Month: February 2024

A society in which members of different generations do not interact “is a dangerous experiment,” said one researcher. View original article Contributor: Paula Span

NEW YORK — Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a new government study suggests. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called its study published Thursday the largest to look at how Americans took the drugs that killed them. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] CDC officials decided to … Read more

Since 2021, people with COVID-19 have been told to isolate themselves for at least five days to avoid spreading the disease. But that practice may soon join most mask mandates as relics of the peak pandemic era. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is said to be weighing a new, symptom-based approach … Read more

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Madame Web. Three Spider-Man movies are hitting theaters in 2024, but none of those three movies are actually about Spider-Man—or even feature the friendly neighborhood web-slinger as a character at all. Madame Web, which is now in theaters, is an entry in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, a collection of films … Read more

Broward County Public Schools confirmed a case of measles at Manatee Bay Elementary School on Friday. The district did not say whether the infected person was a student or teacher … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

As employees and employers adjust to new working conditions, including more flexible remote or hybrid schedules, they are also prioritizing something else that hasn’t traditionally been part of the workplace environment: mental health. In a new poll conducted by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), researchers found encouraging signs that workers and their managers … Read more

Polypharmacy, a prescribing practice that some experts warn can be unsafe, is becoming more commonplace. View original article Contributor: Matt Richtel