Month: June 2021

As Americans get vaccinated against the coronavirus, a report published Wednesday found teens and adults may have missed millions of routine vaccinations recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2020. The study, commissioned by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and conducted by Avalere Health, analyzed vaccine claims from January through November 2020 and compared them with the same timeframe in 2019. Researchers found teens and adults may have missed more than 26 million doses of recommended vaccines in 2020, which includes 8.8 million missed adolescent vaccines and 17.2 million missed adult vaccine doses. “Millions of people have been immunized to protect against COVID, but many are missing protection against other diseases,” said Dr. Leonard Friedland, vice president and di...

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In the brain of a person with Alzheimer’s disease, beta-amyloid proteins clump together to form plaques (brown), while clumps of tau proteins form tangles (blue). These structures are thought to disrupt normal brain functioning.Image: NIH Image Gallery/Wikimedia Commons A group of scientists say they’ve made a surprising and potentially very important discovery in the brains of two people with Alzheimer’s disease: traces of a particular form of iron and copper deep inside deposits of amyloid plaque, a key marker of the fatal disease. The find raises more questions about how Alzheimer’s develops and may one day point to a new avenue of detecting or treating the underlying dysfunction that causes it. Iron and copper are elements found in tiny amounts throughout the body, including in th...

Identifying factors that can contribute to early death is important for a variety of reasons—namely because it can help extend your life. Per a World Health Organization's Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study led by Christopher Murray, of the University of Washington, there are four factors—poor diet, high blood pressure, obesity, and tobacco use—that are the primary causes of early death, defined as occurring before age 86, in the United States. Now, a new study has found that two other factors combined together can significantly increase a person's risk of early death. Read on to find out what they are—and to get through life at your healthiest, don't miss these 19 Ways You're Ruining Your Body. Poor Sleep and Diabetes In...

As Americans get vaccinated against the coronavirus, a report published Wednesday found teens and adults may have missed millions of routine vaccinations recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2020. The study, commissioned by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and conducted by Avalere Health, analyzed vaccine claims from January through November 2020 and compared them with the same timeframe in 2019. Researchers found teens and adults may have missed more than 26 million doses of recommended vaccines in 2020, which includes 8.8 million missed adolescent vaccines and 17.2 million missed adult vaccine doses. “Millions of people have been immunized to protect against COVID, but many are missing protection against other diseases,” said Dr. Leonard Friedland, vice president and di...