by Richard A. Hendricks | Dec 6, 2020 | Health News
It’s a drastic uptick since late May, when a previous Pew survey found that just 20% of Americans knew someone who’d been hospitalized or died due to Covid-19. The results reflect how rapidly coronavirus cases continue to surge across the US, which has recorded over 14.2 million cases. The newest survey was conducted between November […]
by Richard A. Hendricks | Sep 28, 2020 | Health News
“About a quarter of women rate sex as very important, regardless of their age,” said Dr. Holly Thomas, lead author of an abstract being presented during the 2020 virtual annual meeting of The North American Menopause Society, which opens on Monday,...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Sep 28, 2020 | Health News
In addition, two-thirds of parents don’t believe getting a flu shot for their child is more important this year, despite advice to the contrary from major government organizations and pediatricians. “Children younger than 5 years old — especially...
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...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Sep 23, 2020 | Health News
The study, published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry, analyzed data on 11,489 children who were followed as part of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, which says it’s the “largest long-term study of brain development and child health in...
