According to a press release from the Clorox company, the latest popular household cleaning product to be proven effective at killing the SARS-CoV-2 virus on contact is Pine-Sol.
Physicians are starting to see the pandemic's far-reaching health impact in areas that have nothing to do with the virus, like a decrease in lead testing.
We're doing a worse job now at controlling hypertension than we have in years, according to findings presented at an American Heart Association virtual conference. Considering that we're now in a pandemic, this is especially troubling.
Symptoms of COVID-19 are not exclusive to that virus, some of them also indicate other ailments. So how do you know when to keep kids home from school?
New Jersey already had ticks, as numerous pets and unhappy campers can attest. But you can never have too many tick species — or rather, you can, since one species is more than enough, thank you very much. And yet, here it comes, the Carios kelleyi, aka bat tick.
A recent study has found that traces of COVID-19 virus can linger on this fish for as long as a week, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will get you sick.
When there's a new baby, you can expect hormone swings — for the mom. But, as it turns out, prolactin isn't just for the ladies; new fathers actually produce it
Now that many kids' new version of "back to school" means back in their bedrooms, a teacher droning on over Zoom, they're missing out recess and lunch with school pals. For some kids, this is having an unexpected benefit — they may be getting more sleep these days.
A famous mask advocate is Kaley Cuoco, who, when posting a video of her workout routine to Instagram, was seen to be wearing one throughout the 1 minute 20-second clip that showed her jumping rope. This drew a lot of negative comments, though.
While the quarantine period was hard on all of us, leaving us holed up at home right when spring was springing and we all wanted to be out and about, it did have one surprising upside. We're talking about all of the quality time you got to spend with your pets.
Canada's Chief Public Health Officer has plenty to say on the hot topic of whether, when, and how you should be doing the deed during this period of pandemic.
After several months of adjusting to disrupted routines, so many of us have resigned ourselves to sleepless nights that there's now a name for the phenomenon: coronasomnia.
While it seems we learn something new about the physical effects of COVID-19 every day, the impact on our mental health is starting to emerge as well — and it's not so great.
Certain conditions, such as high blood pressure, require ongoing medical involvement in order to monitor their status, and that is another area in which telehealth is likely to play an increasingly large role.
By springtime, new coronavirus symptoms started showing up in doctor's offices nationwide, symptoms including chills, shaking, muscle aches, headaches, sore throats, loss of taste or smell, blood clots, and even a weird skin condition resembling frostbite present on the feet and fingers.
Have you ever been out and about and seen people wearing face masks, but they're not exactly wearing those masks as they were meant to be worn? What we're talking about here, though, is people who seem to think that they are fully masked when their masks are only covering their mouths.
Despite the fact that Chadwick Boseman had been seen to have lost a significant amount of weight over the past few months, it seems nobody really knew he was sick. Once the news came out, the shock diminished not one bit when it was revealed that he'd been suffering from colon cancer.
While no cases of babies contracting coronavirus via breastmilk have been recorded, it's understandable that mothers are particularly worried about accidentally spreading to the infection to their newborns.
One such tip is that presented by a TikToker who suggests a budget-friendly teeth-whitening hack. Instead of using the expensive store-bought kits, she suggests just applying regular old 3 percent hydrogen peroxide to a cotton swab and running it across your teeth. Should you, though?