Latest Nutrition, Food & Recipes News FRIDAY, June 26, 2020 (HealthDay News) — “Concerning” levels of arsenic were found in Starkey Spring Water sold by Amazon, Consumer Reports said Wednesday. That brand of bottled water had arsenic levels ranging from 9.49 to 9.56 parts per billion (ppb), which […]
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By Robin Foster and E.J. MundellHealthDay Reporters FRIDAY, June 26, 2020 As the United States reported yet another record-breaking number of new coronavirus cases on Thursday, public health officials warned that younger Americans now account for an ever-growing percentage of infections. In Arizona, where drive-up testing sites were being overwhelmed, […]
THURSDAY, June 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) Patients with severe COVID-19 may be at risk for a variety of brain complications — from stroke to psychosis, new research suggests. “There have been growing reports of an association between COVID-19 infection and possible neurological or psychiatric complications, but until now these have […]
By Steven ReinbergHealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, June 24, 2020 (HealthDay News) Americans continue to look to the medicine cabinet for pain relief, with 1 in 10 using some type of prescription painkiller, a new U.S. government report says. But use of prescription opioid painkillers leveled off from 2015 to 2018, while […]
By Alan MozesHealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, June 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) Sports fans are itching to watch their favorite teams return to play, but are jam-packed arenas even remotely safe in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic? For Glenn Rall, chief academic officer and a virologist at the Fox Chase Cancer […]
By Amy NortonHealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, June 24, 2020 (HealthDay News) In findings that could pave the way to a new treatment for Parkinson’s disease, scientists have figured out how to spur the production of new brain cells in mice. The advance centers on a protein found in various cells in […]
Latest Infectious Disease News THURSDAY, June 25, 2020 — The number of salmonella infections linked with backyard poultry has reached 465 in 42 states, an increase of 368 since the last update on May 20, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. There have been […]
THURSDAY, June 25, 2020 COVID-19 patients with no symptoms are as likely as those with symptoms to contaminate many surfaces in their rooms, researchers report. The investigators sampled the surfaces and air of six negative pressure non-intensive care unit rooms with 13 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 patients — two of whom had […]
WEDNESDAY, June 24, 2020 (HealthDay News) College students who partied on the beach at Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, over spring break paid a price for their frivolity: Their fun in the sand led to 64 cases of COVID-19 back in Texas, U.S. health officials report. Little did the University of […]
Emergency Committee for Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (provinces of Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu) on 26 June 2020 The 8th meeting of the Emergency Committee, convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) to review the Ebola virus disease […]