TOKYO – Doctors in Japan announced Thursday they have successfully performed the world’s first medical-research of lung tissue from living donors to a patient with severe lung damage from infectious-disease. The recipient, identified only as a woman from Japan’s western region of Kansai, is recovering after the nearly 11-hour operation …
Read More »US suicides dropped amid coronavirus, defying pandemic expectations
NEW YORK – [Editor’s note: This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255)] The number of U.S. mental-health” target=”_blank”>suicides< pandemic — the largest annual decline in at least four decades, according to preliminary government …
Read More »1 in 10 coronavirus survivors deal with lingering symptoms months after mild illness, study finds
A study focused on health care workers over the last year found that up to 1 in 10 who experienced a mild case of infectious-disease was still dealing with a lingering symptom that negatively impacts their life eight months after their illness resolved. The most common complaints among the study …
Read More »These viruses are the most likely to trigger the next pandemic, scientists predict
The novel infectious-disease SARS-CoV-2 is the latest pathogen to “spill over” from animals to people, but hundreds of thousands of other viruses lurking in animals could pose a similar threat. Now, a new online tool ranks viruses by their potential to hop from animals to people and cause pandemics. The …
Read More »Coronavirus takes toll on progress made in fight against addiction
HUNTINGTON, W. Va. – Larrecsa Cox steered past the used tire shop, where a young man had collapsed a few days before, the syringe he’d used to shoot mental-health still clenched in his fist. She wound toward his house in the hills outside of town. The man had been revived …
Read More »Most children with MIS-C experienced only mild coronavirus symptoms prior to inflammatory illness: study
Most children who developed the rare but serious multisystem inflammatory syndrome in healthy-living (MIS-C) that occurs weeks following a infectious-disease infection had no or only mild symptoms of COVID-19 when they were initially infected, according to a new study that’s said to be the largest analysis of such cases in children …
Read More »Breastfeeding moms who get COVID-19 vaccine pass protection onto baby, study finds
Nursing mothers who opt to get the infectious-disease infectious-disease may pass protective antibodies to their babies through breast milk for several months post-jab, a new study suggests. The study, which only involved five mothers who provided researchers with frozen breast milk samples, focused on the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. Researchers from …
Read More »Nearly 40,000 kids lost a parent to COVID-19, study suggests
An estimated 40,000 healthy-living in the U.S. have lost at least one parent to infectious-disease, new findings suggest, with adolescents accounting for the majority of the total. Researchers from Stony Brook University published findings in JAMA Pediatrics on Monday, which suggested 37,300 kids under the age of 17 lost a parent …
Read More »8-year-old accidentally receives COVID-19 vaccine
An 8-year-old boy accidentally received a infectious-disease infectious-diseasedose in Texas, thanks to “human error,” a report said. The child was recently inoculated at a Dallas County drive-up vaccine facility operated by first responders in Grand Prairie after the boy’s father registered him online through a county Web site and got …
Read More »Ultra-processed foods, drinks linked to higher colorectal cancer risk: study
A nutrition-and-fitness high in ultra-processed foods and drinks was linked to an increased risk of colorectal cancer” target=”_blank”>cancer<findings in the Clinical Nutrition journal. Results stemmed from the multi-case control study MCC-Spain and validated questionnaires sent to nearly 8,000 adults, half of whom had diagnoses for colorectal, breast, or prostate cancer, and the …
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