All posts by LadyLively

  • An Expert Offers Tips on Long COVID Care

    If you’re one of the many people with long COVID, an expert offers advice on how to tackle it. The first step: Give yourself time to recover. “One thing we have seen repeatedly is that patients push...

    • Posted April 17, 2022
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  • How Too Much Drinking Harms the Liver

    As Americans stepped up their drinking during the COVID-19 pandemic, liver disease and transplants surged. Between March 2020 and January 2021, the number of U.S. patients with alcohol-associated liver disease who received a new liver or were...

    • Posted April 16, 2022
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  • Threatening Eye Condition Rare After COVID Infection

    As doctors learn more about COVID-19 infection, they are finding that in rare cases, it appears tied to a disturbing eye condition. Retinal vein occlusion is a blockage of the small veins that carry blood away from...

    • Posted April 15, 2022
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  • AHA News: Future of COVID-19 Vaccines Brings High Hopes, Familiar Obstacles

    FRIDAY, April 15, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — Looking back on a year since most people in the United States became eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine, medical experts can celebrate a technological triumph while acknowledging unresolved...

    • Posted April 15, 2022
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  • FDA Approves First Breath Test for COVID

    People who suspect they may have COVID-19 could soon find out with a simple breath test that delivers results in three minutes. On Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted an emergency use authorization for a...

    • Posted April 15, 2022
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  • New Law Allows FDA to Police E-Cigs Made With Synthetic Nicotine

    A new law will ensure that vaping companies making electronic cigarettes using synthetic nicotine, in fruit flavors that appeal to teenagers, can be regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. When the law took effect Thursday,...

    • Posted April 15, 2022
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  • Health Highlights: April 15, 2022

    FDA approves first breath test for COVID: The results are delivered within three minutes, but a PCR test recommended afterwards for confirmation. Read more Patient influencers: Good or Bad? Although their aim is to share medical information...

    • Posted April 15, 2022
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  • Avoiding Diabetes May Include Avoiding Meat

    Eating a healthy plant-based diet may help you head off type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests. Healthy plant-based foods include fruits, vegetables, nuts, coffee/tea, vegetable oils and legumes. Unhealthy plant-based foods include refined grains, fruit juices,...

    • Posted April 15, 2022
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  • 1 in 4 Adults Has Liver Disorder That Ups Heart Risks

    Alcohol abuse is a known cause of liver disease. But one in four adults worldwide has a liver condition not connected to drinking that ups the risk of heart disease, according to an American Heart Association scientific...

    • Posted April 15, 2022
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  • Blood Type May Predict Which Cancer Patients Are Prone to Clots

    Cancer patients’ blood type may play a role in their risk for dangerous blood clots, researchers say. Cancer and its treatments increase the risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE). That includes deep-vein thrombosis (DVT, a blood clot that...

    • Posted April 15, 2022
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