 unexpected consequence: Major measles outbreaks will likely occur during 2021 according to article Outbreak News Today By NewsDesk @bactiman63. A new article in The Lancet has called for urgent international action to prevent potentially devastating measles epidemics in the coming years. Lead author Professor Kim Mulholland, from the Murdoch Children's Research ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Canada's Remote Nunavut to Impose COVID-19 Lockdown After Community Outbreak U.S. News & World Report OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's remote Arctic territory of Nunavut is suffering its first community outbreak of COVID-19 and will close all non-essential services, as well as schools, for at least two weeks, officials said on Monday. "This is an outbreak," Michael ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healthline Arbonne Diet Review: Overview, Effectiveness, and More Healthline Protein shakes, detox teas, and metabolism boosters are some of the most popular supplements on the market. Though you can purchase these products from any supplement store, many people buy from multi-level marketing (MLM) companies. Arbonne is ... Flag as irrelevant
	Patch.com Lung Cancer Awareness Month – How To Get Involved Now! Patch.com Nov 16, 2020 3:56 pm ET. Reply. November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, a time to share important information and highlight stories of patients, survivors, and their families to raise awareness of this important cause.This year, more than 228,000 people ... Flag as irrelevant
	KABC-TV LA County officials to consider curfew as COVID cases continue to surge KABC-TV LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles County is set to consider several options to slow the surge in coronavirus cases, including a potential curfew. The L.A. County Board of Supervisors is expected to hear from the county's Department of Public Health on ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY Fact check: Ticketmaster exploring tech to provide fans' COVID status before events USA TODAY With the announcement that pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech have developed a 90% effective COVID-19 vaccine, misinformation surrounding vaccine requirements has resurfaced on social media. While some insiders have ... Flag as irrelevant
	WIRED How to Reduce (but Not Eliminate) Covid Risk at Holiday Gatherings WIRED For Amelia Vanyo's family, Thanksgiving is the most important holiday. Vanyo says her parents, two sisters, grandparents, uncle, aunt and cousins—and sometimes a boyfriend or two—get together for a big dinner and to share in each other's company. Flag as irrelevant
	WIRED How to Reduce (but Not Eliminate) Covid Risk at Holiday Gatherings WIRED For Amelia Vanyo's family, Thanksgiving is the most important holiday. Vanyo says her parents, two sisters, grandparents, uncle, aunt and cousins—and sometimes a boyfriend or two—get together for a big dinner and to share in each other's company. But the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Inconsistent mealtimes linked to heart risks Medical Xpress New research is driving that point home by looking at the impact of changes in meal timing from day-to-day and from weekday-to-weekend. Those changes were associated with several important heart health risk factors, including changes in waist ... Flag as irrelevant
	Popular Science You can get COVID-19 and the flu at the same time Popular Science The researchers observed subjects who were critically ill and hospitalized for one of the two viruses, and found a 40 percent mortality rate among the COVID-19 patients and a 19 percent mortality rate among the influenza patients. Flag as irrelevant
	The Denver Post Colorado to add new level to COVID dial as more cases, hospitalizations reported The Denver Post At least six Denver-area counties — Denver, Boulder, Broomfield, Adams, Jefferson and Arapahoe — have been involved in the talks, sources say. Polis and local officials have been desperate ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Study identifies patients with lung cancer most likely to respond to immunotherapy Medical Xpress Scientists are beginning to unravel one of the biggest challenges with immunotherapy: why some people with cancer respond to the treatment, while others may not respond at all. In a new study, researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healthline 90% of People with Type 2 Diabetes Had High Risk for Heart Attack, Study Finds Healthline According to new research 90 percent of people with type 2 diabetes are at high risk of fatal heart disease or stroke within 10 years. The average age of people studied was 70, and a little less than half were female. Many had preexisting conditions including ... Flag as irrelevant
	AZCentral.com Study finds more than 1 in 10 Maricopa County residents has been infected with COVID-19 AZCentral.com More than one in 10 Maricopa County residents have been infected with COVID-19, according to a countywide study. The study, conducted in mid-September, found that about 10.7% of residents have detectable antibodies for COVID-19, meaning about ... Flag as irrelevant
	Today.com Many people keep weight-loss surgery secret — here's why I won't stop talking about it Today.com A few years back, a fat friend debuted her new body on Instagram. Gone were the days of close-up, filtered face pictures. Suddenly, there she was posing in sleeveless jumpsuits and leather pencil skirts. At the time, I weighed 220 pounds at 5 feet, 3 inches tall ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Poll: Many Will Attend Large Indoor Holiday Events WebMD By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, Nov. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Despite skyrocketing coronavirus infection rates, many Americans plan to attend large holiday gatherings, a nationwide survey finds. Nearly two in five respondents said they ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healthline Managing Type 1 Diabetes Postpartum: Self-Care After Baby Arrives Healthline If you choose to breastfeed, persistently high blood sugars (above 200 mg/dL) can impair breast milk production and lead to chronically high amounts of glucose in your baby's milk. (More about that in a moment.) ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Covid-19: Temporary Lincolnshire mortuary use discussed as deaths rise BBC News A temporary mortuary created during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic may need to be brought into use, a senior police officer said. Ch Supt Paul Timmins said the facility on the former RAF Woodhall Spa site could be needed within two weeks if ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Conversation US Virus evolution could undermine a COVID-19 vaccine – but this can be stopped The Conversation US The first drug against HIV brought dying patients back from the brink. But as excited doctors raced to get the miracle drug to new patients, the miracle melted away. In each and every patient, the drug only worked only for a while. It turned out the drug was very ... Flag as irrelevant
	KSL.com As COVID-19 cases surge, Utah doctors expect to see more children hospitalized with related inflammatory syndrome KSL.com SALT LAKE CITY — It all started with a headache. Madilyn Dayton, 12, was a healthy and active child with no history of health issues. That all changed when one October morning she woke up with head pain that worsened the next day with a fever. Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Allergies Won't Up Your Odds for Severe COVID U.S. News & World Report By Cara Murez, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Nov. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- In a study of hospitalized patients who had COVID-19, outcomes for those who had allergies were similar to those of other patients, a new study reports. Flag as irrelevant
	ABC News 2nd virus vaccine shows striking success in US tests ABC News There's more promising news on the COVID-19 vaccine front as Moderna says its shot provides strong protection against the coronavirus. By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer. November 16, 2020, 5:21 PM. • 6 min read. Share to Facebook Share to ... Flag as irrelevant

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