[ad_1] In California, temperatures in the 110’s (Fahrenheit) are setting records and pushing the state’s electrical power grid to a breaking point. In the United Kingdom and Europe, recurring heat waves are baking both residents and tourists, sparking wildfires and fostering drought — at the same time that Europe is suffering energy shortages due to […]
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[ad_1] BA.4.6 is an offshoot of the BA.4 subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant. Only a couple of mutations separate it from its predecessor, but it is slowly gaining ground in the United States, even against BA.5, which continues to dominate transmission. BA.4.6 is now causing an estimated 7% to 10% of new Covid-19 infections,
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[ad_1] Temporal thermometers grew in popularity during the pandemic, and this isn’t the first time that a medical tool important for evaluating Covid-19 patients has been found to not work as well as it should in Black patients. Other studies have found that pulse oximeters — small devices that clamp onto a finger to monitor
[ad_1] Vitamin D supplementation at either dose “did not result in reduced risk of all-cause acute respiratory infections (ARI), or in risk or severity of COVID-19 specifically,” said study author Dr. Adrian Martineau, a professor of respiratory infection and immunity at the Institute of Population Health Sciences at Queen Mary University of London via email.
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[ad_1] The study, published Wednesday in the journal Infancy, found babies of moms who experienced more fluctuations in stress during pregnancy showed more fear, sadness and distress at 3 months than those of moms who were less stressed. Women with higher fluctuations were more likely to report that their babies often seemed angry, crying or
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[ad_1] Using radiocarbon dating techniques, scientists estimate the body has lain undisturbed for 31,000 years inside the Liang Tebo cave in eastern Kalimantan province in Borneo, according to research published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. But the most striking aspect of the discovery was that the young man or woman was missing their lower
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[ad_1] Since then, some students have not felt comfortable returning to a classroom. As parents in Uvalde, Texas, dropped their children off at school Tuesday morning, some students did not want to get out of the car — but 10 golden retrievers from all across the country who work as comfort dogs were on site,
[ad_1] Nearly 22% of adults got mental health treatment in 2021, up from about 19% in 2019. This jump is probably due to a combination of increased need and better access to treatment, said Calliope Holingue, a psychiatric epidemiologist and member of Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 Mental Health Measurement Working Group. “The pandemic has spurred
[ad_1] About 50 million people are under heat alerts Tuesday. High temperatures are not just uncomfortable, they are bad for your health — and can even be deadly. Of all the natural disasters, extreme heat is the No. 1 killer, studies show, killing more people than hurricanes and tornadoes combined. In Maricopa County, Arizona, alone,
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[ad_1] The longer delay can be attributed to several factors, including quirks of scheduling, possible traffic at the launch site, and NASA’s desire to make sure it’s solved the latest issues with leaky fuel. To recap what went down on Saturday, September 3: Launch officials went confidently into this weekend’s attempt to launch the rocket,
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