Month: August 2020

Your mop can potentially shed light on whether you prefer veggie burgers or cheeseburgers, a new study has suggested. Researchers from the University of Utah collected discarded hair from barbers and hair salons from 65 cities across the United States. From the chemical traces in the cuttings the scientists found that American diets are dominated by animal-derived protein like meat and dairy. This type of hair analysis could be a useful tool to assess a community's dietary patterns and health risks, the researchers said. "The takeaway here is that we can potentially identify regional, national, and temporal patterns of dietary habits with this approach," James Ehleringer, lead author of the study and distinguished professor at the University of Utah's School of Biological Sciences, said ...

The U.S. tally for new confirmed cases of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 continued its march toward 5 million, with the death toll topping 155,000, as White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx warned that the pandemic has entered a “new phase.” Birx’s warning came after President Donald Trump continued to push his belief that the increase in cases was only a result of increased testing. He tweeted over the weekend that Dr. Anthony Fauci, his administration’s top infectious disease expert, was “Wrong!” for suggesting the U.S. failed to properly respond to the outbreak, while other countries did. New COVID-19 cases reached 4.69 million in the U.S., with the death toll rising to 155,124, according to data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University. Nearly 1.5 millio...

Governments’ response to the coronavirus pandemic is driving a resurgence of diseases that may be deadlier than COVID-19, according to health experts. Diagnosed cases of tuberculosis, HIV, and malaria have plummeted across dozens of countries. Clinics, equipment, and medicine used to diagnose and treat patients for these diseases have been converted en masse to fight the coronavirus pandemic, leaving health officials grappling with what they fear may be a massive resurgence in disease, according to The New York Times. Government shutdowns have also disrupted supply lines, making it difficult, especially for impoverished countries, to get access to medicine to treat malaria and HIV. Consequently, patients are dangerously stretching the limited amount of medicine they have left, or have sto...

WE’RE FOLLOWING BREAKING NEWS, THE STATE REPORTING ITS FIRST CASE OF TRIPLE E IN A HUMAN THIS SEASON. THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SAYS A MALE UNDER 18 FROM PLYMOUTH COUNTY HAS TESTED POSITIVE. THE TOWN MANAGER IN MIDDLEBOROUGH WHICH IS IN PLYMOUTH COUNTY DID REPORT A CASE OF TRIPLE E TODAY. WE ARE WORKING TO CONFIRM IF IT’S THE SAME CASE. THE RISK LEVEL IN BOTH CARVER AND MIDDLEBOROUGH HAS BEEN RAISED TO CRITIC State health officials report first human EEE case of 2020 in Massachusetts Updated: 5:16 PM EDT Aug 3, 2020 The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is reporting the first case of Eastern equine encephalitis in a person of...