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Health & Wellness

FDA Allows Abortion Pill to Stay Available by Mail

Access to abortion pills by mail was made permanent by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last Thursday. Health Day News reports that Patients will be able to have a telemedicine appointment with a provider who can prescribe the pills and send them to the patient by mail, the FDA said. Abortion pills are approved in the United States for pregnancies up to 10 weeks' gestation and are an increasingly […]

todayDecember 22, 2021

Health & Wellness

Measles is a renewed Global Threat after 22 million Babies missed their Vaccines during the Pandemic

Measles is one of the most contagious viruses known and still kills more than 60,000 people a year, mostly young children. But it killed more than a million a year as recently as 2000. Now, thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, the global threat of measles has become worse after 22 million babies missed their vaccinations, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned. Vaccination campaigns turned that around, […]

todayNovember 16, 2021

Health & Wellness

CDC to Require All International Travelers to Test Negative for COVID-19 Before Entering U.S.

All international travelers will soon be required to arrive in the United States with a negative COVID-19 test, according to new guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released last week. Under the new rules, travelers flying to America would have to show proof of a negative viral test before boarding their flight. The test must be taken within three days of their scheduled departure and passengers […]

todayJanuary 19, 2021

Food & Drink

The Plant-Based Meat Trend Continues: Sales in the US are up a whopping 264 percent since March

While treats like chips, popcorn, and ice cream (and for some reason, oat milk) topped grocery purchases during the first few weeks of COVID-19 lockdowns, more Americans continue to turn to a different comfort food: plant-based meat alternatives. Grocery store sales of products like Impossible Burgers, Beyond Meat products and Tofurky were up 264 percent during a nine-week period ending on May 2nd, according to Nielsen (via The Wall Street […]

todayMay 21, 2020

Health & Wellness

The CDC’s “Decision Tools” for Safe (and Healthy) Reopening

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last Thursday evening released new guidelines for schools, workplaces and other venues throughout the United States to reopen safely as the country continues to wrestle with the coronavirus pandemic. The direction comes after calls from lawmakers and state officials mounted for the CDC to weigh in on how regions should reopen their economies. and come following uproar after The Associated Press reported […]

todayMay 18, 2020

Health & Wellness

Infectious Diseases Run Rampant in US in 2019

Measles tripled. Hepatitis A mushroomed. A rare but deadly mosquito-borne disease increased.  And that was just the United States. Globally, there was an explosion of measles in many countries, an unrelenting Ebola outbreak in Africa and a surge in dengue fever in Asia. There were also backslides in some diseases, like polio, that the world was close to wiping out.  "It’s been a tough year for infectious diseases,” said Dr. […]

todayDecember 31, 2019

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