(c) HealthAnddietBlog.com 2020 till Date

Browsing tag

health care

FDA Approves Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine For Children Ages 5-11 – A Pediatrician explains how the drug has been tested for safety and effectiveness

from Debbie-Ann Shirley, University of Virginia Elementary school children in the United States will soon be given another layer of protection to keep them safe from COVID-19. On October 29, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration approved the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11 years old February 26, 2021, in […]

veronachalmers 0

Can healthy people who eat right and exercise skip the Covid-19 vaccine? A researcher and fitness enthusiast explains why the answer is no

from Richard Bloomer, University of Memphis I am a fitness enthusiast. I also stick to a nutrient-rich, “clean” diet, which means I minimize my sugar consumption and eat a lot of whole foods to optimize my health. You may be wondering how effective such a diet and exercise plan would be in fighting COVID-19, as […]

veronachalmers 0

Why vaccine doses differ in babies, children, adolescents, and adults – an immunologist explains how your immune system changes as you mature

from Brian Peppers, University of West Virginia People are born pretty helpless and still have a lot to develop. And just as you need to learn to walk, so too must your immune system learn to defend itself against infection. Over time, your immune system matures through various stages, much like you progressed from crawling […]

veronachalmers 0

Covid kills rural Americans twice as often as city dwellers

By Lauren Weber, Kaiser Health News Rural Americans are more than twice as likely to die from Covid as their urban counterparts – a gap health experts say is likely to widen as access to health care shrinks for a population that tends to be older, sicker, heavier, poorer and less vaccinated . During the […]

Miranda Davis 0