All posts by LadyLively

  • COVID Vaccines Might Not Protect Certain Cancer Patients

    People with cancers of the blood, bone marrow or lymph nodes are at an increased risk of not making protective coronavirus antibodies after COVID-19 vaccination, a new study warns. The risk is particularly high for those with...

    • Posted April 12, 2021
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  • Is Your Spin Class Music Way Too Loud?

    Turning down the music at your fitness classes won’t affect the intensity of your workout, researchers say. It’s common for fitness instructors to crank up the volume — sometimes to levels loud enough to damage hearing —...

    • Posted April 12, 2021
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  • COVID Vaccines Trigger Protective Immune Response in Nursing Home Residents: Study

    Older adults in long-term care develop detectible antibodies after COVID-19 vaccination, which may mean it’s safe to reopen these facilities, according to a new study. But because it’s unclear how long the antibodies last, researchers from University...

    • Posted April 12, 2021
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  • Urinary Incontinence Surgery Won’t Raise a Woman’s Cancer Risk

    NDAY, April 12, 2021Women face no increased risk of pelvic cancer — tumors of the bladder, cervix and ovaries — if they have surgery to treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI), a new study finds. Concerns about possible...

    • Posted April 12, 2021
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  • Re-focusing on Getting Fit? Heart Experts Offer These Tips

    Want to get rid of all that weight you put on during the pandemic? To help out, the American Heart Association (AHA) is launching an initiative called Move More. One in four U.S. adults is sitting for...

    • Posted April 10, 2021
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  • AHA News: Not Just Bad Shoes and Sore Muscles – She Had Peripheral Artery Disease

    FRIDAY, April 9, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Abigail Dudek celebrated her 40th birthday in Las Vegas a few months ago, grateful to go hiking and cycling without pain for the first time in more than...

    • Posted April 9, 2021
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  • Scientists Find Clues to Why AstraZeneca’s Vaccine May Cause Clots

    Doctors might have figured out why AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine may cause life-threatening blood clots in very rare cases. The discovery, made in a pair of reports published online Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine, could...

    • Posted April 9, 2021
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  • Stressed, Exhausted: Frontline Workers Faced Big Mental Strain in Pandemic

    Doctors, nurses and other frontline health workers in U.S. emergency departments have struggled with significant mental health challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new poll reveals. “As the nation moves into what many believe is a fourth...

    • Posted April 9, 2021
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  • Supply of J&J COVID Vaccine to Drop 86 Percent Next Week

    In a setback to a national vaccination campaign that was finally gaining ground, the federal government said Thursday that Johnson & Johnson will allocate 86 percent fewer doses of its coronavirus vaccine across the United States next...

    • Posted April 9, 2021
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  • Health Highlights: April 9, 2021

    Prince Philip Dies At Age 99 Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, died Friday at Windsor Castle in England at age 99, Buckingham Palace announced. It said the Duke of Edinburgh died peacefully, The New York...

    • Posted April 9, 2021
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