All posts by LadyLively

  • Daytime Napping May Be in Your Genes

    If you like to take a snooze in the afternoon, your genes may explain your love of daytime naps, researchers say. For their study, investigators analyzed data from the UK Biobank, which contains genetic information from nearly...

    • Posted February 12, 2021
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  • Southern California Is Origin of New COVID-19 Variant

    A new variant of COVID-19 found in Southern California is coursing across the United States and around the world, a new study finds. The variant — called CAL.20C — was first found in July in Los Angeles...

    • Posted February 12, 2021
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  • Is Any Amount of Coffee Safe for Baby During Pregnancy?

    Too much coffee during pregnancy could lead to kids with behavior problems later on. That’s the key takeaway from new research that examined 9,000 brain scans from 9- and 10-year-olds as part of the largest long-term study...

    • Posted February 12, 2021
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  • AHA News: A ‘One-Stop Shop’ For Health Care in Asian Immigrant Communities

    FRIDAY, Feb. 12, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Nelson Zhao grew up in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and as a child started going to a nonprofit community health center. Today, at 29 and with a good job...

    • Posted February 12, 2021
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  • AHA News: Hoping to Find Out Her Baby’s Sex, She Learned of a Serious Heart Defect

    FRIDAY, Feb. 12, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Latisha Wilborne was excited. She and her husband had tried for a year to get pregnant, and now, 20 weeks pregnant, she was at a doctor’s visit with...

    • Posted February 12, 2021
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  • U.S. Will Have Enough Vaccine for All Americans by Summer: Biden

    The United States will have enough COVID-19 vaccines to inoculate 300 million Americans by summer, President Joe Biden announced Thursday. During a tour of the National Institute of Health’s Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory, where the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine...

    • Posted February 12, 2021
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  • Health Highlights: Feb. 12, 2021

    COVID-19 Vaccines for U.S. Kids Still Months Away Late summer will be the earliest that children in the United States could receive COVID-19 vaccines, experts say. Pfizer and Moderna are conducting clinical trials of their vaccines in...

    • Posted February 12, 2021
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  • Why Are Wait Times for Donor Kidneys Not Improving?

    Despite widespread efforts to increase access and awareness, new research shows there’s been virtually no change in the number of people on waiting lists for potentially lifesaving kidneys over the past two decades. For their study, scientists...

    • Posted February 12, 2021
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  • Trump Was Much Sicker With COVID-19 Than Was Revealed

    FRIDAY, Feb. 12, 2021,Former President Donald Trump was much more ill than was let on when he came down with COVID-19 in early October, sources close to Trump have told The New York Times. At one point,...

    • Posted February 12, 2021
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  • Tips to Making a Highly Effective COVID Mask at Home

    When choosing a face mask to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, it seems like the choices are endless. To make the decision a little easier, researchers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, tested...

    • Posted February 12, 2021
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