Month: October 2021

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It's a big week for Sacramento mom Mai Nguyen. She's nine months pregnant, and her second baby is due on Friday."It's better to be safe than sorry," she said of her decision to get vaccinated for COVID-19 four months into her pregnancy. "We don't know when the virus will change again. If we can help protect ourselves from being on a ventilator, then why not?" But not everyone expecting is getting the vaccine. New data released on Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows through Sept. 27, there were more than 125,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in pregnant people, including more than 22,000 hospitalized and 161 deaths. Twenty-two deaths happened in the month of August alone. "Pregnancy can be both a special time and also a stressful time – and pregnancy durin...

It might surprise you to know that the papilloma virus will affect almost every one of us. HPV, as it’s commonly known, won’t affect most of the people infected with it, but some will have a higher risk of developing various cancers. Two experts from Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera discuss the virus and its effects, the vaccine and how each of us can manage it. Read the comprehensive advice here. HPV has been in the headlines in recent years and awareness of it has grown, especially in light of the vaccine that is now administered to young teens.  The vaccine aims to significantly reduce cases of cervical cancer that the virus can cause, and protect against genital warts. We asked Prof. Ilan Baruchim, director of the Department of Gynecology and Gyno-Oncology, and D...

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Hundreds of people will gather in West Sacramento this weekend for a walk that raises awareness for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. The 2021 Walk to End Alzheimer’s happens Saturday morning. All money raised will go to the Alzheimer’s Association for research, care and support services. Alexandra Castillo-Weisgerber with the Alzheimer’s Association said that people often know about memory loss with Alzheimer’s but another issue with the disease is “sometimes its changes in personality, the ability to do things that you once did with ease.” She said that her grandmother always made an apple pie that tasted perfect “and then we started to taste that something is different here.” “While it is very difficult to see your loved one change throughout the course of the disease, we do belie...