As the United States continues to open up, and fewer restrictions and mitigation measures remain in place, it’s hard to imagine the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Much has changed from three years ago when workplaces and schools closed, businesses shuttered, and stay-at-home orders were enacted — and even from two years ago when vaccines started rolling out and people began moving around again.

As we move into a new phase where COVID-19 is more endemic, many of these memories will fade with the passage of time and the constraints of how much our brain can hold, but experts

Former President Donald Trump said he would use the government to investigate and potentially curtail transgender health care if he’s re-elected.

“Upon my inauguration, I will direct the FDA to convene an independent outside panel to investigate whether transgender hormone treatments and ideology increase the risk of extreme depression, aggression and even violence,” Trump said during a speech at the National Rifle Association’s conference in Indianapolis on Friday.

“I think most of us already know the answer,” Trump added.

Trump and his Republican allies have baselessly claimed that gender identity was a factor that led a shooter to kill three

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The world’s oldest people may live so long because of their genetic makeup, according to research from Boston University and Tufts Medical Centre.

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The research found that people who live to be 100 years of age or older may have a makeup of immune cells that largely protects them from illnesses.

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The study was published at the end of March in the peer-reviewed journal Lancet eBiomedicine.

“Our data supports the hypothesis that centenarians have protective factors that enable (them) to recover from disease and reach extreme old ages,” lead author Tanya Karagiannis, a senior

Yellow and juicy, with sometimes sour and sometimes bitter-sweet taste, fresh aroma and amazing properties. Lemon, the fruit of the citrus family, is associated with many different uses in our everyday life, because it is not only used for cooking and desserts, but also as a disinfectant-cleanser, as an aromatic ingredient in beauty products and perfumes, and also as a therapeutic medicine. But are they really as beneficial as they are touted? The answer is yes and a lot of them.

The widespread use of lemons has led to confusion about their nutritional value, with many wellness techniques circulating around

A new Canadian-led study into the effectiveness of medical alarms has revealed musical notes are “less bothersome” than industry-standard flat tones, which researchers believe could better alert health-care workers without compromising patient safety.

Researchers changed the sounds in medical devices to see if they were more effective in alerting users. Then, in a separate experiment, respondents rated how annoying they found each of the tones that were tested, preferring percussive tones to flat tones.

Findings of the study, conducted in Hamilton, Ont., and published in the British Journal of Anesthesia, offer a glimmer of hope for some health-care workers, who

The deadly bacteria linked to recalled eyedrops causing infection and blindness have never been seen in the US until 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It has since infected dozens or people and killed three. Even though the contaminated bottles have been removed from stores and health care facilities, the CDC identifies more cases to be identified.

What has infectious disease experts most alarmed is how this bug — a well-known type of bacterium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa — has evolved in a way that is resistant to nearly all available treatments.

As of Friday, the CDC had