Poor Oral Health May Impact COVID-19 Severity, Especially for Cardiac Patients
The correlation between poor oral health and COVID-19 severity, as well as the correlation between oral health and delayed recovery, demonstrates a potential need to consider oral health…
The Lancet: Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are highly effective against COVID-19 hospitalizations for at least six months
Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT162b2) vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization for all variants, including delta, remains high (90%) for at least six months.
Intestinal drug shown to boost memory and cognition
The development of drugs to treat cognitive problems in patients with mental illness may be a step closer after a team of researchers discovered that an existing drug…
Blood pressure rising at night linked to doubling risk of death in adults with diabetes
Adults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes whose blood pressure increased at night had more than double the risk of dying compared to those whose blood pressure…
There’s no place like home… to track blood pressure
Adults who needed to track their blood pressure regularly to confirm or refute a hypertension diagnosis preferred monitoring blood pressure at home versus at a clinic, kiosk or…