Month: December 2021

A two-shot course of Pfizer Inc.’s vaccine may have just 22.5% efficacy against symptomatic infection with the omicron variant, but can thwart severe disease, according to laboratory experiments in South Africa. Researchers at the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban issued additional data on a small study released earlier this week from which they made … Read more

People with an elevated resting heart rate of 80 beats per minute were 55 percent more likely to develop dementia than were those with a lower resting heart rate (60 to 69 bpm). View original article Contributor: Linda Searing

Heavy physical exertion also increases the risk of an attack, but the researchers emphasize that regular physical activity is still important for long-term stroke prevention. View original article Contributor: Erin Blakemore

Plasma from healthy individuals is used to treat hemophilia and forms of liver and kidney disease. View original article Contributor: Zoe Zorka

People with an elevated resting heart rate of 80 beats per minute were 55 percent more likely to develop dementia than were those with a lower resting heart rate (60 to 69 bpm). View original article Contributor: Linda Searing

Heavy physical exertion also increases the risk of an attack, but the researchers emphasize that regular physical activity is still important for long-term stroke prevention. View original article Contributor: Erin Blakemore

Plasma from healthy individuals is used to treat hemophilia and forms of liver and kidney disease. View original article Contributor: Zoe Zorka