Even drinkers who stick to the weekly ‘low-risk’ alcohol guidelines are at greater risk of cancer and early death, scientists say. In the UK, low-risk drinking is classified as six pints of beer spread out over the week. However, experts say that even sticking to this can harm one’s health — and even cause hospitalization…
Fleeing a big city because of the pandemic is a bigger gamble than it might seem. Amanda Mull 1:02 PM ET Carolyn Drake / Magnum It took only a couple of weeks after the first coronavirus lockdowns in the United States for news reports to bear out what people in the hardest-hit cities immediately saw…
By Nick Viviani |  Posted: Mon 4:35 PM, Jun 15, 2020 MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) -- The La Crosse County Health Department is warning anyone who visited one of seven bars over a three-day stretch that they may have been exposed to COVID-19 and offering instructions for what they should do next. The agency posted the warning…
People with underlying medical conditions such as heart disease and diabetes were hospitalized six times as often as otherwise healthy individuals infected with the novel coronavirus during the first four months of the pandemic, and they died 12 times as often, according to a federal health report Monday.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released…
Why does the coronavirus affect some people and spare others? A new study says it may have something to do with your blood type. Genetic testing company 23andMe conducted a study in early April that appears to find a connection. NBC 6 anchor Sheli Muñiz talked to Dr. Anjali Shastri, a researcher with 23andMe who…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…