JOINING the Army is a dream for many — but some medical conditions can stop you being accepted. From ear problems to heart disease, certain issues can prevent you from being an effective soldier. Medical conditions including heart disease and ear problems could stop you joining the armyCredit: Getty All prospective soldiers have to state […]
Vir Biotechnology said Thursday that a long-acting antibody drug designed to protect healthy individuals from influenza A failed to do so in a nearly 3,000-person clinical trial. Volunteers who received the highest dose of the drug, known as VIR-2482, were only 16% less likely than the placebo group to develop symptomatic influenza A infections, as […]
The protests against the hard-right government’s effort to weaken the judiciary have ratcheted up over the past two weeks – and so has violence by the police. In increasing numbers and with greater aggression, Kobi Shabtai’s force is deploying the mounted police, water cannons and the Yasam riot police. Last week the police even used […]
Researchers wanted to explore the reason why so many people tested positive for the virus without realizing they had it. They found an answer in genetics. SAN FRANCISCO — Story from The Conversation by Jill Hollenbach, Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco & Danillo Augusto, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of North Carolina – Charlotte. […]
Now, more than three years from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the impacts can be seen more clearly. For example, the rise in the number of cardiovascular disease (CVD) deaths in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, represents the largest single-year increase in CVD deaths since 2015 and topped the previous high […]
High blood pressure kills more people than all infectious disease combined. A person’s blood pressure is considered too high and is a medical concern when the blood pressure reading is over 140 over 90. The first number is the measurement of the pressure on the arteries when the heart contracts and pumps. The second number […]
SAN ANGELO, TEXAS – Donating blood may seem insignificant to some but for people like Dixie Salas, it’s the difference between life and death. “I got really sick and needed some blood…I think I ended up getting like four almost five bags of blood,” Salas said. Those four or five bags ultimately saved her life. […]
SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) – Be the Match is being held to save the lives of blood cancer patients. On July 22, from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m., a Shreveport family is honoring their 15-year-old son, Kamari Roberson, by hosting a memorial blood stem cell registration drive. Roberson lost his battle with aplastic anemia earlier in […]
CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. — The SunCoast Blood Center is hosting a grand reopening of its Blood Center in Port Charlotte. The facility had significant storm damage due to Hurricane Ian and has been closed ever since. The grand opening starts at 10 a.m. at 2150 Tamiami Trail. SunCoast Blood Center says since Hurricane Ian the […]
