All posts by LadyLively

  • Be Your Teen’s Best Partner as They Learn to Drive

    Parents of teen drivers can play a crucial role in making their children safe drivers, the Governors Highway Safety Association says. Millions of U.S. teens are learning to drive at an especially challenging time as risky and...

    • Posted October 16, 2021
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  • FDA Panel Recommends Approval of Johnson & Johnson Booster Shot

    In a unanimous vote, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory panel on Friday recommended that the agency grant emergency use of booster shots of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine. The FDA is expected to make...

    • Posted October 15, 2021
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  • Vaccinated Foreign Travelers Can Enter United States Beginning Nov. 8

    All international travelers who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus will be able to enter the United States beginning Nov. 8, an official at the White House told The New York Times. The announcement came on the...

    • Posted October 15, 2021
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  • AHA News: Carrying a Tune Could Lead to Better Health

    FRIDAY, Oct. 15, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Not everyone can sing like a nightingale. When some of us try to carry a tune, we sound like Bob Dylan imitating Elmer Fudd. Still, no matter the...

    • Posted October 15, 2021
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  • AHA News: Cyclist Mandy Marquardt Doesn’t Let Diabetes Slow Her Down

    FRIDAY, Oct. 15, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Mandy Marquardt spends her days training and racing furiously around a velodrome. She’s a track sprint cyclist, and by age 16, she already was winning medals in junior...

    • Posted October 15, 2021
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  • State Lotteries Didn’t Help Boost Vaccination Rates

    A shot at winning $1 million did nothing to budge the number of people who got the COVID-19 jab. According to a new study, lotteries in 19 states designed to encourage people to get vaccinated for COVID-19...

    • Posted October 15, 2021
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  • Biden Administration to Invest $100 Million to Ease Health Worker Shortage

    The National Health Service Corps will receive $100 million to help tackle the U.S. health care worker shortage, the White House announced Thursday. That’s a five-fold increase in funding from previous years for a program that helps...

    • Posted October 15, 2021
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  • Bill Clinton Hospitalized for Sepsis

    Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized after developing sepsis that was triggered by a urological infection. Sepsis occurs when the body has an extreme response to an infection, and it can be life-threatening. Infections that can...

    • Posted October 15, 2021
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  • Health Highlights: Oct. 15, 2021

    Bill Clinton hospitalized with sepsis. The former president is in a California hospital after falling ill with what his medical team say is the sometimes serious blood infection sepsis. His illness is probably tied to a urinary...

    • Posted October 15, 2021
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  • Lyme Disease Often Spotted at Later Stage in Black Patients

    The tell-tale sign of Lyme disease is its bulls-eye rash, but that might be harder to spot in Black people, who are often diagnosed with more advanced disease than white people are, new research suggests. The first...

    • Posted October 15, 2021
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