OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images Last week, the FDA removed a restriction previously requiring medical abortions to be prescribed after a patient had an in-person visit with a medical professional. The FDA’s action does not lift state-level restrictions, so telehealth abortion services will remain out of reach for millions of people. Research has consistently shown that medication abortions are safe...
Parents are being urged to sign up their older teens for routine HIV screenings. The Good Brigade/Getty Images The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that routine HIV screening begin as early as 15 years old for teens.They say the chance of contracting HIV increases significantly once a youth reaches 15 years old.They suggest that testing for other sexually...
Variants are a little bit like breakups: There’s never a great time for one to strike, but there absolutely are terrible times. With Omicron, it’s hard to imagine a worse possible moment. The promise of this holiday season has long been that Americans would finally get to make up for all the getaways and family reunions that didn’t...
Luis Alvarez/Getty Images Public health experts are pushing for statewide mask policies to slow the spread of the Omicron and Delta variants.Only nine states have enacted statewide mask policies.Data suggests that Omicron may be more likely to reinfect people than Delta. Omicron may also overcome some of the protection offered by the COVID-19 vaccines. As the Omicron variant...
People line up for COVID-19 vaccinations, an important step in preventing deaths caused by the disease. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images COVID-19 has now killed more than 800,000 people in the United States.It’s now the number one cause of death for people ages 45 to 54.Researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation say that 163,000 lives could’ve been saved with COVID-19...
It certainly might not seem like it given the pandemic mayhem we’ve had, but the original form of SARS-CoV-2 was a bit of a slowpoke. After infiltrating our bodies, the virus would typically brew for about five or six days before symptoms kicked in. In the many months since that now-defunct version of the virus emerged, new variants...
New research has examined the risk of heart attack and stroke, and their connection to stress levels. Although many studies have been performed on this subject, this one was different in that stress levels were classified before cardiovascular events. Previous studies only determined stress levels in people who had already had a heart attack or stroke, which may...
In the last two weeks, the news cycle has been dominated by omicron, the latest variation of COVID-19. It has caught many off-guard and boosted stress levels as people worldwide look to spend time with loved ones over the holidays. So far, the data about omicron is encouraging but also slightly confusing. It appears to be significantly more...
Have you ever heard of Blue Zones? If not, they are areas of the world where people live considerably longer than the vast majority of others. People in these regions, the longest-living people on earth, don’t get their longevity from fad diets, workouts, or other short-lived lifestyle changes. Instead, they live in areas that nudge them, perhaps unconsciously,...
Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images The Omicron variant currently accounts for 3 percent of coronavirus infections in the United States, which is up from 0.4 percent last week. The other 97 percent are caused by the Delta variant. Omicron has taken off in New York and New Jersey, where it now accounts for approximately 13 percent of cases.In New York City,...
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