• U.S. Air Quality Got Better During Pandemic: Study

    U.S. air quality improved after businesses closed to reduce the spread of the new coronavirus, researchers say. For their new study, they compared air pollution data for 122 U.S. counties between March 13 and April 21, to...

    • Posted July 20, 2020
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  • Colon Cancer Tests by Mail Might Boost Screening

    Want to boost colon cancer screening rates? Mail testing kits to patients’ homes, a new study says. Colon cancer is easily diagnosed by routine screening, such as colonoscopies and at-home stool testing. But despite recommendations that adults...

    • Posted July 20, 2020
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  • Black Kids Face Higher Odds of Post-Op Complications Than White Kids

    When healthy kids have surgery, serious complications are uncommon. But even in that low-risk scenario, Black children fare worse, a new study finds. Looking at more than 172,000 U.S. children who had inpatient surgery, researchers found that...

    • Posted July 20, 2020
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  • When a Nurse Becomes a COVID Patient: Her Tough Road Back

    Nurse case manager Sharon Tapp recalls laying in a Bethesda, Md., hospital bed, feverishly ill from COVID-19, asking for a bedpan. Then, in what seemed to be the very next moment, she found herself in another bed...

    • Posted July 20, 2020
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  • U.S. Coronavirus Case Counts Continue to Break Records, Pooled Testing Approved

    As yet another record for the seven-day average of new coronavirus cases in the United States was broken on Sunday, federal health officials prepared to start pooled testing for COVID-19. The strategy could speed results, stretch lab...

    • Posted July 20, 2020
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  • Health Highlights: July 20, 2020

    Older Children Spread New Coronavirus as Easily as Adults: Study Pooled Sampling Approved for COVID-19 Test

    • Posted July 20, 2020
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  • When Teens Feel Loved, Conflicts With Parents Are Easier to Manage: Study

    Parents can ease conflict with their teens by showing them warmth, researchers say. In their new study, they analyzed daily diary entries from parents and teens in 151 families. The teens were 13 to 16 years old,...

    • Posted July 19, 2020
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  • Placenta May Help Shield Fetus From COVID-19

    Some key molecules used by the new coronavirus to cause infection aren’t found in the placenta, which may explain why the virus is rarely detected in fetuses or newborns of women with COVID-19. U.S. government researchers found...

    • Posted July 17, 2020
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  • U.S. Breaks Another Daily Record for New Cases, With More Than 75,000 Infections

    Yet another daily record for new U.S. coronavirus cases was shattered on Thursday, with 75,600 new infections reported. It’s the 11th time in the past month that the daily record had been broken, The New York Times...

    • Posted July 17, 2020
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  • Health Highlights: July 17, 2020

    No Sail Order for Cruise Ships Extended to Sept. 30 CDC Will Again Post COVID-19 Hospitalization Data Scientists Call for 'Challenge Trials' to Hasten Coronavirus Vaccine Development Russian Hackers Trying to Steal Coronavirus Vaccine Research: Officials

    • Posted July 17, 2020
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