We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Coronavirus symptoms can easily be confused with a host of less serious conditions. As the virus has raged on, it has also become clear that a high temperature or new, continuous cough are not the only symptoms to […]
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We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Some sinusitis symptoms overlap with coronavirus symptoms, so it’s important to know how the symptoms differ. Sinusitis normally isn’t serious and clears up on its own in a few weeks, but sometimes it can be chronic. Is […]
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VCU Massey Cancer Center Director Robert Winn, M.D., recently collaborated on research that identified a genetic factor that could partly account for the high prevalence of COVID-19 in African Americans. The study, published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, provides “a strong argument” for using existing blood pressure and heart failure drugs to manage severe symptoms of […]
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These days, Kris Jenner is thinking outside of the box. Literally. It’s just days after she has announced the end of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” the long-running reality TV show that propelled the Kardashian-Jenner clan to fame and unfathomable riches. But after 14 years of small-screen superstardom, Jenner, the family matriarch and long credited as the mastermind behind the […]
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The risk of being infected with the coronavirus on an airliner is very low if passengers wear masks, according to a study carried out aboard Boeing long-haul jets by the US military and published Thursday. Researchers using sensors and fluorescent tracers measured the volume of airborne contagious matter emitted by a dummy simulating an infected person breathing normally. The passengers […]
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Coronavirus cases around the world have climbed to all-time highs of more than 330,000 per day as the scourge comes storming back across Europe and spreads with renewed speed in the U.S., forcing many places to reimpose tough restrictions eased just months ago. Well after Europe seemed to have largely tamed the virus that proved so lethal last spring, newly […]
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When governments create a minimum price for alcoholic beverages, deaths and hospitalizations related to alcohol use significantly decrease, according to results from a new report in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. Called “minimum unit pricing,” such policies “would result in a substantial and lasting reduction in the harms caused by alcohol in society,” says lead researcher Adam […]
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Earlier this month, from October 3-11, we threw open the virtual barn doors and invited you to join us online to meet a horse. During this period, which we dubbed Hooftober, viewers tuned in approximately 20,000 times over the course of the event to learn more about horses, equine rescue and adoption. The best part? Hooftober may officially be “Hooft-over,” […]
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A recreational ice hockey game in Florida turned into a “superspreader” event when 14 out of 22 players developed COVID-19 after the game, including players on both teams, according to a new report. The report, published Thursday (Oct. 15) in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, highlights the particular risk of indoor sporting […]
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The COVID-19 crisis has magnified and exacerbated inequities in healthcare, with communities of color disproportionately affected by the disease and its economic fallout. But such disparities date back to long before the pandemic began to spread across the country this spring. “Structural racism,” said American Medical Association Chief Health Equity Officer Dr. Aletha Maybank, “permeates the healthcare system.” Given that […]
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