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John Legend made a pregnancy-safe ham sandwich for Chrissy Teigen’s hospital stay by microwaving the deli meat

09/28/2020 Health News

Musician John Legend made his wife, pregnant model Chrissy Teigen, a sandwich with ham, cheese, potato chips, and lots of condiments during her hospital stay. Deli meats can carry a bacteria that's especially dangerous during pregnancy, but Teigen said microwaving them first is "a way to get around the system." Expert guidance recommends pregnant people heat cold cuts to 165 […]

Emotional exhaustion during times of unrest

09/28/2020 Health News

Local and world events have brought out strong emotions and stressors this year, often one right after another. They include COVID-19, social distancing, quarantines, stay-at-home orders, furloughs, job loss, masking, racial injustice, protests and demonstrations. There’s no question 2020 has been a year full of change and trauma. In addition to social unrest, you may be experiencing a high-pressure job, […]

FDA: Mercury risk means certain people should not get amalgam dental fillings

09/28/2020 Health News

(HealthDay)—Certain people are at higher risk for health problems from mercury-containing amalgam dental fillings and should avoid them if possible, a new U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommendation says. Groups that may be at greater risk for harm from mercury vapor released by these fillings include: pregnant women and their developing fetuses; women who are planning to become pregnant; nursing […]

Microrobots used to build bridge between rat nerve cell networks

09/28/2020 Health News

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in South Korea has created microrobots that are able to serve as bridge builders between rat nerve cell networks. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes how their microrobots were constructed and how well they served as a bridge builder between neural networks. Scientists have taken many […]

Tiny airborne particles may pose a big coronavirus problem

09/28/2020 Health News

At a University of Maryland lab, people infected with the new coronavirus take turns sitting in a chair and putting their faces into the big end of a large cone. They recite the alphabet and sing or just sit quietly for a half hour. Sometimes they cough. The cone sucks up everything that comes out of their mouths and noses. […]

Going to bed with wet hair: Is it bad to sleep with wet hair?

09/28/2020 Health News

When you’re busy it is easy to forget to wash your hair until the very last minute. Picture the scene: you’re in bed and have realised your hair is greasy and you have to be up early for work tomorrow. When you don’t have any dry shampoo, the only thing you can do is drag yourself out of bed and […]

How important is sex to women as they age?

09/28/2020 Health News

Despite a common belief that women lose interest in sex as they age, a new study demonstrates that a significant percentage of women continue to rate sex as important throughout midlife. The study also identified those factors affecting which women continue to value sex most. Study results will be presented during the 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting of The North American […]

Uptick: New York logs more than 1,000 daily COVID-19 cases

09/27/2020 Health News

More than 1,000 New Yorkers tested positive for COVID-19 in a single day, marking the first time since June 5 the state has seen a daily number that high. The number of positive tests reported daily in the state has been steadily inching up in recent weeks, a trend possibly related to increasing numbers of businesses reopening, college campuses reopening […]

Hair loss treatment: Breakthrough research links one ingredient to hair growth

09/27/2020 Health News

Creative minds from Yokohama National University have developed an efficient method of successfully generating hair growth. Find out more here, and what this could mean for future progress. Published in the journal Biomaterials, the research team – based in Japan – focused on a research method that shows “great potential”. Led by Dr Tatsuto Kageyama and Professor Junji Fukuda, they’ve […]

Contact tracing study results recommend consistent wearing of masks, handwashing, and social distancing in public

09/27/2020 Health News

A contact tracing study presented at this year’s ESCMID Conference on Coronavirus Disease (ECCVID) confirms the effectiveness of wearing of masks in public, handwashing, and social distancing to protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection. The study is by Assistant Professor Direk Limmathurotsakul, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, and Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, UK, and colleagues from the […]

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