It’s cold and flu season, but what’s that mean for sinus infections? While there is no “peak” sinus infection season per se, they do tend to occur more in the winter months when other viral illnesses are spreading, but there are some key differences that set them apart. FLU VACCINE IN PILL FORM ON HORIZON “A [...]
Hospital Authority says services ‘seriously affected’ as about 2,700 staff skip work in bid to force government into total border shutdown City’s first human-to-human transmission of deadly virus confirmed as 15th patient infected through close contact with her son Hong Kong’s embattled leader has buckled under intense public and political pressure to announce a further [...]
Hospitals struggle as 5,000 medical workers strike demanding leader Carrie Lam close borders, with bosses warning newborns and cancer patients at risk A 25-year-old man becomes Hong Kong’s youngest confirmed case to date, while a 64-year-old woman remains critical and in need of breathing support Hong Kong could be on the verge of the deadly [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ann Connelly, Supervisor of School Nursing for the Ohio Department of Health, joins Sally Schoessler, Director of Education at the Network as we share 5 important things about asthma management in the school setting. This presentation includes the latest information on asthma, medication and tools, as well as a discussion about the implementation of stock [...]
