New omicron boosters now available at El Paso Covid-19 clinics
EL PASO, Texas — Starting Tuesday, El Pasoans will be able to receive the newly approved Bivalent Covid-19 booster shots at any of the city’s…
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Don’t cook chicken in NyQuil: FDA warns about dangerous social media challenges
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Want to cook chicken in NyQuil? Overdose on antihistamines? Swallow laundry detergent pods? While most of us would recoil in…
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Don’t cook chicken in NyQuil: FDA warns about dangerous social media challenges
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Want to cook chicken in NyQuil? Overdose on antihistamines? Swallow laundry detergent pods? While most of us would recoil in…
Continue Reading Night owls at high risk of certain chronic diseases, study says
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN If you prefer to go to bed and get up later — a sleep chronotype known as being a night owl — you may be at higher…
Continue Reading Biden declares the pandemic over. People are acting like it too
By Zachary B. Wolf, CNN President Joe Biden made multiple unequivocal and controversial statements in an interview with “60 Minutes” that…
Continue Reading 36% of US counties are ‘maternity care deserts,’ raising risks for women and babies, new report finds
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN About 36% of all US counties are “maternity care deserts,” and the number of counties where there is limited or…
Continue Reading 4 out of 5 pregnancy-related deaths in the US are preventable, CDC finds
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN The vast majority of deaths among pregnant women and new mothers in the United States are preventable, according to a new…
Continue Reading 4 out of 5 pregnancy-related deaths in the US are preventable, CDC finds
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN The vast majority of deaths among pregnant women and new mothers in the United States are preventable, according to a new…
Continue Reading Rising Covid-19 cases in the UK may be a warning for the US
By Brenda Goodman, CNN There are signs that the United Kingdom could be heading into a fall Covid-19 wave, and experts say the United States may not…
Continue Reading Biden’s comments about pandemic widen public health split over how US should respond to Covid-19
By Brenda Goodman, CNN Even as the US prepares for a potential winter surge of Covid-19, President Biden roamed the cavernous halls of the Detroit…
Continue Reading New Alzheimer’s diagnoses more common among seniors who have had Covid-19, study finds
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN A recent study of more than 6 million people 65 and older found that seniors who had Covid-19 had a substantially higher…
Continue Reading What moves us ‘closer to the unfortunate finish line of getting long Covid’
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN You may have up to a 50% higher risk of developing long Covid-19 if you suffer from common psychiatric issues such as anxiety…
Continue Reading NASCAR driver Armani Williams fuels autism awareness and inclusivity
By Lauren Lee, CNN For NASCAR driver Armani Williams the cockpit of a race car is his sanctuary. “Being in a race car, it’s just sort of…
Continue Reading NASCAR driver Armani Williams fuels autism awareness and inclusivity
By Lauren Lee, CNN For NASCAR driver Armani Williams the cockpit of a race car is his sanctuary. “Being in a race car, it’s just sort of…
Continue Reading A new, genetically modified purple tomato may hit the grocery market stands
By Zoe Sottile, CNN It tastes like a tomato, smells like a tomato, and even looks (mostly) like a tomato. There’s just one catch: It’s…
Continue Reading The 4-7-8 method that could help you sleep
By Kristen Rogers, CNN Falling asleep or coming down from anxiety might never be as easy as 1-2-3, but some experts believe a different set of…
Continue Reading Nicotine gummies are a ‘public health crisis just waiting to happen,’ FDA says
By Jen Christensen, CNN First, there were flavored cigarettes that tasted like chocolate or grape. Then came the e-cigarettes in flavors like cotton…
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September is Peripheral Artery Disease Awareness Month
EL PASO, Texas – Peripheral Artery Disease or PAD, is common but can be serious. Interventional cardiologist and medical director of the Peripheral…
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El Pasoans Fighting Hunger just got a $50,000 boost to help feed those with food insecurities
EL PASO, Texas — El Pasoans Fighting Hunger received $50,000 from El Paso Health. El Paso Health President/CEO Carol Smallwood and CEO of Medicaid…
Continue Reading Polio has reemerged in the US. Who should get a polio vaccine now?
By Deblina Chakraborty, CNN New York’s governor has declared a state of emergency after health officials detected poliovirus in the wastewater…
Continue Reading HHS debuts ads for updated Covid-19 booster, focusing on adults 50 and older
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN As part of the White House’s Covid-19 response plan for the fall, the US Department of Health and Human Services is…
Continue Reading Some sex assault survivors have to pay thousands of dollars for emergency department visits
By Carma Hassan, CNN Survivors of sexual assault who are treated at emergency departments may be billed thousands of dollars for their care if they…
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Get your flu shot for free today
EL PASO, Texas — Fall is just around the corner and with that flu season. The City of El Paso wants to help keep you healthy during the colder…
Continue Reading Worries over stigma are driving a push to rename monkeypox, but the process is slow
By Jen Christensen, CNN Since the beginning of the monkeypox outbreak, scientists and activists have pushed for the name of the virus and the disease…
Continue Reading This body-size inclusion trailblazer of the cycling world started biking after heartbreak
By Mayra Cuevas, CNN Nine years ago, cycling activist Marley Blonsky was heartbroken and reeling from a divorce, until she found herself on a bike.…
Continue Reading How to help kids develop the confidence to try new things
By Elissa Strauss, CNN One might hope that children’s capacity for boredom would be matched by an appetite for all things new — if only…
Continue Reading Covid-19 death toll is a tragedy and ‘massive global failure at multiple levels,’ Lancet commission says
By Naomi Thomas, CNN The death toll from Covid-19 is “both a profound tragedy and a massive global failure at multiple levels,” the…
Continue Reading Reducing food waste is good for the planet and your wallet. Here’s how to do it more effectively
By Casey Barber, CNN The statistics are sobering: In the United States, we generate approximately 35 million tons of food waste every year, and as…
Continue Reading Eating seasonally and locally has many benefits. Is fighting the climate crisis one of them?
Susan Puckett, CNN “Eat with the seasons” has long been the rallying cry of local growers and their supporters. It’s a message…
Continue Reading End of Covid-19 pandemic is in sight, WHO director-general says, ‘so let’s seize this opportunity’
By Naomi Thomas, CNN The world has never been in a better position to end the Covid-19 pandemic, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the…
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