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Recovery From Mild Brain Trauma Takes Longer Than Expected: Study
Less than half of patients with a sports-related mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) recover within two weeks, new research shows. “This study challenges current perceptions that most people with a sports-related mTBI recover within 10 to 14...
- Posted March 29, 2020
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Preventing Repeat Heart Attack, Stroke More Important Than Ever: AHA
With the new coronavirus severely straining the U.S. health care system, experts are calling on heart attack and stroke survivors to take extra steps to reduce their risk of a repeat event. The American Heart Association (AHA)...
- Posted March 27, 2020
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Legal Pot Products Too Potent for Chronic Pain
Most legal medical marijuana — more than 90% — is stronger than what doctors recommend for chronic pain relief, a new study finds. “We know that high-potency products should not have a place in the medical realm...
- Posted March 27, 2020
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Three Countries Have Kept Coronavirus in Check; Here’s How They Did It
Vietnam. South Korea. Taiwan. All three countries are placed uncomfortably close to China, the initial epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic that’s now swept across the world. But they also have one other thing in common: They’ve each...
- Posted March 27, 2020
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U.S. Leads the World With Most Coronavirus Cases, House to Pass $2 Trillion Stimulus Package
(HealthDay News) — The United States passed China as the country with the most coronavirus cases in the world late Thursday, as the U.S. House appeared poised to pass a $2 trillion stimulus package to bolster America’s...
- Posted March 27, 2020
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Health Highlights: March 27, 2020
U.S. Autism Diagnoses Rise, Racial Gap Closes Ethanol Producers Want FDA Permission to Make Alcohol for Hand Sanitizer VA Health System Swamped by Coronavirus Patients
- Posted March 27, 2020
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Coronavirus Isn’t Even ‘Alive,’ But Expert Explains How It Can Harm
It has spread across the globe in just a few short months, sickening hundreds of thousands, but the new coronavirus has the dubious distinction of not really being a living organism, biologists say. “Viruses aren’t considered alive...
- Posted March 26, 2020
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Wuhan Study Shows How Social Distancing Is Saving Lives
In a lesson for what can be achieved with social distancing, researchers report that school and workplace closures in Wuhan, China, reduced the number of coronavirus cases there. And officials are extending those measures until April now...
- Posted March 26, 2020
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U.S. Hospital Beds Were Already Maxed Out Before Coronavirus Pandemic
Many hospitals across the United States regularly operate with most of their beds taken by patients, limiting their ability to handle a sudden influx of folks sick with COVID-19, a new study reports. Only about 1 of...
- Posted March 26, 2020
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Senate Passes $2 Trillion Economic Aid Deal as Coronavirus Deaths Top 1,000
(HealthDay News) — The U.S. Senate voted late Wednesday to pass a $2 trillion stimulus package to bolster the U.S. economy as the country’s coronavirus death toll passed 1,000. The unprecedented legislation will send $1,200 checks to...
- Posted March 26, 2020