All posts by LadyLively

  • Fewer Recurrent Strokes Now in Mexican Americans

    The rate of second strokes among Mexican Americans has declined steeply since the turn of the century, a new study finds. Between 2000 and 2013, the rate of recurrent stroke fell faster in Mexican Americans than in...

    • Posted July 16, 2020
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  • More States, Retailers Turn to Face Mask Mandates as U.S. Cases Top 3.5 Million

    As the number of U.S. coronavirus cases topped 3.5 million on Wednesday, more states, cities and major retailers turned to face mask mandates to try to stem the spread of COVID-19. Increasingly seen as a last hope...

    • Posted July 16, 2020
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  • Health Highlights: July 16, 2020

    Record Number of Overdose Deaths in U.S. Last Year Younger Children Should Attend School When Possible: Expert Committee U.S. Must Spend $75 Billion to Improve COVID-19 Testing, Report Says Coronavirus Vaccine Initiative May Favor Rich Countries Childhood Vaccinations Decline During Coronavirus...

    • Posted July 16, 2020
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  • More COVID-19 Patients in ICUs Are Surviving Now: Study

    Even as new coronavirus infections soar in the United States, a new study offers one piece of good news: Severely ill COVID-19 patients are significantly more likely to survive now compared to a few months ago. In...

    • Posted July 16, 2020
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  • Will COVID Pandemic’s Environmental Benefit Last?

    It has been the sole silver lining in the coronavirus pandemic — cleaner air and water on the planet. But will it continue? A new study says that isn’t yet clear. “The pandemic raises two important questions...

    • Posted July 15, 2020
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  • Trump Administration Bypasses CDC on Collection of Coronavirus Hospital Data

    (HealthDay News) As 64,000 new U.S. coronavirus cases were reported Tuesday and states struggled to control the spread of the virus, the Trump Administration stripped the country’s leading public health agency of the ability to collect hospitalization...

    • Posted July 15, 2020
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  • Health Highlights: July 15, 2020

    CDC Will No Longer Receive Hospitals' COVID-19 Data Baby May Have Been Infected With Coronavirus During Pregnancy: Study CDC Has "Toxic Culture" of Racism, Employees Say Squirrel With Bubonic Plague Found in Colorado Town Most U.S. Parents Think Reopening Schools is...

    • Posted July 15, 2020
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  • Global Population Will Peak by Mid-Century, Shifting Economic Power

    The world’s population is shifting, with a new analysis predicting it will peak in 2064 at around 9.7 billion people and fall to 8.8 billion by the end of the century. The United States will have population...

    • Posted July 15, 2020
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  • Lockdown Led to Less Sex, Lower Use of HIV-Preventing Drugs: Survey

    About one-third of people prescribed drugs to prevent HIV stopped taking the medications when they were forced to stay home due to the coronavirus pandemic, a new survey finds. The reason, they said: They weren’t having sex....

    • Posted July 14, 2020
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  • Prisoners Nearly 6 Times More Likely to Get COVID

    The rate of COVID-19 in U.S. prisons is nearly six times higher than in the general population. And the COVID death rate among prisoners is likely tripled, researchers report. “While these numbers are striking, we actually think...

    • Posted July 14, 2020
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