Month: January 2022

Why Diets Like Keto and Paleo Are the Worst for Your Gut Health | EatingWell Skip to content Top Navigation Close this dialog window Explore EatingWell Close this dialog window Share & More Close this dialog window View image These Popular Diets Could Actually Be the Worst for Your Gut Health, According to a Recent Study this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.

Advocates for safe injection sites rally in front of the James A Byrne Federal Courthouse in Philadelphia to show their support for evidence-based harm reduction policies, in a photo taken September 5, 2019.Photo: Cory Clark/NurPhoto (Getty Images) Research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week suggests that two recently resurfaced drugs are now contributing to the ongoing overdose crisis in the U.S. Among both reported overdose deaths and drug busts, officials are seeing an increase of the drugs para-fluorofentanyl and metonitazene, either in combination with fentanyl or taken alone. The drugs are believed to be more potent than fentanyl, but overdoses can still be reversed with the medicine naloxone. The report, published Thursday in the CDC’s Morbidity and M...

A new study out of Israel found that unvaccinated children may get indirect protection from COVID-19 through their vaccinated parents. Researchers studied households made up of two parents and unvaccinated children, estimating the effect of parental vaccination on unvaccinated children’s risk of catching COVID-19. The research was conducted during two periods in 2021, corresponding with the alpha and delta variant waves. The study found that, regardless of household size, having one vaccinated parent decreased the risk of an unvaccinated child catching COVID-19 by 23.4% on average. Two vaccinated parents decreased the risk by an average of 64.9%, although the risk only decreased by 58.1% during the delta wave, compared to 71.7% during the alpha wave.   The Centers for Disease Control and ...