From the early days of the pandemic, doctors noticed that in severe cases of COVID-19 -- the ones that landed people in the hospital on ventilators with shredded lungs -- most of the internal wreckag… [+6253 chars]
At Whitman-Walker Health, Dr. David Fessler and his staff administer high-dose influenza vaccine to all HIV-positive and senior patients. Although the vaccine is roughly three times as expensive as s… [+7531 chars]
SARS-CoV-2 can enter immune cells, macrophages (pictured), in the lungs, triggering a massive inflammatory response.Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library Immune cells infected with SARS-C… [+5236 chars]
<ul><li>People living with heart failure are often advised to go on a low-salt diet.</li><li>A new study indicates that this may help improve peoples quality of life.</li><li>However, it did not seem… [+5344 chars]
A health worker displays a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at Sheba medical center, in Ramat Gan, Israel, on Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. Israels Health Ministry has approved a fourth dose of … [+1512 chars]
Microplastic pollution has been discovered lodged deep in the lungs of living people for the first time. The particles were found in almost all the samples analysed. The scientists said microplastic… [+3349 chars]
Letting your dog lick your face or eat from your plate could be fueling the superbug crisis, a study has warned. Experts have also called for pet owners to wash their hands after stroking their pet… [+5466 chars]
Stress Awareness Month is organised every April since 1992 to create awareness about the causes and cures for modern stress epidemic. Learning to cope with stress and finding healthy ways to deal wit… [+2875 chars]
St. Joseph’s Healthcare has stopped bringing back services shut down during the fifth wave as signs point to rapidly increasing COVID transmission. “We have paused our additional ramp-up plans to st… [+4397 chars]
There could be trouble in the henhouse for Toronto’s backyard hens program. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed cases of the “highly pathogenic” H5N1 strain of avian influenza i… [+5308 chars]
Whenever a new COVID-19 variant is identified, fear and panic quickly sets in. It makes sense: Weve been living through two-plus years of a brutal, scary pandemic. Before the data rolls in, many news… [+6961 chars]
We've now got a more complete picture than ever before of how the brain grows, evolves, and shrinks over our lives all thanks to a complex database combining 123,984 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) … [+3473 chars]
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