As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, we all want ways to get our lives back to normal. Health experts agree that testing plays a key role here. If Americans have easy access to testing and take advantage of it, COVID-19 cases can get detected sooner, helping to minimize their spread.…
A brain tumor is a cluster or growth of abnormal cells in the brain. There are many different types of tumors. Some of them cause cancer, others do not. The same way, there are some that start in the brain and others that could have spread from other parts of…
Among the many different studies in medicine, we have the cardiologist’s specialty. Physicians who specialize in cardiology are the ones in charge to diagnose, assess, prevent, and provide treatment for patients with diseases and conditions of the cardiovascular system. Cardiologists are highly trained physicians; they are obliged to go through…
When the pandemic started, scientists were wondering and even predicting that there would be waves of cases since viruses mutate and tend to behave that way. The pattern for more than a year had been a constant increase in cases until May 2021, when most of the population started to…
With the COVID-19 pandemic where it is at the moment, everyone is trying to go back to normal; tests and vaccines are becoming more common every day and many organizations and groups are allowing people to return to their activities if they deliver a negative result from a test. As…
The pandemic changed the lives of everyone around the world, there has been suffering, but there has also been a lot of learning and adapting, and although we have been accepting the changes little by little, the appearance of the vaccine brought hope to all of us and gave us…
After a long time of uncertainty and pandemic, the coronavirus vaccines had brought hope and peace, and people had started to go back to their normal activities, to stop wearing their masks and have confidence in going out to the world again. Unfortunately, in many countries, cases of COVID have…
There are currently more than 12 approved vaccines in the world, from which only 4 reached the requirements and the exigence from the United States. We already know vaccines are safe and effective, and a lot of people are vaccinated and returning to their normal activities, but there are still…
As you already know, the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine is one of the four vaccines that are approved for emergency use in the United States. It is a vaccine with a high efficiency percentage that has different characteristics than the other approved vaccines. Just like every other vaccine, you…
As you probably know by now, there are four brands of vaccines approved for distribution in the United States to fight COVID-19 disease, which are Pfizer BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca. Moderna coronavirus vaccine specifically, is authorized for people 18 years of age and older, and it is…
Despite all of the currently available contraceptives, 85 million unintended pregnancies occur in the world every year. Regarding the contraceptive world, women have always had more options (with more side effects), while the options for men come down to condoms or vasectomy. Today, we finally reached the option that made…
After several tests in several groups of people and countries, there were mainly three brands of vaccines that were approved for their use in the United States, which were Pfizer BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. Since the first one is the one being delivered more commonly to most of…
