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CDC Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Situation Summary
This is a rapidly evolving situation and CDC will provide updated information and guidance as it becomes available. Updated March 26, 2020 CDC is responding to a pandemic of...Full Article
5 Ways to Reduce Stress and Boost Immune System While Social Distancing
As COVID-19 continues to spread and we make lifestyle adjustments in response, the challenge is to maintain your mental and physical health in light of mounting stress. These ...
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New App Allows Medical Providers to Prevent Spread of Coronavirus in Waiting Rooms
DocClocker®, a pioneering app that enables medical facilities for the first time to provide patients with real-time wait time reporting, is preventing the spread of COVID-19 (...Full Article
ACEP Introduces Stop the Spread: A Patient Guide to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is providing guidance for patients to minimize their risk of getting or spreading the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. A new re...Full Article
Therapeutic horseback riding combined with cognitive exercises can help children with ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorders
First-of-its kind research shows how brain-building exercises shared with horseback riding courses improves the motor skills of young people with neurodevelopmental disorders....Full Article
Heroic American Surgeon Dr. Tom Catena Earns Top Medical Missionary Award for Saving Lives in Africa’s Forgotten War Zone
An American surgeon hailed as “the world’s most important doctor”— to more than a million patients—is being honored with a top international medical award. Today, Florida-base...Full Article
Destress in Your Own Back Yard
While adults are home teleworking, and kids are at home participating in online educational instruction (we hope), it’s even more important during these challenging times to t...Full Article
The impact of the new coronavirus could lead to the longest flu season in decades
The new coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has created a third spike in influenza-like illness (ILI) activity across the United States, as researchers working with AccuWeather pr...
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Digital Healthcare Firm Offers Doctors Free Webinar on Using Facebook, Smartphones for Telehealth During Coronavirus Crisis
Following Federal Policy Changes, Healthcare Specialist Vanguard Communications Presents "Patient in a Pocket" Webinar About Conducting Patient Appointments Virtually Via Comm...Full Article
HeartMath® Institute Giving Away 100,000 Copies of New Online Program to Help Kids Learn to Manage Emotions
New Initiative Aims to Put Kids on the Path to Avoid Depression and Anxiety, Learn to Manage Emotions According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 31...Full Article
Lung Specialist Urges Patients and Exercisers to Avoid Toxic Air Caused by Wildfires, Climate Change
From California to Australia, wildfires are growing in frequency and ferocity. Climate scientists draw a direct line from rising global temperatures to a wildfire season that ...Full Article
What Men and Women Lie to Their Doctor About
The TermLife2Go team surveyed 500 people to find out if they’ve ever lied to their doctors, and 23% said they have. Here are some of the white lies, stretched truths, and comp...Full Article
AccuWeather, Plume Labs Partnership to put users of popular, free app in more control of their health and wellbeing
Global weather and digital media leader AccuWeather is pleased to announce an exclusive partnership with Paris-based Plume Labs, an innovative company dedicated to making air ...Full Article
Outdoor Foundation Study: Half of the US population does not participate in outdoor recreation at all
Outdoor Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Outdoor Industry Association (OIA), released the latest Outdoor Participation Report, showing about half the U.S. population parti...Full Article
March 2020 National Nutrition Month
Dr. Nicole Avena Provides Tips to Boost Your Immunity and Navigate a Plant-Based Diet for Optimal Nutrition The quest to achieve a healthy lifestyle and boost one’s immunity ...Full Article
The National Kidney Foundation and CVS Kidney Care have Joined Forces
to Promote Kidney Health
Organizations collaborate for National Kidney Month to raise awareness about the deadly disease The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and CVS Kidney Care, a CVS Health company...
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CDC Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Situation Summary
This is a rapidly evolving situation and CDC will provide updated information and guidance as it becomes available. Updated March 26, 2020 CDC is responding to a pandemic of...Full Article
NIAAA at 50: A Legacy of Advancing Alcohol Research
On December 31, 1970, Congress passed the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act, the legislation that created the National I...Full Article
Team’s Fabricated Corneal Tissue Allows Closer Look at How Eyes Heal
Cells called corneal keratocytes are innately programmed to come to the rescue if the eye is injured. This natural healing process sometimes fails, however, resulting in scarr...Full Article
Sheet Music May Be an Effective Guide For Understanding Human Brain Activity
When Sergio Pequito thinks about the brain, he visualizes a piano. The keys represent different parts of the brain, and the pressure applied by the pianist’s fingers represent...
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Ten-Fold Decrease in Job Gains for People with Disabilities
Only 29,893 people with disabilities entered the workforce in 2018, a ten-fold decrease compared to the more than 343,000 new jobs for people with disabilities two years ago. ...Full Article
Gene Hunting: The Power of Precision Medicine
MU researchers improve animal welfare by discovering genetic mutations that cause disease Humans and animals are made up of trillions of cells, and each cell contains DNA spe...Full Article
People Who Eat a Big Breakfast May Burn Twice as Many Calories
Eating a big breakfast rather than a large dinner may prevent obesity and high blood sugar, according to new research published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical ...Full Article
DNA "Scissors" Could Cut Out the Alzheimer's Causing Gene in Mice
Scientists at Dongguk University successfully treated Alzheimer's disease in mice using the gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9. They used the tool to edit out the Alzheimer's causi...Full Article
Adulthood with Autism
The independence that comes with growing up can be scary for any teenager, but for young adults with autism spectrum disorder and their caregivers, the transition from adolesc...Full Article
