Better Health For Women

Cardiac MRI Shows Less Myocarditis in Athletes Post-COVID-19 Than Previously Reported

Posted on by Better Health For Women
New study, comparing recovered athletes to healthy controls, reveals a lower level of myocarditis that previously published research, but cardiac MRI is still important for safe return-to-play decisions. In a contradiction of research results published this past summer, cardiac MRI shows that heart muscle inflammation in athletes who have recovered from COVID-19 is not as […] Read More

Fauci: Early COVID Vaccines Will Prevent Symptoms, Not the Virus

Posted on by Better Health For Women
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. As people eagerly await new updates about potential coronavirus vaccines, questions still remain about how well they will work and what they will do to stem the pandemic. Importantly, the initial COVID-19 vaccines will prevent symptoms in those who become infected […] Read More

Understanding Messenger RNA and Other SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines

Posted on by Better Health For Women
In mid-November, Pfizer/BioNTech were the first with surprising positive protection interim data for their coronavirus vaccine, BNT162b2. A week later, Moderna released interim efficacy results showing its coronavirus vaccine, mRNA-1273, also protected patients from developing SARS-CoV-2 infections. Both studies included mostly healthy adults. A diverse ethnic and racial vaccinated population was included. A reasonable number […] Read More

The Latest Info on COVID-19

Posted on by Better Health For Women
Here’s what medical experts currently know about the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19: It “[u]sually spreads from close person-to-person contact through respiratory droplets from coughing and sneezing.”[1) Wear your masks and gloves when shopping.  There are many good online videos about how to make a mask. It “[m]ay also spread through airborne transmission, when tiny […] Read More

Innate Immune Response Produces ‘Phenomenal’ Breast Cancer Control

Posted on by Better Health For Women
  Watch the Video Here: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/937996 Hi. It’s Dr Kathy Miller with Indiana University. There is another really important study from the science weekend at ESMO that I want to make sure you see because I fear it might be overlooked. It’s the PARADIGM analysis. This was a correlative analysis, not an individual clinical trial. […] Read More

Coronavirus Kills More Hispanic & Black Children Than White Youths, CDC Study Finds

Posted on by Better Health For Women
The coronavirus is killing Hispanic, Black and American Indian children at much higher numbers than their White peers, according to federal statistics released Tuesday. The numbers — the most comprehensive U.S. accounting to date of pediatric infections and fatalities — show there have been 391,814 known cases and 121 deaths among people under the age […] Read More