Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV News) — This Saturday night, most Canadians will be setting their clocks an hour ahead for daylight time. But one expert says the practice of changing the clocks can have negative health impacts and staying on daylight time permanently, as some provinces have proposed, could
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV News) — New research suggests that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, had already evolved to be able to infect humans prior to the first reported case, making the initial transmission from bats to humans an easy one. The peer-reviewed research, published Friday in PLOS
Continue Reading
Good news for those living in the Aloha State: Hawaii residents have the highest life expectancy in the nation, according to newly released data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers in the CDC’s Division of Vital Statistics estimated the life expectancy of people in all 50 states and the District of Columbia
Continue Reading Chris Harrison’s journey with “The Bachelorette” is over, at least for now, after a controversy over racially insensitive comments. The longtime host of “The Bachelor” reality franchise will not be back to guide the next “Bachelorette” on her search for love, producers announced on Twitter late Friday. Former “Bachelorette” stars Tayshia Adams and Kaitlyn Bristowe
Continue Reading
I spent the week of March 9, 2020, in the office, sitting across from my patients, one after another, in my office. We talked about relationship issues, depression and anxiety, and the other stressors of everyday life. No distance, no masks. There was this vague idea of an impending pandemic. But we felt if anything
Continue Reading Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover Jr. are spending their Saturday conducting a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station. The spacewalk, which assists with continued upgrades to the orbiting laboratory, began at 8:14 a.m. ET. It is expected to last for six-and-a-half hours. You can watch the astronauts working outside the space station live
Continue Reading
Eli Lilly and Company’s experimental intravenous drug donanemab could slow the cognitive decline of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, according to early clinical trial results, published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Saturday. The study included 257 patients with early symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease; 131 received donanemab, while 126 received a placebo. The researchers found
Continue Reading Scientists are celebrating the first discovery of a dinosaur preserved while sitting on a nest of eggs with fossilized embryos, including at least three that were visible. The oviraptorosaur fossil was uncovered from rocks that are 70 million years old in Ganzhou City, China, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) said in a news
Continue Reading
It’s been hellish, and it will likely go down as the toughest stretch in many Americans’ lives. One year ago Saturday, the country went into its first stage of lockdown, though some adhered to guidelines better than others. Three hundred and sixty-five days later, Covid-19 has snuffed out more than 530,000 lives in the world’s
Continue Reading Growing up as a child of a White woman and a Black man in a small town in Maine, Victoria Anderson was constantly reminded she was different. A close relative nicknamed her “jungle bunny,” she said. Another relative once turned her framed photo so her face wasn’t visible. And she wasn’t allowed to play with
Continue Reading Tamika Palmer has been in the same battle for justice in Breonna Taylor’s death for the last year. Palmer said her daughter was killed senselessly by police and in her eyes no one is being held accountable for it. Facing this reality makes her angry. But Palmer said she will never give up her fight
Continue Reading A French actress stripped naked at the country’s prestigious César Awards to demand more support for the country’s struggling arts industry, which has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Actress Corinne Masiero, 57, took to the stage at France’s equivalent of the Oscars wearing a fake donkey skin and a blood stained dress to
Continue Reading
Columbia’s health department said in a press release it plans on opening vaccination appointments on Monday, the first day tier three residents will be eligible.
Continue Reading Tanzania’s Prime Minister has dispelled rumors about President John Magufuli’s health after days of wide speculation that he was ill with Covid-19. Kassim Majaliwa said he was surprised people were questioning the President’s whereabouts, adding that the leader was “fine and continuing with his daily activities,” as he spoke during a Friday prayer session at
Continue Reading
A head-on crash closed Route K and Old Plank Road on Friday evening.
Continue Reading Teachers and school staff want to return to the classroom with their students, education experts said. But after a year of the pandemic, managing Covid-19 still poses obstacles to in-person learning. “That’s how they were trained to teach, and work with them, and they miss them. They want to be back in person,” Becky Pringle,
Continue Reading
Covid-19 numbers may be on the decline in the United States after a year of collective grief. But with tens of thousands of deaths expected over the next few months, experts are warning Americans not to drop their guard just yet. “I think we are going to get fooled,” Dr. Paul Offit, director of the
Continue Reading What was nice about the Before Times was that, for most people, social interactions and outings could be carefree. We miss them, and that’s a big reason why we long for the pandemic to end. But when life stabilizes in the new, new normal, how will we really feel about resuming activities we used to
Continue Reading The Norman, Oklahoma, Public Schools District is condemning an announcer who “made racist and hateful comments targeted at our Norman High student athletes” on a livestream of a state basketball tournament, a statement from the district superintendent said. On Thursday, the Norman High School girls’ basketball team was set to play Midwest City in the
Continue Reading It only took one blood donation to save Marcos Perez’s life. He’s now paid that donation forward more than 960 times. According to the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center, his blood has helped over 3,000 people. “Mr. Perez’s story is very moving and emotional because you know why he does it — it saved
Continue Reading