Month: June 2020

This post contains affiliate links. When you shop using these links we earn a commission that helps support the website – at no extra cost to you – allowing us to continue to bring you up to date health and medical news. What do the public know about the risks of using a crib bumper?
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Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, wears a Washington Nationals protective mask while waiting to begin a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said
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Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom told CNBC on Monday the coronavirus tracking website he helped build is showing concerning levels of spread in many states across the U.S.  Epidemiologists use something called an R0, or R naught, as a way to measure how a virus is spreading. For example, an R naught of 1 means the average
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Image Source: Getty / Andreas Rentz Back in April, to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) advised Americans to use cloth face masks in public where social distancing measures are difficult to maintain. And, as gyms begin to open up around the country, some are deciding,
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Proteus Digital Health Source: Proteus Digital Health Digital health is one of the sectors that has been thriving in the pandemic. Venture investors backed companies to the tune of $3.1 billion,  more than in any first quarter of any previous year since 2016, according to Rock Health. But not every company in the field will
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Co-director of the intensive care unit at CommonSpirit’s Dignity Health California Hospital Medical Center, Dr. Zafia Anklesaria, 35, who is seven months pregnant, attends to a COVID-19 patient in the hospital where she works, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 18, 2020. Lucy Nicholson | Reuters Coronavirus cases are
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This post contains affiliate links. When you shop using these links we earn a commission that helps support the website – at no extra cost to you – allowing us to continue to bring you up to date health and medical news. A recent research paper suggests that zinc for COVID-19 may play a pivotal
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This post contains affiliate links. When you shop using these links we earn a commission that helps support the website – at no extra cost to you – allowing us to continue to bring you up to date health and medical news. A recent Canadian study explored the impact of an e-health program on men’s
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This post contains affiliate links. When you shop using these links we earn a commission that helps support the website – at no extra cost to you – allowing us to continue to bring you up to date health and medical news. Recently Canadian scientists identified pink eye as a primary symptom of COVID-19. Globally
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Has life on lockdown caused you to take a few steps back on your weight loss goals? We feel you. The emotional roller-coaster that has been our lives for the last three months has taken its toll on even the most disciplined among us. But there’s hope… Whether it’s your pre-lockdown body you’re wanting, or
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This post contains affiliate links. When you shop using these links we earn a commission that helps support the website – at no extra cost to you – allowing us to continue to bring you up to date health and medical news. Ticks are small, blood-feeding arthropods and a vector in the transmission of human
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Despite the efforts of mask-wearing protesters and volunteers squirting out hand sanitizer, it seemed all too likely that the large-scale, widespread protests over the killing of George Floyd would cause an increase in coronavirus cases. Experts noted that a spike was imminent, while agreeing that the demonstrations were too essential to avoid. Now, though, a
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Tami Chappell | Reuters The White House is reportedly considering a massive overhaul at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the Trump administration tries to pin blame on the agency for its bungled response to the coronavirus pandemic.  The CDC would
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