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Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan hospitalized with COVID-19
Indian film actor Amitabh Bachchan has tested positive for COVID-19 and was hospitalized Saturday.
L.A. County reports 2,900 new coronavirus cases, 57 related deaths as surge continues
L.A. County has identified 130,242 positive cases of the coronavirus and seen a total of 3,793 related deaths.
Fast-spreading mutation helps common flu subtype escape immune response
Strains of a common subtype of influenza virus, H3N2, have almost universally acquired a mutation that effectively blocks antibodies from binding to a key viral protein.
An early morning whey protein snack increases morning blood sugar level in healthy people
Consuming protein at night increases blood sugar level in the morning for healthy people, according to new research.
Physicians give first comprehensive review of COVID-19's effects outside the lung
Based on their experience treating COVID-19, physicians have assembled critical information about the coronavirus's effects on organs outside the lungs.
Study links abnormally high blood sugar with higher risk of death in COVID-19 patients not previously diagnosed with diabetes
New research from Wuhan, China shows that, in patients with COVID-19 but without a previous diagnosis of diabetes, abnormally high blood sugar is associated with more than double the risk...
For those filing California unemployment claims, contacting the EDD is a job in itself
Those who filed jobless claims say dealing with the EDD can mean making dozens or hundreds of calls a day to the state agency without getting through.
Study pinpoints brain cells that trigger sugar cravings and consumption
New research has identified for the first time the specific brain cells that control how much sugar you eat and how much you crave sweet tasting food. The study specifically...
Coronavirus outbreak hits Los Angeles Apparel with more than 300 infections, 4 employee deaths
A coronavirus outbreak has struck the operations of Los Angeles Apparel with more than 300 cases of the coronavirus and four virus-related deaths among the company's employees, county public health...
The great PPE panic: How the pandemic caught Canada with its stockpiles down
The federal government gives itself credit for swift action in the face of severe supply problems in the early weeks of its pandemic response. But what made that mad scramble...
Coronavirus: What's happening around the world on Saturday
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has called for COVID-19 drugs and an eventual vaccine to be made available to countries and people that need them most, not to the "highest bidder,"...
Inside California courts, lawyers fume that mask wearing is mixed during pandemic
Public defenders are angry that, in some counties, sheriff's deputies won't wear masks in courthouses, despite a state order on face coverings to prevent coronavirus spread.
Changes in IVF may have caused drop in cerebral palsy
Rates of cerebral palsy among babies in Nordic countries born through in vitro fertilization have fallen by more than half over the past two decades, due to fewer twin births...
L.A. County reports more than 2,600 new coronavirus cases and 51 deaths
Coronavirus continues to spread in L.A. County as officials confirmed 51 more coronavirus-related deaths and 2,667 additional cases Friday.
'Aerosol boxes' meant to protect COVID health teams may be dangerous
Aerosol boxes meant to protect healthcare workers when they intubate COVID-19 patients may actually increase their exposure to airborne virus particles, an Australian study warns.
Philadelphia Eagles penalize DeSean Jackson for anti-Semitic messages
The Philadelphia Eagles penalized standout wide receiver DeSean Jackson for "conduct detrimental to the team."
Doctor demands answers after her dad's death following Victoria Hospital care
A prominent doctor and author is enraged about her dad's treatment in a Winnipeg hospital and is demanding answers about his death, now that the hospital has deemed it a critical incident.
Ontario sees 116 new COVID-19 cases as downward trend continues
The new cases are concentrated in Toronto and the Peel, York and Windsor-Essex regions, with 23, 35, 14 and 10, respectively. Seventeen public health units reported no new cases at...
This hospital cleaner once faced Ebola. Now he's wiping out COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought attention to the doctors and nurses battling the disease, but they couldn't work at the front line unless someone was willing to clean it. Janvier Korongo,...
CDC data highlight racial disparities in spread, scope of COVID-19 pandemic
More than 34 percent of all Hispanic and Latin Americans who died from COVID-19 across the United States were younger than 65, an analysis released Friday by the U.S. Centers...
CDC data reveal another racial disparity for COVID-19 victims — age at death
COVID-19 claims the lives of Black and Latino Americans earlier than it does for whites. Nonwhite victims are typically a decade younger than whites, the CDC says.
U.S. pilot safely ejects from A-29 Super Tucano in Afghanistan crash
An Afghan light attack plane crashed in northern Afghanistan, with its U.S. Air Force pilot safely ejecting before the crash, U.S. and Afghan officials said.
CDC data reveal another racial disparity for COVID-19 victims — age at death
COVID-19 claims the lives of Black and Latino Americans earlier than it does for whites. Nonwhite victims are typically a decade younger than whites, the CDC says.
U.S. bases in Japan on lockdown amid new COVID-19 outbreak
U.S. military bases in Japan entered lockdown status this week after COVID-19 infections were discovered and a surge of infections was observed in Tokyo.
COMMANDing drug delivery
While we are starting to get a handle on drugs and therapeutics that might to help alleviate brain disorders, efficient delivery remains a roadblock to tackling these devastating diseases. New research from the...
Scientists discover protective Alzheimer's gene and develop rapid drug-testing platform
A gene has been discovered that can naturally suppress the signs of Alzheimer's Disease in human brain cells. The scientists have also developed a new rapid drug-screening system for treatments...
Access to nature requires attention when addressing community health needs
Nature is a tool to address deeply entrenched health disparities; health systems should work to increase nature access, as they have with other social determinants of health.
COVID-19 can be transmitted in the womb, reports pediatric infectious disease journal
A baby girl in Texas -- born prematurely to a mother with COVID-19 -- is the strongest evidence to date that intrauterine (in the womb) transmission of severe acute respiratory...