By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, July 2, 2021 — Racial disparities in breast cancer survival have narrowed in recent years, but Black women with the disease still have double the death rate of white women. That’s according to a study that tracked breast cancer trends in Florida between 1990 and 2015. Overall, deaths from… Read More: Gap in Breast Cancer Survival for Black, White Patients Shrinks,… »
Vaccines are working against Covid-19, including the highly contagious delta variant — but the challenge is in getting enough people inoculated, according to a professor of preventive medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. “Leaving it in the refrigerator doesn’t help, that won’t prevent disease. You have got to move that vaccine into arms,” William Schaffner… Read More: Vaccines work against Covid — but not enough people are… »
With the heatwave in full swing, dehydration symptoms are imminent. Doctor Naomi Newman-Beinart gives us the lowdown on the importance of H2O and why we should be drinking more of it It is sweltering in the U.K. right now and we are not a country that is prepared for this kind of heat. Am I… Read More: Dehydration symptoms? 5 signs you aren’t drinking enough water »
By Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool A government and NHS Test and Trace advert on a billboard in London.REUTERS/Hannah McKay Latest coronavirus news as of 5 pm on 3 June NHS Test and Trace system not tracing enough contacts of coronavirus cases The NHS Test and Trace system, which is designed to identify people who… Read More: Covid-19 news: NHS Test and Trace not tracing enough to… »