An independent expert team on Thursday recommended that people over age 80, residents and staff in nursing homes, and medics at high risk of exposing themselves or others to COVID-19 should be the first in Germany to get the coronavirus vaccine. The recommendation, which is likely to form the basis of an official decree Friday, comes as Germany grapples with […]
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Oprah may be one of the richest people alive, but at the end of the day she’s just like us. How so you ask? She’s done with using the oven this year, and thankfully, she just introduced us to the ultimate way to let us have our gourmet baked goods without getting our hands dirty. She recently shared via an […]
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Walgreens VP discusses efforts to distribute coronavirus vaccine Walgreens Vice President of Pharmacy Operations Rina Shah discusses the pharmacy chain’s cooperation with nursing homes to get the COVID-19 vaccine to vulnerable seniors. Vulnerable residents in nursing homes across some U.S. states began to receive COVID-19 vaccinations within the last two days, while the vast majority await shots from a collaboration […]
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THURSDAY, Dec. 17, 2020 — In Maryland, suicide mortality increased among Blacks and decreased among Whites during the progressive closure period of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a research letter published online Dec. 16 in JAMA Psychiatry. Michael Johnathan Charles Bray, from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, and colleagues examined trends in mortality among Black residents of […]
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Large parts of southern England will be placed under the country’s strictest coronavirus restrictions from this weekend, Britain’s health secretary said Thursday, as infections and hospital admissions continue to surge in those areas. Matt Hancock told lawmakers that cases in the southeast of England have risen 46% in the past week, while hospital admissions there are up by a third. […]
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People may cheer the demise of evil villains in fiction, but the deaths we most remember are the meaningful and sad endings of the characters we loved, research suggests. In a new study, researchers found that when people were asked to recall the death of a fictional character, they were more likely to mention deaths perceived as “meaningful” than those […]
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Back in July, Morphe launched sub-brand Morphe 2 with the help of the sisters Charli and Dixie D'Amelio and a handful of dewy, low-key makeup staples. "We don't hide anything on TikTok, and this line feels very aligned with what we stand for," Dixie told Allure in an exclusive interview. "We want to show that blemishes and acne are OK. […]
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Application of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound in combination with microbubbles might enhance the delivery of chemotherapy medication used for treating cancers. In their study, a team of Lithuanian researchers from three universities—KTU, LSMU and VMU—claim that the rate of microbubble survival time is the best indicator for determining the efficiency of sonoporation, i.e. ultrasound-induced laceration of the cancer cell membrane. Poor […]
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Below are newsworthy items compiled by the HealthDay staff: Pence to Get COVID-19 Vaccine Publicly on Friday U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen Pence, will be vaccinated against COVID-19 publicly on Friday, his office said Wednesday. Pence will be the highest profile person so far to publicly receive the vaccine. U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams will also […]
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Dementia: Expert discusses the signs and symptoms Dementia is a general term for clusters of symptoms associated with brain decline. The threat looms large as we get older but it is not the result of ageing. Unfortunately, a cure is a long way off but research has shone light on the modifiable risk factors associated with brain decline. A new […]
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