Living With Muscular Dystrophy at 50 Makes Death My Shadow Partner
I am an Aries through and through—bold, ambitious, fiery, and confident.  Today, March 27, marks my 50th year on this planet, something I could never have imagined. I was diagnosed with an undetermined type of muscular dystrophy as a young child, and doctors told my parents I wouldn’t live to become an adult. My immigrant parents cried when they heard the news. Even though this news was devastating, they never treated me like a fragile egg about to break. In fact, as the first born child of three girls, I had a lot of responsibilities and expectations which only reinforced my Aries tendencies. [time-bright...
Source: TIME: Health - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Wong Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news

Annual Two-Dose SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Campaign Beneficial
TUESDAY, March 26, 2024 -- Annual administration of a second dose of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccine five months after the initial dose results in fewer hospitalizations and deaths, according to a study published... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - March 26, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Boots to offer Covid vaccines in England for nearly £100 a jab
Pharmacy to offer Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to those not eligible for NHS booster shot from next weekBoots is to offer Covid vaccinations for almost £100 a shot, making it the latest provider to sell the jabs to those not eligible for a booster through the NHS.The company has confirmed it will offer the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to healthy customers in England aged 12 and over from next week, at a cost of £98.95 a jab.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 26, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science correspondent Tags: Vaccines and immunisation Boots Business Retail industry Health Society Coronavirus Science Infectious diseases Source Type: news

Ghana: Dr Okoe-Boye Launches Book On Covid-19 Pandemic
[Ghanaian Times] The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, last Thursday launched a book titled 'Fellow Ghanaians', authored by the Minister of Health-designate, Dr Bernard Okoe Boye, in Accra. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 26, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Arts, Culture and Entertainment Books Coronavirus Ghana Health and Medicine West Africa Source Type: news

Africa: Cardiovascular Risks and Covid-19 - New Research Confirms the Benefits of Vaccination
[The Conversation Africa] COVID-19 is a respiratory disease. Yet, from the earliest days of the pandemic, the cardiovascular risks associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection were clear: individuals with severe cases of COVID-19 often died from cardiovascular complications, and those with pre-existing cardiovascular disease were more likely to have severe illness or die. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 26, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Coronavirus Health and Medicine Source Type: news

F.D.A. Authorizes a New Covid Drug to Protect High-Risk People
Pemgarda, available in the coming weeks, is intended for immunocompromised people who are unlikely to mount an adequate response after vaccination. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dani Blum Tags: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Immune System Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Antibodies Transplants Source Type: news

I helped advise the US government on the next likely pandemic. What I learned is alarming | Devi Sridhar
The 100-day challenge, to be able to contain a virus while a vaccine is approved, manufactured and delivered, looks ever more remoteFour years on from the first Covid lockdown, life feels to be largely back to normal, although legacies of the pandemic remain. Collective amnesia seems to have set in. Politicians seem eager to move forward and not relive the decisions, delays and deaths that characterised public policy and press briefings. Yet we can ’t forget such a brutal event, when Covid is estimated to have killednearly 16 million people worldwide in 2020 and 2021, and caused life expectancy to decline in 84% of count...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 25, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Devi Sridhar Tags: Vaccines and immunisation Coronavirus Science World news Infectious diseases Health UK news US news Source Type: news

How Covid lockdowns hit mental health of teenage boys hardest
New research findings are contrary to what had previously been thought about pandemic ’s effect on children’s wellbeingTeenage boys were hit hardest by the Covid lockdowns, with their mental health failing to recover despite the return to normality, according to the most comprehensive academic study of its kind.Early research into how lockdown affected children indicated thatgirls had suffered more significant mental health problems than boys.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 23, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Hannah Fearn Tags: Young people Mental health Society Psychology Medical research UK news Schools Education Children Coronavirus Source Type: news

What ’s Next for the Coronavirus?
Scientists studying the virus ’s continuing evolution, and the body’s immune responses, hope to head off a resurgence and to better understand long Covid. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: your-feed-science Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Disease Rates Vaccination and Immunization Immune System Hospitals Evolution (Biology) Coronavirus Omicron Variant Chronic Condition (Health) Influenza Sewers and Sewage Source Type: news

Long Covid may be nothing unique in the future – but its effects today are still very real | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
While the long-term risk from a current infection is 10 times less than it was in 2020-21, a lot of people are still suffering after getting Covid early in the pandemicGet ourmorning and afternoon news emails,free app ordaily news podcastLong Covid is one of the most controversial topics remaining about the pandemic. Depending on who you ask, it is either a real and current threat to the health of the globe, or a relatively minor issue that we should pay little attention to in the future. It is hard to weigh in on the topic without passionate advocates taking issue with the things that you say, which is true of quite a lot...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 22, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz Tags: Long Covid Coronavirus Infectious diseases Health Medical research Source Type: news

COVID-19's Damage to Organs Can Harm Heart, Too
THURSDAY, March 21, 2024 -- COVID-19 can damage a person’s heart even if the coronavirus doesn’t directly infect the heart tissue, a new study has found. The severe inflammation that COVID causes in other organs, like the lungs, appears... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 21, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

People with hypermobility may be more prone to long Covid, study suggests
People with excessive flexibility 30% more likely to say they had not fully recovered from Covid, research findsPeople with excessively flexible joints may be at heightened risk oflong Covid and persistent fatigue, research suggests.Hypermobility is where some or all of a person ’s joints have an unusually large range of movement due to differences in the structure of their connective tissues that support, protect and give structure to organs, joints and other tissues.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 19, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Linda Geddes Science correspondent Tags: Long Covid Coronavirus Health NHS Science World news Infectious diseases Medical research Society Source Type: news

Pandemic Lockdowns Had Varied Effects on Wildlife
A new study of camera-trap images complicates the idea that all wildlife thrived during the Covid lockdowns. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Anthes Tags: your-feed-science Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Animals Rural Areas Research Shutdowns (Institutional) Cameras Animal Migration Nature Ecology & Evolution (Journal) anthropause Environment Source Type: news

Will Hong Kong ’s stock market roar back to life in the Year of the Dragon?
The transition serves as a bookend to one of the most tumultuous periods for the exchange. Three years of the coronavirus pandemic led to an economic slump in Hong Kong and mainland China, which sapped consumption and hammered corporate earnings. Nicolas Aguzin, the former JPMorgan private banker…#hongkong #nicolasaguzin #jpmorgan #hkex #hongkongexchanges #clearinglimited #lauracha #paulchan #hongkongs #usfederalreserve (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Africa: If You're 65 or Older, It's Time for Another Covid-19 Shot
[The Conversation Africa] In my mind, the spring season will always be associated with COVID-19. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 16, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Coronavirus External Relations Health and Medicine United States, Canada and Africa Source Type: news