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. …
Read More »Federal government's at-home COVID test website launches
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 …
Read More »Chris Evert's ovarian cancer diagnosis: What to know about prevention
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 …
Read More »Trust your gut when it comes to sugar, study says
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 …
Read More »FDA approves first feline arthritis pain treatment
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 …
Read More »COVID-19 may be blocked by cannabis compounds, study says
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. …
Read More »Omicron in the US: States potentially headed for peak as NY COVID-19 hospitalizations drop
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 …
Read More »More evidence ties Epstein-Barr virus to multiple sclerosis, study says
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? …
Read More »Thousands of COVID tests ordered across states, National Guard to deploy
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 …
Read More »COVID-19 pill rollout stymied amidst omicron wave
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 …
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