Tag Archives: Lives

Saving Lives With ‘Safer Opioids’

By Amy Norton               HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Sept. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) — As opioid overdose deaths proceed to soar, a Canadian program factors to 1 method to save lives: offering “safer” opioids to individuals at excessive threat of overdose. That’s the conclusion of a research evaluating Canada’s first formal […]

Pfizer COVID Vaccine Saved 110,000 American Lives, Study Says

By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter               HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, May 16, 2022 (HealthDay News) — As the United States mourns a million deaths from COVID-19, a brand new examine signifies the grim tally might have been worse. Use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine prevented greater than 110,000 deaths and 690,000 […]

Screening CT Scans for Lung Cancer Have Saved More Than 10,000 Lives

By Robert Preidt HealthDay ReporterHealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, March 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) — More than 10,000 American lives have been saved since lung most cancers screening was launched for high-risk people who find themselves over 55 and have a historical past of smoking, a brand new examine exhibits. But many poor individuals and people in […]

Extra 10 Minutes of Daily Activity Could Save Lives

TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Americans, rise up out of that chair and get shifting. If everybody between 40 and 85 years of age have been energetic simply 10 minutes extra a day, it may save greater than 110,000 U.S. lives a 12 months, a big research studies. “Our projections are primarily based […]