New year kicks off with a rise in respiratory virus infections and hospitalizations

A record number of high school teens died of drug overdoses in 2022 in an alarming trend driven primarily by fentanyl poisonings from counterfeit pills, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Boston researchers found that an…

The inquiry heard that in some countries, children were at the forefront of national concerns. The prime ministers in Norway and New Zealand held TV briefings for children at the start of the pandemic to reassure them and to thank them for all they were doing. “We didn’t have such an event in the UK,…

“I woke up every morning for four days and had to ice my lips, take Benadryl, and drink lots of fluid for the swelling to go down only a little bit. My lips peeled for over a week and blistered and bled, and I had to use steroid cream on my lips for it to…

“At best I have maybe a year, at worst maybe a little less,” said England’s first-ever foreign-born soccer coach.

“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…

For those who aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19, probiotics could offer a level of protection against the virus, a new study suggests. In a randomized, placebo-controlled study led by Duke Health in North Carolina, probiotics were shown to have a “significant ability to delay a COVID infection and reduce symptoms” among people who had not been…