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NEW YORK (AP) — More U.S. hospitals are requiring masks and limiting visitors as health officials face an expected but still nasty post-holiday spike in flu, COVID-19 and other illnesses. While many experts say this season likely won’t prove to be as deadly as some other recent winters, it still could mean hundreds of thousands…

“I have contacts, but I wear daily ones, and at the end of the day I can make all the excuses I want. I don’t take them out. I sleep in them. It’s not healthy. You’re supposed to change them,” Spelling told her co-star. Since one-third of people wear contact lenses, there’s a possibility that…

Hospitals dealing with influx of kids with respiratory illnesses – CBS News Watch CBS News The new year is bringing a surge in cases of RSV and the flu among kids. Hospitals across the country are dealing with a surge in cases and, in some cases, a lack of beds. Janet Shamlian reports. Be the…

Co-lead author Dr Shamil Haroon, from the university, said: “We might expect that patients who are older or who have long-term health conditions will need additional primary care support, but we have also seen additional costs associated with being white and female.”

People who drink bottled water may be getting more than just hydration, some researchers claim. A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that each bottle of water can contain hundreds of thousands of nanoplastics, which are tiny particles of plastic below 1 micrometer, measured in billionths of…