(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Any decision to vaccinate all children under 12 years of age against COVID-19 must be done with due caution, considering in detail the risk and benefits
Month: November 2021
Turn Your Clocks Back and Test Your Smoke Alarms to Prevent Home Fire Tragedies
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – WILKES-BARRE, NOVEMBER 5, 2021 — As people turn their clocks back this weekend for the end of daylight saving time, the American Red Cross asks everyone to also test their smoke alarms.
Premarital Counseling
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Premarital counseling is a type of therapy that helps couples prepare for marriage. Premarital counseling can help ensure that you and your partner have a strong, healthy relationship
Examine Your Stress Reaction
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – It’s hard to avoid stress these days with so many competing demands for your time, attention and energy. But with good stress management skills, you can cope with stress in a healthy and creative way.
Breast MRI: What is it Anyway?
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the breast — or breast MRI — is a test used to detect breast cancer and other abnormalities in the breast.
Will You be Pregnant During Flu Season? A Flu Shot is Safe
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Yes, it’s safe to get a flu shot during pregnancy. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College recommend that all women who are pregnant during flu season get a flu shot, regardless of their trimester.
COVID-19 Vaccine Available for Children 5 & Younger
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The CDC reported that, similar to the benefits for adults, the COVID-19 vaccine is effective at protecting school-age children from serious illness or hospitalization from COVID-19.
Adolescents Are Receiving Less Sex Education in Key Topics than 25 Years Ago
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Only half of young people in the United States are getting sex education that meets minimum standards
Urge Widespread Vaccination to Fight Pandemic as COVID-19 Deaths Reach 750,000
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – “Today we mourn the loss of 750,000 Americans who have died of COVID-19. This devastating milestone should serve as a reminder to everyone that the COVID-19 pandemic is not over
Flexible Working Hours: Still a Farce
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Workplace culture and masculine norms are keeping fathers from asking for flexible working hours, including paid parental leave….
Leather Bindings: Mapping Spatial Data II
By Brianna Chatmon ~ Imagine you are building a house from ground up, every single decision must coordinate with the next. If you choose a Continue reading Source: NLM
Spiders’ Web Secrets Unraveled Now
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Johns Hopkins University researchers discovered precisely how spiders build webs by using night vision and artificial intelligence to track and record every movement of all eight legs as spiders worked in the dark.
Two ‘Old Therapies’ Packs a Powerful Punch Against Pediatric Brain Tumors
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Copper has been clinically improving the lives of people since about 1500 BCE, when an Egyptian physician first recorded its use as a treatment for inflammation.
Heart Failure Drug No Better than Older Drug in Sickest Patients
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A new study led by researchers at suggests that a widely used heart failure drug named sacubitril/valsartan is no better than valsartan alone in patients with severe heart failure.
Biology of Common Heart Disorder
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – PHILADELPHIA – Researchers at Penn Medicine have made a major advance in understanding the biology of a common, puzzling, and often fatal heart disorder, dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM)….
Antibiotic Resistance in Less Than 90 Minutes
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – PULLMAN, Wash. — A technique that measures the metabolic activity of bacteria with an electric probe can identify antibiotic resistance in less than 90 minutes….
Discover New Tool to Investigate More Effective Cancer Treatment
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have discovered a new tool, which will help to investigate more effective forms of cancer treatment.
Urgent Need to Address Mental Health Effects of Climate Change
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – With a large majority of Americans concerned about climate change and an increasing number expressing alarm and distress, it is past time to address this burgeoning public health crisis at the individual….
Insomnia May be a Risk Factor – Highly Fatal Brain Aneurysm Rupture
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DALLAS, — Insomnia may be a potential risk factor for a brain bleed from a ruptured aneurysm along with more well known risk factors of smoking and high blood pressure
Researchers Urge Testing Eyewitness Memory Only Once
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – We all know the scene from countless courtroom dramas: A witness points at the defendant and confidently declares to judge and jury: “That’s the one, that’s who did it!” But is it?