Month: August 2020

Toni Braxton: ‘I regret not having more sex when I was younger’ – The Guardian
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Toni Braxton: ‘I regret not having more sex when I was younger’ – The Guardian

I wouldn’t say I was religious, but I am spiritual. I believe in a greater force. When I was seven, my family became very religious. We were Jehovah’s Witnesses; we were Catholic – we tried everything before settling on United Methodist. I asked my mum once what they were searching for and she just replied: “It was the 70s.” The 70s were a very religious era. I think a lot of people were looking for the right path. I didn’t realise I could sing until my teenage years. Singing was so much a part of me and my family. We got up, we sang, we went to bed. I think at elementary school I realised I had a different tone. My voice was always low. I remember everyone in class singing Joy to the World and I was the only one who couldn’t sing it in the key. I was always the kid in the room with t...
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Chadwick Boseman, “Black Panther” star, has died at 43 – CBS News
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Chadwick Boseman, “Black Panther” star, has died at 43 – CBS News

Chadwick Boseman, known for his role as King T'Challa in Marvel's "Black Panther," has died after a four-year battle with cancer, according to a post on his Twitter account. The post said the actor, who also played Black icons such as James Brown, Thurgood Marshall and Jackie Robinson, died at home with his wife and family.  Boseman was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer in 2016, and it progressed to stage four, the post said. He was 43 years old, according to The Associated Press.  pic.twitter.com/aZ2JzDf5ai— Chadwick Boseman (@chadwickboseman) August 29, 2020 "A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you many of the films you have come to love so much. From Marshall to Da 5 Bloods, August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and several mor...
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Im an Infectious Disease Doctor and Heres When COVID Will End – Yahoo Lifestyle
29Aug By No Comments
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Im an Infectious Disease Doctor and Heres When COVID Will End – Yahoo Lifestyle

As COVID-19 cases continue to pile up across the country, many of us are wondering when—and if—the highly infectious and potentially deadly virus is ever going to go away. According to a top Yale pathologist, the answer is no. It is going to be with us "indefinitely." "It's going to tail off, not end abruptly," Sheldon Campbell, MD, Ph.D., a laboratory medicine specialist at Yale Medicine and professor of laboratory medicine at Yale School of Medicine, tells Eat This, Not That! Health. "I think COVID-19 will be with us indefinitely." Read on to find out what they are, and to get through this pandemic at your healthiest, don't miss these Sure Signs You've Already Had Coronavirus. 'We're Unlikely to Eradicate It" Dr. Campbell explains that despite the fact that the measles vaccine was devel...
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Group Whose NIH Grant For Virus Research Was Revoked Just Got A New Grant – NPR
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Group Whose NIH Grant For Virus Research Was Revoked Just Got A New Grant – NPR

This Bornean horseshoe bat and other bat species can harbor coronaviruses. The nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance had its NIH research money cut for a project in China on bats and coronaviruses this spring — but just got a new multimillion dollar grant from the agency. NHPA/NHPA/Science Source hide caption toggle caption NHPA/NHPA/Science Source This Bornean horseshoe bat and other bat species can harbor coronaviruses. The nonprofit group EcoHealth A...
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Maine CDC reports 53 additional coronavirus cases, no new deaths – WMTW Portland
29Aug By No Comments
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Maine CDC reports 53 additional coronavirus cases, no new deaths – WMTW Portland

Maine CDC reports 53 additional coronavirus cases, no new deaths Updated: 9:41 AM EDT Aug 29, 2020 The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported 53 new cases of COVID-19 and no new deaths on Saturday.The 53 additional cases bring the total in Maine to 4,489.A total of 3,899 Mainers have recovered from the virus, which is an increase of 12 over the past 24 hours.Active cases rose to 458, an increase of 41 from Friday.MAINE CORONAVIRUS DATA: Deaths: 132 Total cases: 4,489 Confirmed cases: 4,032 Probable cases: 457 Cumulative positivity rate: 2.09% 14-day positivity rate: 0.7% Patients r...
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How the University of Arizona used No. 2 to solve its No. 1 problem: The coronavirus – NBC News
29Aug By No Comments
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How the University of Arizona used No. 2 to solve its No. 1 problem: The coronavirus – NBC News

The University of Arizona made a bold claim this week: It stopped a coronavirus outbreak before it started. Universities around the U.S. have struggled with outbreaks as they attempt to start the fall semester. But at the Likins Hall dorm, just across the street from the University of Arizona's recreation center, two students were found to have contracted the coronavirus — and they were asymptomatic. The university said it pulled this off by combining more common forms of coronavirus mitigation, swab testing and contact tracing, with a more exotic one: analyzing sewage. The university had implemented a campus-wide initiative to conduct what’s known as wastewater-based epidemiology. This effort, which involves analyzing sewage samples for traces of the coronavirus, gave the university a ...
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The 20 Most Common Cancer-Causing Habits – Yahoo Lifestyle
29Aug By No Comments
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The 20 Most Common Cancer-Causing Habits – Yahoo Lifestyle

You think of cancer as inevitable, like death and taxes, emphasis on the former. The statistics are indeed scary: In 2019, cancer overtook heart disease as the leading cause of death in middle-aged adults living in wealthy countries. Almost 4 in 10 Americans will be diagnosed with cancer this year, and nearly 600,000 will die of the disease. Yet you shouldn't feel helpless: In fact, 30 to 50 percent of cancer cases are fully preventable, the World Health Organization says. How? By avoiding these common cancer-causing habits. And to get through this pandemic at your healthiest, don't miss these Sure Signs You've Already Had Coronavirus. 1 Eating Too Much Sugar Sugar in spoonAmericans eat too much added sugar, and it may lead to an increased risk of cancer. The latest Dietary Guidelines ...
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Trump Program to Cover Uninsured Covid-19 Patients Falls Short of Promise – The New York Times
29Aug By No Comments
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Trump Program to Cover Uninsured Covid-19 Patients Falls Short of Promise – The New York Times

“Either hospitals code inconsistent with ICD-10 rules,” said Tom Nickels, an executive vice president of the hospital association, referring to the diagnostic codes that hospitals use for billing, “or they don’t get paid even though the patient is clearly getting treated for Covid.” Harris Health, a two-hospital public system in Houston, did not bill the federal fund for 80 percent of the roughly 1,300 uninsured Covid-19 patients it had treated through mid-July because many of them also had other medical problems — most often, sepsis, an overwhelming reaction to infection that causes blood-pressure loss and organ failure. In other cases, “an underlying health condition was the primary reason for hospitalization, but was exacerbated by the Covid-19 disease,” Bryan McLeod, a spokesman, sai...
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