Voicing impatience with the reluctance of millions of Americans to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, on September 9 President Biden ordered that businesses with more than 100 employees require workers to get the shot or test negative for the virus at least once a week. In late July, Biden had issued a similar order for
Name: Ryan Padilla LeeAge: 37Location: Sacramento, CaliforniaOccupation: Choral Director/Educator Start Weight: 205 poundsEnd Weight: 135 poundsTime Running: 16 months My weight has fluctuated between 160 and 200 pounds in my 30s, and at 5-foot-7, anything over 170 pounds weighs me down. Given my busy lifestyle, between regular work and side gigs, I barely had time
Miché Aaron has always been a high achiever. The 29-year-old is in her third year of a planetary sciences doctoral program at Johns Hopkins University, where she researches minerals found on Mars. She’s a former NASA space grant scholar and hopes to become an astronaut one day. But last year, Aaron was barely keeping it
The Delta variant of coronavirus is driving the pandemic forward in Africa at record speeds, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday. Infection numbers have increased in Africa for six weeks running, rising by a quarter week-on-week to almost 202,000 in the week that ended Sunday, it said. The continent’s weekly record currently stands
I know the first day of summer is a few weeks away, but it’s sooo close I can practically taste all the frosé and burgers. (And, let’s be real: Sumer basically starts after Memorial Day weekend.) Since you spent last summer cooped up inside watching every season of The Office for the fiftieth time, you
Hispanic immigrants of working age—20 to 54 years old—are over 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than U.S.-born men and women who are not Hispanic, according to a USC study of California death certificate data from 2020. The study, published Monday in the Annals of Epidemiology, highlights California’s urgent need to bring vaccinations,
Over the last year, digital has transformed the caregiver experience, but pharma has also been undergoing a metamorphosis in order to reach patients. During the pandemic, life science companies were pushed to reconfigure their care in order to meet the needs of some of the most at-risk patients. MobiHealthNews sat down with the leader of pharma giant
THOUGH TRAVEL in general has slowed tremendously over the last year, family road trips for my family of four hasn’t. And if your car looks anything like ours, food takes top priority. But all too often there also comes a time when what’s in the cooler just isn’t cutting it—particularly for our 9- and 11-year-old
Matt Scanlon, a 43-year-old steel erection manager from Sligo, Ireland, shares how he reversed his weight-gain from living a sedentary lifestyle for almost 10 years with diligent training and a re-calibrated diet. After 25 weeks, Scanlon cut his body weight down by 45 lbs and slashed the dangerous amount of visceral fat around his midsection.
The doctor slid a miniature camera into the patient’s right nostril, making her whole nose glow red with its bright miniature light. “Tickles a bit, eh?” he asked as he rummaged around her nasal passages, the discomfort causing tears to well in her eyes and roll down her cheeks. The patient, Gabriella Forgione, wasn’t complaining.
Telehealth use has surged during the pandemic at clinics that serve lower-income Americans, which allowed the clinics to maintain access to care at a time when many other health care organizations saw significant declines in utilization, according to a new RAND Corporation study. However, most of the telehealth appointments have been audio-only visits, which may
Florida is America’s ‘super-covid’ hotspot with 46 cases of the highly contagious UK variant that has sickened at least 146 people in the US and spread to 60 countries Cases of the highly contagious coronavirus variant first detected in the UK have more than doubled in Florida from 22 to 46 A North Carolina laboratory
A new study in Frontiers in Psychiatry has for the first time, demonstrated differences in the prevalence of post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in different groups of rescue workers and emergency personnel, including firefighters, police officers and psychiatric nurses. The researchers showed that the varying experiences and circumstances these workers encounter, such as handling aggressive people,
There are few rock stars with the longevity and ongoing relevance of Bruce Springsteen. From continuing to put out new music, to telling off the president, The Boss is still very much a part of our cultural landscape—and at the age of 71, he looks great. In a conversation with his good friend and fellow
Fox News Flash top headlines for January 6 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Dozens of people who attended Christmas Eve services at a church in Woburn, Mass., a Boston suburb, have tested positive for COVID-19. At least 44 cases of the virus are linked to the services
The European Union’s medicines watchdog on Wednesday approved a second coronavirus vaccine, in a relief to struggling European countries as the world reached a grim new record of 15,700 deaths in 24 hours. The Moderna vaccine is now set to join Pfizer-BioNTech’s jab for use in the 27-nation EU, where governments are grappling with soaring
Eight weeks and counting! Lindsay Arnold rocked a bikini two months after welcoming her daughter, Sage, via C-section. “Vacation time,” the Dancing With the Stars pro, 26, captioned Tuesday, January 5, Instagram photos. “Instagram husband/dad of the year goes to Sam [Cusick] who is mine and Sage’s personal photographer for this trip.” Fellow dancers showed
Thousands at risk of blindness set to benefit from a new drug that slows vision loss and can even improve sight Brolucizumab approved for patients with wet age-related macular deterioration The painless yet incurable eye disease is leading cause of blindness in over-55s New jab needs to be given only every 12 weeks rather than
Health care workers—particularly nurses—have a higher prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection than non-health care workers, according to researchers at Rutgers, which released baseline results from a large prospective study of participants at Rutgers and affiliated hospitals recruited during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study, published in the journal BMC Infectious Diseases, found that
THURSDAY, Nov. 12, 2020 — At repeat screening, digital breast tomosynthesis plus synthetic mammography (DBT+SM) identifies more cancers than full-field digital mammography (FFDM), according to a study published online Nov. 10 in Radiology. Francesca Caumo, M.D., from the Veneto Institute of Oncology in Padua, Italy, and colleagues conducted a prospective study involving 34,638 women screened
