Category: Health

Protests against China’s restrictive COVID-19 measures appeared to roil in a number of cities Saturday night, in displays of public defiance fanned by anger over a deadly fire in the western Xinjiang region. Many protests could not be immediately confirmed, but in Shanghai, police used pepper spray to stop around 300 protesters who had gathered […]

A medical staff member treats a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease COVID-19 in the Intensive Care Unit at Scripps Mercy Hospital in Chula Vista. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson The number of people hospitalized with a coronavirus infection in San Diego County has increased by eight to 213, according to the latest state data. Of those patients […]

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Despite volunteering and working out at the gym several days each week, socializing frequently with friends and family, reading all manner of books and doing daily crossword puzzles, 85-year-old Carol Siegler is restless. “I’m bored. I feel like a Corvette being used as a grocery cart,” said Siegler, who lives in […]

An IV drip used in cancer therapy. Courtesy National Cancer Institute Pancreatic cancer isn’t selective. The disease can strike anyone and it’s often discovered at an advanced stage, making it one of the deadliest cancers. The American Cancer Society reports more than 48,000 people are expected to die of pancreatic cancer — the third leading cause […]

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN As the United States rolled back the clocks one hour this month to observe the end of Daylight Saving Time, many people got a bit more sleep than usual — but some not as much as others. Growing evidence shows that lack of sleep and sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep […]

Pedestrian traffic along Santa Clara Street in downtown San Jose was cheek to jowl Thursday morning. That’s because thousands of people had cued up for the annual running of the Silicon Valley Turkey Trot. Sponsored by Applied Materials and started by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation, the event attracted more than 18,000 registrants this […]

By Brenda Goodman, CNN As millions of Americans travel to gather with friends and family over the next few days, there’s a good chance that Covid-19 will follow. Experts expect that Thanksgiving gatherings will stir up social networks and give new coronavirus subvariants fresh pockets of vulnerable people to infect. As a result, cases and […]

Mama’s Kitchen workers distribute purchased pies for Thanksgiving. Photo by Chris Stone Move over, pecan pie. Dutch apple and regular apple were the pies figuratively flying off the shelves in the Mama’s Kitchen pie sale this year. Patrons of the annual sale bought 3,200 Dutch apple, traditional, pumpkin and pecan pies and picked them up […]

Innovations in biotechnology are advancing the biopharmaceutical market, enabling the treatment of complex diseases with next-generation therapeutics synthesised or extracted from a biological source. Lifted by increased interest after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the sector is expected to balloon to US$853 billion by 2030. One of the primary focus areas includes the continued […]

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN High-density lipoprotein, or HDL, cholesterol — often referred to as the “good” cholesterol — may not be as useful in predicting the risk of heart disease and protecting against it as previously thought, according to new researched funded by the National Institutes of Health. A study from the 1970s found that […]