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3 min read HEART FAILURE. RECTAL cancer. Brain bleeds. Each of the people in this package of stories might not be alive today without a key medical innovation that took many years, millions of dollars, and countless setbacks and breakthroughs to get quite right. Who are the next people to be saved? Survivors Stories 1.
“We owe it to our children to not delay moving forward initial studies to evaluate promising vaccine candidates,” Anderson told reporters during a video conference call Monday afternoon. “We believe it is a critical and important thing to do be doing right now, so that we have a better chance of having a vaccine for…
5.8 million people aged 65 years or older in the United States have dementia.Due to the fact that the average lifespan of people in the U.S. has increased over recent decades, some experts project that by 2050, the number of older adults with dementia could reach 13.8 million. Figures of this stature spark justifiable fear,…
300,000 generations ago, the human species split from an ancient ancestor that we share with chimpanzees. Since then, human life expectancy at birth has doubled.Over the last 200 years, life expectancy at birth has doubled again. As animals go, humans perform well in longevity.According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “Between 2000 and 2050, the…
LYON, France — Halving the dose of antenatal betamethasone given to prevent severe respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in infants does not appear to affect later intelligence quotient (IQ) scores or other measures of neurodevelopment, suggests a follow-up study of a randomized trial. However, it is unclear from the present data, presented at the Congress of
After years of searching for affordable health insurance, Trey Wright discovered Georgia Pathways to Coverage. The state’s limited Medicaid expansion program allowed the 27-year-old living in the rural city of Jesup in southeastern Georgia to finally visit a primary care doctor regularly. It also covered weekly shots to manage an array of allergies, saving him
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