It’s the national record no one is celebrating: The American COVID-19 death toll has crossed the 500,000 mark. The novel coronavirus is now the third leading cause of death in the U.S. — behind heart disease and cancer, but ahead of accidents, respiratory diseases, stroke, Alzheimer’s, and the flu, according to annualized federal health statistics. COVID-19 deaths have also surpassed the number […]
With some great exceptions, most kids have a hard time striking up a good conversation with their grandparents — something that’s become all the more obvious in this era when grandparents and grandkids haven’t been able to meet in person. The origin story of how a couple of grandparents wrote So to Speak: 11,000 Expressions […]
Dr. Fauci: US will have 600M coronavirus vaccine doses by July 2021 White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci tells ‘Fox News Sunday’ Americans need to continue to ‘keep guard up’ and not be ‘complacent’ during the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. exceeded a tragic milestone as the nation recorded over half a million lives lost […]
One of our favorite ways to relax is to crank up our favorite music or a podcast to listen to while we putter around the kitchen. An engaging podcast can make prep work like chopping vegetables fly by, and sometimes we even get excited to wash the dishes if we have something interesting to listen […]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A subset of macrophages, PTGER4+ (EP4+), are the major drivers of epithelial regeneration after intestinal inflammation and are potential targets for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) therapy, researchers say. “Dysfunctional resolution of intestinal inflammation and altered mucosal healing are essential features in the pathogenesis of IBD,” Dr. Gianluca Matteoli of KU […]
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Sunday is traditionally a quiet day for Chuck Pryor’s Houston funeral home, but on this Sunday in February, almost a year after the global pandemic reached Texas, the phone was still ringing. Pryor took the call: COVID-19 had taken yet another American life — one of more than 500,000 lost to the […]
Intravenous injection of bone marrow derived stem cells (MSCs) in patients with spinal cord injuries led to significant improvement in motor functions, researchers from Yale University and Japan report Feb. 18 in the Journal of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. For more than half of the patients, substantial improvements in key functions—such as ability to walk, […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled a map out of lockdown for England on Monday that would keep some businesses shuttered until the summer, saying caution was necessary to ensure there were no reversals on a “one-way road to freedom”.FILE PHOTO: Two women walk down Regent Street, one of London’s main shopping streets, […]
Finding a delicious, moist, flavorful dessert that also happens to be gluten-free is never easy. It tends to be dry, chalky or lacking flavor. Well, there is a new recipe in town and we all know Giada De Laurentiis never disappoints. From her chocolate affogato to her struffoli, De Laurentiis knows how to do desserts […]
When it comes time to build your upper body, there are a few tried-and-true strength training moves to choose. The seated dumbbell shoulder press is a popular upper body exercise for lifters of all levels. When it comes to building stronger and bigger delts (lateral and anterior) and upper traps, dumbbell shoulder press variations are […]
