by Richard A. Hendricks | Aug 18, 2021 | Health News
Public health experts call the increase in vaccinations good, but the cause may be grim. The rise in Covid-19 vaccinations among adolescents parallels an increase in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations, mostly fueled by the Delta variant — leading some experts...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Aug 13, 2021 | Health News
Protection against the Delta variant, now dominant across the US, barely waned, the National Institutes of Health-led team found. The team will continue to look for evidence of protection beyond six months. “High levels of binding antibodies recognizing all...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Aug 11, 2021 | Health News
During the Covid-19 pandemic, depression and anxiety in youth doubled compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to the research. One in 4 adolescents globally are “experiencing clinically elevated depression symptoms, while 1 in 5 youth are experiencing...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jul 30, 2021 | Health News
They said people need to wear masks and take other steps to prevent spread until almost everyone in a population has been vaccinated. Their findings, published in Nature Scientific Reports, support an unpopular decision by the US Centers for Disease Control and...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jun 26, 2021 | Health News
Dr. Daniel Hsia, an associate professor at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and colleagues looked at the hospitalization rate for new onset type 2 diabetes among children at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital. From March to...