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Fox News Flash top headlines for September 23 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) has issued a warning about a concerning new social media trend in which people are breathing in hydrogen peroxide through nebulizers to treat or prevent COVID-19. […]
Although more Californians than ever had health insurance in 2020, disparities in access to health care among the state’s racial and ethnic groups was magnified during a year of unprecedented challenges and changes. Those are among the key findings of the latest California Health Interview Survey, which is conducted by the UCLA Center for Health […]
MONDAY, Sept. 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) – If Americans who received the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccines are dismayed by the lack of information on booster shots for them, their wait should end soon. Data on booster shots for those vaccines is only a few weeks away from a review by the U.S. […]
Researchers from the Arnold School’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics have led a study examining the access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa. They published their findings in BMC Health Services Research. “The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted important needs in water, sanitation and hygiene services and standard practices […]
The rise of coronavirus variants has highlighted the huge influence evolutionary biology has on daily life. But how mutations, random chance and natural selection produce variants is a complicated process, and there has been a lot of confusion about how and why new variants emerge. Until recently, the most famous example of rapid evolution was […]
Prostock-studio/Shutterstock By Azure Hall/Aug. 31, 2021 9:25 pm EDT While going about your regularly scheduled day, you’re struck with a sharp pain in your lower abdomen. Quick check, right side or left side? Is it gas? Are you dying? That appendix sits in your body like a ticking time bomb ready to cause anxiety every time […]
A new clinical approach that reduces the use of mechanical ventilation can greatly improve outcomes for critically ill infants and children, finds a major new UK trial involving UCL researchers. The Sedation AND Weaning In CHildren (SANDWICH) trial, led by Queen’s University Belfast, involved more than 10,000 child and infant admissions to 18 UK pediatric […]
Genome sequencing can reveal insights into a person’s risk for specific health conditions throughout their lifetime. Some believe these tests should be performed on all newborns at birth to address disease risk early in life, while others have concerns about this approach, including that the information may cause undue distress for families. As part of […]
Millions of people across the African continent are at risk of contracting COVID-19 because of a lack of the most basic public health tools to protect themselves—including the essentials of soap and water. These measures—known as non-pharmacological public health interventions (NPIs), and including physical distancing or isolation at home to prevent transmission—are among the simplest […]
Anxiety can be a part of your everyday life you just get used to, or it can become something debilitating that has significant impacts on your life. To someone on the outside looking in, your anxiety over normal situations may seem extreme, or an outsider might be amazed at how you handle it all. Anxiety […]