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FRIDAY, July 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Wearing a mask while you exercise may be uncomfortable, but a new study should reassure gym-goers that it poses no actual health risks."What we found was, that it is safe to run at peak exercise in both an N95 mask and a cloth face mask," said researcher Dr. Matthew Kampert, of the Cleveland Clinic.His team looked at 20 healthy people, average age 37, who ran on a treadmill to peak exhaustion while wearing an N95 mask, a cloth mask and no mask.None of the participants had any safety issues while working out in either type of mask, and monitors showed no abnormal heart rhythms or unsafe drops in oxygen. The main reason participants stopped running was due to mask discomfort, according to the study published online June 30 in JAMA Network...

FRIDAY, July 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Racial disparities in breast cancer survival have narrowed in recent years, but Black women with the disease still have double the death rate of white women.That's according to a study that tracked breast cancer trends in Florida between 1990 and 2015. Overall, deaths from the disease declined among Black, Hispanic and white women alike — with the improvement being greater among minority women.Over time, the result was a shrinking racial disparity. In fact, the gap between white women and Hispanic women disappeared in recent years.Unfortunately, the study found, the death rate among Black women remained almost twice as high."We should celebrate the progress that's been made, but there's still a lot of work to do," said lead researcher Robert...

FRIDAY, July 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- In a rare show of bipartisanship on health care, the Biden Administration is advancing Trump-era consumer protections aimed at curbing sometimes devastating surprise medical bills. It's an issue that seems to unite Americans of all political stripes: Bills that seemingly come out of nowhere after necessary medical treatments, and that can run anywhere from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars.According to the Associated Press, about 1 in every 5 emergency care visits and 1 in every 6 inpatient hospital admissions will result in a surprise bill. Many of them arise from care involving a high-demand -- but out-of-network -- physician or anesthesiologist who may stay out of insurance networks to maximize their incomes.However, the Biden...

FRIDAY, July 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The Delta variant of COVID-19 is upending any return to normalcy in some parts of the United States, with locales like Los Angeles County urging vaccinated folks to once again don masks indoors.Infectious disease experts said these places are acting with an abundance of appropriate caution, given that the Delta variant is more transmissible and potentially more dangerous.But the danger to any one individual may rely on his or her vaccination status.Delta doesn't pose any significant risk of illness to people who are vaccinated, the experts stressed. But there's a chance they could get a "breakthrough infection" and spread it to others, even if their own infection results only in the sniffles or no illness at all, the experts said.The Delta...