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Troubling Trends for Infective Endocarditis in Dialysis Patients

04/03/2021 Health News

The occurrence of endocarditis in hemodialysis patients may be significantly higher than previously thought, but it is as lethal as ever, a new observational study suggests. Researchers examined data from patients with infective endocarditis from 2000 to 2006 in the International Collaboration on Endocarditis (ICE) Prospective Cohort Study and from 2008 to 2012 in the ICE-Plus databases. Overall, sites from […]

Florida governor issues order banning ‘vaccine passports’

04/03/2021 Health News

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an executive order Friday banning businesses from requiring customers to show proof they have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to get service. The Republican governor had previously announced his intent to issue an order banning so-called “vaccine passports.” His action also barred any government agency in Florida from issuing such documentation for the purpose […]

Is green tea the secret to speedier muscle recovery?

04/03/2021 Health News

Green tea is best known for it’s gut-soothing properties – but can it support your post-workout muscle recovery too? Green tea could be called the marmite of the hot drink world, with people either loving the soothing, herbal taste or finding it totally gruesome. But green tea is about more than just the flavour – the traditional Eastern tea leaves […]

LOL! Kourtney Kardashian's Son Reign, 6, Curses and Twerks in TikTok Video

04/03/2021 Health News

Personality pics! Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick welcomed their second son, Reign, in December 2014 and have been sharing hilarious photos of the little one ever since. Reign joined older siblings Mason and Penelope on his brother’s 5th birthday. Six months after he was born, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians stars called it quits. Since their split, the Poosh creator and […]

Stopping the sickness: Protein may be key to blocking a nauseating bacterium

04/03/2021 Health News

Washington State University researchers have discovered a protein that could be key to blocking the most common bacterial cause of human food poisoning in the United States. Chances are, if you’ve eaten undercooked poultry or cross contaminated food by washing raw chicken, you may be familiar with the food-borne pathogen. “Many people that get sick think, ‘oh, that’s probably Salmonella,’ […]

Maryland audit faults procurement of 500K virus tests

04/03/2021 Health News

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration failed to follow state procurement regulations when it bought 500,000 COVID-19 tests from a South Korean company last year, and the first batch of tests that later had to be replaced at an additional $2.5 million cost had not been authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a state audit released […]

Jennifer Garner's Daughter Seraphina, 12, Creates Hilarious Etch A Sketch Portrait of Her Mom

04/03/2021 Health News

Seraphina Affleck is an artist in the making! The 12-year-old daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck showed off her impressive artistry skills by creating a hilarious Etch A Sketch portrait of her famous mom, which Garner, 48, shared a snapshot of to Instagram on Wednesday. The portrait, which can often be difficult to create on the mechanical drawing toy, […]

Mexico reports COVID-linked deaths far above official toll

04/03/2021 Health News

Mexico registered 294,287 deaths associated with COVID-19 up to mid-February, new government data showed, much higher than the country’s official coronavirus fatality toll. The figure, given in a report on excess deaths released on Sunday, is 69 percent more than the 173,771 deaths announced by the health ministry at the time for the same period through February 13. The ministry’s […]

Signal detection theory can be used to better understand cognitive fatigue

04/03/2021 Health News

A team of New Jersey researchers has shown that changes in perceptual certainty and response bias, two central metrics of signal detection theory (SDT), correlate with changes in cognitive fatigue. They also show that SDT measures change as a function of changes in brain activation. This finding was reported in Frontiers in Psychology on January 15, 2021, in the open […]

Doctors Issue Warning Over Rise in French COVID-19 Intensive Care Patients

04/03/2021 Health News

PARIS (Reuters) – The number of COVID-19 patients in France’s intensive care units has risen to a new high for this year, health ministry data showed on Sunday, as doctors warned a third wave of infections could soon overwhelm hospitals. There were 4,872 ICU patients being treated for COVID-19, close to a November peak during France’s second wave of the […]

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