All posts by LadyLively

  • Health Highlights: Aug. 6, 2020

    ​LA to Cut Off Water, Electric to Homes Having Big Parties Moderna Charging Much More for Coronavirus Vaccine Than Others Experimental Vaccine Shows Encouraging Results

    • Posted August 6, 2020
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  • Obesity Ups Odds for Severe COVID-19, But Age Matters

    If you’re younger than 65 years old and obese, COVID-19 poses a special danger to you. A new study reports that the more obese you are, the more likely you are to either die from infection with...

    • Posted August 5, 2020
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  • Seven States Join Pact to Speed Coronavirus Testing

    As the daily U.S. coronavirus death toll averaged more than 1,000 for the ninth straight day on Tuesday, governors from seven states banded together to shorten turnaround time for COVID-19 test results. Three Republican governors and three...

    • Posted August 5, 2020
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  • Health Highlights: Aug. 5, 2020

    Experimental Vaccine Shows Encouraging Results Company Recalls Tainted Onions Trump Limits Free Nursing Home COVID-19 Tests

    • Posted August 5, 2020
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  • Many Older Americans Staying Strong in the Pandemic

    Older Americans are feeling stressed by COVID-19 and prolonged social isolation, but they’re also showing their resiliency, a new study finds. Most of these adults have turned to a range of tools to stay in touch, researchers...

    • Posted August 4, 2020
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  • Aggressive Cancer Diagnosed for First Time in a Dinosaur

    Scientists for the first time have identified an aggressive bone cancer in a dinosaur that lived nearly 77 million years ago. The cancerous lower leg bone (fibula) is from a horned dinosaur called a Centrosaurus apertus. At...

    • Posted August 4, 2020
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  • Coronavirus Cases Now Climbing in the Midwest

    Midwestern states are starting to see surges in coronavirus cases, just as Southern and Western states are scrambling to contain their own outbreaks of COVID-19. Missouri, Montana and Oklahoma are among those witnessing the largest percentage surge...

    • Posted August 4, 2020
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  • Health Highlights: Aug. 4, 2020

    Medicare Should Expand Telehealth: Trump McDonald's, Target and Gap Say Shoppers Must Wear Masks

    • Posted August 4, 2020
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  • Schools Can Reopen Safely If Precautions in Place, Australian Study Shows

    Safeguards such as contact tracing and swift isolation of cases of COVID-19 could be the key to reopening U.S. schools safely this September, a study from Australia shows. In the study, which involved thousands of schools or...

    • Posted August 4, 2020
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  • Face Masks, Yes, But Don’t Forget Hand-Washing Too

    For most people, wearing a face mask to protect against COVID-19 doesn’t lead to a false sense of security that leads them to forgo other precautions like hand washing, a new study finds. Although it’s not clear...

    • Posted August 3, 2020
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