Winter Wonderland? Not for Your Skin
SATURDAY, Jan. 21, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Winter is no friend to the body’s delicate skin, but an expert offers three key tips: moisturize, moisturize, moisturize.“It’s pretty intuitive, but it bears repeating,” said dermatologist Dr. David Pearson,…
Learn MoreNew USDA Rule Ramps Up Oversight of Organic Food
FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Organic food will soon have to comply with stricter labeling guidelines under new requirements announced Thursday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).In what the Organic Trade Organization (OTA) calle…
Learn MoreFracasa otro importante ensayo sobre una vacuna contra el VIH
JUEVES, 19 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) — El único ensayo en etapa avanzada sobre una vacuna contra el VIH ha fracasado, anunciaron el miércoles los líderes del estudio, lo que constituye otro revés para el futuro de la prevención del VIH.El ens…
Learn MoreReport Outlines National Plan to Test Wastewater for Harmful Germs
FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The pandemic brought the utility of testing wastewater to gauge viral spread to the fore. Now, experts at the independent National Academies of Sciences (NAS) have issued a report outlining a roadmap for the…
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 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 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 MoreAnother Significant HIV Vaccine Trial Fails
THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) — In yet another setback for the future of HIV prevention, the only HIV vaccine in a late-stage trial has failed, study leaders announced Wednesday.
Launched in 2019 as a partnership between the U.S. governmen…
Con frecuencia, la apendicitis se detecta más tarde en los pacientes negros
MIÉRCOLES, 18 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) — Aunque la apendicitis es una emergencia común, las personas negras que experimentan sus síntomas reciben un diagnóstico retrasado con una mayor frecuencia.Pero eso no ocurre en los hospitales con una …
Learn MoreLos fondos para la pandemia salvaron a más estadounidenses de la deuda médica
MIÉRCOLES, 18 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) — El número de estadounidenses que tuvieron problemas para pagar sus facturas médica se desplomó entre 2019 y 2021, y los fondos del Plan de Rescate Estadounidense (American Rescue Plan) y otros program…
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