Three days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Melissa Janssen’s water broke. But Janssen, 35, was just 18 weeks pregnant, too early for the baby to have a good chance of survival. “I was in absolute shock and just kind of numb,” she said. Doctors told Janssen she Read more…
“Like two years ago, I had this weird, super-rare form of vasculitis,” Kutcher said in an exclusive video clip released to “Access Hollywood” from an upcoming episode of National Geographic’s “Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge.” “Knocked out my vision, knocked out my hearing, knocked out like all my Read more…
Ashton Kutcher said he is “lucky to be alive” after his experience with a rare disease that affected his ability to see, hear and walk. Kutcher talks about his struggle with vasculitis, a condition involving inflammation of the blood vessels, in an episode of the television show “Running Wild with Read more…
They wear face masks, and keep a social distance from others, obeying the ground rules from the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic — when the desperate need for vaccines far outweighed what federal and state governments could supply. Many however will leave empty-handed as local hospitals and clinics have Read more…
E-cigarettes aren’t the only nicotine product that has gained popularity among teens. A survey of more than 3,500 high school students in Southern California found that flavored chewing gum, lozenges, gummies and other oral products that contain nicotine but not tobacco were the second most popular nicotine items among adolescents, Read more…
But six months later, her child was in the hospital with an eating disorder, said Hanson, who didn’t want to reveal her child’s name and age to protect their privacy. Hanson, based in Los Angeles, worked for years teaching children, and with a background in educational psychology, she thought she Read more…
Pfizer has started a late-stage clinical trial to test a vaccine that aims to protect against Lyme disease, the drugmaker announced Monday. There are currently no vaccines approved in the United States for the tick-borne illness, which infects an estimated 476,000 people in the U.S. each year, according to the Read more…
If you’re young, healthy and vaccinated, “you’re going to be in a pretty good place,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a vaccine adviser to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “You’re going to be well-protected.” The data from Northwell Health shows that of the nearly 2,000 people hospitalized there Read more…
“We’re prepared to take our response to the next level in addressing this virus, and we urge every American to take this virus seriously and to take responsibility to help us tackle this virus,” US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said. The lesions typically concentrate on Read more…
See the numbers for reported deaths in countries around the world. Related Read NBC News’ coverage of the coronavirus, see a hospital stress levels tracker, hospitalization rates across the country, a Covid data dashboard, charts showing the number of new confirmed cases per day globally and in the U.S., and Read more…
It’s often said that longtime partners develop their own language, a shorthand from building a strong bond. In the same vein, consider the five love languages, which are acts of service, gift-giving, physical touch, quality time and words of affirmation. Thirty years ago, author, speaker and marriage counselor Gary Chapman Read more…
Since New York’s first recorded death in March 2020, more than 60,000 of its people have died of Covid. Around the rest of the country, California and Texas have had the most total deaths. Note that these charts are on a different scale than the New York state chart above.
As U.S. authorities and medical personnel work to contain the coronavirus pandemic, the number of total cases is growing across the country at different rates. The factors are many, from when the disease first broke out in a place to the testing capabilities and the different stay-at-home orders in each Read more…
President Joe Biden said in April that long Covid was a priority for his administration and ordered two reports: one that lays out a research agenda for the country and one that sketches out the federally funded services and support available for people in the US with long Covid. A Read more…
After visiting several doctors, they eventually got a diagnosis: autism. Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 44 children in the US is on the spectrum. But in the 1980s, only roughly four in 10,000 children were identified as having autism. “I had never heard Read more…
Now, we’ll focus on helping you move through exercises to determine which ones can alleviate pain and restore your back health. Designed for movement, your body needs to stay active for good health. When you’re sedentary for long periods, muscles weaken, connective tissue stiffens and joint lubrication reduces. Conversely, movement Read more…
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are contracting Covid-19 every day. Follow the per-day trend lines of the disease with these graphics. Note that the numbers in this chart are approximate and updated once a day, before 11 a.m. Eastern time.
Setting boundaries with others can help ward off some of these issues, said Tawwab, who wrote “Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself.” But increased pressure during the pandemic to do multiple tasks at work and at home has made boundary-setting even more difficult, she noted, forcing people Read more…
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