Many parents experience postpartum depression. Here’s what it looks like and how it can be treated. Postpartum depression is clinically defined as depression following the birth of a child that lasts at least two weeks and interferes with a parent’s ability to go about their daily tasks. About 14% ofContinue Reading
Manure pits produce toxic gases that can be deadly. Three men in Ohio died this week after entering a manure pit and passing out from the fumes, according to news reports. The men, who were brothers, had entered the manure pit to fix a pump, according to local news outletContinue Reading
Your fingerprints are different from those of everyone else on Earth. The whorls and ridges on your fingertips are determined partly by your genetic makeup. But if you had an identical twin with the same genetic makeup as you, would your fingerprints still be unique? Identical twins, also known asContinue Reading
There’s been so little flu transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic that some types of flu viruses may have disappeared. There’s been so little flu transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic that some types of flu viruses may have gone extinct, according to news reports. During the COVID-19 pandemic, flu cases droppedContinue Reading
Researchers may have identified a potential treatment for the rare condition. Six years ago, a teenager from Italy traveled to the U.S. in hopes of finding a diagnosis for her mysterious medical condition, which had caused her to lose the ability to walk and required her to have a breathingContinue Reading
Coronavirus variants of concern and variants of interest will now be named using a system similar to hurricane naming, wherein each variant gets assigned a letter of the Greek alphabet, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced Monday (May 31). For example, the coronavirus variant first found in the U.K. willContinue Reading
Here are the most common signs of labor and ways you can try to promote labor. The signs of labor can differ from one woman to another, and even for the same woman they may change from one pregnancy to the next. Although there’s no way to predict how aContinue Reading
The woman was mistakenly injected with an entire vial of the vaccine. A woman in Italy accidentally received six doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine all at once, according to news reports. The 23-year-old woman did not experience any serious side effects from the vaccine overdose, CBS News reported. TheContinue Reading
The study included nearly 4,000 U.S. health care and frontline workers. Two doses of either the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine were 90% effective at preventing infection with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 in a “real world” study of U.S. health care and frontline workers. The study, from the CentersContinue Reading
The science is firm, but the myth persists. One reason coffee isn’t usually given to kids may be the widely held belief that the caffeinated beverage can stunt children’s growth. But is there any truth to this idea? The answer is a resounding “no”: There’s no evidence that coffee orContinue Reading