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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Though COVID-19 forced California leaders to scale back their ambitious health care agenda, they still managed to enact significant new laws intended to lower consumer health care spending and expand access to health coverage. When Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom concluded the chaotic legislative year Wednesday — his deadline to sign or veto […]
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc across the planet. As of January 1, 2021, the WHO has reported nearly 82 million cases globally, with over 1.8 million deaths. In the face of this upheaval, public health authorities and the general population are striving to achieve a balance between safety and normalcy. The uncertainty and novelty of the […]
A new report has revealed the dire experiences of people living with sickle cell in the UK during the Covid crisis. Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood condition which predominantly affects people from African and Caribbean backgrounds. People with this illness fall into the ‘extremely vulnerable’ group, so have been forced to shield for […]
Over a third of us can’t even be ourselves around our partners. A large portion of Brits are living in fear of expressing and being their true selves – even with loved ones. A report called Being You: The Index from Innis & Gunn shows that 65% of Brits feel unable to express themselves fully. In […]
(HealthDay)—An inhaled medication might make every day physical activity a bit easier for patients with serious scarring of the lungs, a new clinical trial finds. The study, published online Jan. 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine, involved patients with high blood pressure in the lungs caused by interstitial lung disease (ILD). ILD is […]
Researchers from leading UK and US institutions have published an analysis outlining the disproportionate effect of COVID-19 on ethnic minority groups, and the role of racism, in particular systemic racism, as a fundamental cause and driver of adverse health outcomes. Recommendations include the addition of ethnic minority groups to those defined as clinically extremely vulnerable […]
Mexico reeled Thursday from its worst week of the pandemic yet, with deaths averaging nearly 1,000 a day and a health system that was close to reaching a breaking point. The Latin American country has seen a spike in infections and fatalities following the Christmas and New Year holidays when families traditionally gather. Queues for […]
A woman has had to relearn how to walk and talk after suffering a rare brain bug that sparked hallucinations of spiders climbing across her body. When mum-of-two Aisling Tipping, 34, first felt low and fatigued, she was prescribed medication for postnatal depression. But when she began developing physical symptoms, including agonising headaches, double vision, […]
At a loss for words when a cashier tries to make small talk at the shop? Struggling to remember how much eye contact is too much when you meet up with someone in your bubble? Welcome to the club. Aside from protecting us from coronavirus, the importance of which cannot be overstated, lockdown has brought […]
Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM), a rare form of lymphoma, does not have any known cure and only one FDA-approved treatment making it challenging to treat patients. Researchers at the University of New Hampshire took the novel approach of targeting specific cell proteins that control DNA information using inhibitors, or drugs, that were effective in reducing the […]