Semaglutide injections trigger ‘very large improvements’ in patients with hearts too stiff to fill properly. Andrew Gregory Amsterdam 25 Aug 2023 05.55 EDT Weight-loss jabs can reverse the symptoms of heart failure, according to a global trial that experts say could revolutionise treatment. Heart failure is one of the world’s fastest growing health threats. About […]
Wednesday, 23 August 2023 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday the new BA.2.86 lineage of coronavirus may be more infective than older variants in causing infection in people who have received vaccines and boosters. CDC said it was too soon to know whether this might cause more severe illness […]
LUKE ANDREWS HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM, 22 August A second American tested positive for the new highly-mutated BA.2.86 Covid variant that has been causing global alarm over its rapid transmission. The positive case was detected in an asymptomatic patient in Virginia who was tested August 10 after returning to the US from Japan. Scientists identified the case in […]
Foundation surveyed 2,007 adults in an online poll this year By CAITLIN TILLEY, HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM 22 August 2023 America’s growing anti-vaxx crisis has been laid bare in a national poll that shows huge chunks of the country believe in conspiracy theories about safe shots. One-quarter of adults said they believe the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine causes […]
BY JOSEPH CHOI – 08/22/23 5:00 AM ET Belief in misinformation about key health issues persists among a good chunk of adults, with false claims about COVID-19, vaccines and reproductive health garnering a substantial amount of support, a poll released Tuesday by KFF has found. Whether or not they believed the claims, nearly all participants in the […]
By LUKE ANDREWS HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM UPDATED: 15:35 EDT, 22 August 202 A second American tested positive for the new highly-mutated BA.2.86 Covid variant that has been causing global alarm over its rapid transmission. The positive case was detected in an asymptomatic patient in Virginia who was tested August 10 after returning to the US from Japan. Scientists identified […]
SARS-CoV-2’s public health impact is worse than that of heart disease or cancer, study claims; others say the work may overestimate harm for the general population. Three-and-a-half years since SARS-CoV-2 spread around the world, scientists are still documenting the virus’ myriad effects on human health. What’s clear already is that those effects can continue long […]
A new study published in Nature Medicine has found that the physical fallout from long COVID may last two years or longer and can take a toll on quality of life even for those whose initial cases didn’t require hospital care. The study, conducted by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the Veterans […]
A new study published in the journal Nature Medicine has found that even mild cases of COVID-19 can lead to an increased risk of long-term health problems two years later. The study, which was conducted by researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, looked at data from nearly 139,000 military veterans […]
A new study published in Nature Medicine has found that the physical fallout from long COVID may last two years or longer, even for those whose initial cases did not require hospitalization. The study, conducted by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care system, analyzed data from […]