Month: September 2020

York County officials announced Thursday that they are launching a "comprehensive" inquiry into the large COVID-19 outbreak at the jail.County Manager Gregory Zinser announced the independent inquiry during a news conference Thursday morning."We don't entirely know what led to the current situation, so we owe it to everyone involved to really understand the facts and the situation that may have led to a decision one way or another. That is the million dollar question, we know it is. We intend to get to the bottom of that," Zinser said.Zinser said as of Thursday morning there were 82 cases of the virus involving the jail. Of the 82 cases, 46 involve inmates, 18 involve people who work at the jail and 17 involve close contacts of the affected jail workers. There is also one case involv...

Three or more servings per day of what researches call “ultra-processed food” – mass-manufactured foods containing oils, sugars, fats, starch and little nutrients – may lead to changes in chromosomes linked to aging, scientists at the European and International Conference on Obesity reported at an online medical conference Tuesday. The research, from a study published earlier this year in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that having multiple daily servings of junk food, like cookies, chips, fast-food burgers or other processed meals, doubles the chance that certain strands of DNA, called telomeres, would be shorter than those who ate healthier. FAT-SHAMING OCCURS LESS AMONG AMERICANS COMPARED TO BRITS, SURVEY SAYS  Shorter telomeres are a marker of accelerated biologi...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — A new study is sounding the alarm for patients taking dozens of common prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Researchers find taking a particular class of drug, anticholinergics, increases the risk of developing mild thinking and memory problems. The study shows there are around 100 of these types of drugs in widespread use. These medications treat everything from colds, to high blood pressure, to depression. The study in Neurology finds that people with genetic risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease are particularly susceptible to these issues. Overall, scientists reveal patients with no cognitive issues are 47 percent more likely to develop a mental impairment if they’re taking at least one anticholinergic drug. “Our findings suggest that reducing the use of ...

We all know that if someone with the coronavirus coughs or sneezes on you, you're at risk of catching it. But even when we speak or laugh or breathe, particles come out of our noses and mouths. Big bits of spittle can fly out when you're shouting and singing, along with respiratory droplets and tiny aerosolized particles that come out in clouds that may linger in the air. And if we're infected with the coronavirus — even if we don't have any symptoms — those excretions could contain live, contagious SARS-COV-2 that can make others sick. In some settings — especially poorly ventilated indoor rooms where many people are gathering — researchers increasingly believe that clouds of the virus expelled when someone speaks are able to stay...