Why Experts Are Worried About Bird Flu in Cows
Bird flu has been hitting a little too close to home lately. In its testing of the commercial milk supply, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported on April 25 that 20% of milk samples tested from the retail market contained “viral fragments” of H5N1 bird flu. Many believe that’s an underestimate; experts at Ohio State University have found that as much as 40% of milk samples from processing facilities in the Midwest may contain parts of the virus.
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The results immediately raised concerns about the safety of the U.S.’ milk supply and the ri...
Source: TIME: Health - April 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Can Neosporin Protect You From Getting COVID-19?
For years, researchers have been working on vaccines that aim to prevent viral infections by strengthening immune defenses at viruses’ doorway to the body: the nose.
A small study recently published in PNAS presents a similar, if lower-tech, idea. Coating the inside of the nose with the over-the-counter antibiotic ointment Neosporin seems to trigger an immune response that may help the body repel respiratory viruses like those that cause COVID-19 and the flu, the study suggests.
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The research raises the idea that Neosporin could serve as an “extra layer” ...
Source: TIME: Health - April 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Frozen Chicken Will Soon Get a Lot Safer to Eat
Poultry producers will be required to bring salmonella bacteria in certain chicken products to very low levels to help prevent food poisoning under a final rule issued Friday by U.S. agriculture officials.
When the regulation takes effect in 2025, salmonella will be considered an adulterant—a contaminant that can cause foodborne illness—when it is detected above certain levels in frozen breaded and stuffed raw chicken products. That would include things like frozen chicken cordon bleu and chicken Kiev dishes that appear to be fully cooked but are only heat-treated to set the batter or coating.
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Source: TIME: Health - April 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jonel Aleccia/AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Bird Flu Virus Is in One in Five U.S. Milk Samples
Fragments of the bird flu virus have been found in about one fifth of commercial milk samples tested in a U.S. nationally representative study, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
While the presence of traces of the virus in milk doesn’t necessarily indicate a risk to consumers, more tests are needed to confirm if intact pathogen is present and remains infectious, the FDA said in a statement on its website. That would determine “whether there is any risk of illness associated with consuming the product,” it added.
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Source: TIME: Health - April 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Gerson Freitas Jr./Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized bloomberg wire healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Why Is It So Bad to Pop a Pimple?
It’s tough to resist squeezing a juicy pimple. You probably want to get rid of it quickly and may feel like you know exactly how to do it after having watched hundreds of pimple-popping videos online. Dermatologists get the temptation, but say you should leave your zits alone.
“As a general rule, you shouldn’t pop your pimples,” says Dr. Jody Alpert Levine, a dermatologist and director of dermatology at Plastic Surgery & Dermatology of NYC.
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Pimples form when excess oil, bacteria, and dirt clog hair follicles. When the trapped follicles s...
Source: TIME: Health - April 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erica Sweeney Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
A Test Told Me I ’m Basically Made of Plastic. You Probably Are Too
I might like to think of my body as a thing of bone and blood and tissue and water, but as I recently learned, it’s also a thing of plastic—home to an alarming amount of plastic toxins known as bisphenols. Used to manufacture mostly hard, durable plastics—such as water bottles and takeout containers—bisphenols are often found in the company of phthalates, which are used to make more flexible plastics such as raincoat linings, vinyl boots, and packing tape. Both types of chemicals are known to be hormone disruptors, leading to numerous health problems, including early puberty, obesity, heart disease,...
Source: TIME: Health - April 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized Environment Source Type: news
When Meaningful Work Backfires
It’s easy to let high stress steal our full attention. Often, high stress leaves us vulnerable to a dysregulated, unproductive state. This means we need reliable resources we can connect to in order to renew and maintain our mental, emotional, and physical energy, and to help us recover from work stressors that, left unchecked, can make us vulnerable to burnout.
As a burnout researcher, my work has been focused on pinpointing the most reliable and effective resources people can connect to in order to protect themselves from burnout. I’ve conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews with people who experience hi...
Source: TIME: Health - April 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kandi Wiens Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Why It ’ s Important to ‘ Meet People Where They Are ’ When Improving U.S. Healthcare
The Covid-19 pandemic made issues with access to medical care apparent. At the Time100 Summit on Wednesday, three healthcare officials discussed how the concept of meeting people where they are could help improve the whole industry.
Dr. Toyin Ajayi, the CEO and co-founder of Cityblock Health, Dr. Raj Panjabi, a former White House senior director and special assistant to President Joe Biden, and Dr. Luther T. Clark, the deputy chief patient officer at Merck, each pointed to their own versions of bringing health care to people in a conversation moderated by TIME Senior Health Correspondent Alice Park. (Merck is a 20...
Source: TIME: Health - April 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Julia Zorthian Tags: Uncategorized News desk edits sponsorshipblock T100Titans2024 Source Type: news
Governor Newsom Wants to Let Arizona Doctors Provide Abortions in California
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Arizona doctors could give their patients abortions in California under a proposal announced Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom to circumvent a ban on nearly all abortions in that state.
It would apply only to doctors licensed in good standing in Arizona and their patients, and last only through the end of November. Arizona’s 1864 law banning nearly all abortions except if the mother’s life is in jeopardy takes effect June 8. Newsom said protecting access to abortions is “just about basic decency” and “respect for women and girls.”
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Source: TIME: Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: SOPHIE AUSTIN / AP Tags: Uncategorized News News Desk Source Type: news
How to Turn ‘ The Tortured Poets Department ’ Into an Effective —and Fun—Workout
If you’ve been exercising your vocal cords to Taylor Swift’s album The Tortured Poets Department, it might be time to move on to other body parts—like your arms, legs, and core. We asked three fitness trainers how to turn a handful of Swift’s new tunes into a fun and effective workout.
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Use the opening track on The Tortured Poets Department as a warm-up for the rest of your workout, advises Kelly Borowiec, a certified personal trainer in San Francisco.
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Perform 14 reps (to mimic a fortnight) of each exercise.
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Source: TIME: Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Angela Haupt Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
New Guidelines Limit Added Sugars in School Meals for the First Time
The nation’s school meals will get a makeover under new nutrition standards that limit added sugars for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday.
The final rule also trims sodium in kids’ meals, although not by the 30% first proposed in 2023. And it continues to allow flavored milks — such as chocolate milk — with less sugar, rather than adopting an option that would have offered only unflavored milk to the youngest kids.
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The aim is to improve nutrition and align with U.S. dietary guidelines in the program th...
Source: TIME: Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By JONEL ALECCIA / AP Tags: Uncategorized News News Desk Source Type: news
What to Do About Your Bunions
April Leonard likes to blame her bunions on her husband. In 2017, she accompanied him to a podiatrist appointment for calluses—and went home scheduled for surgery to correct her misaligned toe bone.
In retrospect, it was a good thing. “He said, ‘I’d really like you to have this done now, because it won’t get better,’” recalls Leonard, 56, of that unexpected first conversation with the doctor. She had painful bunions on both feet and had started to have trouble handling daily chores on her farm in Missouri. Plus, she didn’t like how they looked. “When I went to the po...
Source: TIME: Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Angela Haupt Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
The Internet Has Made Health Anxiety Worse Than Ever
“Don’t google your cancer,” the oncology nurse said to me as she drew my blood ahead of my first round of chemotherapy. It was 2006 and I was 17 years old. I was very confused by the emphasis she put on this advice. Still, I took the print-out of “safe” web addresses she gave me home and pinned it on the noticeboard in the kitchen, where it stayed, ignored, as I slowly progressed through six months of cancer treatment.
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I was confused because the opportunities for me to use the internet to research my recent diagnosis of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma,...
Source: TIME: Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Caroline Crampton Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
How to Monitor and Stay Safe in Extreme Heat, Using the CDC ’s New HeatRisk Tool
Extreme weather can be deadly, and the deadliest of all is extreme heat. Approximately 1,220 Americans die every year due to extreme heat, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And more Americans die from heat than any other weather-related hazards—including floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, and cold—per the National Weather Service.
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That’s why the CDC and NWS have teamed up to roll out two experimental tools nationwide that will help public health officials and citizens to better prepare for dangerous heat.
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Source: TIME: Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Chad de Guzman Tags: Uncategorized climate change News Desk overnight Source Type: news
The Science of Intuition —And How to Tune Into Your Own
It’s common to meet the idea of intuition with an eye roll. We tend to value reason over everything else, using expressions like “think before you act,” “think twice,” and “look before you leap.” We don’t trust intuition. In fact, we believe it’s flawed and magical thinking, either vaguely crazy or downright stupid. After all, good decisions should always be reasoned.
What we don’t realize, however, is that intuition is a form of cognition that can actually improve our decision-making.
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What is intuition?
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Source: TIME: Health - April 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emma Seppälä Tags: Uncategorized Excerpt healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
