All posts by LadyLively

  • How Gum Disease Could Raise Your Odds for Severe COVID-19

    Keep flossing: A study just out suggests gum disease can increase your odds for severe COVID-19. Previous research showed that it’s blood vessels, rather than airways, that are affected initially in COVID lung disease. Now, new research...

    • Posted April 21, 2021
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  • Little Progress in Boosting Numbers of Black American Doctors

    The percentage of U.S. doctors who are Black has barely risen in the past 120 years, and there’s still a wide pay gap between white and Black physicians, a new study finds. The analysis of U.S. Census...

    • Posted April 21, 2021
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  • Health Highlights, April 21, 2021

    Too Little Sleep May Increase Dementia Risk: Study People who get too little sleep in middle age may have an increased risk of dementia when they’re older, according to a new study. Researchers tracked nearly 8,000 people...

    • Posted April 21, 2021
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  • Breast Cancer Over 70: How Much Treatment Is Enough?

    Many women older than 70 can safely receive fewer treatments for early-stage breast cancer, a new study suggests. Researchers found that adding lymph node removal or radiation to women’s treatment did not seem to cut their risk...

    • Posted April 20, 2021
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  • AHA News: Pandemic-Fueled Drug Abuse Threatens Hearts, Lives

    TUESDAY, April 20, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — On a recent day in his Denver Health emergency room, Dr. Eric Lavonas hit another tragic trifecta. “In a nine-hour shift, I took care of somebody with chest...

    • Posted April 20, 2021
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  • AHA News: After Two Heart Valve Surgeries, a Mental Toll

    TUESDAY, April 20, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — After Ivan Hernandez was born with a defective mitral valve, doctors warned his parents he could face heart failure at any age. Yet Hernandez grew up without incident....

    • Posted April 20, 2021
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  • Every American Adult Now Eligible for COVID-19 Vaccine

    As of Monday, every American aged 16 or older in all 50 states is now open to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, meeting President Joe Biden’s promise to deliver vaccines to all adults by April 19. “If you’re...

    • Posted April 20, 2021
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  • Health Highlights, April 20, 2021

    Low Risk of COVID-19 Surface Transmission: CDC There’s a low risk of surface transmission of the new coronavirus and continuously disinfecting surfaces may do more harm than good, according to updated U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...

    • Posted April 20, 2021
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  • New Hope Against a Rare but Incurable Eye Cancer

    A cutting-edge experimental drug cuts nearly in half the risk of death among patients with a rare but aggressive cancer of the eye, new clinical trial data show. Tebentafusp has now become the first drug shown to...

    • Posted April 20, 2021
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  • Too Much Red Meat Might Harm Your Heart

    If you’ve ever scoffed at warnings that too much red or processed meat is bad for the heart while oily fish is good for you, there’s now some visual evidence to support that advice. British researchers used...

    • Posted April 20, 2021
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