During the coronavirus pandemic, Kumail Nanjiani can’t go to the Beverly Hills gym where he built his newly-ripped physique — but he’s not letting his progress slip away. Nanjiani, 42, intensely worked out and followed a strict diet last year to prepare for his role in the upcoming Marvel movie The Eternals, and then shocked […]
With most Americans staying at home and unable to stick to their usual food and exercise routines, there have been plenty of jokes about gaining the “quarantine 15” during the stay-at-home orders. But new data from Withings, the makers of digital scales, shows that people aren’t gaining much weight — and anyway, say health experts, […]
A group of scientists at Oxford University have already begun clinical trials for a coronavirus vaccine, which could be ready by the fall. Around 1,1000 people so far, who are between the ages of 18 and 55 and have not tested positive for COVID-19, have been enrolled in the trial, which began on April 23. […]
The anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine was ineffective when used on patients with the new coronavirus, COVID-19, and linked to a higher death rate, a new study found. The drug was repeatedly touted by President Donald Trump as a COVID-19 treatment in mid-March, but health experts, including Food and Drug Administrator Stephen Hahn, emphasized that it needed […]
Katie Maloney-Schwartz has revamped her diet after learning that her body is sensitive to insulin. On Sunday, the Vanderpump Rules star, 33, opened up to fans on her Instagram Story about her health and revealed that she had lost more than 20 pounds. Maloney-Schwartz was responding to a fan who told her she looked “amazing” […]
In what his family describes as a miracle, emergency trauma surgeon Charles Iliya has recovered from the novel coronavirus after spending a week in a medically induced coma on a ventilator. Iliya, who has worked in the emergency department at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas for 30 years, started to feel sick on March 12 […]
Many of the patients admitted to the ER are presumed to have COVID-19, but their tests results take days to process, the hospital workers said. Sinai-Grace Hospital did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment. The emergency rooms have become so overrun at Sinai-Grace that night shift ER nurses staged a sit-in on Sunday night […]
While the emerging data shows an alarming disparity, it is not yet being collected on a large scale, prompting activists and some members of Congress to urge federal and local governments to collect data on race and ethnicity to better understand the implications of the pandemic on certain communities. On March 27, a group of […]
Now that the new coronavirus pandemic has spread across the U.S., most Americans are well aware of the symptoms of COVID-19: cough, fever and shortness of breath. That last symptom is one of the most worrisome, a possible sign of pneumonia and one that could require hospitalization in severe cases. Shortness of breath, though, is […]
The lockdown in Wuhan, China will end two-and-a-half months after the city was sealed off after becoming the epicenter of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic at the beginning of the year, multiple outlets report. Hubei provincial authorities announced Tuesday on the provincial government’s website that the strict quarantine measures on Wuhan, which began on Jan. 23, […]
