Health care workers made up 6% of all US hospitalized coronavirus patients through May – and 4% of them died, CDC report finds A new CDC report found that health care workers made up nearly 6% of more than 6,000 coronavirus patients hospitalized between March and May More than 25% needed to be admitted to … Read more
Surviving cancer against the odds can give patients a new lease of life. But what if the very drugs that save them then leave them with another painful, incurable disease? That’s a reality cancer specialists and patients around the world are facing, as more and more people benefit from immunotherapy — groundbreaking new drugs that … Read more
Under the microscope: Novelist Shirley Conran, 88, answers our health quiz By Yvonne Swan For The Daily Mail Published: 22:56 GMT, 26 October 2020 | Updated: 22:58 GMT, 26 October 2020 Novelist Shirley Conran, 88, answers our health quiz Novelist Shirley Conran, 88, answers our health quiz. CAN YOU RUN UP THE STAIRS? Not quite. … Read more
You may want a quiet life, but your body has different ideas, gurgling, clicking and buzzing all day long. Sometimes, these noises can be a sign of an underlying health issue. Here, Angela Epstein looks at the reasons behind your noisy body… GURGLING Any food we eat has to pass through eight metres of intestine. … Read more
Paul Garnett felt ‘incredibly embarrassed’ explaining to his GP at the age of 71 that his depression was out of control. ‘I felt so ashamed of myself — a man who couldn’t cope,’ he says, recalling the difficult months that led to the appointment with his doctor. ‘Everything felt so bleak once I’d stopped working,’ … Read more
Sooty puppeteer Matthew Corbett first experienced symptoms of Covid-19 when he popped down to the cellar to fetch a bottle of wine on his birthday. As he came up the stairs on March 28, just days after the start of lockdown, the 72-year-old started to sweat, feel dizzy and was suddenly convinced there was a … Read more
Decide you want to take a vitamin supplement or two, and you face a barrage of choice — in price, formulations and health claims — and it can be impossible to know which are the best for you. This confusion has led to a rise in the popularity of online companies that promise to provide … Read more
The U.S. is still in its first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, top infectious disease physician Dr Anthony Fauci believes. ‘I look at it more as an elongated – and an exacerbation of – the original first wave,’ said Dr Fauci of the current state of the pandemic in the U.S. during at the Yahoo … Read more
As the COVID-19 crisis continues to drag on, fewer Americans are taking measures to reduce the spread of coronavirus. During the early days of the pandemic, people in the US were more careful about wearing masks as well as avoiding public places and gatherings. So-called ‘pandemic fatigue’ is taking hold and the public is findings that … Read more
Hospitalized coronavirus patients with heart damage are up to ELEVEN times more likely to die than those without it, study finds Researchers looked at 305 hospitalized coronavirus patients and found more than 60% either had heart damage at admission or later developed it Some patients had abnormalities such as dysfunction of the ventricles or extra … Read more