Month: June 2021

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A new tool that can predict your chances of developing dementia as you get older has been developed by researchers who say it can help over 55s be prepared. There is no cure or treatment for dementia but a third of those developing the condition could have delayed or stopped the onset by changing their lifestyle, according to the team from Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa. The calculator works for individuals aged 55 and over, allowing them to better understand the health of their brain and how they can reduce their risk.  It predicts risk over the next five years, rather than further into the future, and the team say it was developed based on a survey of 75,000 people in Ontario, Canada. Calculating the risk at age 55 or older, before the condition, which includes a wide rang...

"I grabbed a cup of coffee in the morning, and it just tasted hot," said Clark, who is a national media strategist at the University of Florida. "I had felt so good while I was quarantining I thought maybe this was a false positive but then when that happened I thought 'OK, it's real,'" Clark said. A few months later, she was washing her hair with her favorite scented shampoo when she noticed an unusual odor. "Lavender is my favorite smell, but now the shampoo smelled like sulfur and gunpowder," she said. Suddenly lots of things smelled odd, or distorted. Red meat smelled "hideous, rotten," and anything with rubbing alcohol smelled "revolting." "The absolute worst is hand sanitizer, because it's everywhere. It smells like cheap tequila and ham with notes of old lady perfume," Clark s...

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LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles County on Thursday reported its highest daily number of new COVID-19 infections since mid-May, and it is also seeing slight but noticeable increases in hospitalizations and testing-positivity rates, but the public health director said she is not immediately concerned about a virus surge. "Obviously the numbers are really, really low still. Really low," Dr. Barbara Ferrer said. "Case rates are low, test positivity is low. You all remember how high those numbers have been for us. So I'm not concerned at all about surge. What I want to do is I want to make sure that we address any disproportionality early on by identifying those places where we're seeing pockets of increase.'' The county reported 314 new cases and 10 additional deaths. Latest figures show t...