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By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, June 23, 2021 — When a baby is born, the mother’s body provides a pathway into the world, but the journey also exposes them to beneficial bacteria that live in and on their mom. But that critical exchange doesn’t happen during a cesarean section delivery. Now, researchers report that […]
Continue ReadingWEDNESDAY, June 23, 2021 — One dose of a two-dose mRNA COVID-19 vaccine is enough to protect previously infected people, but it’s likely they and everyone with two doses will still require booster shots at a later date, a new study suggests. That’s because antibodies triggered through either natural infection or vaccines decline at about […]
Continue ReadingBy Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, June 23, 2021 — The pandemic not only cost hundreds of thousands of American lives, but it also appears to have triggered a deep drop in births, U.S. health officials reported Wednesday. Until 2020, the birth rate had been declining about 2% a year, but that rate dropped to […]
Continue ReadingBy Denise Mann HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, June 23, 2021 — Losing weight is hard, but many weight loss supplements promise to make the journey easy. Unfortunately, there’s little high-quality research to back these claims, a new study shows. Hundreds of weight loss supplements like green tea extract, chitosan, guar gum and conjugated linoleic acid are […]
Continue ReadingWEDNESDAY, June 23, 2021 — Rashes, itchiness and other skin problems can develop after people receive COVID-19 vaccines, but such problems are rare and go away quickly, new research shows. For the study, the researchers looked at more than 40,000 employees of a Boston hospital system who received two-dose mRNA COVID-19 vaccines (such as the […]
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Cinco meses después de que su esposo muriera por covid-19, Valerie Villegas puede ver cómo el duelo ha marcado a sus hijos. Nicholas, el bebé, que tenía 1 año cuando murió su padre y casi desteta, ahora quiere tomar la teta a toda hora, y llama a cada hombre alto de cabello oscuro “Dada”, la […]
Continue ReadingBy Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, June 23, 2021 — You might not believe it, but Florida firefighter Carsten Kieffer was incredibly lucky when a 12-foot alligator leapt into his boat and chomped down on his right forearm. Just about no one else thought so, and that went double for Kieffer: Both main bones in […]
Continue ReadingNovartis and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)announced a collaboration that aims to accelerate the use of data and digital technologies within Novartis efforts to reimagine global health and improve access to healthcare and medicines. The collaboration will focus on three global health enablers: identifying and integrating complex data sources related to health; advancing the application of […]
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Five months after her husband died of covid-19, Valerie Villegas can see how grief has wounded her children. Nicholas, the baby, who was 1 and almost weaned when his father died, now wants to nurse at all hours and calls every tall, dark-haired man “Dada,” the only word he knows. Robert, 3, regularly collapses into […]
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EL PASO, Texas — Alfredo “Freddy” Valles was an accomplished trumpeter and a beloved music teacher for nearly four decades at one of the city’s poorest middle schools. He was known for buying his students shoes and bow ties for their band concerts, his effortlessly positive demeanor and a suave personal style — “he looked […]
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