Exercise has known benefits for physical and mental health. (Getty Images) Patients may soon be prescribed a walk in the great outdoors on the NHS. In a bid to reduce pressure on the health service, environment secretary George Eustice has said GPs and other medics in the UK will be able to […]
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As the United States continues to struggle to contain a record number of coronavirus cases, European countries have been focused on returning to some sense of normalcy. Bars, restaurants and shops have been reopening. Travel restrictions have been lifted. Workers are commuting to their offices, and tourists are slowly returning […]
Pfizer covid vaccine – Dado Ruvic / Reuters Coronavirus Article Bar with counter .. The Government says it has secured an agreement for 30 million doses of a vaccine being developed – and currently at phase two trials – by BioNTech and German firm Pfizer. There has also been an in-principle […]
“About 80% percent of my patients scheduled appointments just for information on COVID-19.” (Photo: Rostislav_Sedlacek via Getty Images) Within a week of the first COVID-19 case in Michigan, my practice had fully transitioned to telehealth. I went from putting my hands on patients to seeing them from my kitchen on […]
Your hand sanitizer may not be working as best as it should to ward off COVID-19. (Photo: Nodar Chernishev via Getty Images) Keeping your hands clean is a critical component of protection against the spread of the coronavirus. Using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer is a convenient method of hand hygiene on […]
Right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday said cannibalism is just a way of adapting and that Americans had better adapt to the coronavirus. Limbaugh, who previously said the COVID-19 infection was just the common cold, called the response to the pandemic “un-American.” He also compared the situation to the Spanish Flu […]