• CDC Turns to Wastewater Data to Track COVID’s Spread

    It’s less enchanting than reading tea leaves, but federal health officials announced Friday that they are expanding nationwide efforts to track COVID-19 by monitoring virus levels found in raw sewage. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...

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  • Red Cross Says Blood Shortage Is Worst in a Decade

    The American Red Cross is pleading for donors as it grapples with its worst blood shortage in more than a decade. The shortage poses a risk to patient care because doctors are forced to make decisions about...

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  • AHA News: Quick Attention Saved Construction Foreman During Heart Attack

    FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — At 4:30 a.m. on a Monday morning last spring, Peter Denton got up in darkness, dressed and jumped in his pickup truck. The drive to his work site...

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  • AHA News: Deadly Type of Stroke Increasing Among Younger and Middle-Aged Adults

    FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — New cases of a debilitating and often deadly type of stroke that causes bleeding in the brain have been increasing in the U.S., growing at an even faster...

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  • Pandemic Worsening Americans’ Already Terrible Sleep, Poll Finds​

    Many Americans are bone-weary following two straight years of pandemic stress, and a new HealthDay/Harris Poll shows that sleeplessness is only part of the problem. One-third of poll participants said they feel more tired now than they...

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  • Medicare to Provide Free COVID-19 Rapid Tests

    Medicare will soon provide up to eight free COVID rapid tests a month to seniors enrolled in the government health insurance program, the Biden administration announced Thursday. The new policy for the over-the-counter tests will take effect...

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  • More Destructive Variant of HIV Spotted in the Netherlands

    If the pandemic taught the world nothing else, it’s that viruses can mutate, potentially giving rise to new and more harmful variants. Now, new research reveals that’s exactly what has happened with HIV, the virus that causes...

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  • Health Highlights: Feb. 4, 2022

    More destructive form of HIV found in The Netherlands. Researchers say the variant proceeds more rapidly in the body to full-blown AIDS, but it’s likely been around for a long time and remains rare. Read more Crowdfunding...

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  • U.S. Kids Still Dying From Toppling TVs, Furniture

    Before your eyes become glued to the Super Bowl or the Winter Olympics, make sure your TV and furniture are anchored to the wall to protect little ones from potentially deadly tip-overs. Between 2018 and 2020, an...

    • Posted February 4, 2022
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  • Most Vaccine-Hesitant Health Care Workers Change Their Minds, Study Shows

    Most health care workers at a large U.S. hospital who initially refused COVID-19 vaccines eventually went and got their shots, new research reveals. “This study found health care workers’ attitudes about COVID-19 vaccination could change in a...

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