Month: May 2021

An unusual study that had thousands of heart disease patients enroll themselves and track their health online as they took low- or regular-strength aspirin concludes that both doses seem equally safe and effective for preventing additional heart problems and strokes. But there’s a big caveat: People had such a strong preference for the lower dose that it’s unclear if the results can establish that the treatments are truly equivalent, some independent experts said. Half who were told to take the higher dose took the lower one instead or quit using aspirin altogether. “Patients basically decided for themselves” what they wanted to take because they bought the aspirin on their own, said Dr. Salim Virani, a cardiologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston who had no role in the study. S...

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A Los Angeles County supervisor called on California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday to immediately lift the state's mask mandate as some other states have following new federal guidance that fully vaccinated people can go most places without masks. Kathryn Barger said Los Angeles County has made "tremendous progress" in vaccinating residents and noted the county’s positivity rate is less than 1%, the City News Service of Los Angeles reported.  "As we return to normalcy and rapidly increase vaccinations, I believe it is appropriate for CDPH (California Department of Public Health) and Cal-OSHA to change the existing distancing and masking requirements in alignment with the CDC," Barger wrote in a letter to Newsom, referring to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  She said...

The City of Des Moines has announced it will be blocking off parts of downtown to create an entertainment experience. Between May 21 and Sept. 4, each Friday and Saturday parts of Court Avenue will be closed to traffic. This will allow for outdoor seating, vendors and live music in the streets. The "entertainment zone" will be for those ages 21 and up. There will be no charge to enter the entertainment district, but IDs will be required to gain access. It will close a two-block area around Court Avenue and Third Street between 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. It will prevent some areas of on-street parking, but visitors are encouraged to use nearby parking ramps.“This is a similar approach that other cities including Milwaukee and Kansas City have in place at a popular bar and restaurant districts ...