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Money can’t buy happiness, the saying goes, but it seems to be more closely connected than before. A new study at San Diego State University found a correlation between happiness and the top indicators of socioeconomic status—including income and education—has been growing steadily stronger. Using data from the General Social Survey, one of the longest running surveys of adults in […] The number of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. has jumped to around 50,000 a day, and the virus has killed more than 130,000 Americans. Yet, I still hear myths about the infection that has created the worst public health crisis in America in a century. The purveyors of these myths, including politicians who have been soft peddling the impact […] Gyms still aren’t open, and you’re probably running out of ideas for living room workouts at this point. Adding a resistance band to your home gym equipment is a great way to give yourself an additional challenge, without needing to invest in expensive or bulky weights. Resistance bands can enhance your warm-up stretches, intensify your workouts and help to build […] Parents may worry that spending time on their smartphones has a negative impact on their relationships with their children. However, a new comprehensive analysis published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry found that this is unlikely to be the case. In the analysis of data from 3, 659 parent-based surveys, the authors tested 84 different possibilities to assess […] High blood pressure is when the blood pressure, the force of blood flowing through the blood vessels, is consistently too high. Over time, this causes the blood vessels to lose their elasticity restricting the amount of blood which flows through them. Restricting the supply of blood to the heart could trigger dangerous health complications including heart attack or stroke. Consuming […] Neurological complications of Covid-19 can include delirium, brain inflammation, stroke and nerve damage, finds a new UCL and UCLH-led study. Published in the journal Brain, the research team identified one rare and sometimes fatal inflammatory condition, known as ADEM, which appears to be increasing in prevalence due to the pandemic. Some patients in the study did not experience severe respiratory […] (HealthDay)—Workers from ethnic and minority groups make up nearly all meatpacking employees who’ve been infected during COVID-19 outbreaks at their facilities, a new government study reveals. The stats show that nearly 1 of every 10 workers in affected plants were diagnosed with COVID-19, based on figures from 14 states that reported the total number of workers in facilities with outbreaks. […] (HealthDay)—In a case series of 31 patients, published online June 25 in JAMA Dermatology, chilblains did not appear to be directly associated with COVID-19. Anne Herman, M.D., from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Brussels, and colleagues examined whether chilblains are associated with COVID-19 in a monocentric case series conducted at a tertiary care hospital. Thirty-one patients who had recently […] A Brazilian man infected with the AIDS virus has shown no sign of it for more than a year since he stopped HIV medicines after an intense experimental drug therapy aimed at purging hidden, dormant virus from his body, doctors reported Tuesday. The case needs independent verification and it’s way too soon to speculate about a possible cure, scientists cautioned. […] LOINC, created and maintained by the Regenstrief Institute, is amplifying its global work to help track the coronavirus by releasing new standardized codes for healthcare systems’ laboratory tests, clinical observations and other data. Health systems often have their own format for recording patient information which makes sharing and tracking data between systems difficult. LOINC is a lingua franca that is […]
Money can buy happiness: New study on income and happiness finds growing divide
5 COVID-19 myths politicians have repeated that just aren’t true
Tone your bum with this simple resistance band workout
The effects of smartphone use on parenting
High blood pressure: An easy to make health beverage proven to help lower your reading
Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke linked to COVID-19
COVID-19 outbreaks at meat processing plants are hitting minorities hard
Chilblains in recent case series not tied to COVID-19 infection
Doctors say experimental treatment may have rid man of HIV
New healthcare codes released, including terms used internationally to track coronavirus
