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American men should cut back on their alcohol and stick to just one small glass of beer or wine a day, a report has warned. For 30 years, men have been advised to limit their drinks to two a day, while women should keep it to one. But experts say that should be scrapped in … Read more
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website that, up until yesterday, publicly displayed how many US hospital and ICU beds were occupied by coronavirus patients will now only show out-of-date information. It comes after the Trump Administration instructed hospitals to send their COVID-19 directly to a new Department of Health and Human Services … Read more
More than one in three coronavirus patients admitted to ICUs in the US will die within a month of being moved into critical care, a new study finds. As cases surge in many US states – increasing most dramatically in Florida, Texas, Arizona and Oklahoma – hospitalizations are beginning to rise and the nation is … Read more
Just six months ago, coronavirus didn’t yet have a name, but since January, the virus has exploded, circled the globe and sickened nearly 13.5 million people with alarming speed, a new animation demonstrates. Data visualization designers at Global Stats used data from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Situation Reports to create a timelapse video that … Read more
Just six months ago, coronavirus didn’t yet have a name, but since January, the virus has exploded, circled the globe and sickened nearly 13.5 million people with alarming speed, a new animation demonstrates. Data visualization designers at Global Stats used data from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Situation Reports to create a timelapse video that … Read more
The Trump administration has ordered US hospitals to send all data directly to a central White House database, cutting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) out of the process collecting and sharing information on the pandemic. Officials say their aim is to streamline data gathering and analysis and fix lags that have plagued … Read more
Moderna’s experimental vaccine for COVID-19 showed it was safe and provoked immune responses in all 45 healthy volunteers in an ongoing early-stage study, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. No study volunteers experienced a serious side effect, but more than half reported mild or moderate reactions such as fatigue, headache, chills, muscle aches or pain at … Read more
More than half of vulnerable elderly people infected with coronavirus at US nursing homes have no symptoms, a new study has found. Long-term care facilities residents account for more than 40 percent of coronavirus fatalities in the US, according to a New York Times analysis. As a result, some homes have established universal testing. Johns … Read more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning Americans to stop using certain hand sanitizers because they may be toxic. Regulators expanded their list of potentially dangerous hand sanitizers to 59, manufactured by 13 companies. Last month, the FDA cautioned that nine products manufactured by Mexico-based Eskbiochem SA de CV and contain varying amounts of methanol. … Read more
There has long been debate about supplements — whether they can boost your health by ‘supplementing’ the nutrients you get from food or whether they are merely expensive placebos. For the most part, experts agree that we should be getting our nutrients from a healthy balanced diet rather than pills: the exceptions are vitamin D … Read more