By Amy NortonHealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Oct. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Urban dwellers around the globe are sweating through three times as many “extreme heat” days as their counterparts did in the 1980s, a new study suggests. The study is the latest to chart humans’ growing exposure to dangerously high temperatures. Experts said it looked … Read more
By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, June 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Researchers are reporting early success with a temporary heart pacemaker that simply dissolves when it’s no longer needed. So far the work has been limited to animals and human heart tissue studied in the lab. But experts said the early findings are “exciting” … Read more
Revealing that you’re lesbian or gay marks an important milestone in your life. Thanks to greater societal acceptance, people are coming out earlier in life. More than half of gay men and nearly 40% of lesbian women surveyed in 2013 said they had come out to friends and family before age 20. The decision … Read more
People seen as clinically extremely vulnerable are still being told to take precautions over Covid. Source link
By Denise Mann HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, March 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Daily insulin jabs can be the bane of existence for people who live with type 2 diabetes, but an investigational once-weekly insulin shot may be a game changer for these folks. While the research is still in its early stages, the new drug … Read more
All over 50s could be vaccinated ahead of schedule, thanks to good supplies, say experts. Source link
An intensive care nurse has said her unit is so overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients it is unable to provide usual levels of care. There are 42 people in intensive care at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, compared to a normal capacity of 20 before the pandemic, and that number is to be quadrupled to … Read more
NEW DELHI: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is expected to launch early next year a trial of the IATA Travel Pass, a digital health certificate, to facilitate safe restart of international air travel after the pandemic. The IATA Travel Pass, on the lines of the Yellow Fever inoculation certification which is mandatory for passengers … Read more
Russia on Wednesday announced that it has granted regulatory approval to another Covid-19 vaccine named EpiVacCorona. This comes after the country granted similar approval to Sputnik V, making it the first Covid-19 vaccine candidate in the world to attain regulatory approval. “I have a nice piece of news. The Novosibirsk-based Vektor Centre has registered a … Read more
Actor Sushant Singh Rajput died by suicide and there was no evidence to suggest that he was murdered, the seven-member panel of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has said in its report submitted to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Is it time for the murder theory proponents to apologise? Was the … Read more