A national state of emergency has been declared in Peru as doctors battle an outbreak of a rare disease that can cause lifelong paralysis or death. More than 230 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, or GBS, have been reported in the South American country, with more than half the cases occurring in a brief five-week period … Read more
Years after the COVID-19 pandemic started, is the US prepared for the next pandemic? No, according to the outgoing director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Rochelle Walensky. “Decades of underinvestment in public health rendered the United States ill prepared for a global pandemic,” Walensky, 54, wrote Tuesday in a New York … Read more
Your mind isn’t playing tricks on you — the pandemic may have altered your memory. According to a study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, COVID-19 lockdowns caused people to lose track of time. Scottish researchers found people made errors when trying to remember events from 2021, findings that are consistent with memory lapses … Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) keeps a short list of “priority diseases” that could cause the next deadly pandemic. Most of the diseases are already known to us — Ebola, SARS and Zika made the cut — but the final entry has the terrifying name “Disease X.” The term Disease X is used by the WHO as … Read more
The head of the World Health Organization warned that the world must prepare for the next pandemic, which could be “even deadlier” than the COVID-19 pandemic. In a meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sounded an alarm that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. … Read more
The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies worldwide and killed at least 7 million people worldwide. WHO said that even though the emergency phase was over, the pandemic hasn’t come to an … Read more
Despite the world shutting down for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it apparently hasn’t negatively affected people’s overall happiness. According to a study published in the annual World Happiness Report that surveyed more than 100,000 people in 137 countries, respondents are happier now than before the coronavirus caused worldwide lockdowns and worldwide uncertainty. The … Read more
While Americans were mostly sitting at home at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, their daily step count was a lot lower, and a new study suggests they still haven’t gotten back into the habit. The study published in JAMA Network Open looked at steps taken by nearly 5,500 participants — mostly white women with … Read more
Kelly Gartland still remembers the feeling of excitement the day she got her driver’s license in 1993. Savoring her first real taste of freedom while behind the wheel of her family car, the then-17-year-old high schooler felt as if she was flying on the 10-minute drive from her home in Woonsocket, RI, to her part-time … Read more
A vaccine to protect against severe cases of Respiratory Syncytial Virus could roll out as early as August. Pfizer has developed RSVpreF, a vaccine to prevent severe cases of RSV, and the Food and Drug Administration is reportedly expediting its review approval process. The FDA is expected to make their decision in August — just … Read more
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, conversations around workplace burnout and mental health are coming to the forefront. One of the groups leading the charge to bring these issues to light is millennials. But are some millennials taking matters too far? Millennials, or those born between 1981 and 1996, are coming under fire after … Read more
Most people don’t need an excuse to throw a party — yet it might just be what the doctor ordered. Recent research suggests that celebrations might benefit our health and well-being, according to a paper published in the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, a peer-reviewed academic journal put out by the American Marketing Association. The research … Read more
Why the long face? Perhaps your Botox isn’t lasting as long because you received the COVID-19 vaccine. A recent study from a group of researchers in Israel found that filler fanatics visited the person who administered their injections more often after receiving the coronavirus vaccine. On average, the 45 participants received Botox every 118 days … Read more
Joe Rogan has expressed his “sincere” regret after a recent episode of his eponymous podcast featured an incendiary fake tweet abut the COVID-19 vaccine. Wednesday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” consisted of a sit-down with evolutionary biology professor Bret Weinstein in which they chatted about the coronavirus jab. However, the host now admits the … Read more
Nicolas Aujula, a self-proclaimed psychic from London, is always looking ahead. He claims to have predicted back in 2018 that an influenza disaster would devastate the world, which he now believes was the COVID-19 pandemic. He’s credited with forecasting former President Donald Trump’s election loss well before the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as … Read more
Nearly half of Americans feel bad calling out of work when they’re sick, according to a new survey. The poll of 2,000 U.S. adults revealed 41% are likely to call in sick at work the moment they feel themselves getting sick. Only a small portion of respondents said they don’t feel bad calling out (32%) … Read more
They’re potentially prying open pandora’s pox. French scientists have sparked fears of yet another pandemic after reviving a “zombie virus” that had been trapped under a frozen lake in Russia for a record 50,000 years. “The situation would be much more disastrous in the case of plant, animal, or human diseases caused by the revival … Read more
America is facing a shortage of four key medications used for common illnesses in children as virus season comes back in full force. Officials have declared a shortage of first-line antibiotics amoxicillin and Augmentin, which are used to treat bacterial infections. Tamiflu, the most common flu medication in the US, and albuterol, an inhaler for … Read more
They’re sitting pretty — at least in the classroom. New research suggests that attractive female college students accustomed to earning high grades in person aren’t making the same marks during remote learning. A Swedish study, published in the journal Economics Letters, probed the impact of a student’s looks on their performance, both in the classroom and … Read more
The far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are still coming into focus. The emergence of this deadly disease has been taxing on us all, but a new study shows that the stress related to the pandemic has caused changes in women’s periods, too. Research published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology looked at how pandemic-related … Read more