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MONDAY, Nov. 16, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- The rate of resuscitation for cardiac arrests outside of a hospital setting decreased during the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, new research shows.The study, which was presented Saturday at the American Heart Association's virtual Resuscitation Science Symposium, set out to explore the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes in the U.S., including in areas with relatively few coronavirus deaths.The researchers looked at 52,183 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases in the U.S. from January to April during 2019 and 2020. Next, they figured out what happened to cardiac arrest resuscitation rates if the 2020 cases happened in counties hit hard by COVID deaths."Were these low survival rates...

MONDAY, Nov. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- In a study of hospitalized patients who had COVID-19, outcomes for those who had allergies were similar to those of other patients, a new study reports.The findings were scheduled to be presented to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), which was held virtually this past weekend. "We examined the charts of 275 patients admitted to the hospital who tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus for any history of allergic disease," said lead author Dr. Dylan Timberlake, an allergist from Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center."Over the two-month period when we examined the charts, we found the severity of disease didn't seem to differ between COVID-19 patients with allergies, versus COVID-19 patients without allergies,"...

MONDAY, Nov. 16, 2020 (American Heart Association News) -- To stay healthy, don't just watch what you eat – watch when you eat it.New research is driving that point home by looking at the impact of changes in meal timing from day-to-day and from weekday-to-weekend. Those changes were associated with several important heart health risk factors, including changes in waist circumference, body fat, blood pressure and blood sugar, said lead researcher Nour Makarem, an associate research scientist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York.Her own previous work had shown that eating more in the evening can increase a person's risk for heart disease. "But here, we show that it's not just about eating timing – it's also about the day-to-day regularity and the weekend-weekday...

MONDAY, Nov. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists are reporting early success with an experimental herpes vaccine that uses a genetically modified version of the virus.The gene edit prevents the virus from performing its normal evasive maneuver: hiding out in nervous system cells in order to elude the immune system.So far, the vaccine has only been tested in lab animals. But scientists hope the genetic tweak will eventually allow the vaccine to succeed where past ones have failed.The target is herpes simplex virus (HSV), which in humans includes HSV-1 and HSV-2. Both can cause genital herpes (though HSV-1 is best known for triggering cold sores). Globally, a half-billion people aged 15 to 49 have a genital herpes infection, according to the World Health Organization.Those figures...