Hurricanes are known for causing deaths and severe damage along their paths, but new research suggests major weather events like these are an indirect driver of thousands more deaths for years after a storm passes. In the study, published Wednesday in Nature, Stanford University researchers found a “robust increase in excess …
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Over a decade ago, Sheila Brownell was going through a challenging time and lost touch with a close friend. She saw her a few times in the succeeding years but the interactions were brief. Brownell missed her best friend: “She’s always just been that one person.” That’s why when she …
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The start of spring often puts people in a cleaning mood — and TikTok star Melissa Pateras, known as the “Laundry Lesbian” on the video app, has tips to keep even small spaces tidy. “It’s not a fun task to clean for most people,” said Pateras, author of “A Dirty Guide …
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Actor Olivia Munn revealed Wednesday she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, and she credited a risk assessment score that many women may not know about for helping to catch it. Munn, 43, said she’d had both a normal mammogram and a negative test for cancer genes she took …
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The leading decongestant used by millions of Americans looking for relief from a stuffy nose is likely no better than a dummy pill, according to government experts who reviewed the latest research on the long-questioned drug ingredient. Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Tuesday against the …
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Want to add years to your life? Following a few healthy habits could do just that, according to a new study. The observational study presented Monday at the American Society for Nutrition’s annual meeting in Boston examined data on more than 700,000 U.S. veterans and how their life expectancy shifted based on …
Read More »Attorney Lin Wood, who filed legal challenges seeking to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, is relinquishing his law license, electing to retire from practicing rather than face possible disbarment. Multiple states have weighed disciplining him for pushing Trump’s continued false claims that he defeated Joe Biden. On Tuesday, Wood …
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Prosecutors on Wednesday charged an alleged leader national leader and 22 members of the MS-13 gang with murder and other acts of violence. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced a 48-count superseding indictment against Edenilson Velasquez Larin, “allegedly a national leader of the MS-13 and …
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A free fertility app used to track ovulation shared users’ health information with other companies, including Google and China-based marketing and analytics firms, the Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday in announcing a $200,000 settlement. Easy Healthcare, which owns Premom, did not disclose to users that the information would be shared …
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An online legal defense fund started by the attorneys for Daniel Penny who was charged with second degree-manslaughter, accused of putting another man in a deadly chokehold on a New York City subway train, has raised nearly $2 million for his legal defense through an online fund. The Marine veteran …
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