30% of Adults With COVID Have Symptoms Lasting 3 Months

Feb. 2, 2023 – People no longer need a positive COVID-19 test to be prescribed the antiviral medications Paxlovid or Lagevrio. The FDA announced the changes Wednesday in letters sent to the drugs’ manufacturers, Pfizer and Merck. Both medications are approved to treat mild to moderate COVID-19 in...

Feb. 2, 2023 -- A new study suggests that following a healthy lifestyle is linked to slower memory decline in older adults, even in people with the apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) gene, one of the strongest known risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. A team of investigators in...

Feb. 3, 2023 – The massive bird flu outbreak that is responsible for skyrocketing egg prices now appears to be spilling over into mammals. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and its counterpart in the United Kingdom say the virus has been detected in mammals such as raccoons, foxes, bears, skunks, and even a cat in France.

THURSDAY, Feb. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Taking good care of your teeth -- brushing, flossing, regular dental checkups -- is, of course, important for good health. Now researchers say it's also vital for brain health. While it was already clear that poor dental health could increase stroke and heart...

THURSDAY, Feb. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Having a stroke is a life-altering experience, and complications can crop up afterwards, but a new study finds the color of your skin may determine whether you are treated for them. In the year following a stroke, Black and Hispanic patients were not...

Feb. 2, 2023 – It’s easy these days to take an at-home COVID test when you have symptoms like a fever and sore throat. But when the test is negative, the next step toward diagnosis usually means leaving the comforts of home. But that could soon change. The...

All of your electronic products have a “use by” date, and sooner or later, you’ll have to discard them. Manufacturers call this “planned obsolescence,” where electronic items stop functioning after a certain period. This helps keep sales volumes up over the long term and makes people buy newer and more fashionable products to replace older ones. Due to the very short life cycle of many electronic products, recycling them is imperative to slowing the buildup of global waste.

Aluminum is found extensively in the earth’s crust and can be easily recycled and repurposed for various applications. According to the Aluminum Association, 75% of the 1.5 billion tons of aluminum that’s ever been produced is still in use today. This is because recycling aluminum is simple and cost-effective.

Feb. 3, 2023 -- A new survey from the CDC found that 57.3% of U.S. respondents support policies banning the sale of all tobacco products and 62.3% support banning the sale of menthol cigarettes. Even among smokers, there was some support for the bans. About a third of smokers supported...

Star Trek. I was dazzled by the space travel, sure, but also the medical technology. A handheld “tricorder” detected diseases, while an intramuscular injector (“hypospray”) could treat them. Sickbay “biobeds” came with real-time health monitors that looked futuristic at the time but seem primitive today.

The Wall Street Journal reports that scientific evidence suggests it could be, as “dangerous fungal infections are on the rise.”. The temperature of the human body is too high for most fungi. But as temperatures have risen, some are adapting to higher heat, including within people, the newspaper wrote. “Climate change might also be creating conditions for some disease-causing fungi to expand their geographical range, research shows.”

Feb. 4, 2023 – California will no longer require schoolchildren to be vaccinated in order to attend in-person classes. Public health officials said the move aligns school policies with the forthcoming end of the federal public health emergency in May, the Los Angeles Times reported. In October 2021, California...

Feb.2, 2023 – Add this to the list of social media’s potential health risks: unintended pregnancy. That’s for women who take birth control advice from influencers, particularly on YouTube, where many talk about stopping hormonal contraception and may give incomplete or inaccurate sexual health information. In an...