The FINANCIAL -- Pregnant women may be especially vulnerable to developing more severe cases of COVID-19 following SARS-CoV-2 infection, but little is known about their anti-SARS-CoV-2 immune response or how it may affect their offspring.
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British Reporter — A NERC-commissioned environmental science and mental health review looks at the growing evidence of the link between environmental issues and mental health.
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British Reporter — A new clinical trial, OCTAVE DUO, investigates if a third vaccine dose for people with weakened immune systems gives a stronger immune response than two doses, UKRI notes. The £2.2 million study is co-funded by UK Research and Innovation
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British Reporter — The number of adults aged 30–79 years with hypertension has increased from 650 million to 1.28 billion in the last thirty years, according to the first comprehensive global analysis of trends in hypertension prevalence, detection, treatment and control, led by
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In a recent webinar presented by the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Matthew Baum and a team of principal investigators with the COVID States Project explained the results of their latest report. A series of nineteen surveys
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British Reporter — According to Pfizer, COMIRNATY is the first COVID-19 vaccine to be granted FDA approval. Approval is based on a comprehensive submission package including six-month efficacy and safety data after second dose. More than 1.2 billion Pfizer-BioNTech doses have been delivered to
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University of Manchester researchers have discovered that hearing loss may act as a cause of depression in older people. And those in the lowest wealth groups, they found, had up to twice the relative risk of developing depression than those in the highest
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A low-glycemic diet results in small but important improvements in cardiometabolic risk factors, including blood sugar levels and body weight, for people with diabetes, according to a University of Toronto study analyzing multiple clinical trials.
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During an ice storm, Cynthia, a woman in her 50s who lives in downtown Toronto and uses a walker, didn’t know where she would get her next meal. If she couldn’t afford food delivery, her plan was to drink a glass of
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We ate a lot more during the pandemic. The latest figures by Public Health England suggest that more than 40% of British adults gained an average of 3kg during the pandemic. The reasons for the rise in body weights seem, at first
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Obtaining two vaccine doses remains the most effective way to ensure protection against the COVID-19 Delta variant of concern dominant in the UK today, according to a study from the University of Oxford.
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