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How the Pandemic Changed Breast Cancer Care Instead of getting medication known as neoadjuvant endocrine therapy (NET) after surgery, as is more common, patients would receive NET first and surgery later, because ORs were so scarce. And because doctors didn' ...
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COVID's US toll projected to drop sharply by the end of July The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention paper included projections from six research groups. Their assignment was to predict the course of the U.S. epidemic between now and September under different scenarios, depending on how the vaccination ...
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How the Pandemic Changed Breast Cancer Care By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, May 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, breast cancer experts realized space in operating rooms and hospitals could become scarce. That meant rethinking ...
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The Era of Mass Vaccinations Is Ending At its peak, in late March, the mass-vaccination site at Nashville's Music City Center was giving out 2,100 doses a day. It was all hands on deck: Local nurses, volunteers, FEMA employees, and even U.S. Forest Service EMTs were redeployed to help give ...
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Why Exercise Can Be So Draining for People With Rheumatoid Arthritis Even a gentle session of leg lifts set off an exaggerated nervous system reaction in older women with rheumatoid arthritis.
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The Most Important Thing Rich Countries Can Do to Help India Fight COVID-19 An elderly man receives a dose of the Covishield vaccine in Mumbai on May 4, 2021. Punit Paranjpe—AFP/Getty Images. Ideas.
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Eating Issues Common in People With Autism, and Girls Are More Susceptible By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, May 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- While it's well established that autism and certain eating issues go hand in hand, does gender also play a role? Apparently it does, according to Swedish ...
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You Got Your COVID Shot: What to Do With the Vaccine Card "Since there's so much discussion about different entities requiring evidence of vaccination, who knows how that will play out?" said Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.
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Woman's tall husband spots melanoma on her scalp Jones was treated at the Cleveland Clinic, where doctors removed an area from her scalp almost the size of a tennis ball and used skin from her groin for a graft to close the wound. A biopsy of 13 lymph nodes showed they were negative for cancer.
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Report: Worst Hospitals for Unnecessary Procedures In what was called a first-of-its-kind list, the Lown Institute on Tuesday released the names of the worst 50 and best 50 hospitals ranked by how frequently their patients had any of 12 procedures largely regarded as unnecessary. Lown president Vikas Saini, ...
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COVID-19 may be spurring new cases of diabetes in survivors, study shows Sedentary lifestyles brought on by lockdowns could also be playing a role, as might late diagnoses after people avoided doctors' offices. Even some children's mild coronavirus cases can be followed by the swift onset of diabetes, scientists found.
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Deadly virus detected in two more wild rabbits in San Diego County Wildlife officials have confirmed Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 infection in two desert cottontail rabbits found dead in the Cañada de San Vicente Ecological Reserve in Ramona. (Moose Peterson).
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Freezing Tumors Could Be New Treatment for Low-Risk Breast Cancers TUESDAY, May 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A first-of-its-kind study suggests that slow-growing breast cancers can be treated with a highly targeted tumor-freezing technique, eliminating the need for invasive surgery. Testing to date suggests that the ...
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Covid and cancer: The young scientists working overtime to combat lockdown disruption But some young cancer researchers have told Radio 1 Newsbeat that they're working longer, harder days, with no extra pay, because of coronavirus. When Covid rules in the UK ...
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Detroit educating residents on where, how to get vaccines DETROIT (AP) — Mecca Shabazz has yet to get vaccinated against COVID-19. She doesn't believe she needs it, despite evidence that the virus disproportionately sickens and kills Black people. "I just wasn't pressed to do it. It's not a big thing to me," Shabazz ...
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NIH-backed device is first to offer long-term wireless monitoring of Parkinson's patients' brain activity The deep brain stimulation device continuously transmits the neurological activity of patients with Parkinson's disease to handheld receivers, which in turn relay the data to a cloud-based server via Bluetooth. (Ildar Imashev/Getty Images)(Ildar Imashev / Getty ...
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COVID: Reasons some vaccinated people refuse to go maskless (CNN) — Texas resident Robert Soto can't wait to visit his favorite karaoke spots in Austin. He says he'll be wearing his mask when he belts out "Amber" by 311 or "The Promise" by When in Rome — his go-to songs every time he grabs the mic at a bar.
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Restrict J&J COVID Vaccine in Women Under 50? The editorialists point out that no cases of TTS have been confirmed following administration of more than 180 million doses of the mRNA vaccines in the US. They say that while the J&J vaccine will still be needed ...
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Supply vs Demand: Which States are Reaching their COVID-19 Vaccine Tipping Points? We also noted that national averages may mask important differences by state. We therefore sought to understand where states fall along this spectrum; such differences are important for understanding how best to target efforts to increase vaccine coverage ...
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How Utah women are deciding if they will be vaccinated against COVID-19 before giving birth (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dani Al-Mansouri, 21, of Herriman, who is 31 weeks pregnant with her first child, waits the 15 minutes required after getting her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine at the Mountain America Exposition Center in Sandy ...
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'Hard to believe': Scientists alarmed by COVID's diabetes link, particularly in children They found that Covid survivors were about 39% more likely to have a new diabetes diagnosis in the six months after infection than non-infected users of the VA health system. The risk works out to about 6.5 additional diabetes cases for every 1,000 Covid ...
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SARS-CoV-2 reinfection milder than primary infection in US study Source: Adnan Q, et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2021;doi:10.1093/cid/ciab345. "Therefore, policies regarding face masks, social distancing and vaccination apply to survivors ...
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Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact We have then used these data as the basis for calculating the incremental economic burden of adults with MDD—that is, the additional costs traceable to those suffering from the disease in terms of both medical treatment and workplace productivity impacts.
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Breathing Other People's Smoke Can Raise Your Odds for Heart Failure By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, May 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to secondhand smoke may up your odds for heart failure, a new study warns. Researchers analyzed nationwide survey data from more than ...
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Fewer people want coronavirus vaccines than are available now in LA County Among young people, vaccination rates are the lowest. They are highest, meanwhile, among those in the older age brackets, which is to be expected, say health officials, based on who was most at risk when the pandemic was peaking.
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Tess Holliday Revealed She's Recovering from Anorexia — Twitter's Response Highlights a Major Issue When Holliday recently stated that she is recovering from anorexia nervosa, some people questioned her diagnosis. Here, mental health experts share why this can be so damaging. By Renee Cherry. May ...
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Phase 3 Trial Shows Promising Results for MDMA-Assisted PTSD Therapy A new study shows that MDMA — a chemical compound with psychedelic properties, otherwise known as Ecstasy or Molly — helped those suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder when paired with talk therapy, The New York Times reports.
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'Prediabetes' Raises Odds for Heart Attack, Stroke By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, May 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Prediabetes -- where blood sugar levels are high, but not high enough for a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes -- is not something you should dismiss.
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Hamilton County residents can now get free, rapid, at-home COVID-19 tests through new federal program Staff photo by Troy Stolt / Dr. Fernando Urrego speaks during a press conference about vaccination for COVID-19 at the Hamilton County Health Department's Golley Auditorium on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, in Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Do mRNA vaccines affect my DNA? Dear Pandemic Problems,. I have a family member who has concerns about mRNA, and if the mRNA in the vaccine can adversely affect his DNA. I don't understand mRNA. Where can I get reliable information on this question? Sincerely,. Confused by mRNA.
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We may not reach herd immunity, but public health experts say the vaccine can still contain the COVID-19 virus "At least in the near future, COVID will be in existence and my hope is that vaccination will sort of change it from being a pandemic to something that we see in much smaller numbers and much less severity and I think the vaccines to provide that protection to ...
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Greater Potential for Heart Failure Linked to Secondhand Smoke Exposure Compared with nonsmokers who did not have recent exposure to secondhand smoke, a 35% greater chance for heart failure was seen among those with recent exposure to the toxic fumes. Study findings presented ahead of this year's American College of ...
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Pregnancies in Louisiana are safer, but Black women still have worse outcomes than White women Fewer pregnant women in Louisiana suffered from blood loss and dangerously high blood pressure in 2020, two of the most common, preventable causes of maternal deaths, according to a new report released by the Louisiana Department of Health.
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Orange County remains in the orange tier as COVID-19 hospitalizations drop The other metrics that determine movement between tiers — the test positivity rate and the health equity quartile positivity rate — currently qualify the county for yellow at 1.3% and 1.4% respectively. Counties must log two ...
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Virginia begins shifting coronavirus vaccine supplies to primary care doctors Primary care doctors are about to get what many have wanted since they knew a coronavirus vaccine was in development: a chance to offer patients shots at their offices. Virginia public health officials say they'll be pushing more doses to doctors in the coming ...
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Utah's public health orders terminated under COVID-19 'endgame' law The bill, nicknamed the "COVID-19 endgame," lifts restrictions on gathering sizes and social distancing that were mandated by Utah's Department of Health. It previously ended the statewide mask mandate. According to ...
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'India variant' of coronavirus arrives in Iowa, joining UK and Brazil variants The "India variant" of the coronavirus has been confirmed in Iowa, although state health officials said they don't believe it's as much of a threat as the "U.K. variant," which has predominated here lately. The new strain of the virus, formally known as the B.1.617 ...
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Post-COVID: What the 1918 flu pandemic can help predict for the future OREGON, USA — Both health experts and historians say the "end" of the COVID-19 pandemic will not be a finish line. Some changes and impacts will be felt for generations. Oregon State University associate professor Christopher Nichols has done a lot of ...
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Oregon reports 6 more COVID-19 related deaths, including Jefferson County's 33rd; 748 new cases OHA reported Tuesday that 28,336 new doses of COVID-19 vaccinations were added to the state immunization registry. Of this total, 19,574 doses were administered on Monday and 8,762 were administered on previous days but were entered into the vaccine ...
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MDMA may help treat PTSD – but beware of claims that Ecstasy is a magic bullet Recent clinical trials, including one soon to be published in Nature Medicine, have suggested that MDMA combined with psychotherapy may help treat post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. The news generated considerable optimism and excitement in the ...
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Herd immunity: When will we get there? Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the term "herd immunity" was possibly something you only heard about during flu season or during reports of upticks in measles cases—if at all. But COVID-19 has brought that concept—when an infectious disease is less ...
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Colorado Woman Treated For Rare Blood Clots Related To Johnson & Johnson COVID Vaccine "It was a headache that was mostly on the side of my brain," said Morgan Wolfe, who noticed symptoms six days after she received the J&J vaccine in April. "I was just expecting what all the vaccines have, sort of the next day feeling a little bit flu-ish.".
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Why some vaccinated people won't go maskless — even outdoors Texas resident Robert Soto can't wait to visit his favorite karaoke spots in Austin. He says he'll be wearing his mask when he belts out "Amber" by 311 or "The Promise" by When in Rome — his go-to songs every time he grabs the mic at a bar. Soto plans to ...
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What a Move to the Yellow Tier Means for Bars, Gyms and Baseball Fans in LA County California's most populous county -- once the state's epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic -- is on the verge of moving into the least restrictive tier for reopening in a dramatic turnaround from one year ago. Los Angeles County is likely Tuesday to qualify for ...
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Is herd immunity a realistic concept? Fauci calls it 'elusive' and 'mystical' 'We should just be concerned about getting as many people vaccinated as quickly as we possibly can because herd immunity is still somewhat of an elusive number,' Dr. Fauci has said. White House press secretary Jen Psaki, COVID-19 Response ...
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Marin stays stuck in orange COVID-19 safety tier Marin will remain in the orange tier for now, just missing the mark this week on a less-restrictive status in the state's COVID-19 safety rating system. The county has been flirting with entering the yellow tier for five weeks. To move up, Marin needs to keep its ...
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New WHO benchmarks help countries reduce salt intake and save lives Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a new set of global benchmarks for sodium levels in more than 60 food categories that will help countries reduce sodium contents in foods to improve diets and save lives.
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Thousands fail to receive second COVID-19 shot Nearly a quarter of individuals who initiated the COVID-19 vaccine series in Iowa have missed their second dose, according to state public health officials. potentially throwing a wrench in the race toward herd immunity. More than 66,000 people as of Sunday ...
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Want to ward off heart disease? A daily cup of green veggies may help Researchers from Australia's Edith Cowan University examined whether people who habitually ate higher amounts of nitrate-rich vegetables — including leafy greens and beets — had lower blood pressure. It also assessed if the same people had a decreased ...
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Sunny spring days bring greater risk of Melanoma and other Skin cancers Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the world. As we enter May, Melanoma and Skin Cancer Awareness Month, we invited a local expert to share resources and answer questions. Dr. Paul Wright is from Spectrum Health Cancer Center. He talked about ...
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