All posts by LadyLively

  • Health Highlights: Feb. 2, 2021

    Russian COVID-19 Vaccine Safe and Effective: Study Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine appears safe and effective, according to early results of a late-stage study. The trial of the vaccine, called Sputnik V, involved about 20,000 people in Russia last...

    • Posted February 2, 2021
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  • Researchers Use Computers and ‘Exoskeletons’ to Help Stroke Survivors

    Stroke survivor Ken Allsford focused intensely on how he wanted to bend his elbow. And then the robot exoskeleton attached to his left arm obeyed his unspoken command, moving his crippled limb. “It was a combination of...

    • Posted February 2, 2021
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  • Pandemic Cut U.S. Heart Surgeries in Half as Patients Avoided Hospitals

    There has been a sharp decline in heart surgeries and an increase in heart surgery patient deaths in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers say. An analysis of national data revealed a 53% decrease in...

    • Posted February 2, 2021
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  • Race Affects Outcomes for Young Heart Transplant Patients

    Heart transplants may be particularly risky for young Black Americans, with new research suggesting they are twice as likely to die after they receive their new organ. To reach that conclusion, researchers analyzed the outcomes of nearly...

    • Posted February 2, 2021
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  • Like Flu, COVID-19 May Turn Out to Be Seasonal

    Like influenza, could COVID-19 evolve to wax and wane with the seasons? New research suggests it might. Early in the pandemic, some experts suggested that SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19 — may behave like many...

    • Posted February 2, 2021
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  • Type 2 Diabetes Drug Metformin Could Help Prevent Some Breast Cancers

    Women with type 2 diabetes may be more likely to develop breast cancer, but taking the diabetes drug metformin appears to reduce their risk for the most common type, new research finds. Compared to women without diabetes,...

    • Posted February 1, 2021
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  • Tony Bennett’s Struggle With Alzheimer’s Revealed

    As Tony Bennett releases what may well be his last album, his family has disclosed that the 1950s crooner who became popular with younger audiences decades later has Alzheimer’s disease. His wife, Susan, made the announcement in...

    • Posted February 1, 2021
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  • What’s the Most Nutritious Way to Juice Your Vegetables?

    Homemade juices are a popular way for health-conscious people to get their veggies. But the juicing method of choice makes a difference, a recent study suggests. Researchers found that three different techniques — using either a blender...

    • Posted February 1, 2021
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  • AHA News: Hormones Are Key in Brain Health Differences Between Men and Women

    MONDAY, Feb. 1, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Medical science has come a long way since the days of “bikini medicine,” when the only time doctors managed a woman’s health differently than a man’s was when...

    • Posted February 1, 2021
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  • Pandemic Unemployment Benefits Helped Keep Millions of Americans From Going Hungry

    Expanded unemployment benefits, passed by Congress last spring to ease the economic pain of the pandemic, appear to have held hunger at bay for millions of Americans, new research shows. Called “The CARES Act” when it was...

    • Posted February 1, 2021
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