AHA News: At Annual ‘Thriller’ Event, Zombie Went Into Cardiac Arrest
FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — A week before Halloween 2021 and five days before her 68th birthday, Sarah Katzenmaier slipped into a royal blue bridesmaid dress and carefully applied her zombie makeup.Then she made her way …
Learn MoreAHA News: At Annual ‘Thriller’ Event, Zombie Went Into Cardiac Arrest
FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — A week before Halloween 2021 and five days before her 68th birthday, Sarah Katzenmaier slipped into a royal blue bridesmaid dress and carefully applied her zombie makeup.Then she made her way …
Learn MoreWhat to Know About XBB, the New COVID Variant
FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The new coronavirus continues to dodge, duck, dip and dive, mutating again and again to find its way past people’s immune defenses.The latest COVID variant to gain a foothold in America is called XBB.1.5, whic…
Learn MoreTwo Cases of New Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea Strain Reported in Massachusetts
FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Two cases of a new strain of gonorrhea reported in Massachusetts were at least partly resistant to several antibiotics, state officials announced Thursday.”The discovery of this strain of gonorrhea is a seriou…
Learn MorePlane Wastewater Study Shows How COVID Travel Restrictions Failed
FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Wastewater research isn’t for the squeamish, but it can get to the bottom of questions about such things as the effectiveness of COVID-19 air travel restrictions.Tests of toilet tank water from flights enterin…
Learn MorePoll Finds Nearly Half of Americans Unprepared for Medical Emergency
FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — A medical emergency can happen at any moment. Will you be prepared? Nearly half of American adults will not, according to a new poll from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and Morning Consult…
Learn MoreNew USDA Rules Ramp Up Oversight of Organic Food
FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) – Organic food will soon have to comply with stricter labeling rules under new requirements announced Thursday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).In what the Organic Trade Organization (OTA) called the …
Learn MorePenis Birth Defects Are on the Rise – Are Environmental Toxins to Blame?
FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Doctors are seeing an alarming increase in cases of a specific genital malformation in male babies, and new research suggests environmental factors might be at play.The malformation is known as hypospadias, wh…
Learn MoreGut Microbiome May Play Role in Irritable Bowel Syndrome
FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Researchers believe they have found a link between lower bacterial diversity in the intestine’s microbiome and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).Normally, “more than 10,000 species of microorganism live in the hu…
Learn MoreHealth Highlights: Jan.20, 2023
What you need to know about XBB, the new COVID variant. The variant is much more infectious, and evidence shows it can evade human immune systems much more easily. Read morePlane wastewater study shows how COVID restrictions failed. Tests of toilet ta…
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