Deep within a South Los Angeles hospital, a row of elderly Hispanic men lay hooked up to ventilators—their bodies resting in induced comas—while nurses clad in spacesuit-style respirators checked their patients’ bleeping monitors in the otherwise eerie silence. The intensive care unit in one of the city’s poorest districts is well-accustomed to death, but with […]
In her last trimester, in the midst of dealing with family and work issues as well as preparing for a new baby, Michelle Emebo felt stressed. “I didn’t realize how much it was impacting me until I went to see my health care provider and my blood pressure was up,” she said. Doctors monitored her […]
The European Union’s medicines watchdog on Wednesday approved a second coronavirus vaccine, in a relief to struggling European countries as the world reached a grim new record of 15,700 deaths in 24 hours. The Moderna vaccine is now set to join Pfizer-BioNTech’s jab for use in the 27-nation EU, where governments are grappling with soaring […]
Eight weeks and counting! Lindsay Arnold rocked a bikini two months after welcoming her daughter, Sage, via C-section. “Vacation time,” the Dancing With the Stars pro, 26, captioned Tuesday, January 5, Instagram photos. “Instagram husband/dad of the year goes to Sam [Cusick] who is mine and Sage’s personal photographer for this trip.” Fellow dancers showed […]
At just nine years old, Isabella developed a large spot under her eyebrow and little ‘bumps’ under the skin on her forehead. As she got older, the skin problems worsened and her self-esteem plummeted as other people would constantly comment on her appearance. Now 22, the social and website manager from Kent, has spent years […]
New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian, who last week carried on working for up to two hours while awaiting the results of a rapid COVID test, wasn’t the first Australian to “soldier on” in the face of health concerns and a big day at work. And she almost certainly won’t be the last, despite the […]
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25, 2020 (American Heart Association News) — If you think the teenagers in your life have been eating a lot of unhealthy food – you’re probably right. U.S. adolescents get about two-thirds of their calories from ultra-processed food, and the more they eat, the worse they score on important measures of heart health, […]
Germany’s 16 states have agreed to guidelines limiting social contact over Christmas, according to a draft deal seen by AFP on Tuesday, dashing hopes for large holiday gatherings. State leaders agreed to cap gatherings to 10 people over the December 23 to January 1 holiday—double the limit for the rest of December. Children are exempted […]
Dr. Jeff Russell, associate professor of athletic training within the College of Health Sciences and Professions at Ohio University, is shining a light on a segment of concussion patients who often go unnoticed in comparison to athletes: performing artists. Russell’s new paper highlights the risk of concussion for dance, circus, theater and film and television […]
Structuring negotiations between insurers and providers, standardizing fee-for-service payments and negotiating prices can lower the United States’ health care spending by slowing the rate at which healthcare prices increase, according to a Rutgers study. The study, published in the journal Health Affairs, examined how other high-income countries that use a fee-for-service model regulate health care […]
