Patients who start abusing alcohol later in life—after age 40—may be doing so secondary to an underlying neurologic condition, such as frontotemporal dementia, according to findings by a team of researchers from the Icahn ...
Apr 5, 2022
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Results from a new study suggest that increasing influenza vaccination rates among home healthcare (HHC) workers may reduce serious respiratory infection-related hospitalizations among patients in home healthcare settings. ...
Mar 31, 2022
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Curious about why some people have been so passionately, often angrily, opposed to vaccination against the COVID-19 virus, a team of researchers with access to rare and unusual insights into the childhood forces that shape ...
Apr 4, 2022
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After struggling for months to persuade Americans to get the COVID-19 vaccine, U.S. health officials could soon face a fresh challenge: talking vaccinated people into getting booster shots to gain longer-lasting protection ...
Aug 17, 2021
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A preliminary US study of nearly 70,000 COVID positive people showed a substantially reduced risk of hospitalization and death from Omicron even after controlling for growing population immunity levels.
Jan 12, 2022
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They are usually older, tend to be women, are often living with dementia and are increasingly being taken to emergency rooms by family members or friends having trouble caring for them.
Dec 19, 2022
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A small, early study suggests that people who've already encountered SARS-CoV-2 may gain a big boost against COVID-19 if they get just one dose of the Pfizer vaccine—and that protection may extend to new viral variants.
Aug 11, 2021
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South Korea saw its deadliest day of the pandemic on Saturday, reporting 112 fatalities in the latest 24-hour period, as it grapples with a wave of coronavirus infections driven by the fast-moving omicron variant.
Feb 26, 2022
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A COVID-19 booster shot will provide strong and broad antibody protection against the range of omicron sublineage variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in circulation, two new studies using serum from human blood samples suggest.
May 18, 2022
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Health experts in Nigeria say the country's president-elect, who will be inaugurated on 29 May, must focus on health care. During the election campaign, incoming President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his All Progressives Congress ...
May 25, 2023
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