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Heart attack, brain stroke main causes of death after Covid shot
Heart attacks and brain strokes have been the two main causes of hospitalisation and death for Covid-19 vaccine recipients, the expert group investigating the serious adverse events after immunisation has found.
Source: The Economic Times - March 25, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The U.S. Death Rate Rose Significantly During the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 was the third-most-common cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, contributing to more than 375,000 deaths, and a 16% increase in the national death rate, according to provisional data published today by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
All told, more than 3.3 million people in the U.S. died in 2020, for a rate of about 829 deaths per 100,000 people. That’s up from about 715 deaths per 100,000 people in 2019.
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Source: TIME: Health - March 31, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
What you should do if you’ve received the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine
Six women who had the vaccine suffered from cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, a rare form of stroke. Here’s what to know about symptoms of blood clots if you received the vaccine.
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - April 13, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lenny Bernstein Source Type: news
COVID-19 patients who suffer hemorrhagic strokes are up to 2.8 times more likely to die
A new study from the University of Utah Health has found that coronavirus patients who suffer hemorrhagic strokes are between 2.5 and 2.8 times more likely to die than non-COVID stroke patients.
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
‘We Were Flying Blind’: A Dr.’s Account of a Woman’s J. & J. Vaccine-Related Blood Clot Case
The disorder is rare, but so severe that the vaccine is on hold while experts weigh the risks and alert doctors and patients about symptoms and treatment.
Source: NYT Health - April 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Denise Grady Tags: Blood Clots Stroke Vaccination and Immunization Women and Girls Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Heparin (Drug) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Janssen Pharmaceutica Johnson & your-feed-healthcare Source Type: news
AHA Guidance on Blood Clots Linked to COVID-19 Vaccine AHA Guidance on Blood Clots Linked to COVID-19 Vaccine
An American Heart Association/American Stroke Association council has released new guidance on vaccine-related blood clots and other thrombotic conditions, as well as treatment options.Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - April 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
‘I Truly Did Find My Calling.’ Meet the Young People Shaping Health Care’s Post-Pandemic Future
The COVID-19 pandemic has been exhausting for the world’s health care workers, who have spent the last year-plus putting their lives on the line to keep the rest of us safe and healthy. Now, their tireless efforts are inspiring a new generation to join their ranks: applications to U.S. medical schools shot up nearly 20% in fall 2021, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Individual schools are reporting similar spikes—New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing saw a 33% increase in applications this year over the previous year, for instance.
To learn more about the people wh...
Source: TIME: Health - June 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tara Law Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
COVID-19 Exposed the Faults in America ’s Elder Care System. This Is Our Best Shot to Fix Them
For the American public, one of the first signs of the COVID-19 pandemic to come was a tragedy at a nursing home near Seattle. On Feb. 29, 2020, officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Washington State announced the U.S. had its first outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Three people in the area had tested positive the day before; two of them were associated with Life Care Center of Kirkland, and officials expected more to follow soon. When asked what steps the nursing home could take to control the spread, Dr. Jeff Duchin, health officer for Seattle and King County, said he was working w...
Source: TIME: Health - June 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abigail Abrams Tags: Uncategorized Aging COVID-19 feature franchise Magazine TIME for Health Source Type: news
For HIV/AIDS Survivors, COVID-19 Reawakened Old Trauma —And Renewed Calls for Change
Forty years ago this month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report noted a rare lung infection among five otherwise healthy gay men in Los Angeles, Calif. Though they didn’t know it at the time, the scientists had written about what would turn out to be one of the historical moments that launched the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic.
Since then, HIV/AIDS has killed an estimated 35 million people, including 534,000 people in the U.S. from 1990 to 2018 alone, according to UNAIDS, making it one of the deadliest epidemics in modern history. Over...
Source: TIME: Health - June 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tara Law Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Flu jab protects against severe effects of COVID-19, study suggests
An analysis of nearly 75,000 COVID-19 patients from around the world strongly suggests that the annual flu shot reduces the risk of stroke, sepsis and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in patients with COVID-19.
Source: The Economic Times - July 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Flu vaccine protects against severe effects of COVID-19, according to new study
THE FLU vaccine may provide vital protection against COVID-19, according to new research. The annual flu shot was found to reduce the risk of stroke, sepsis and DVT in patients with the virus.
Source: Daily Express - Health - July 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Risk of acute myocardial infarction and ischaemic stroke following COVID-19 in Sweden: a self-controlled case series and matched cohort study, The Lancet
The self-controlled case series (n=86,742) and matched cohort study (additional 348,481 control individuals) found Covid-19 was associated with increased risk of acute MI, highest during the first week, suggesting they represent a part of the clinical picture of Covid-19.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - August 2, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pediatric COVID-19 Cases Are Surging, Pushing Hospitals —and Health Care Workers—to Their Breaking Points
Aug. 20 was a good day in the pediatric intensive care unit at Children’s Hospital New Orleans. Carvase Perrilloux, a two-month-old baby who’d come in about a week earlier with respiratory syncytial virus and COVID-19, was finally ready to breathe without the ventilator keeping his tiny body alive. “You did it!” nurses in PPE cooed as they removed the tube from his airway and he took his first solo gasp, bare toes kicking.
Downstairs, Quintetta Edwards was preparing for her 17-year-old son, Nelson Alexis III, to be discharged after spending more than two weeks in the hospital with COVID-19—fir...
Source: TIME: Health - August 26, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme/New Orleans, La. Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Pfizer vaccine: BMJ study finds risk of a serious complication '15 to 21 days' after jab
A NEW large-scale study has pitted the risks posed by the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines against the risks posed from COVID-19. Among the key findings was an increased risk of stroke following the Pfizer jab, but the risk remains 10 times greater in those with COVID-19.
Source: Daily Express - Health - August 27, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Emergency Medical Service Workers Battle a Hurricane, and COVID-19, To Bring Health Care To New Orleans
As Hurricane Ida pounded the coast of New Orleans with downpours and 150-mile-per-hour winds on the afternoon of Aug. 29, New Orleans Emergency Medical Services had to reverse course after spending 18 months running around the city at full speed battling COVID-19: staying put. For 13 hours and 41 minutes, as the storm’s worst shook their community, the workers hunkered down at their base, keeping themselves safe to be ready to protect others from whatever came next. However, the deluge of 9-1-1 calls didn’t come to a halt as EMS waited out the storm. So, after EMS workers were given the go-ahead to rush back in...
Source: TIME: Health - September 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tara Law Tags: Uncategorized climate change COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
