The average hiccup spell can last from a few minutes to a few hours, but some people suffer from extended episodes that last days, months or even years. Hiccups that last longer than 48 hours are calledpersistent hiccups, and if they've lasted more than a month, you haveintrac...
Had severe COVID-19, particularly if you had to stay in a hospital Have other health conditions like diabetes,asthma, or an autoimmune disease Have obesity Didn't get the COVID-19 vaccine Had multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS) during or after COVID-19. This is a rare disease where di...
Had severe COVID-19, particularly if you had to stay in a hospital Have other health conditions like diabetes,asthma, or an autoimmune disease Have obesity Didn't get the COVID-19 vaccine Had multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS) during or after COVID-19. This is a rare disease where di...
"A good drug name is supposed to check lots of boxes. It should be easy for doctors to spell accurately when they scribble it down on a prescription pad. It should be memorable. It should be used in every country around the world without triggering some cultural confusion or sensitivity. I...
8. Asthma In addition to re-Latinizing, there was Greekification (not a technical term!). Asthma first showed up as asma or asmyes. But words associated with science and medicine were particularly susceptible to the urge to connect to the classics, so people started writing asthma instead of...
Yet those ideas have spread and now are used to explain other ailments that are likely also mostly environmental, such as asthma (hygiene hypothesis: because children no longer tumble around in the barnyard with farm animals, they are less likely to be exposed … etc.)....
Had severe COVID-19, particularly if you had to stay in a hospital Have other health conditions like diabetes,asthma, or an autoimmune disease Have obesity Didn't get the COVID-19 vaccine Had multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS) during or after COVID-19. This is a rare disease where di...