by Richard A. Hendricks | Apr 1, 2021 | Health News
The death rate from 2019 to 2020 increased by 15.9%, going up from 715.2 to 828.7 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the report. Researchers at the National Center for Health Statistics analyzed death certificate data from the National Vital Statistics System, taking a close look at deaths among US residents between January and December […]
by Richard A. Hendricks | Feb 17, 2021 | Health News
But for Proia, it couldn’t get worse. That morning, she lost her dad, Richard Proia, a fun-loving, kind-hearted and otherwise healthy 66-year-old, to Covid-19. She wanted to see those numbers cross her screen, though, because she knew her dad was part of them....
by Richard A. Hendricks | Feb 12, 2021 | Health News
The preliminary results came from the RECOVERY trial, which has been testing potential Covid-19 treatments since March 2020. Tocilizumab was added to the trial in April 2020. The results were shared in a preprint, but have not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jan 7, 2021 | Health News
Caprara said his office is working with the Florida Department of Health and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate the death of Dr. Gregory Michael. His death has not definitively been linked to the vaccine, but that is among the...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Sep 24, 2020 | Health News
In women, each 10-centimeter increase in belly fat raised the risk of death from any cause by 8%. For men, each 10-centimeter increase in girth raised the risk of by 12%. Those findings are a result of an analysis of 72 studies involving more than 2.5 million...