All posts by LadyLively

  • COVID-19 Now Linked With Strokes in Young Patients

    COVID-19 might raise stroke risk in young and middle-aged adults, with virus-linked blood clots causing severe damage to their brains, doctors warn. Word has already spread that the novel coronavirus appears to increase clotting in some patients,...

    • Posted April 29, 2020
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  • Trump Orders Meat Plants to Stay Open as U.S. Coronavirus Cases Pass 1 Million

    As the U.S. coronavirus case count climbed past 1 million and the death toll neared 60,000, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that forces beleaguered meat processing plants to stay open so the country’s...

    • Posted April 29, 2020
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  • What Is a Pulse Oximeter, and Should You Get One to Warn of COVID-19?

    Even though many Americans might not even know what pulse oximeters are, the tiny devices are flying off pharmacy shelves as high-risk folks worry about COVID-19. That’s because they perform a critical function, measuring the concentration of...

    • Posted April 29, 2020
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  • Health Highlights: April 29, 2020

    JetBlue Passengers Will Have to Wear Face Coverings Trump Orders Meat Processing Plants to Stay Open Coronavirus Found In Airborne Droplets Researchers Report First U.S. Dog With Coronavirus Rare, Serious Illness May Occur in Children With COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine Shows Promise

    • Posted April 29, 2020
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  • Have Heart Failure? Take Precautions During Pandemic

    Heart failure raises the risk of complications and death from COVID-19, and requires extra vigilance during the pandemic, the American Heart Association (AHA) says. More than 6 million people in the United States have heart failure. It...

    • Posted April 28, 2020
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  • Job Strain May Boost Odds of Serious Artery Disease

    Work stress may increase your risk for ending up in the hospital with peripheral artery disease, a new study suggests. Peripheral artery disease (PAD) occurs when cholesterol or other fatty substances accumulate in blood vessels away from...

    • Posted April 28, 2020
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  • Bats and Coronaviruses Go Back Centuries

    Bats and coronavirus have been evolving together for millions of years, researchers report. In a new study, investigators compared different kinds of coronaviruses living in 36 bat species found on islands in the western Indian Ocean and...

    • Posted April 28, 2020
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  • More Money, Better Heart Health? Not Always

    Young people who pull themselves out of poverty may be no better off when it comes to their heart health, a new study suggests. Researchers found that “upwardly mobile” U.S. adults tended to be less stressed and...

    • Posted April 28, 2020
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  • In COVID Crisis, Nearly Half of People in Some U.S. States Are Going Hungry

    With job losses skyrocketing because of the coronavirus pandemic, hunger is a growing issue for millions of Americans, according to a new report. Surveying more than 10,000 people across the United States late last month, researchers found...

    • Posted April 28, 2020
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  • National Coronavirus Testing Strategy Announced as States Reopen

    While health experts continued to call for a national strategy to test more Americans for coronavirus, President Donald Trump on Monday announced a “blueprint” for boosting testing capacity as some states began reopening their economies. But the...

    • Posted April 28, 2020
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