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Experts: Trump speech patterns hint of potential cognitive decline
WEBAug 7, 2024 — Trump keeps losing his train of thought. Cognitive experts have theories about why. I n a speech earlier this year, former President Trump was mocking President Biden’s ability to walk through ...
Comparing three Covid-19 vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, J&J - STAT
WEBFeb 2, 2021 — The interval between Moderna doses is 28 days; for the Pfizer vaccine, it’s 21 days. Each dose of Pfizer’s contains 30 micrograms of vaccine. Moderna went with a much larger dose of vaccine ...
Life expectancy for men in U.S. falls to 73 years - STAT
WEBNov 13, 2023 — The picture is especially concerning for men, whose life expectancy is now 73.2 years, compared with women’s 79.1.This 5.9 year gap is the widest between the two genders since 1996. “Across ...
Health websites are notoriously misleading. So we rated their
WEBJul 26, 2019 — Of all the sites with red ratings, 37% publish false or unfounded health claims. These sites accounted for more than 49 million engagements (shares, likes, comments, etc.) on social media in the ...
Medical errors and accidents: an ongoing threat to health| STAT
WEBAug 4, 2021 — A meta-analysis of such studies concluded that the average annual death rate from such errors in the first decade of the 2000s was in the neighborhood of 250,000. That’s more than enough to make ...
When will the pandemic end? Scientists look to the past to see
WEBMay 19, 2021 — In 1957, when the H2N2 pandemic swept the world, flu vaccine was mainly a tool of the military. In the pandemic of 1968, which brought us H3N2, the United States produced nearly 22 million doses ...
Clinicians often fail to acknowledge the pain caused by long Covid …
WEBDec 2, 2021 — Another fight for Covid long-haulers: having their pain acknowledged. A fter his second hospitalization for acute Covid-19, Tony Marks expected to get better. Then pain invaded the 54-year-old ...
Why liver experts renamed NASH to MASH, and NAFLD to MASLD …
WEBDec 28, 2023 — A group of over 200 physicians, public health experts, industry representatives, regulatory officials, and patient advocates made the call in a supermajority vote: Non-alcoholic fatty liver ...
Under new rules, patients can now access all their health ... - STAT
WEBOct 6, 2022 — The allies had D-Day. And now U.S. patients, held down for decades by information hoarders, can rally around a new turning point, October 6, 2022 — the day they got their health data back. Under ...