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State and local officials nationwide are imposing new coronavirus restrictions and pleading with the public in an increasingly desperate attempt to stop the explosive spread of the disease as many Americans resist calls to limit gatherings and travel heading into the holidays. Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak tightened restrictions on casinos, restaurants and private gatherings beginning […]
Officials in the nation’s largest county will discuss a possible stay-home order just days before Thanksgiving after a spike of coronavirus cases surpassed a threshold set by Los Angeles public health officials to trigger one. An “impressive and alarming surge” of more than 6,000 new cases put Los Angeles County over a five-day average of […]
Every year more than 350,000 women in the UK may be missing out on key formal health and wellbeing check-ups following the birth of a child, reveals the largest study of its kind, published in the online journal BMJ Open. Teen mums and those living in the most deprived areas of the country are least […]
In March, Stanford University bioengineer Manu Prakash flew from France to his home in California and spent two weeks in personal quarantine. After being holed up in the room where he stores his snorkeling and scuba equipment, Prakash emerged with an idea for addressing two of the pandemic’s most pressing challenges. First, he saw that […]
MONDAY, Nov. 23, 2020 (American Heart Association News) — Having a heart attack before your 50th birthday is bad enough. But new research shows if you also live in a poor neighborhood, your chances of dying within a decade of that heart attack are higher. “This tells us that we need to focus not just […]
New research from the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation suggests that adverse childhood experiences, often referred to as child maltreatment, are associated with increased odds of substance use among women urban Emergency Department (ED) patients. To study the question, the research scientists used a cross-sectional survey with 1,037 married […]
A 34-year-old woman who thought she was going to die when she was diagnosed with cancer made the decision to reject chemo and travel the world with her girlfriend. Katie Marshall, now 36, was diagnosed with skin cancer in January 2018 but was then told by doctors that she also had breast cancer just three months later. […]
Sexual health warning for middle-aged: Infections are on the rise among those in their 40s and 50s… because they are too EMBARRASSED to visit a clinic, experts warn Consultations for infections for those aged 45 to 64 soared to 336,000 last year More than half of age group never had check for infections such as […]
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US drug regulators gave emergency approval to a COVID-19 antibody therapy on Saturday and G20 nations pushed for global access to vaccines as the pandemic led to further closures in parts of the world. With cases surpassing 12 million in the United States, the highest in the world, many Americans were nonetheless heading to airports […]