Health

Share on PinterestProvinces of provincial provinces like these in California have relied primarily on “gold standard” COVID-19 tests, not rapid tests. Getty Images People are increasingly using rapid coronavirus tests to screen for the virus before attending an event. Rapid antigen tests for the new coronavirus are less accurate than …

Tanya Zuckerbrot Photo: Sylvain Gaboury / Paul Bruinooge / Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Over the past few weeks, stories have appeared about the alleged dangers of the F-Factor diet, a popular high-fiber diet developed by prominent dietitian Tanya Zuckerbrot. Several articles detailed claims shared by Emily Gellis Lande, a …

Had underlying circumstances, died Tuesday in St. Louis. Charles Bend (Update: OHA weekly report finds cases in decline) PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – COVID-19 has claimed six more lives in Oregon, including a 55-year-old Jefferson County resident who died Tuesday in St. Louis. Charles Bend, which increased the state’s death toll …

On Tuesday, the world celebrated a rare piece of good news from 2020: The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the wild poliovirus has been eradicated from Africa. The milestone comes after three years without a single case of wild polio recorded anywhere on the continent (there are still so-called …

Stephen Colbert opened his show Wednesday night with a confession. “Well, full revelation: I did not see much of the convention last night. And full revelation: I did not see anything of it,” the Late Show host sei. “Because we are now facing a global pandemic in America that has …