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Testosterone
COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News
Low testosterone in men could mean higher risk of sever COVID infection
Lourdes Antenor Jun 3, 2021

Throughout the pandemic, doctors have seen evidence that men with COVID-19 fare worse, on average, than women with the infection. One theory is that hormonal

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Vaccinated
COVID-19, Healthcare, Healthcare News
Vaccinated Aussies could start travelling abroad in six weeks
Lourdes Antenor Jun 3, 2021

Australians who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 might be able to leave the country and return with less strict quarantine plans in a new

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Stroke
Aged Care, Healthcare, Mental Health
Obsessive compulsive disorder linked to increased ischemic stroke risk later in life
Lourdes Antenor Jun 1, 2021

Adults who have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) were more than three times as likely to have an ischemic stroke later in life compared to adults who

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Asthma
Children's Health, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals
Asthma medication use, treatment, and exacerbations
Lourdes Antenor Jun 1, 2021

How does the switch to a high-deductible health plan affect children with asthma? A new study led by researchers at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

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proteins
Aged Care, Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals
Proteins that predict future dementia, Alzheimer’s risk, identified
Lourdes Antenor May 27, 2021

The development of dementia, often from Alzheimer’s disease, late in life is associated with abnormal blood levels of dozens of proteins up to five years

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strategy
Healthcare, Mental Health
Enhanced mental health strategy for NSW workplaces
Lourdes Antenor May 27, 2021

SafeWork NSW’s Mentally Healthy Workplaces Strategy has been relaunched, aiming to improve workplace mental health in response to significant shifts in ways of working due

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immune
Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals
Optimizing the body’s own immune system to fight cancer on new research
Lourdes Antenor May 20, 2021

A groundbreaking study led by engineering and medical researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities shows how engineered immune cells used in new cancer

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Obesity
Healthcare
Obesity related cancer deaths shows decline in new study
Lourdes Antenor May 20, 2021

Cancer death rates have fallen dramatically in the United States, but factor in obesity, as researchers did at the University of North Carolina Gillings School

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clots
COVID-19, Healthcare
COVID-19 triggering recurrent blood clots in arms reported by researchers
Lourdes Antenor May 18, 2021

Researchers at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School are reporting the first instance of COVID-19 triggering a rare recurrence of potentially serious blood clots in

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streets
Healthcare, Public Health and Careers
Streets for Life campaign calls for low-speed streets for safe, healthy, green and liveable cities
Lourdes Antenor May 18, 2021

The 6th UN Global Road Safety Week highlights the benefits of low-speed streets in urban areas and calling on policy-makers to limit speeds to 30

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pregnant
Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals
Pregnant women hospitalized for COVID-19 infection do not face increased risk of death
Lourdes Antenor May 13, 2021

Pregnant women who develop severe COVID-19 infections that require hospitalization for pneumonia and other complications may not be more likely to die from these infections

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E. coli
Healthcare, Healthcare News, Hospitals
Identifying the rise of multi drug resistant E. coli in the largest genomic study in Norway
Lourdes Antenor May 13, 2021

Antibiotic resistance in E. coli has been steadily increasing since the early 2000s despite attempts to control it, a new study suggests. In the biggest genomic survey

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