THURSDAY, April 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A handful of former directors of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say they support a sweeping review of the agency that’s been ordered up by CDC head Dr. Rochelle Walensky. Earlier this week, Walensky announced that she has asked outsideContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) –The nursing home industry is awash in ineffective care and staffing shortages, claims a new report that calls for sweeping changes in an industry whose failures have only been exacerbated by the pandemic. Experts from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine mincedContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — America’s roads are getting ever more dangerous for pedestrians, a new study finds. During the first six months of 2021, there was a 17% increase in pedestrian deaths in the United States — and that just continues the sharp increase seen over theContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Electric scooters may be a boon for the environment but not so much for riders. A surprising study finds that the injury rate in one Los Angeles neighborhood for riders of e-scooters topped that for users of motorcycles, bicycles and cars nationwide. “ThereContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — U.S. medical schools are not keeping pace with a nation that is more racially and ethnically diverse every day, a new study reports. The schools’ clinical faculty and leadership are not as diverse as the communities around them, though there are some positiveContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The United States and Canada are investigating a multistate outbreak of norovirus illnesses linked to raw oysters from Canada. Restaurants and retailers should not serve or sell these potentially contaminated raw oysters, which were harvested in the south and central parts of BaynesContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) — In an effort to modernize an agency that has come under fire for its handling of the pandemic, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that the agency would undergo a monthlong review of its inner workings.Continue Reading
MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Almost no one in the world is breathing good air, according to a new World Health Organization report, which issued a call for reducing the use of fossil fuels. Air quality is the worst in WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean and Southeast Asia regions, butContinue Reading
MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Kids today feel more pressured by their parents’ high expectations, and that may be feeding a rise in perfectionism, a new study suggests. Some people claim the title “perfectionist” with pride, but in psychology the term means something very different. It does notContinue Reading
MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) — It turns out that trees might be good medicine. How so? New research shows that having lots of trees in your neighborhood could improve your health and lower your medical costs. “It’s time to stop looking at trees simply as an amenity andContinue Reading