All posts by LadyLively

  • Health Highlights: Feb. 3, 2021

    Companies Developing Vaccines Against New Coronavirus Variants As concerns mount about mutations that could make the new coronavirus more difficult to fight, two companies say they’re working to develop new vaccines against emerging variants of the virus...

    • Posted February 3, 2021
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  • Tense Times Mean More Tooth-Grinding, Dentists Warn

    If pandemic-related stress has you grinding your teeth, you’re not alone. Dentists say tooth-grinding and jaw-clenching are on the rise due to the many challenges stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’ve been seeing an increase in the...

    • Posted February 3, 2021
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  • How Your Neighborhood Can Hamper Your Teen’s Sleep

    Living in a noisy neighborhood with less green space negatively affects teens’ sleep, which may lead to poorer memory and thinking skills, according to a pair of studies. In a study on residential environment, researchers found that...

    • Posted February 3, 2021
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  • Could Working Outside Help Prevent Breast Cancer?

    The great outdoors can soothe the soul, but new research suggests that working outside might also guard against breast cancer. The study wasn’t designed to say how working outside affects chances of developing breast cancer, but vitamin...

    • Posted February 2, 2021
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  • Advances in Treatments Against Severe COVID-19 May Have Stalled

    The death rate among COVID-19 patients in intensive care has fallen since the start of the pandemic, largely because of better treatments. But a new study review suggests that those advances in care may have plateaued. The...

    • Posted February 2, 2021
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  • Why Do Black Children Get Fewer Scans When They’re Seen in ERs?

    Black and Hispanic children who land in the emergency room are less likely than white kids to receive X-rays, CT scans and other imaging tests, a new study finds. Looking at more than 13 million ER visits...

    • Posted February 2, 2021
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  • Concussions More Likely in Practice Than Play for College Football Players

    College football players suffer more concussions and head hits in practice than they do actually playing the game, a new study suggests. Across five seasons of football, 72% of concussions and 67% of head impacts incurred by...

    • Posted February 2, 2021
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  • Too Many U.S. Doctors Biased Against Patients With Disabilities: Study

    Dr. Lisa Iezzoni is all too familiar with the discrimination that patients who have a disability can face: Having lived with multiple sclerosis for more than four decades and now in a wheelchair, she has also studied...

    • Posted February 2, 2021
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  • AHA News: The Night Before a Big Presentation, Lawyer-Mother Has a Heart Attack

    TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — About every other month for nearly a year, Cherée Johnson would wake up in the middle of the night with a sharp pain in her chest. Sometimes it...

    • Posted February 2, 2021
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  • If New COVID Variants Become Dominant in U.S., Re-infections Likely: Fauci

    If new, more contagious variants become dominant in the United States, a high rate of Americans who have already suffered through a case of COVID-19 will likely get re-infected. Therefore, “you need to get vaccinated when it...

    • Posted February 2, 2021
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