Early detection and treatment of Lyme disease are important if more serious conditions, such as arthritis, nervous system problems, and carditis, which affects the heart’s electrical system, are to be prevented. Credit: Shutterstock At the end of August 2019, a patient booked an urgent appointment with her dentist. A painful toothache had woken her the…
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Germany's BioNTech and its US partner Pfizer on Friday said tests have shown that their coronavirus vaccine can stand warmer temperatures than initially thought, potentially simplifying the jab's complex cold-chain logistics. The companies said they have asked the US Food and Drug Administration to allow for the vaccine to be stored…
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. U.S. life expectancy dropped by a year in the first half of 2020, due to COVID-19 and overdose deaths, according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. Pfizer plans to test a booster shot to address the South African coronavirus variant. (Reuters) But making it…
The field of primary care continues to face mounting challenges, but there is some room for optimism, according to several experts. In 2019, there were about 229,000 primary care physicians in the U.S., "the largest primary care physician workforce we've ever seen and the largest primary care physician workforce per-capita we've ever seen," said Andrew…
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A Learjet 31 took off before daybreak from Helena Regional Airport in Montana, carrying six Veterans Affairs medical providers and 250 doses of historic cargo cradled in a plug-in cooler designed to minimize breakage. Even in a state where 80-mph speed limits are normal, ground transportation across long distances is risky for the Moderna mRNA-1273…
Vivien Williams: There are some things about aging you just can't control. Take your eyesight, for example. You can fight it, but after age 40, the fine print on restaurant menus gets hard to read. And as you continue to mature, cataracts can form. But now, doctors are implanting lenses that can correct these things…
Vivien Williams: Carotid artery disease increases your risk of stroke. Plaque builds up in the arteries in the neck, and if some breaks away, it could travel to your brain and cut off blood flow. But results of a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine give doctors the information they need to…