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Opioid use in pregnancy has prompted new guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics, aimed at improving care for women and newborns affected by their mothers’ drug use. The number of affected...
DATE: Oct. 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
Two drugmakers announced Friday the resumption of U.S. testing of their COVID-19 vaccine candidates. Testing of AstraZeneca’s vaccine candidate had been halted since early September, while Johnson...
DATE: Oct. 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
Mercy Regional Medical Center is now providing take-home Naloxone kits, more commonly known as Narcan nasal spray, to those at high risk for opioid overdose. Naloxone blocks the effects of opioids...
DATE: Oct. 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
Matthew Davidson was beating his heroin addiction. The 31-year-old was attending group recovery meetings. He had a restaurant job he liked. He was a doting uncle to a baby nephew. Then the...
DATE: Oct. 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
NEW YORK – U.S. health officials Wednesday redefined what counts as close contact with someone with COVID-19 to include briefer but repeated encounters. For months, the Centers for Disease Control...
DATE: Oct. 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
LONDON – The head of the World Health Organization’s Europe office said the exponential surge of coronavirus cases across the continent has warranted the restrictive measures being taken, calling...
DATE: Oct. 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
Centura Health-Mercy Regional Medical Center welcomes primary care physician Micah Helton, M.D., to Mercy Family Medicine-Horse Gulch and Mercy Internal Medicine, 810 E. Third St., Suite 201....
DATE: Oct. 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – A late-stage study of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate has been paused while the company investigates whether a study participant’s “unexplained illness” is...
DATE: Oct. 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
WASHINGTON – They’re not cures and it’s not likely that everyone will be able to get them as President Donald Trump has suggested. But experimental antibody drugs like the one Trump was given are...
DATE: Oct. 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
LONDON – The head of the World Health Organization warned against the idea that herd immunity might be a realistic strategy to stop the pandemic, dismissing such proposals as “simply unethical.” At...
DATE: Oct. 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
LONDON – The World Health Organization, UNICEF and partners said there are about 2 million stillbirths every year, mostly in the developing world, according to the first-ever global estimates...
DATE: Oct. 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
How long could I be contagious before a positive virus test? Studies have shown that people may be contagious for about two days before developing COVID-19 symptoms. In fact, right before...
DATE: Oct. 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
