Health

Increasing coffee intake can protect your liver and help with liver-related deaths, according to a recent report published in Food Pharmacology and Therapeutics. A group of researchers in Australia looked at data from previous studies involving coffee and liver disease and found that drinking more than two cups of coffee …

Fatal shootings by police appear to be diminishing, even too low in the coronavirus pandemic, and Blacks, Latinos and Indians remain disproportionately affected by deadly police shootings compared to white people, a study released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union. Such shootings are “so routine that even during a …

Scientists have crawled to unpick the mechanism that the new coronavirus (green) uses to enter a human cell (orange).Credit: NIAID / National Institutes of Health / Science Photo Library In the space of eight months, the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and the disease that causes it, COVID-19, has dominated the work …

Two former LSU students said they were raped by former Washington Football Team running back Derrius Guice back in 2016, when he was a freshman at the school, according to a report in USA Today. The women told USA Today that Guice attacked them in their own apartments after nights …

Tuesday morning during Tarrant County Commissioner’s Court, the Director of Public Health expressed concern about the number of mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus. “The first thing I worry about is mosquito activity. Sure, the positivity rate for mosquitoes has been pretty high in Tarrant County,” said Vinny Taneja, Tarrant …