1/2 Cup Slow-Churned Ice Cream Surprise! Ice cream tops our list of low-calorie snacks. The key is to look for slow-churned or double-churned varieties. This refers to a process that reduces fat and calories while retaining the creamy texture of full-fat varieties, so 1/2 cup has just 100 calories. Saturated Fat: 2 g Sodium: 45 [...]
Health chiefs raise worrying possibility that 75-year-old man who became 12th confirmed case on Friday might have been infected in the city Hospital bosses to meet angry workers on Sunday in bid to head off industrial action Thousands of Hong Kong’s public hospital doctors, nurses and other medical personnel have voted to go on strike from [...]
Older adults who regularly consume a group of antioxidants called flavonols may have a decreased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, a new study suggests. The compounds exist in many fruits and vegetables, with the richest sources including green vegetables like kale, spinach and broccoli, apples and tea. CC0 Creative Commons Pixabay Read more… The [...]
(CNN) Doctors have shared new details about the first case of Wuhan coronavirus in the United States in a paper published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the new report, doctors describe how the man progressed from initially mild, nonspecific symptoms to pneumonia on the ninth day of his illness. Read more at [...]
Abstract Background Mass transit environments, such as subways, are uniquely important for transmission of microbes among humans and built environments, and for their ability to spread pathogens and impact large numbers of people. In order to gain a deeper understanding of microbiome dynamics in subways, we must identify variables that affect microbial composition and those [...]
Should You Be Worried about the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak? Outbreaks of new (novel) virus infections among people are always public health concerns. Public health officials, scientists, researchers, media and the public should take this current 2019-nCoV outbreak seriously and monitor it closely. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the risk to [...]
The Worst-Case Scenario Isn’t Inevitable, But It Can’t Be Ignored When the first reports of a coronavirus outbreak hit the airwaves in early January, several dozen people had already caught the disease in or around the Chinese city of Wuhan. In the weeks since, the virus, nCoV, has spread quickly and the number of infections [...]
One of the key questions in the fast-growing novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak has been the possibility that asymptomatic people transmit the virus to others, and German researchers yesterday who described a workplace illness cluster suggest that it probably played a role in virus spread. The report involves Germany’s first patient, whose illness was announced on [...]
Four European countries—Italy, Russia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom—reported their first novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) cases today, as the unprecedented surge of illnesses continues in China and the outbreak grows outside of China, along with more reports of local transmission. In another major development today, Gilead today announced that it is working with China on the [...]
Key Updates for Week 4, ending January 25, 2020 Key indicators that track flu activity remain high and, after falling during the first two weeks of the year, increased over the last two weeks. Indicators that track severity (hospitalizations and deaths) are not high at this point in the season. Read more at CDC… The [...]
