TUESDAY, March 31, 2020 — What’s the best thing you can teach your kid as the new coronavirus races around the globe? Proper hand-washing habits, a leading pediatricians’ group says.
As early in life as possible, you should get your children into…
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Month: March 2020
FDA Approves Malaria Drugs to Treat COVID-19, Despite Little Proof They Work
TUESDAY, March 31, 2020 — With little evidence that the malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine can prevent or treat COVID-19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given emergency approval to distribute millions of doses of the…
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Dirty Air Might Raise Your Odds for Dementia
TUESDAY, March 31, 2020 — Smog drives up dementia risk, particularly for older men and women with heart disease, according to a new Swedish study.
For more than a decade, researchers tracked exposure to air pollution and dementia cases among nearly…
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'Fever Tracker' Suggests Social Distancing Is Already Working
TUESDAY, March 31, 2020 — The concept is simple, yet elegant: Use fever readings from thermometers to create a database that can show public health officials whether social distancing is curbing the spread of coronavirus.
A San Francisco medical…
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Fitness Key to Long-Term Weight Loss Success
TUESDAY, March 31, 2020 — The more fit you are when you start a weight-loss program, the more weight you could lose, a new study says.
“This research could help us improve the design of our weight-loss programs and suggests that adults with very…
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AHA News: Video Doctor Visits Gain Ground During Coronavirus Pandemic
TUESDAY, March 31, 2020 (American Heart Association News) — Dr. David Wheeler started seeing patients via telehealth in his Wyoming neurology practice 10 years ago as a way to provide routine visits to patients living in remote areas. He’d see…
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Don't Fall Prey to COVID-19 Scammers
TUESDAY, March 31, 2020 — The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned a wave of scammers looking to take advantage of older adults, experts warn.
Social distancing has created an easy playground for “fraudulent telemarketers and internet scammers,” said…
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Major Study Casts Doubt on Routine Use of Stents, Bypass
TUESDAY, March 31, 2020 — Folks with clogged arteries do as well with medication and lifestyle changes as they do after undergoing invasive procedures to reopen their blood vessels, a major new clinical trial reports.
Bypass surgery, balloon…
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Being Chained to Your Desk Might Harm Your Thyroid
TUESDAY, March 31, 2020 — Could long hours at the office put you at risk for hypothyroidism?
New research suggests it’s possible: Hypothyroidism (an underactive thyroid) was more than twice as common in adults who worked 53 to 83 hours a week as in…
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Can AI Predict Who Will Develop Diabetes?
TUESDAY, March 31, 2020 — Artificial intelligence (AI) may be able to identify people who will develop type 2 diabetes, researchers say.
For the study, the researchers used machine learning AI to analyze more than 509,000 annual health checkup…
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