FDA warns about hand sanitizer packaged to look like food or drinks
The US Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers about alcohol-based hand sanitizers being packaged in containers that look like food or…
Continue ReadingThe US Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers about alcohol-based hand sanitizers being packaged in containers that look like food or…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health reported 11 new coronavirus-related deaths on Thursday morning. That brought the…
Continue ReadingAs the global pandemic drags on, many of us are more stressed out than usual. And that often means scoring a lot less sleep at night. “Trying…
Continue ReadingAn artificial pancreas system is safe and helped children as young as six with type 1 diabetes better control blood sugar levels, according to a new…
Continue ReadingFour overnight camps in Maine successfully identified and isolated three Covid-19 positive people with no symptoms, preventing transmission to more…
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has scheduled a news conference for Thursday afternoon to discuss a loosening of…
Continue ReadingMore than 70,000 new Covid-19 cases in children have been reported across the US since early August, new data shows. Child cases increased by 21%…
Continue ReadingResearchers say they have evidence that a woman caught coronavirus on a flight — perhaps in the jet’s restroom. The 28-year-old woman was…
Continue ReadingObesity increases the risk of contracting the coronavirus, of landing in the hospital and intensive care unit, and the risk of death from Covid-19,…
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico state health officials on Wednesday announced 205 additional Covid-19 cases, which represented a jump from the 69…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci said he was undergoing surgery and not part of the…
Continue ReadingWhen Missouri art teacher Misty Byrd learned that the mother of one of her students needed a new kidney, she said she didn’t even think about…
Continue ReadingBlood thinners appear to reduce the risk of death by up to 50% among seriously ill, hospitalized coronavirus patients, researchers reported…
Continue ReadingNima Bhakta was that college friend who everyone knew would be a great mother. We met in 2006, and I could see that she was always at ease when she…
Continue ReadingWhile commercial labs across the country have pushed hard this year to scale up their coronavirus testing capacity, the number of tests they conduct…
Continue ReadingUPDATE: Fauci says he was not part of task force meeting on new CDC testing guidelines WASHINGTON, DC — In a shift that perplexed some doctors,…
Continue ReadingPolio has been declared eradicated from Africa, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. “Today we come together to rejoice over a historic…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — It has been just more than seven months since the first coronavirus case was reported in the United States. Since then,…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso County’s coronavirus death toll now stands at 399. The Department of Public Health announced two new virus deaths…
Continue ReadingEven amid a pandemic, life expectancy among White people in the United States far exceeds what Black people have experienced every year, according to…
Continue ReadingYou’ve been chained to your desk working remotely day in and day out. Schedule this mini break in the middle of the day and call it a meeting!…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — A wrongful death lawsuit filed earlier this month accuses a prominent El Paso doctor and El Paso Children’s Hospital of “gross…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas — Texas reported 2,754 new coronavirus cases and another 25 deaths on Monday, and for the first time since June had…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — An El Paso doctor continues to issue a plea to those who’ve recovered from Covid-19 to donate their plasma to patients currently…
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, New Mexico — According to a recently published report by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, New Mexico continues…
Continue ReadingNew Covid-19 cases in the US may be on the decline, but some officials across the heartland reported worrisome news this week. Kansas Gov. Laura…
Continue ReadingOne superspreading event may be connected to about 20,000 Covid-19 cases in the Boston area, a researcher said on Tuesday. That event, a biotech…
Continue ReadingIn an era of hypervigilance during a pandemic, whether some of our friendships will survive is up in the air. Our brains have established methods for…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush has ordered a leadership shake-up at the Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home in…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas – Get ready for your daily doses of “cute.” In honor of El Paso students heading back to school for virtual classes, staff at…
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