All posts by LadyLively

  • Health Highlights: May 13, 2020

    New York City May Have Had Thousands More COVID-19 Deaths Than Thought Any Smoking, Drinking in Pregnancy Threatens Baby's Brain: Study Doctors Without Borders' Team Sent to Navajo Nation to Fight COVID Putin's Spokesman Hospitalized With COVID-19 New Study Latest to...

    • Posted May 13, 2020
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  • Pandemic Lockdown Increases Child Abuse Risk

    Hunkering down during the coronavirus pandemic has stressed families and raised the risk for child abuse, Penn State researchers report. “We’re very worried about children becoming more seriously injured over longer periods of time before they can...

    • Posted May 12, 2020
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  • Stomach Ills May Signal COVID-19 in Kids, Study Says

    A cough or other respiratory symptoms aren’t the only early signs of COVID-19 in children, according to researchers. They examined the cases of five children who were admitted to the hospital with digestive tract symptoms and later...

    • Posted May 12, 2020
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  • Most Americans Were Staying Home Before Government Mandates: Study

    Most Americans voluntarily stayed at home during the early days of the COVID-19 tsunami, before states began issuing official “shelter-in-place” orders, new research indicates. Why? Because statewide emergency declarations coupled with news — of first infections, first...

    • Posted May 12, 2020
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  • Fauci Will Testify to Senate on Danger of U.S Reopening Too Soon

    (HealthDay News) — As states across America move through the early phases of reopening their economies, the nation’s top infectious disease expert plans to issue an ominous warning during a Senate hearing on Tuesday: Open too quickly,...

    • Posted May 12, 2020
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  • Health Highlights: May 12, 2020

    New Study Latest to Show Hydroxychloroquine Ineffective Against COVID-19 Trump Administration Suggests COVID-19 Testing at All U.S. Nursing Homes

    • Posted May 12, 2020
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  • PTSD May Plague Nurses, Especially in COVID-19 Era

    Nursing is not a profession for the fainthearted, but new research shows that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can strike nurses, and suggests the new coronavirus may make things even worse for those on the front lines of...

    • Posted May 12, 2020
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  • Mammograms Do Save Women’s Lives, Study Finds

    There’s good news for women: Getting a mammogram regularly can cut their odds of advanced and sometimes fatal breast cancers, a new study says. European researchers tracked data from nearly 550,000 women in Sweden who were eligible...

    • Posted May 11, 2020
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  • Kidney Failure Often a COVID-19 Complication

    Many COVID-19 patients are at risk for acute kidney failure, according to a new study. Acute kidney failure — also called acute kidney injury (AKI) — is a serious complication of COVID-19 that’s underreported and not well...

    • Posted May 11, 2020
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  • FDA Approves First Antigen Test to Quickly Spot Coronavirus Infection

    The first emergency use authorization for a COVID-19 antigen test has been issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Antigen tests are a new category of tests for use in the coronavirus pandemic and quickly detect...

    • Posted May 11, 2020
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