In response to a national blood shortage, the American Red Cross is offering people who donate blood during January the chance to win a trip to the Super Bowl in Los Angeles, Calif. The package includes tickets to the game, round-trip airfare, three-night hotel accommodations and $500 gift card for expenses. Last week, the organization warned…
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and federal websites that allow Americans to request free infectious-disease tests have begun accepting orders. COVIDTests.gov officially launched Wednesday, after a beta testing phase on Tuesday. However, the pilot testing revealed glitches, according to social media users, including for residents of apartment buildings and people who receive their mail at…
Tennis legend Chris Evert recently revealed that she is battling stage 1C ovarian cancer. The 67-year-old tennis legend who has won 18 Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam doubles titles during her career, opened up about her diagnosis on Twitter and in an ESPN report that she co-wrote with her colleague, Chris McKendry. “I wanted to share my stage 1 ovarian cancer diagnosis and the story…
If your gut is telling you the difference between real sugar and an artificial sweetener, it may be right, according to a Duke study published recently in Nature Neuroscience. Around the time the taste receptors were discovered 20 years ago, scientists tried to eliminate the taste buds in mice, but were surprised the mice not…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first healthy-living for the control of pain associated with pain-management in pets” target=”_blank”>cats< on Thursday that frunevetmab – the active ingredient in Solensia – is a cat-specific monoclonal antibody designed to recognize and attach to a protein called nerve growth factor that is involved in the regulation…
Compounds found in hemp may prevent the virus that causes infectious-disease from entering human cells, according to a new study published in the Journal of Natural Products. Researchers at us-regions education found that a pair of cannabinoid acids bind to the spike protein in SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This blocks the spike protein…
As the infectious-disease continues to spread, sending numbers of daily cases and hospitalizations soaring this month, experts believe the winter surge could be heading toward its peak in some states. In us-regions, doctors at the two largest health care systems say they believe the latest wave of the COVID-19 pandemic may be peaking in the…
There’s more evidence that one of the world’s most common wild-nature may set some people on the path to developing nervous-system-health. Multiple sclerosis is a potentially disabling disease that occurs when immune system cells mistakenly attack the protective coating on nerve fibers, gradually eroding them. GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME: WHAT IS IT? The Epstein-Barr virus has long…
As the infectious-disease continues to spread around the U.S., states have mobilized in response. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is deploying 100 members of the state’s military to hospitals by Jan. 24, in order to set up testing sites and assist in non-medical tasks amid staff shortages. At the beginning of the month, Inslee said the…
Two brand-new infectious-disease healthy-living that were supposed to be an important weapon against the pandemic in the U.S. are in short supply and have played little role in the fight against the omicron wave of infections. The problem, in part, is that production is still being ramped up and the medicines can take anywhere from…