COVID-19 Updates

This year’s looming flu season, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, is going to present a new range of challenges, one of the leading pharmacy quality experts in the country said late last week.

Judging from the performance of other vaccines, some experts are concerned that a COVID-19 inoculation will be less effective in people with obesity than for those with a lower body mass.

The more severe the complications of metabolic syndrome, the greater the odds of experiencing ischemic stroke — even in the absence of diabetes, investigators say.

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