All posts by LadyLively

  • COVID No More Deadly for People With Asthma, Large Study Shows

    During the pandemic, people with asthma have worried that their respiratory condition might raise their risk of severe illness or death from COVID-19, but new research findings should calm their fears. After analyzing data from 57 studies...

    • Posted February 24, 2021
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  • Many Cancer Patients Worry Pandemic Will Impact Their Care: Survey

    Battling cancer is tough in normal times, but many U.S. cancer survivors are concerned the coronavirus pandemic will interfere with their care and put their health at risk, a new study finds. “This study demonstrates the importance...

    • Posted February 24, 2021
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  • Diet Change Cured One Woman’s Rare Leg Ulcers

    For people who have livedoid vasculopathy, which causes painful ulcers on the feet and lower legs, new research may bring newfound hope. The disease is a rare medical mystery with no known cause and no commonly accepted...

    • Posted February 24, 2021
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  • Tiger Woods Hospitalized Following Car Crash

    Golfing legend Tiger Woods was recovering in the hospital on Wednesday following a crash where his SUV flipped over in a Los Angeles neighborhood on Tuesday morning. “Tiger Woods was in a single-car accident this morning in...

    • Posted February 23, 2021
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  • Lupus More Deadly for Asian and Hispanic Americans: Study

    More Asian and Hispanic people with lupus die prematurely than white patients, a new study reveals. Death rates in San Francisco were nearly six times higher than expected among Hispanic patients with lupus and four times higher...

    • Posted February 23, 2021
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  • Why Some ‘Super Ager’ Folks Keep Their Minds Dementia-Free

    Researchers may have uncovered a key reason some people remain sharp as a tack into their 80s and 90s: Their brains resist the buildup of certain proteins that mark Alzheimer’s disease. The study focused on what scientists...

    • Posted February 23, 2021
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  • AHA News: Black, Hispanic Families Hit Hardest by Dementia

    TUESDAY, Feb. 23, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — It can begin with the occasional missed bill payment. An inability to remember names. Telling the same story repeatedly. There may be personality changes or mood swings. Confusion....

    • Posted February 23, 2021
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  • AHA News: Identical in Nearly Every Way, These Twins Even Had the Same Kind of Heart Attack

    TUESDAY, Feb. 23, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — As identical twins who look alike, sound alike and even have the same mannerisms, Patricia Wood and Pamela Smith are used to people mistaking them for one another....

    • Posted February 23, 2021
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  • ‘What’s Wrong With Me?’ Young COVID Survivors Battle Long-Haul Symptoms

    It’s been nearly a year since David Speal, 38, first fell ill with COVID-19, but a racing heartbeat remains a regular reminder of his brush with the new coronavirus. Even the littlest thing — not eating at...

    • Posted February 23, 2021
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  • U.S. COVID Death Toll Passes 500,000

    President Joe Biden marked the unthinkable milestone of half a million Americans lost to coronavirus with a somber, candlelit ceremony at the White House on Monday night. “The people we lost were extraordinary,” Biden said. “They span...

    • Posted February 23, 2021
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