Month: June 2021

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Max Dobles, 17, who has Crohn's disease, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the coronavirus disease in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, in March of 2021. According to the CDC, younger adults are seeking out COVID-19 vaccines at a slower rate than older adults, (Hannah Beier, Reuters) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Younger adults are seeking out COVID-19 vaccines at a slower rate than older adults, and if that pace of vaccination continues through August, vaccine coverage among younger adults will not reach levels achieved with older adults, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Monday. The agency said more work is needed to increase vaccination rates among younger adults to reduce COVID-19 hospitalizations an...

"Coffee is widely accessible, and the benefits we see from our study may mean it could offer a potential preventative treatment for chronic liver disease," said study author Dr. Oliver Kennedy, who is on the medical faculty of the University of Southampton in the UK, in a statement. "This would be especially valuable in countries with lower income and worse access to healthcare and where the burden of chronic liver disease is highest," Kennedy said. Risk factors for liver disease include drinking alcohol, obesity, diabetes, smoking, hepatitis B and C infections, and having nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which is the buildup of extra fat in liver cells that is not caused by alcohol. Diagnoses of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which strikes people who are obese, overweight, o...