With the Omicron variant leading to an increase in COVID-19 cases at the same time as the peak of flu season, many people with mild cases of both are treating their symptoms at home.
Recent research shows surgical masks are better than most cloth masks at preventing COVID-19 transmission. N-95 and KN-95 offer the best protection against the virus, but those kinds of masks are usually reserved for front-line health professionals.
A pilot program in some Midwest schools is testing an air cleaner to see if capturing the air in schools and testing it for COVID-19 can help keep them ahead of the virus and protect the kids in the classroom.
Much of the information about mRNA research has focused on the COVID-19 vaccines, but researchers at the Mayo Clinic are testing mRNA technology to see if it can help fight cancer by repairing parts of the patient’s immune system.
The Surgeon General is bringing attention to a serious mental health crisis among young people that is resulting in doubled diagnoses of depression and anxiety and nearly 50 percent higher suicide attempts in adolescent girls since the beginning of the pandemic.
Essential tremors are a debilitating neurological condition that can severely interrupt a person’s daily life. Now doctors are using a new technology to attack the tissues in the brain that are causing the condition with high frequency ultrasound in an outpatient procedure with few side effects.
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