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Disruption, Dismay, Dissent: Americans Grapple With Omicron's Rise CHICAGO — With infection rates mounting, the Omicron variant has ushered in a new and disorienting phase of the pandemic, leaving Americans frustrated and dismayed that the basic elements they thought they understood about the coronavirus are shifting ...
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In a First, Man Receives a Heart From a Genetically Altered Pig Scientists have worked feverishly to develop pigs whose organs would not be rejected by the human body, research accelerated in the past decade by new gene editing and cloning technologies. The heart transplant comes just months after surgeons ...
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80% of Americans With Diabetes Struggle to Manage Health The authors reviewed clinical trial evidence through June 2020 for lifestyle management of diabetes and weight, blood sugar targets and control, blood pressure management, cholesterol management, aspirin therapy, and screening for heart and kidney ...
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'People Need to Be Reminded About Flu' With Covid surging again and vaccine fatigue rising, vaccination rates for influenza are troublingly low, especially among older Americans.
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5 reasons you should not deliberately catch Omicron to 'get it over with' The idea of intentionally trying to catch Omicron is "all the rage," said Dr. Paul Offit, the director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, with an exasperated sigh.
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More Olive Oil May Bring Longer Life: Study Olive oil is rich in healthful antioxidants, polyphenols and vitamins, and is a good source of heart-healthy monounsaturated fats. "One may speculate that mechanisms related to the anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties of olive oil may have played a ...
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First-ever heart transplant from gene-edited pig offers hope for thousands in need of organs A Maryland man has lived for three days with a pig heart beating inside his chest. The surgery, at the University of Maryland Medical Center, marks the first time a gene-edited pig has been used as an organ donor. Dave Bennett, 57, agreed to be the ...
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Replacing full-fat dairy with olive oil may reduce your risk of disease and death, study finds (CNN) Using olive oil instead of margarine, butter or other saturated fats may protect you from dying from cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory disease, dementia, and other conditions, according to a study released Monday.
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At-Risk Americans Become Eligible for Fourth COVID Shot This Week Jan. 10, 2022 -- Some Americans with a weakened immune system who face high risks for severe COVID-19 become eligible this week to receive a fourth dose of a coronavirus vaccine. The CDC endorsed a third dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines for ...
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The Omicron Reset America's staggering number of mild COVID infections among the vaccinated is forcing the country's pandemic mindset to change. By Sarah Zhang. An animation of a coronavirus particle changing color. Getty; The Atlantic. January 10, 2022, 12:17 PM ET.
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Unlucky in Love? It Can Damage Men's Health, Study Finds By Cara Murez, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, Jan. 11, 2022 - (HealthDay News) -- Men who are broken-hearted or just unlucky in love could be more likely to have health-damaging inflammation, new research suggests.
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Exposure to Common Cold Might Help Shield Against COVID By Cara Murez, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Jan. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Vaccination is still the best way to protect someone from COVID-19, but new research suggests that immune system activation of T-cells by common colds may offer ...
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Scientists Work Out How Exercise Saves Your Brain By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Jan. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Exercise helps you stay fit, hale and hearty, and researchers say it may also help you stave off dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
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Do Not Use At-Home COVID Test Swabs in the Throat: FDA By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Jan. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Swabs that come with at-home rapid antigen COVID-19 tests should be used in the nose and not the throat, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns.
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Too Much Sitting Could Mean Worse Outcomes for Cancer Survivors By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, Jan. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Beating cancer is a huge feat, but how survivors live their lives afterwards also influences their longevity. A new study shows those who sit too much and ...
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Man gets genetically-modified pig heart in world-first transplant A US man has become the first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig. David Bennett, 57, is doing well three days after the experimental seven-hour procedure in Baltimore, doctors say.
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Sonoma County issues ban on large gatherings amid omicron surge Health officials also issued a communitywide appeal for Sonoma County residents to avoid leaving their homes except to go to work or school or for other necessary trips, such as the grocery store or the doctor's office. The appeal, also for 30 days, is not ...
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Novel transplant approach improves the odds for leukemia patients GVHD is often the disturbing price patients pay after bone marrow or blood stem cell transplants that can cure a majority of blood cancers such as leukemia. It is caused when transplanted immune cells from the donor (the graft) perceive as foreign the ...
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Vegas-Area Hospital Firm Cuts Staff COVID Quarantine Time Dignity Health, with suburban medical centers in Henderson, southwest Las Vegas and North Las Vegas, joined facilities around the nation taking steps to let nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus stay on the job if they have mild or no ...
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Half of Salt Lake County's COVID-19 cases among vaccinated — but booster shots still seen as key in omicron battle Booster shots will "really make a huge dent" in how many Utahns get sick enough from the rapidly spreading omicron variant of COVID-19 to require hospitalization, Dr. Todd Vento, an Intermountain Healthcare infectious diseases physician told reporters ...
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Live updates: Allina Health facilities limit visitors amid nearly 11000 new COVID cases in MN ST PAUL, Minn. — Editor's Note: The video above originally aired on Jan. 7, 2022. Allina Health announces "red visitor status," which bans patient visitors in its facilities with limited exceptions. MDH reports new cases, new deaths ...
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Omicron 'causing more coronavirus reinfections' The Omicron variant of coronavirus is causing more people in Guernsey to be reinfected with Covid, health bosses say. Reinfection protection for six months after an infection has dropped from 85% to under 20%. Sixty-five of 70 reinfections in the ...
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WHO Says More Research Needed on Vaccine Efficacy Against Omicron By Mrinalika Roy and Emma Farge. (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Tuesday more research is needed to find out if existing COVID-19 vaccines provide adequate protection against the highly contagious Omicron variant, ...
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Why Unvaccinated People Are Feeling the Brunt of the Omicron Surge Several factors, including its high transmissibility, have led to a surge in the spread of the coronavirus Omicron variant. The unvaccinated are at greatest risk for severe illness. Vaccination greatly reduces risk of being hospitalized and dying from ...
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Minnesota hospitals brace for omicron wave even as COVID-19 declines in ICUs Hospital leaders said the decline might be temporary, because the fast-spreading omicron variant has increased coronavirus infections, which could soon produce more COVID-19 admissions. Minnesota on Monday reported another 10,810 coronavirus infections ...
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UK Weighs Cutting Covid-19 Isolation Period to Five Days The U.K. government is weighing up plans to cut the Covid-19 self-isolation period from seven days to five, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said, as he prepares for coronavirus to become endemic in Britain. In a pooled clip with broadcasters Monday, ...
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CDC: Immunocompromised eligible for 4th COVID shot as early as this week DALLAS — Under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendations, people with weakened immune systems could receive a fourth dose of coronavirus vaccine as early as this week. Meanwhile, local experts predict a "series" of COVID shots may ...
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Even Symptom-Free, People With Omicron Much More Likely to Spread COVID: Studies By Cara Murez, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Jan. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say they've uncovered a clue to why the Omicron variant spreads COVID-19 so much more rapidly than its predecessors. People who are infected but have ...
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Most US adults with diabetes aren't managing the risks for heart disease Most people who have Type 2 diabetes in the U.S. aren't managing risk factors for heart disease, according to a new analysis aimed at guiding doctors and patients on the latest methods to help. Fewer than 1 in 5 adults with Type 2 diabetes who are not ...
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Breastfeeding may lower maternal CV risk Women who ever breastfed during their lifetime were less likely to develop CVD, CHD or stroke, or die of CV-related causes compared with parous women who never breastfed, data from a meta-analysis show. "Previous studies have investigated the ...
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UM gives update on COVID-19 testing, quarantine MISSOULA, Mont. — The University of Montana sent out a lengthy update on COVID-19 detailing information on testing, isolation and quarantine, masks and what to expect as the omicron variant impacts the UM campus and community.
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AdventHealth, Orlando Health COVID-19 hospitalizations nearly double in a week As omicron cases escalate toward a peak, hospitalizations are reaching levels not seen since the delta surge: AdventHealth Central Florida has 910 COVID-19 patients hospitalized across its system as of Monday. Though this is lower than the delta ...
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Maine reports 20 COVID-19 deaths and confirms 1779 more cases Maine reported 20 more COVID-19 deaths and 1,779 additional confirmed cases of the virus as the highly contagious omicron variant is now believed to be the dominant strain spreading statewide. It is the first update on ...
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COVID-19 hospitalizations exceed 400 for first time in Maine The number of intensive care patients remained flat, however, indicating that patients infected with omicron are less likely to need critical care. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates the more contagious omicron variant ...
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Cognitive Decline Isn't Always a Sign of Alzheimer's Disease: How Exercise Can Help "Think about all the things we know about the workings of the heart," Kaitlin Casaletto, PhD, a neuropsychologist and assistant professor at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, told Healthline. "Now we're getting that kind of input for the brain.".
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University of Kansas Health System has highest number of patients with active COVID-19 infections The previous high was 115 patients on December 10, 2020. On Monday, an additional 43 patients in the hospital were recovering from COVID-19 but were no longer classified as acute. Doctors said only nine of the 119 patients with an active infection were ...
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A look at the differences between the CDC's and Florida's COVID-19 testing guidelines FILE - Health care workers administer nasal swabs to drivers and passengers at a drive-through COVID-19 testing site at Zoo Miami, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) (Rebecca Blackwell, Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All ...
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Digital vaccine card rolled out in Massachusetts, days before Boston's indoor mandate takes effect The new "My Vax Records" tool, which extracts health data from the Massachusetts Immunization Information System, should work smoothly for people who have received both COVID vaccine doses in the state. It will also capture if people are boosted, the Baker ...
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Study Suggests COVID-19 Vaccination Associated with Small, Temporary Increase in Menstrual Cycle Length Women who receive 1 dose of a COVID-19 vaccine during a single menstrual cycle had an increase in cycle length of nearly 1 day compared to unvaccinated women, according to a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study. Additionally, the researchers found ...
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Want better omicron protection? What to know when upgrading masks With the omicron variant spreading like wildfire, health experts say it's now more important than ever to upgrade your face mask. You don't have to spend a lot of money to get a quality N95 or KN95 mask, but you do need to be careful where you buy that ...
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New York now requiring COVID-19 boosters for healthcare workers COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to rise in the state of New York, and in response Governor Kathy Hochul said late last week that healthcare workers would be required to get a booster shot, a mandate that's pending approval from the New ...
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Pregnant women urged to get COVID vaccine Allegheny Health Network's Women's Institute is strongly urging all pregnant patients to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as possible as the latest pandemic surge caused by the delta and omicron variants continues to sweep through Western ...
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CDC is criticized for failing to communicate, promises to do better The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held only two telebriefings in 2021. That lack of transparency has prompted criticism — and a pledge from director Dr. Rochelle Walensky to be more open. Transcript. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:.
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Drugs to treat high-risk patients in critically short supply as omicron surge hits Maine A nationwide shortage of a key treatment that keeps high-risk COVID-19 patients from getting severely ill has left Maine health care providers with a fraction of the supply they need as the omicron variant has driven hospitalizations to their highest ...
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NB COVID-19 roundup: Record-high 86 in hospital, people 18 and over line up for booster More New Brunswickers can receive a booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, starting today, as the province recorded a pandemic record-high of hospitalizations. All New Brunswickers 18 and older are now eligible to book an appointment, as long as five ...
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Air pollution levels linked to 16% of pediatric asthma cases globally Combustion-related nitrogen dioxide pollution appeared to significantly contribute to pediatric asthma incidence globally, particularly in urban areas, according to data published in The Lancet Planetary Health. "Decades of research provide strong ...
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Don't Fear 'Deltacron'; Hospitals on the Brink; FDA's Anti-Throat Swabbing Tweet Note that some links may require registration or subscription. A new variant dubbed "Deltacron," that combines Delta and Omicron, was detected in Cyprus, though it is not expected to overtake the highly contagious Omicron variant. (Bloomberg).
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Number of COVID-19 Cases Among Young Children on the Rise Amid Omicron Surge Doctor John Bradley, the medical director of infectious diseases at Rady's said the cases are up and testing is up, but children, specifically children 12 and under, are not getting chronic infections.
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Oregon averaging 6750 daily coronavirus cases; hospitalizations still 40% below delta peak Coronavirus hospitalizations rose gradually over the weekend amid an unprecedented run of infections, with the state on Monday averaging more than 6,750 cases a day in the past week. Oregon's record-breaking pace of infections from the omicron variant ...
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Colorado passes 'grim milestone' with over 1 million COVID cases Hart Van Denburg/CPR News Medical assistant Genna Naranjo, left, administers a free coronavirus test Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, at Hinkley High School in Aurora. The free tests are being ...
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