Tag Archives: Health

Nearly half of Americans pledged they were going to drink less alcohol in 2025.  Alcohol has many negative effects on our health, including short-term impacts such as headaches, anxiety and dehydration, to long-term effects like cancer. The World Health Organization warns that no level of alcohol consumption is safe for health and it is one of the leading preventable causes of death in …

Misty Williams checks into the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from time to time for treatment of debilitating pain from sickle cell disease, which causes red blood cells to stiffen and block the flow of blood. After pain medication and hydration are ordered, the 41-year-old Los Angeles resident makes an unusual request: access to a virtual reality headset with …

The number of COVID-19 cases in Hawaii is rising again, prompting a message of vigilance from health officials. The Hawaii Department of Health today reported the statewide test positivity rate — or percentage of all tests that are positive — at 12.4% as of Saturday, up from 10.9% the previous week. DOH said the virus is circulating at higher levels …

COVID-19 is showing up at high levels in parts of New Orleans’ wastewater this month, offering a quiet signal that the virus is circulating again, even as other respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses remain low. According to WastewaterSCAN, a national virus monitoring network, the West Bank treatment plant, which serves about 50,000 people, is currently in the “high” category for COVID …

Nassau County health officials are sounding the alarm and issuing an imminent public health threat due to the spread of rabies. The Nassau County Health Department reports that there have been 25 positive rabies tests since last July. This marks the worst the situation has been in nearly a decade, since the county announced it had eradicated terrestrial rabies in …

Maria Arellano Simpson has been on and off restrictive diets since she was 9 years old. “As a young adult growing up in the 2000s, cardio was the focus, and I spent hours doing it to try and get smaller,” says Arellano Simpson, now 44. She logged hours on the stair-stepper and miles on the pavement. It worked, to some …

The Athletic has live coverage of the 2025 NFL training camps.  CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Summer’s over, at least for NFL players, coaches and reporters. That means no more hilarious Xavier Legette lake videos. No more waiting on second-round picks to sign or finding ways to pass the time between the end of minicamps in June and the start of training …

One summertime fruit doesn’t just offer juicy sweetness – it can deliver a powerful hydration boost, support brain health and supply essential vitamins and antioxidants, experts say. One summertime fruit doesn’t just offer juicy sweetness – it can deliver a powerful hydration boost, support brain health and supply essential vitamins and antioxidants, experts say. Peaches, which are about 89% water, outshine their stone-fruit counterparts …

More than 40% of U.S. adults are considered obese. That’s according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But doctors and health experts say there are different types of fat. Some are more dangerous than others, so it’s important to know what type you’re carrying around. Subcutaneous fat is the type just beneath the skin that you can pinch. …

GOP megabill’s final score: $3.4T in red ink and 10 million kicked off health insurance, CBO says  Politico Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ will add $3.4 trillion to the debt, CBO says  NBC News Trump’s Tax Law Will Add $3.4 Trillion to US Deficits, CBO Says  Bloomberg.com Republican Senate tax bill would add $3.3 trillion to the US debt load, CBO says  The Daily Progress …