Is the extreme cold bad for your lungs? From frostbite to hypothermia, extremely cold can be dangerous. The cold can also affect your lungs. Jan 16, 2024 0 0
Patients had to lobby for correct diabetes diagnoses: Was their race a reason? When Phyllisa Deroze was told she had diabetes in a Fayetteville, North Carolina, emergency department years ago, she was handed pamphlets with information on two types of the disease. One had pictures of children on it, ... Jan 16, 2024 0 1
UK-wide study reveals harm done by people not getting COVID jabs More than 7,000 people were hospitalized or died from COVID-19 in the UK during the summer of 2022 because they had not received the recommended number of vaccine doses, according to a study released Tuesday that was the ... Jan 16, 2024 4 79
Benin gets first malaria vaccines Benin has received its first doses of a vaccine for malaria, the leading cause of infant mortality in the country, and will begin administering them soon, officials said late on Monday. Jan 16, 2024 0 0
Cannabis has no clear effect on treatment of opioid addiction, study finds Cannabis is not an effective treatment for opioid addiction, a new study of thousands of people being treated for opioid use disorder suggests. Jan 16, 2024 0 36
Chronic inflammation and poverty are a 'double whammy' for mortality risk, finds study A new study finds that people with chronic inflammation living in poverty have more than double the risk of dying from heart disease and nearly triple the risk of dying from cancer within the next 15 years. The findings of ... Jan 16, 2024 0 1
Large study finds COVID-19 vaccine reduces long COVID in children Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, reduces the risk of serious acute illness in children and adolescents. However, its role in protecting against persistent health problems in the months after ... Jan 16, 2024 0 21
Study finds no increase in preventable illnesses, deaths in kids during pandemic, but delays in some diagnoses Despite major disruptions to health care systems during the COVID-19 pandemic, there was no significant increase in preventable conditions or deaths in children according to a large study published in the Canadian Medical ... Jan 16, 2024 0 0
