Health
The Summary U.S. life expectancy jumped to 78.4 years last year, the highest it has been since 2019, before the pandemic. A decline in Covid deaths was a primary factor … Read More
CNN — Life expectancy in the United States is rising nearly as quickly as it fell at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic as deaths from Covid-19 and drug overdoses … Read More
After a lull during the social isolation of COVID, whooping cough cases in Minnesota have reached their highest levels in years in 2024. MINNEAPOLIS — After bottoming out during COVID, … Read More
Experts believe three more cats in Los Angeles County have been infected with H5N1 bird flu. Two others succumbed to the disease earlier this month after drinking recalled raw milk … Read More
How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Jessica and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, My wife and I are both in … Read More
In quickly evolving avian flu developments, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (WDHS) today announced the state’s first presumptive positive for avian flu, which involves a poultry worker, and California’s … Read More
Not to brag, but I have stellar “crunchy” bona fides. I was raised on wheat bread, limited television and camping vacations, and at 17 went off to Oberlin College, that … Read More
A controversial study that promoted hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, as a treatment for Covid-19 has officially been withdrawn. On Tuesday, Elsevier, a Dutch academic publishing company which owns the International … Read More
Two men died after they contracted a rare fungal infection from exposure to bat feces, also known as guano, that they were using to grow cannabis plants, according to a … Read More
Brace yourself — AAA predicts that 7.85 million Americans will cram into overstuffed airplanes between Saturday, Dec. 21, and Wednesday, Jan. 1, to get away for the holidays. Some of … Read More
