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Flu jab may reduce severe effects of Covid, suggests study
Analysis of 75,000 coronavirus patients found fewer major health problems among people with flu jabCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePeople who are vaccinated against influenza may be partly protected against some of the severe effects of coronavirus, and be less likely to need emergency care, according to a major study.The analysis of nearly 75,000 Covid patients found significant reductions in stroke, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and sepsis, and fewer admissions to emergency departments and intensive care units, among those who had been given the flu jab.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 12, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Medical research Coronavirus Vaccines and immunisation Health UK news Source Type: news
Flu vaccine reduces risk of hospital stay for stroke, heart failure for diabetes patients
People with type 2 diabetes who receive the influenza vaccine may be less likely to be admitted to hospital for myocardial infarction, stroke and heart failure, according to new research.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - July 25, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
New Cholesterol Vaccine Shows Promise, But Don't Eat Extra Bacon Just Yet
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Source: Science - The Huffington Post - November 12, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Flu shot reduces risk of stroke, study suggests
The risk of suffering a stroke is significantly reduced for up to two months after receiving a flu vaccine, a major new study has shown.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - October 6, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Madison Small And The Threat Of Bacterial Meningitis
Eighteen-year old high school student Madison Small of Ashburn, Virginia is dead after a swift and unexpected bacterial infection, reported ABC News. Small, an accomplished softball player, complained of a headache on the evening of Monday, Apr. 6 and was taken to the hospital, according to local news station WJLA in the video above. She died the next morning.
On April 13, health investigators announced that she had died of bacterial meningitis, but said that her case was not part of a wider outbreak in the community.
Bacterial meningitis is rare but severe. The infection, which can be caused by several different strai...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - April 13, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
10 Good Reasons To Get A Flu Shot
By Melaina Juntti for Men's Journal
How many times have you heard you should get a flu shot? There's good reason for the hype: Over the past few years, the influenza vaccine has prevented millions of flu cases and tens of thousands of related hospitalizations, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Although an increasing number of people are getting vaccinated every year, more than half of American men still aren't doing it, for a variety of reasons, most of which aren't backed by science. "Men have this macho sense that if they do get the flu, they can tough it out," says William Schaffner, M.D., chair...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - November 29, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Seasonal flu vaccine may cut stroke risk
Having the seasonal flu jab could reduce the risk of suffering a stroke by almost a quarter, researchers have found. Academics discovered that patients who had been vaccinated against influenza were 24% less likely to suffer a stroke in the same flu season. In 2010, the same research team showed a similar link between flu vaccination and reduced risk of heart attack. "Further experimental studies would be needed to better understand the relationship between flu vaccination and stroke risk. However, these findings reinforce the value of the U.K.'s national flu vaccination program with reduced risk of stroke appearing to be ...
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 20, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Carlos Juan Finlay: Cuban physician celebrated in Google doodle
Cuban physician and scientist, who would have been 180 today, developed theory that yellow fever was spread by mosquitoesGoogle's latest doodle celebrates the birthday of Carlos Finlay, the Cuban physician and scientist who theorised that yellow fever was spread by mosquitoes.Of French and Scottish descent, Finlay was born in 1833 in Puerto Príncipe, now the Cuban city of Camagüey, and studied at Jefferson medical college in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He finished his studies in Havana and Paris before settling in Cuba to open a medical practice.Finlay was appointed by the Cuban government in 1879 to work with a North Am...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 3, 2013 Category: Science Tags: theguardian.com Search engines Google doodle Biology World news Medical research Technology Internet Science Source Type: news
Lucy Mangan: wanted – mother for Neanderthal baby
'Don't you long, occasionally, for something really, really interesting, something different, something overwhelmingly "other" to happen?'It's possible that the snow has driven me stir crazy. Although, as someone who, when under stress, still draws diagrams of the underground, Womble burrow-based home that she plans to build when she wins the lottery, I think that is highly unlikely. In any case, I have been seized by the idea of having another baby.Not just any old baby – I've already got one of those – but a Neanderthal baby. Earlier this week Professor George Church, a genetic researcher at Harva...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 26, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Lucy Mangan Tags: The Guardian Family Genetics Evolution Biology Parents and parenting Anthropology Features Life and style Neanderthal man Science Source Type: news
Stem Cells for Cell-Based Therapies
The world of stem cells
We know the human body comprises many cell types (e.g., blood cells, skin cells, cervical cells), but we often forget to appreciate that all of these different cell types arose from a single cell—the fertilized egg. A host of sequential, awe-inspiring events occur between the fertilization of an egg and the formation of a new individual:
Embryonic stem (ES) cells are also called totipotent cells.
The first steps involve making more cells by simple cell division: one cell becomes two cells; two cells become four cells, etc.
Each cell of early development is undifferentiated; that is, it is...
Source: ActionBioscience - December 28, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Ali Hochberg Source Type: news
