All posts by LadyLively

  • AHA News: Walking Your Way to Better Health? Remember the Acronym FIT

    WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — So you put on extra pounds during the pandemic. Your cholesterol’s too high. Maybe you need to do a better job managing blood pressure. It can feel like...

    • Posted April 6, 2022
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  • FDA Panel Meets to Craft Future Vaccine Strategy

    An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will meet Wednesday to discuss the best way forward with coronavirus vaccines, as evidence grows that variants are eroding the power of the country’s current shots. “As...

    • Posted April 6, 2022
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  • Biden Makes National Push for Long COVID Research

    President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered a new national push to research the nature and impact of long COVID, a constellation of sometimes debilitating symptoms that linger long after infection in nearly one-third of Americans. The research...

    • Posted April 6, 2022
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  • Health Highlights, April 6, 2022

    FDA panel meets to craft future COVID vaccine strategy: The panel will hear from experts about whether boosters or new vaccines will be needed going forward. Read more Biden launches national COVID research initiative: Scientists from numerous...

    • Posted April 6, 2022
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  • Half of Americans Now Die With Dementia Diagnosis, Better Record-Keeping May Be Why

    A record number of American adults are now dying with a dementia diagnosis, new research shows. Yet, that increase of 36% from two decades ago may have more to do with better record-keeping than an actual rise...

    • Posted April 6, 2022
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  • Israeli Data Shows 2nd COVID Booster Shields Against Omicron

    Israel’s government made a second booster dose of the Pfizer vaccine available to all of its citizens aged 60 and older at the beginning of this year. Now, emerging data suggests this fourth dose greatly boosts protection...

    • Posted April 6, 2022
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  • More Evidence COVID Vaccine Offers Good Protection for Most Cancer Patients

    Vaccines did a good job protecting most cancer patients against COVID-19, but those with blood cancers remain at risk for breakthrough infections, new research suggests. The study analyzed nationwide data on more than 64,000 U.S. cancer patients...

    • Posted April 6, 2022
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  • EPA Proposes to Ban Last Form of Asbestos Used in U.S.

    A proposed rule to ban ongoing uses of the only known form of asbestos imported into the United States has been introduced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The ban would apply to chrysotile asbestos, which...

    • Posted April 6, 2022
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  • Hospital Work During Pandemic Was Like a War Zone: Study

    Health care workers battling the pandemic may be suffering moral traumas at a rate similar to soldiers in a war zone, a new study suggests. The pandemic has brought a stream of stories about overtaxed health care...

    • Posted April 5, 2022
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  • FDA Warns of U.S. Norovirus Cases Linked to Canadian Oysters

    The United States and Canada are investigating a multistate outbreak of norovirus illnesses linked to raw oysters from Canada. Restaurants and retailers should not serve or sell these potentially contaminated raw oysters, which were harvested in the...

    • Posted April 5, 2022
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