Too Soon to Tell If Omicron Will End Pandemic: Fauci – MedicneNet Health News
Latest Coronavirus News TUESDAY, Jan. 18, 2022 It’s too soon to determine whether Omicron’s rapid spread will turn a pandemic virus into an endemic disease, America’s top infectious disease expert says. That “would only be the case if we don’t get another variant that eludes the immune response to the prior variant,” Dr. Anthony Fauci […]
Counterfeit HIV Drugs; Turned Away By Rural EDs; Bogus Pop-Up Testing Sites
Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week. Counterfeit HIV Drugs Drugmaker Gilead says a network of suppliers and distributors sold counterfeit versions of its HIV medications, the Wall Street Journal reported. The company found that just over 85,000 counterfeit bottles of Biktarvy and […]
Skipping COVID Vaccine in Pregnancy Brings Big Risks to Mothers, Babies
Latest Pregnancy News By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Jan. 14, 2022 (HealthDay News) Unvaccinated pregnant women are putting themselves and their baby at risk for serious complications of COVID-19, according to new research out of Scotland. For women who have the virus within 28 days of their delivery date, those complications include preterm births, […]
AHA News: Today’s Hot Topic: Should You Let Chile Peppers Spice Up Your Meals?
Latest Nutrition, Food & Recipes News FRIDAY, Jan. 14, 2022 (American Heart Association News) For thousands of years, people have picked up chile peppers to provide their diets with pizazz. There’s no doubt chile peppers are packed with flavor. They also provide a little fiber without salt, sugar, saturated fat or many calories, said professor […]
Could Face Masks Make You Better-Looking?
Latest Coronavirus News FRIDAY, Jan. 14, 2022 (HealthDay News) Want to look more alluring? Wear a mask. Really. That’s the takeaway from Welsh researchers who found that masking up may make men look more attractive to the opposite sex and that some kinds of masks do a better job of this than others. “Research carried […]
The Black Death: What Bubonic Plague Reveals About COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Coronavirus News By Peter Schelden on 01/14/2022 2:00 PM Source: MedicineNet Health News Many are looking to historic pandemics to find answers about COVID-19 coronavirus outbreaks (including outbreaks of Omicron and Delta variants) that have ground much of the world to a halt under quarantining and other mandates. But “public health” wasn’t even a […]
What 1918 Spanish Flu Death Toll Tells Us About COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Coronavirus News By Peter Schelden on 01/14/2022 2:00 PM Source: MedicineNet Health News Spanish flu was the most devastating pandemic ever recorded, leaving major figures like medical philanthropist Bill Gates to draw comparisons to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. How did the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic cause such a high death toll? And […]
Boosting Your Immunity From COVID-19? These Foods, Vitamins, Routines Work Best – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Coronavirus News By Peter Schelden on 01/14/2022 2:00 PM Source: MedicineNet Health News To protect those they love from a virus that can kill, people online are flooding the internet with search results for the best vitamins, foods, and activities to boost your immune system against coronavirus COVID-19 and its variants, like […]
More Folks Drive High When Pot Made Legal: Study
Latest Mental Health News By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Jan. 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) Here’s more evidence that marijuana may make driving more dangerous: As pot has been legalized in more countries and states, a greater number of people are driving intoxicated by the drug and crashing, researchers report. THC, the active […]
What 1918 Spanish Flu Death Toll Tells Us About COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Coronavirus News By Peter Schelden on 01/14/2022 2:00 PM Source: MedicineNet Health News Spanish flu was the most devastating pandemic ever recorded, leaving major figures like medical philanthropist Bill Gates to draw comparisons to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. How did the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic cause such a high death toll? And […]