Last week, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that everyone ages 6 months and older should get the new COVID-19 vaccine this fall, and kids under 5 may be eligible to receive two doses of the new vaccine if they haven’t been vaccinated previously. The new COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are […]
Last week, health officials approved updated versions of the COVID-19 vaccines that protect against coronavirus strains that emerged more recently. And, as was the case in previous years, you’ll have the option to get this booster and your usual flu vaccine at the same appointment. As NBC‘s Today Show reports, summer’s COVID-19 resurgence has lingered into fall, and […]
What if you didn’t have to be perfect with your diet to see results? Researchers have looked at what happens to your mental health when you go on a restrictive diet plan. They found that people who went on extremely restrictive plans had higher levels of binge eating, more food cravings, less control, more preoccupation […]
Sunny California, known for its golden beaches, palm trees, and surfers, is also home to a small community filled with Super Agers: Some of the longest-living people in the world. As Insider reports, the city of Loma Linda, home to just over 25,000 people, is seated roughly an hour east of Los Angeles, and is the United […]
Do you set unrealistic expectations? If so, it might be an unexpected cause of distress and dissatisfaction in your life. According to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Pump Club, recent studies show how countries that consistently rank as the happiest tend to have lower, or at least more accurate, expectations. In a landmark study of happiness published in the British […]
Paqui, an Austin, Texas-based chip company famous for its viral Paqui “One Chip Challenge” product, is working with retailers to pull the tortilla chip from shelves, the company announced on its website. The decision to remove the chip comes after a 14-year-old — Harris Wolobah — died in Massachusetts on Sept. 1, which his family believes […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health alert warning people about the risks of flesh-eating bacteria across the U.S. East Coast after five people died following infection. One person in Connecticut, another in New York and three people in North Carolina, died between July and August this year as a result of infection with Vibrio vulnificus, a […]
By mapping the genetic code of particularly virulent strains of Lyme disease bacteria, scientists may have gotten a step closer to figuring out why symptoms persist for months, or even years, in some people. As NBC News reports, samples from hundreds of patients revealed that certain strains of the Lyme bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, have a protective outer layer […]
The number of young people with food allergies has been surging in the past few decades. This fall, many of them are heading to college. Living with a food allergy at home is challenging under the best of circumstances. But college students say navigating food allergies on campus is particularly fraught. As The Washington Post […]
Masking has been a contentious topic in the U.S. ever since public health officials first recommended their use to prevent the spread of COVID-19 back in 2020. Mask mandates greatly increased the use of wearing masks during the height of the pandemic, but as the mandates went away, some people kept masking and others didn’t. Now, according […]