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Ask the Pediatrician: Is hand sanitizer safe and effective for children?
by Dr. Kevin C. Osterhoudt Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Q: My family has been using a lot of hand sanitizer…
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UK’s daily Covid cases rise 5% in a week to 37,960
Britain’s daily Covid cases have risen by 5.2 per cent on last week while deaths have dropped by almost a…
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Pfizer CEO says firm will ask for FDA approval of COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 5-11 ‘in days’
Pfizer‘s CEO says the company plans to ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for authorization of its COVID-19…
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Covid cases and deaths RISE: Infections soar 9.4% to 32,417
Covid-19 deaths and cases have both risen today compared to last week’s figures as infections soar to 32,417. Lives lost…
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Preliminary research finds that even mild cases of COVID-19 leave a mark on the brain
Brain images from a 35-year-old and an 85-year-old. Orange arrows show the thinner gray matter in the older individual. Green…
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Girl, eight, is left nearly BALD after pulling out her hair because of the stress of Covid lockdowns
An eight-year-old girl has been left almost bald after the stress of the pandemic and school disruptions triggered an unusual…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The COVID-19 pandemic triggered life expectancy losses not seen since World War II in Western Europe…
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Cheshire mother, 41, reveals how says having coronavirus ‘saved her life’
A mother-of-three has revealed how having coronavirus ‘saved her life’ after a visit to the doctor for a sore throat…
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Sydney gets ‘blueprint for freedom’ as virus cases fall
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Vaccinated Sydney residents will finally emerge from a lengthy COVID lockdown by mid-October, Australian officials said…
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World Health Organisation will start NEW Covid investigation
The World Health Organisation will start a new investigation into the origins of the Covid outbreak and probe whether the…
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Agony for half of over-50s as it emerges thousands are waiting for surgery amid crisis in the NHS
Agony every day for half of over-50s as it emerges thousands are still waiting for surgery amid crisis in the…
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Covid has wiped more than a year off life expectancy of men in England and Wales, report says
The Covid pandemic has wiped more than a year off the life expectancy for men in England and Wales, according…
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Sir Roger Moore proved a heart scare needn’t leave sufferers’ shaken or stirred
Every day this week, a landmark series of four-page pullouts packed with inspiring stories and advice from the archives of…
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UK counts on vaccines, ‘common sense’ to keep virus at bay
In this May 1, 2021, file photo, Maoula Jan, 52, receives his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine for coronavirus…
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COVID-19 vaccine boosters could mean billions for drugmakers
In this March 2021 photo provided by Pfizer, a technician works on a line for packaging preparation for the Pfizer-BioNTech…
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DR ELLIE CANNON: Going back to making EVERY GP appointment face to face will make things worse…
Before I say anything about the current GP crisis, I’d like to set something straight. I am a GP and…
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How can we soothe tinnitus for my sister who has dementia? DR ELLIE CANNON answers your questions
My sister, who has dementia, has tinnitus in one ear – apparently it is called abnormal tympanic membrane tinnitus. Do…
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Surgeons are far less likely to cause damage during spine operations thanks to ‘intelligent’ camera
Surgeons are using the sort of ‘intelligent’ cameras found in self-driving cars to operate on spines – allowing them to…
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JOAN KRON: How Botox began as biological weapon and is now used to fight migraines and back pain
In the weeks before D-Day – June 6, 1944 – when more than 150,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy’s beaches, the…
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Israel says US booster plan supports its own aggressive push
A 14-year-old Israeli receives a booster shot of the coronavirus vaccine at Clalit Health Service’s center in the Cinema City…
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Novel and emerging medical radionuclides
This 3D graphic shows the SINQ, which helps to produce radionuclides for medical purposes. Credit: Mahir Dzambegovic Nuclear therapy and…
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Study: ‘Second-hand’ psychological stress can lead to depression in mice
The hippocampus is located in the medial temporal lobe of the brain. Image via Wikipedia. Few studies have explored the…
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Designing a wearable sensor for neonatal seizure monitoring
Credit: Shutterstock eizures in neonates (newborn children) is the most common sign of neurological dysfunction and requires immediate medical attention.…
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Small pieces of cells are released following exercise in healthy men, possible indicator of muscle damage
Figure 1. Schematic of experimental procedures. BIA, body impedance analysis; CK, creatine kinase; MVIC, maximal voluntary isometric contraction for peak…
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When it comes to communication skills—maybe we’re born with it?
Jenny Zuk, neuroscientist and speech pathologist, led a first-of-its-kind study that uncovered how neural networks in infants influence their language…
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Stronger regulations needed on common obesity-promoting chemicals
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Everyday exposure to obesity-promoting chemicals (obesogens) represents a significant risk to public health, and needs stronger…
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Industrial chemical PFBA does not accumulate excessively in lungs and kidneys
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A 2013 study by Pérez et al. reported a very high accumulation of the industrial chemical…
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Scientists suggest pregnant women only take paracetamol/acetaminophen if medically necessary
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A group of 13 scientists from the U.S., the U.K., Scotland, Israel, Europe, Canada, Brazil and…
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Photobiomodulation for Alzheimer’s disease with modulated 1070-nm light
by Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS a. The 1070-nm light irradiation apparatus and…
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‘Typhoid Mary’ still stalks the world, but scientists show older vaccine works against the old foe
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Even as COVID-19 continues its rampage across the globe, an older health nemesis continues a more…
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Covid-infected pregnant woman ‘lost her baby after being forced to wait for 2.5 HOURS for care’
A Covid-infected pregnant woman has claimed she lost her baby after being forced to wait for two-and-a-half hours in a…
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Pregnant women should NOT routinely take paracetamol, doctors say
Pregnant women should only take paracetamol when told to by a doctor, scientists ruled today. Experts fear the cheap painkiller…
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The most inspiring stories from the Mail’s Good Health supplement on its 30th anniversary
Whatever you do, don’t ‘Google’ it – that was the advice I was given after being diagnosed with a serious…
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Mother-of-two loses her leg after a near-fatal suspected spider bite
A woman has lost her leg to a flesh-eating bacterial infection after a suspected spider bite. Bridgette Garza, from Texas,…
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From 1999 to 2019, death rates higher in rural versus urban areas
(HealthDay)—From 1999 through 2019, the death rates for males and females were higher in rural than urban areas, according to…
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Mother, 34, who lost her eye to deadly cancer can blow out candles through her empty socket
A mother-of-two who lost her eye to a deadly cancer has revealed she’s now able to blow out candles through…
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Graphic warning labels on cigarettes could have prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths
Credit: University of Michigan A child with an oxygen mask. A diseased lung. A woman with a huge bump on…
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Ozone exposure link to the development of type 2 diabetes
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Older Californians who live in communities with poor air quality, even those who engage—as recommended—in physical…
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CDC director DEFENDS her decision to overrule her agency’s advisory committe
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has defended her decision to overrule her own agency’s…
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Shrinking waveforms on electrocardiograms predict death of hospitalized COVID-19 patients
(A) In-hospital survival by presence of LoQRS. In this Kaplan-Meier analysis, patientsdischarged from the hospital were considered to have survived…
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Studies may not be able to find a link between Covid vaccines and periods, scientists say
A British study assessing whether Covid vaccines can disrupt periods may not find anything because it is too small, scientists…
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DailyMail.com breaks down what you need to know about COVID-19 vaccine boosters
This week, millions of Americans became eligible to receive a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. In a press…
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Unusual visual examination of objects may indicate later autism diagnosis in infants
Unusual visual examination of objects in infants may indicate later autism diagnosis. Credit: UC Regents Unusual visual inspection of objects…
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England’s Covid outbreak shrunk by 11% last week, official data shows
England’s Covid outbreak shrunk by more than a tenth last week and the R rate dropped below one, according to…
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Many hurdles for families with food challenges, poll shows
Barrios Unidos president Lupe Salazar pushes a dolly filled with canned food ahead of a food drive on Thursday, Sept.…
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Grandmother Maggie Keenan – the first person to get an approved Covid jab – gets her booster vaccine
A British grandmother who became the first person in the world to get a Covid vaccine outside of a clinical…
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Who’s eligible for Pfizer booster shots in US?
by Carla K. Johnson In this Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021 file photo, a nurse loads a syringe with the Pfizer…
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Britain’s daily Covid cases rise by 9% in a week to 35,623 amid spike in infections
Britain’s daily Covid cases have risen nine per cent in a week, official figures revealed today in another sign of…
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CDC report claims schools with no mask mandates had 3.5 times MORE Covid cases
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) claims schools that did not have mask requirements…
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Survivors of domestic violence at an increased risk of contracting COVID-19
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Women with general practitioner (GP) recorded exposure to domestic abuse or violence were at an increased…
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