by blundun | Sep 5, 2024 | Health
Several people have contracted Valley fever following an outdoor music festival near Bakersfield, California, according to a statement from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH).Valley fever (coccidioidomycosis) is a lung infection caused by breathing in a...
by blundun | Sep 5, 2024 | Health
Sick days have taken on a whole new meaning.As Generation Z employees enter the workforce, paid sick days — allotted by a majority of companies — are being used more than ever.Approximately 30% of employees took sick leave in the first 10 months of 2023 – up 42% from...
by blundun | Sep 4, 2024 | Health
A MOTHER’S MISSION – Rebekah Lockard of Colorado is frantic to save the clinical trial that could cure her daughter’s rare disease — and it’s largely up to her to raise the funds. Continue reading…‘PERSONAL CHOICE’ – Here’s why more Americans...
by blundun | Sep 4, 2024 | Health
High rates of false positive test results may be keeping women from sticking to recommended mammogram screenings for breast cancer, a new study has found.Researchers from UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center in Sacramento, California, reviewed more than 3.5 million...
by blundun | Sep 4, 2024 | Health
“Real Housewives of Orange County” star Vicki Gunvalson, 62, is sharing her recent health scare after she was hospitalized with sepsis, a potentially deadly disease that results from the body’s response to an infection.”This entire health scare came...
by blundun | Sep 3, 2024 | Health
A rare, potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease has sparked concern in the Northeastern U.S.Last week, a man from Hampstead, New Hampshire, died after testing positive for Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE).The man “was hospitalized due to severe central...
