Health
Adolescent girls in Bangladesh at risk of nutritional deficiency, study finds
Adolescent girls in Bangladesh are at risk of nutritional deficiency even if they live in a seafood rich area, a new study has found.
May 3, 2023
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Deadly heat waves threaten older people as summer nears
Paramedics summoned to an Arizona retirement community last summer found an 80-year-old woman slumped inside her mobile home, enveloped in the suffocating 99-degree (37 C) heat she suffered for days after her air conditioner ...
May 1, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Social vulnerability has direct link to suicide risk, study shows
More than 45,000 Americans died by suicide in 2020, a 30% increase over 2000, making it the 12th leading cause of death in the U.S. Studies have shown that the social and environmental factors where people live, like exposure ...
Apr 26, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Flu or COVID? You can now test for both at home with a single swab. Here's what you need to know
If you have respiratory symptoms as we head towards winter and flu season, could it be COVID or the flu? Or something else entirely?
Apr 24, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New study: No evidence that shielding reduced COVID-19 infections in Wales
Shielding vulnerable people was central to the response to COVID-19, but there is no evidence that it benefited the vulnerable people it was meant to protect, a new study of health data has revealed.
Apr 21, 2023
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Health
Study identifies temperature–humidity combinations that stress the heart
A new study shows that cardiovascular strain begins at lower temperature and humidity levels than those that cause increases in the body's core temperature, and could inform revisions to safety guidelines and policies that ...
Apr 19, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
WHO warns COVID pandemic still volatile
The World Health Organization on Tuesday warned the COVID pandemic was still volatile, saying there could be further trouble before the virus settles into a predictable pattern.
Apr 18, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Over 1 million lives saved across Europe by COVID-19 vaccines since the end of 2020
COVID-19 vaccination directly saved at least 1,004,927 lives across Europe between December 2020 and March 2023, according to new research being presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious ...
Apr 17, 2023
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Health
Commentary: A rapidly spreading deadly fungus is a warning about climate change
Last month, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change charted global temperatures to be 1.1 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and on a destructive trajectory to surpass 1.5 degrees Celsius of ...
Apr 13, 2023
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Health
Bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine shown to be highly effective in reducing deaths and hospitalizations
Since September, 2022, bivalent mRNA vaccines—which contain elements from both the original wild type COVID strain and an updated component from the omicron strain—have replaced older style monovalent boosters in the ...
Apr 13, 2023
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