It’s a tried-and-true campaign strategy. Candidates go on the attack, claiming their opponent will do harm to Medicare. After all, people 65 and older are good about making it to the polls on Election Day. These voters are also generally motivated to protect the federal health insurance program for seniors. […]
We’ve all done it—scrolled through our phones immediately before bedtime to read the latest news, only to wake up at 3 a.m. feeling anxious about all the things we’ve read. Then, having trouble falling back to sleep, we grab our phones again and distract ourselves with social media. The next […]
A lot of us know by now that exercising every day is a great thing to do for ourselves and our bodies. The Mayo Clinic states that exercising every day offers seven big benefits for each of us: exercise helps control weight, combats health conditions, improves our mood, boosts energy, […]
Hate them or love them, squats have serious benefits. As Dr. Christopher Stepien, a sports therapist and chronic pain expert, told The Active Times, “Fifty squats a day will keep the doctor away — seriously,” adding, “Daily squats will help you mentally and will even give you better yearly check-ups […]
When President Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19, one of the cutting-edge experimental therapies he received was a mixture of monoclonal antibodies. But now a vaccine may soon be available. So are other therapies necessary or valuable? And what exactly is a monoclonal antibody? Over the past few months, the public has learned about many treatments being used […]
New questions are at the forefront as a study published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology from nine children’s hospitals finds that most asymptomatic children who tested positive for COVID-19 had relatively low levels of the virus compared to symptomatic children. The authors caution that the reason for this finding […]
An analysis of Twitter messages has surfaced certain features of COVID-19-related tweets by public health agencies that were associated with a higher likelihood of the tweets being passed along—”retweeted”—by individual Twitter users. Jeannette Sutton of the University at Albany, New York, and co-investigator Carter T. Butts at the University of […]
Human blood comes in different types, and most people know their blood type to know from whom they can receive blood and to whom they can donate blood. However, over the years, a theory on blood type fitness diets and nutrition has been prescribed for different blood types. These diets […]
Over the past week, white celebrity parents from Reese Witherspoon to Pink have taken to social media to acknowledge their white privilege — and to vow to listen, to amplify the voices of people of color, and to educate their kids on how to be allies. It’s been an awful […]
Apple began shutting down their stores in March after growing fear about the spread of COVID-19. The closures were meant to only last for two weeks, but by the end of March, Apple had shut its store doors indefinitely (via CNET.com). At the time, Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted, “In […]