Category: Health News

In a recent review, a team of allergists offer reassurance and guidance regarding allergic reactions to the COVID-19 vaccines. The authors, led by allergists at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, conducted a detailed review of issues relating to allergic reactions to the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines. They conclude that reactions to vaccines are rare, and

There’s plenty of talk of the COVID 20—meaning the extra weight that adults are putting on during the pandemic. But what about children? Even before the pandemic, the percentage of American children who have overweight or obesity—defined as body mass index (BMI) being in the 85th to 95th percentiles for children of the same age

University of Birmingham researchers have invented a COVID-19 test that reduces testing time from 30 minutes to under five, and delivers accurate results. The method is described in a preprint paper (yet to be peer-reviewed) published on MedRxiv, where the researchers also demonstrate the rapidity and sensitivity of their method using patient sample RNA provided

Conversations about the effects of COVID-19 tend to be binary. There are the young, who are fortunate enough to be asymptomatic, or to suffer with nothing more than a headache, a sniffle and a temporary loss of taste and smell. Then there are the less fortunate—the vulnerable and sick. But the truth, as ever, is

Chinese medics in Shanghai were given COVID-19 inoculations this week, as vaccine makers insisted their jab was effective against current virus mutations. China is racing to vaccinate millions ahead of the country’s Spring Festival travel rush. Pharma giant Sinopharm was given “conditional” approval for its vaccine candidate last week, and makers said they were confident

Why do men have to wait before round two between the sheets? Study suggests the hormone prolactin commonly blamed for the refractory period is NOT the cause Prolactin is a hormone involved in lactation in females and is thought to play a role in male arousal    For decades a spike in prolactin around the time

Recent years have shed more and more light on the day-to-day trauma racism inflicts on Black people — particularly young Black men and boys — in an age when these incidents are not only too common, but captured on camera and shared on a massive scale. Earlier in January, a 14-year-old Black boy was wrongfully

(HealthDay)—When the coronavirus pandemic started, many people began baking banana bread and sourdough loaves at home. Stress eating is nothing new, and 2020 was a year filled with angst for a lot of people. But researchers at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, wondered, “Are college-aged people overeating, too?” According to their new

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that a protein called NF-kappa B-inducing kinase (NIK) is essential for the shift in metabolic activity that occurs with T cell activation, making it a critical factor in regulating the anti-tumor immune response. The preclinical research, published today in Nature Immunology, suggests that

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to keep much of the population in their homes for most of the day, it’s taking a toll on our collective mental health. In Baltimore, calls to the city’s crisis hotline have doubled during the pandemic and Sheppard Pratt Health System, one of the nation’s leading mental health care providers,

If you’re like most American adults, you’re not getting enough sleep. This could be the year to change that, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), which recommends adults get at least seven hours of sleep each night. A survey conducted in July showed that 85% of adults in the United States get

Loose Women: Dr Hilary discusses how to live longer WE ALL know someone who waltzed into their 60s looking 10 years younger, or someone who turned 50 looking weathered, exhausted, and a decade older than the candles on their birthday cake would suggest. The latest results in the biology of ageing show us this difference

Chris Moyles shows off healthy eating regime Eating healthily is key to longevity, abating disease and readily available in every supermarket you enter. Variety is best, but are you even getting your five-a-day? How can you keep track? “If you want to live longer and be healthier, you have to fuel your body with the

Thousands at risk of blindness set to benefit from a new drug that slows vision loss and can even improve sight Brolucizumab approved for patients with wet age-related macular deterioration The painless yet incurable eye disease is leading cause of blindness in over-55s New jab needs to be given only every 12 weeks rather than

New Kent strain of ‘super-COVID’ is nearly 50 percent more contagious than other varieties, Imperial study confirms Imperial College London researchers analyzed how quickly the new B117 ‘super-COVID’ variant spreads They compared samples of the mutated virus taken from nearly 2,000 people in  the UK to another  84,000 taken from people with other variants B117

In the past week, hospital staff across the country have joined the protest against the racist murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and countless others. Some have marched in white coats echoing “no justice, no peace” down the streets of their cities. Others have laid down in solidarity for 8 minutes

A Texas teacher who went viral after sharing photos of her young students hugging one another has died two months after contracting the novel coronavirus. Zelene Blancas died on Monday after being hospitalized for nine weeks, according to ABC News, which confirmed its report with officials from her workplace, Dr. Sue A. Shook Elementary School in

Rebel Wilson discusses her decision to lose weight in 2020 Weight loss requires determination and willpower but it isn’t rocket science. There are a few things that will help those extra pounds fall off in no time. Express.co.uk chatted to senior GP and UK medical director at Liva Healthcare Dr Roger Henderson to find out how you

Two pharmaceutical companies say they’re ready to begin vaccinating people before the end of December, if their vaccines are authorized by the Food and Drug Administration. What does that mean? The two companies have applied to the FDA for emergency use authorization of their Covid-19 vaccines immediately. The FDA will meet on December 10 to

When Amanda Roth first walked into a fertility clinic in 2011, her situation wasn’t exactly like that of the many other patients in the waiting room. She hadn’t been trying to conceive with a male partner for some time; as someone with a female partner, she simply didn’t have sperm at home. Queer and lesbian