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FRIDAY, March 19, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- Dental cavities could significantly increase the risk of a life-threatening stroke from bleeding in the brain, according to new research.Past studies have shown a link between gum infection and stroke, but few studies have looked into what role dental cavities might play. In the new study, researchers looked specifically at cavities and intracerebral stroke, which occur when an artery in the brain bursts and floods surrounding tissue with blood.Researchers looked at data from 6,506 people without stroke, and then followed them for 30 years. For the first 15 years, those who developed cavities had a slightly higher risk for stroke from brain bleed, but their risk shot up dramatically in the next 15 years.In the second half of...

FRIDAY, March 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. COVID-19 vaccination program is proceeding apace, with more than one-fifth of adult Americans having received at least one dose and eligibility opening up for everyone by May 1, under orders from President Joe Biden.That means the fully vaccinated now have one pressing question: What can I do now that I haven't been able to do before?In a new HealthDay Now interview, Mercedes Carnethon, vice chair of preventive medicine at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago, has answers. She said it's important to follow interim guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for people who are fully vaccinated.While mask and social distancing requirements do loosen up for those folks who are two weeks past...

FRIDAY, March 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- At Eating Recovery Center, which offers treatment and services for people who have eating disorders, intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs were switched to virtual when the pandemic began.But that didn't sit well with people who were working on their recovery."Our patients said, 'You can't do this. This is not enough support for us,'" said Ellen Astrachan-Fletcher, a certified eating disorder specialist and regional clinical director at the Eating Recovery Center in Chicago. "And within a week, we brought partial hospitalization back on site because we realized that the risk to them not getting treatment on site was worse than the risk to them coming out in public."Among those who are facing fear, isolation and loss during...

FRIDAY, March 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Fewer than 1 in 10 people in Wuhan carried COVID-19 antibodies in their bloodstream four months after the coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese city that served as a harbinger of a global pandemic, a new study shows.Further, only about 40% of those people tested positive for the sort of neutralizing antibodies needed to stave off a future infection, according to the report, published March 18 in The Lancet journal.These data show that a large proportion of the population in Wuhan remained uninfected months after the outbreak there, and therefore mass vaccination will be needed to reach herd immunity, the Chinese researchers argued."Even at the epicenter of the pandemic, with more than 50,000 confirmed cases as of April 8, 2020, the estimated...