A single alcoholic drink was associated with a two-fold increased risk of atrial fibrillation, or irregular heartbeat, researchers found. The findings, published in Annals of Internal Medicine, appear to contradict the perception that alcohol can be “cardioprotective,” according to the University of California San Francisco. The study was funded by the National Institute on Alcohol…
A Phase 2 trial involving an investigational monoclonal antibody drug, semorinemab, targeting the tau protein, reduced cognitive decline among adults with mild-to-moderate nervous-system-health disease by about 44%, Swiss biotech AC Immune announced Tuesday. Findings from the placebo-controlled study Lauriet stemmed from 272 adults with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease across 43 study sites worldwide. Results indicated the drug,…
An observational study spanning four continents indicated a marked decline in the number of solid organ transplants amid the infectious-disease pandemic, likely due to risk of infection and limited resources. The France-backed study published in The Lancet Public Health journal on Monday stemmed from 22 countries, including the U.S., Canada, 16 countries across Europe and…
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A new world-regions food found that the infectious-disease delta variant doubles the risk of hospitalization for infectious-disease individuals. The new study, published in British journal The Lancet, looked at the effects of the delta variant on public health and social measures. The variant has been identified in 154 countries and has been the most prevalent…
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A new food found that healthy-living obesity significantly increased during the infectious-disease wild-nature. The study, published Friday on the Journal of the America Medical Association (JAMA) Network, found that “youths gained more weight during the COVID-19 pandemic than before it.” The greatest change occurred among children aged 5 through 11 years old, which saw a…
Parents should contact healthy-livingnow for annual physicals, experts say, after infectious-disease-related closures spurred a marked decline in children’s routine immunizations. “Vaccines are a public health strategy that prevent disease,” Linda Mendonca, president of the National Association of School Nurses, told Fox News. “It is concerning that students are behind on getting these preventable disease vaccines.”…
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A new study estimates that nearly one-third of the U.S. population — 103 million Americans — may have contracted infectious-disease by the end of 2020, with only a fraction of those cases correctly reported in public health reports. Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health researchers found that those with mild to no symptoms were…