Coronary heart disease, which is a major cause of heart attack, develops when damaged or clogged arteries cannot deliver enough oxygen-rich blood to the heart. Black Americans are at greater risk of coronary heart disease ...
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Rural Americans are less likely to have health insurance, have less access to healthcare services for urgent conditions and are more likely to encounter lower quality care than their urban counterparts, according the Centers ...
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The placebo effect is the well-known phenomenon of a person's physical or mental health improving after taking a treatment with no pharmacological therapeutic benefit—a sugar pill, or a syringe full of saline, for example. ...
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Diabetic foot ulcerations—open sores or wounds that refuse to heal—are a devastating complication affecting more than 15 percent of people with diabetes and resulting in more than 70,000 lower extremity amputations per ...
Jan 10, 2022
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More than half of adults 65 and older report taking four or more prescription drugs, according to a 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation report. In an effort to reduce potential adverse events, there's been a recent movement to ...
Nov 30, 2021
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Since March of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has put an unprecedented strain on the American health care system as large surges of intensive care unit patients overwhelmed hospitals. Facing this challenge, Beth Israel Deaconess ...
Nov 30, 2021
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In a recent phase 2b/3 clinical trial, a third mRNA vaccine against COVID-19—known as CVnCoV and developed by CureVac—reported approximately 48 percent efficacy against symptomatic disease. CV2CoV is a second generation ...
Nov 18, 2021
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Each year, one million Americans undergo percutaneous coronary intervention after a heart attack, or to alleviate symptoms of chest pressure. Current American Heart Association guidelines recommend that patients who undergo ...
Nov 10, 2021
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The 2021–22 school year represents the third academic year disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Across the country, universities are implementing various vaccination, masking and distancing policies; however, there's little ...
Oct 25, 2021
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Based on the strength of clinical trial data showing the vaccines conferred robust protection against COVID-19, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization to the mRNA-based vaccines known as BNT162b2 ...
Oct 15, 2021
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