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Obesity and its duration are significant risk factors for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular events, multiple cancers and decreased quality of life. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, obesity affects 20.6% of adolescents ages 12-19 in the United States, meaning a potential lifetime of dealing with this condition. Complications from obesity can also result in a potentially decreased life expectancy of five to 20 years for these youth. In a new study published in
Pediatrics, researchers at Children s Hospital Colorado (Children s Colorado) have found that both younger and older adolescents have similar weight loss, resolution of high blood pressure and high cholesterol, nutritional impacts and improvement in quality of life after bariatric surgery. These results strongly indicate that, when working with adolescents with severe obesity, age alone should not dissuade providers and patients from pursuing surgery when medically indicated.
Pain relief medications like Tylenol and Advil are perfectly fine – but only after COVID-19 vaccine, experts say Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY
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Avoid pain relief medications just before getting the COVID-19 vaccine, but they are perfectly fine to take after, experts say.
Headache, fever, body aches and chills.
While these are completely normal side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine – and a good sign your immune system is working – they can be unpleasant.
To minimize the discomfort, some Americans may turn to pain relievers such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen. Others worry these medications could blunt the effectiveness of the vaccine.
The too-big-to-fail theory maintains that certain institutions, often financial, are so interconnected with others that their failure would literally result in the destruction of the overall economic system. These institutions should, therefore, be supported by government.
The phrase originated with Congressman Stewart McKinney, R-Connecticut, in 1984 when he was discussing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.âs intervention in the failure of Continental Illinois, at one time the seventh-largest bank in the U.S. Most of us werenât familiar with the phrase until 2007-08, during the global financial crisis.
You may be thinking, âHow does this relate to Pennsylvaniaâs dairy industry?â
How the Search for Covid-19 Treatments Faltered While Vaccines Sped Ahead
Vaccine development exceeded everyone’s expectations. But the next few months will still bring many sick people and doctors have woefully few drugs with which to treat them.
A makeshift I.C.U. at a hospital in Torrance, Calif, earlier this month.Credit.Mario Tama/Getty Images
Nearly a year into the coronavirus pandemic, as thousands of patients are dying every day in the United States and widespread vaccination is still months away, doctors have precious few drugs to fight the virus.
A handful of therapies remdesivir, monoclonal antibodies and the steroid dexamethasone have improved the care of Covid patients, putting doctors in a better position than they were when the virus surged last spring. But these drugs are not cure-alls and they’re not for everyone, and efforts to repurpose other drugs, or discover new ones, have not had much success.
Share Here, everything you should know about allantoin in skin care plus products featuring the ingredient. By Renee Cherry January 29, 2021 Each product we feature has been independently selected and reviewed by our editorial team. If you make a purchase using the links included, we may earn commission.
If you nerd out for researching skin-care ingredients, add allantoin to the top of your list. While the ingredient doesn t get the same level of attention as, say, salicylic or hyaluronic acids, it s incorporated into many skin-care formulas, so you may have noticed it listed on some of your favorite items.
What s interesting is that allantoin is actually a chemical compound that occurs naturally in your body, but when used in skin care, it s sometimes made synthetically in a lab. (It can also be extracted from some plants including comfrey or chamomile