Category: Healthcare
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J&J TO END SALES OF BABY POWDER WITH TALC
JJ insists, and the overwhelming majority of medical research on talc indicates, that the talc baby powder is safe and doesn’t cause cancer. However, demand for the company’s baby powder fell off, and JJ removed the talc-based product in most of North America in 2020. The health care giant also said last fall that it…
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DWTS’ CHERYL BURKE SAYS SHE HAS BODY DYSMORPHIA
Cheryl Burke opened up about her struggles with body image throughout her professional dancing career during an appearance on the Hypochondriactor podcast DWTS’ Cheryl Burke Says She Has Body Dysmorphia: ‘Tell Me One Dancer That Doesn’t’ “Now that I’m sober, I have body dysmorphia because I’m a dancer,” Burke admitted on the show. Body dysmorphia…
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UN HEALTH AGENCY CHIEF DECLARES MONKEYPOX A GLOBAL EMERGENCY
The expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation that qualifies as a global emergency, the World Health Organization chief said Saturday, a declaration that could spur further investment in treating the once-rare disease and worsen the scramble for scarce vaccines. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the decision on calling…
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VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS, FIRST LADY TEST NEGATIVE FOR COVID
Vice President Kamala Harris tested negative for COVID-19 Thursday, a White House official told Fox News, though she said she was last with President Biden on Tuesday.Biden tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday and is experiencing “very mild symptoms,” according to the White House.The White House official said Harris tested negative Thursday morning and spoke with…
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BIDEN CONTRACTS COVID
President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, finally contracting the virus whose control and ultimate defeat he had made a centerpiece of his campaign for the White House.Most Read from BloombergBiden’s illness, coming after a five-day trip to the Middle East during which he made few efforts to avoid infection, highlights the endurance…
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HOW STATES PLAN TO GET VACCINES TO POOR COMMUNITIES
Governors, public health officials and experts in health disparities are confronting these issues, sometimes called social determinants of health, as they finalize their vaccine rollout plans for both rural and urban underserved areas. President-elect Joe Biden, who has already appointed a coronavirus adviser to focus specifically on race and health, has promised a more cohesive…
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PFIZER TO SUPPLY US WITH ADDITIONAL 100M DOSES OF VACCINE
Pfizer said Wednesday it will supply the U.S. government with an additional 100 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine under a new agreement between the pharmaceutical giant and the Trump administration. Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said that will bring their total current commitment to 200 million doses for the U.S. That should be…
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U.S. RECORDS 84,000 NEW CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS
Sixteen states had record one-day increases in new cases on Friday and 11 reported a record number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The United States has reported over the past week an average of 60,000 new cases per day, the highest seven-day average since early August. Western states including Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming have reported…
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STATE OF BLACK WELL-BEING
Doctors have known it for a long time, well before the resounding cries of “Black Lives Matter”: Black people suffer disproportionately. They face countless challenges to good health, among them food, transportation and income. The stress of living with racism has very real, physical effects. And they are especially prone to diabetes, hypertension and other…
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WHITE HOUSE QUIET AS OUTBREAK SPIKES
The coronavirus is still killing as many as 1,000 Americans per day — but the Trump administration isn’t saying much about it. It’s been more than a month since the White House halted its daily coronavirus task force briefings. Top officials like infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci have largely disappeared from national television — with…
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CORONAVIRUS HOSPITALIZATION RISE
As the number of new coronavirus cases continues to increase worldwide, and more than a dozen states and Puerto Rico are recording their highest averages of new cases since the pandemic began, hospitalizations in at least nine states have been on the rise since Memorial Day. In Texas, North and South Carolina, California, Oregon, Arkansas, Mississippi, Utah…
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CORONAVIRUS SPIKE IN LA
According to an analysis shared with ABC News by Curative, an FDA-authorized testing company responsible for a majority of COVID-19 tests in Los Angeles County, coronavirus cases in Los Angeles could be increasing in the wake of Memorial Day gatherings and the early wave of protests over the killing of George Floyd. As of May 31, the portion…
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FIVE DEAD IN NEWEST EBOLA OUTBREAK IN CONGO, UNICEF SAYS
Five people, including a 15-year-old girl, have died of Ebola in a fresh outbreak of the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations Children’s Fund said Monday. Nine cases total have been reported, UNICEF said. “Four additional people who contracted the virus — all contacts of the deceased and including the child…
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MASS GATHERINGS, EROSION OF TRUST UPEND CORONAVIRUS CONTROL
Protests erupting across the nation over the past week — and law enforcement’s response to them — are threatening to upend efforts by health officials to track and contain the spread of coronavirus just as those efforts were finally getting underway. Health experts need newly infected people to remember and recount everyone they’ve interacted with over several days…
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