Tag: 2018

(HealthDay)—The prevalence of short sleep duration increased among working American adults from 2010 to 2018, according to a study published online Sept. 5 in the Journal of Community Health. Jagdish Khubchandani, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, and James H. Price, Ph.D., M.P.H., from the University of Toledo in Ohio, used data

2018 was a real doozy of a year, even where food was concerned. Not all of it was good — we mourned the death of legendary food and travel personality Anthony Bourdain, teens started eating Tide Pods and pretty much everything regarding politics was a total shit show. But! There were a lot of great

Actor Beverley Mitchell, who rose to fame as Lucy on 7th Heaven, recently revealed on Instagram and her blog, Growing Up Hollywood, that she suffered a miscarriage in 2018. View this post on Instagram So much to be grateful for!!! Sharing a little bit about the past few months, a little heartache, a miscarriage, and healing!

FDA Approves Xofluza, a First-In-Class Flu Drug to Treat Symptoms It’s been almost 20 years since a new influenza (flu) treatment was approved, and last year’s flu season was one of the deadliest in decades. In response, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Xofluza (baloxavir marboxil) for acute uncomplicated influenza in patients

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Trump Announces Plan to Cut Drug Prices Trying to cut high drug costs, the prices paid by Medicare for certain prescription drugs would be based on those in other advanced industrial nations, according to a proposal announced Thursday

We’re nearing the end of 2018 (can you believe it?), and baby names just keep getting wilder. No, really, like, wild-animals wild. Zooey Deschanel named her kids Elsie Otter and Charlie Wolf. Busy Philipps’ menagerie? Birdie and Cricket. And that’s not all. We’ve also got celebs naming their kids Cosimo (Beck), Audio Science Clayton (Shannyn

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: More Young American Children Not Getting Recommended Vaccines: CDC The percentage of U.S. children under 2 years old who haven’t received any recommended vaccinations quadrupled in the past 17 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

Celebrate Navratri by making these special tikka and kebab dishes, courtesy Chef Harangad Singh, Pra Pra Prank, and Chef  Akshay Bhardwaj, Swad Eastman Colour. Here are two dishes that your family can enjoy this Navratri. Lychee Tikka by Harangad Singh Ingredients: 180gm seedless canned drained lychee, 30gm almonds chopped, 30gm pista chopped, 30gm cashew nut

While many of us are busy buying pumpkins and all things Halloween, it seems retailers want us to start thinking about another holiday: the winter holidays. And Starbucks is no exception. In fact, the purveyor of PSLs just announced a few of the chain’s 2018 holiday gifts. The line, which at this time consists entirely

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: New Ebola Outbreak in Congo Just a week after being declared Ebola-free, the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday that a new outbreak of the deadly virus has killed at least 20 people. Authorities in North Kivu Province

Burpee/push up combo just not cutting it? It’s time to nix the stale workouts and completely overhaul your training regime. Enter: the American College of Sports Medicine. They’ve scoured the globe to find the hottest fitness trends for 2018. So, put these on your must-try list and prepare to sweat. 1. High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT): With

A first look at the new European Guidelines for the treatment of high blood pressure was presented at the European Society of Hypertension meeting in Barcelona on June 9th 2018. These long-awaited guidelines have been jointly developed by clinicians representing the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Society of Hypertension (ESH). The guidelines

  It’s official: Kylie Jenner is back. The 20-year-old new mom made her first post-baby red carpet appearance at Monday night’s Met Gala, and her makeup artist is sharing all the details behind her comeback beauty look. “We were all so nerve-wracked because it was such a big moment, but she killed it,” makeup Ariel

A Rice University study predicts that this fall’s flu vaccine—a new H3N2 formulation for the first time since 2015—will likely have the same reduced efficacy against the dominant circulating strain of influenza A as the vaccine given in 2016 and 2017 due to viral mutations related to vaccine production in eggs. The Rice method, known