The holiday season can be a tricky time to maintain physical health, and with COVID-19 keeping many people indoors and isolated, there are even more barriers to wellness. “When we spend more time isolated and indoors, our physical health can become an afterthought,” says Madhan Prabhakaran, M.D., family medicine physician, Mayo Clinic Health System in […]
Happy holidays! Shawn Johnson, Tori Roloff and more celebrity parents have dressed their kids in adorably festive pajamas. The Olympian gymnast, 28, and her husband, Andrew East, showed off their 13-month-old daughter Drew’s red PJ set on November 30. The toddler also rocked a matching headband with a white puff. “Getting festive over here because […]
Jessica Simpson is opening up about her struggles with dyslexia. The singer and fashion designer, 40, revealed on Instagram that she has dyslexia, a type of learning disorder that can affect a person’s ability to read, spell, write and speak. Simpson shared that she has the condition while celebrating that her audiobook recording of her […]
The United Kingdom has granted emergency authorization to Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, becoming the first Western country to approve a vaccine to prevent COVID-19. The first doses of the vaccine are expected to roll out in the U.K. next week. Prizer’s coronavirus vaccine, developed with BioNTech, was recently shown to be 95% effective in preventing COVID-19 […]
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (NOC) at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) has been successfully validated against the EMRAM Stage 6 standards by HIMSS. The EMRAM, or Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model is an international quality standard which measures the adoption and maturity of a health facility’s inpatient EMR capabilities from 0 to 7. Staff […]
Below are newsworthy items compiled by the Healthday staff: CDC To Shorten Recommended Quarantine Period The number of days that close contacts should quarantine after being exposed to someone with COVID-19 will be cut by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Instead of the currently recommended 14 days, the new guidelines will suggest […]
Loose Women: Dr Hilary discusses how to live longer The Nordic diet may pave the way for a longer, brighter future. Research proposes countries such as, Scandinavia, Finland, and Iceland hold the key to longevity. Published in The Lancet Public Health, Professors Mohsen Naghavi, Stein Emil Vollset and Theo Vas made an observation. “All Nordic […]
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Take a look at Shilpa Shetty's perfect workout sequence For all you fitness and travel aficionados out there, here’s presenting actor Shilpa Shetty Kundra giving major fitness vibes all the way from the hilltop of Manali, Himachal Pradesh where she was shooting for her film Hungama 2. The actor, who now has returned back home […]
CDC to vote on who will get coronavirus vaccine first Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel weighs in on ‘America’s Newsroom.’ A panel of independent experts advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a public meeting on Tuesday voted that health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities will be […]
