Alaska health care worker suffers adverse reaction after COVID-19 vaccine
HHS Secretary Azar: 20M Americans should be vaccinated by end of 2020 Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar provides insight into the historic coronavirus vaccine rollout on ‘Fox and Friends.’ A health care worker in Alaska is doing "well" after…
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Bedbugs: New strange odour, exoskeleton and spots on mattress are signs to look out for
Swarm of BEDBUGS crawl all over bus seat Bed bugs are tiny insects, with adults reaching 5mm long. Adept at hiding in dark crevices, they are often not noticed by most people but there are definitely signs they are there….
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Cancer: Tumor driver promoting EMT, metastasis and resistance to therapy
Cancer metastasis, which is the dissemination of tumor cells into distant organs, is the leading cause of mortality in cancer patients. To undergo metastasis, cells must leave the primary tumor, circulate into the blood, colonize distant organs, and form distant…
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Telehealth poses big cybersecurity dangers, Harvard researchers warn
A Harvard Medical School team published a letter in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association this week warning of the “substantial” information security concerns around telehealth. The authors, led by organizational cybersecurity researcher Mohammad S. Jalali, note that…
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My Nonverbal Child With Autism Doesn't 'Get' Christmas, But We Go Big Anyway
I am the kind of person who puts up Christmas decorations in October. I do my holiday shopping in August, I burn pine-scented candles year-round; I even listened to Christmas carols while I was in labor to calm me down…
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Patients don’t receive recommended follow-up care after weight loss surgery
Patients who have had weight loss surgery may not be receiving follow up care from their GPs as recommended in clinical guidelines—according to new research from the University of East Anglia and the University of Birmingham. Clinical guidelines recommend that…
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Are Face Shields a Good Mask Alternative for Kids?
It’s a bit baffling that we haven’t all yet agreed on the one key truth of COVID-19: The sooner everyone covers their face, the sooner we’ll stop the spread and regain some semblance of normal life. The CDC are big…
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Ina Garten's Go-To Kitchen Cleaning Tool Is Sold Out Everywhere Except Here
Anything that Ina Garten touches turns into gold, so when the Barefoot Contessa shared some of her favorite kitchen cleaning tools in a recent video segment for The New York Times, she basically broke the internet (resulting in some items…
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UK vaccinates 137,000 in first week since shot rollout
More than 137,000 people in Britain have received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine in the week since inoculations began, the government announced on Wednesday. The Department for Health and Social Care said 137,897 people had received the…
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What motivates changing behaviors during COVID-19—from toilet paper hoarding to physical distancing
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to make some pretty interesting decisions like buying in bulk, wearing face masks and physically distancing from other people. How do we make decisions and choices? Motivation is the reason why we do…
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