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[ad_1] Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic. About half of U.S. adults say they've experienced loneliness, Dr. Vivek Murthy said in an 81-page report from his office. "We now know that loneliness is a common feeling that many people experience. It's like hunger or thirst. It's a feeling the body sends us when something we need for survival is missing," Murthy told The Associated Press in an interview. "Millions of people in America are struggling in the shadows, and that's not right. That's why I issued this advisory to pull back the curtain on a struggle that too many people are experiencing." The declaration is intended to raise awareness around loneliness but won't unlock federal funding

[ad_1] Some U.S. parents were not honest about their children's coronavirus symptoms, quarantine measures and testing guidelines, potentially contributing to viral spread, according to a study published in the  Journal of the American Medical Association  on Monday.  The study, which was conducted by researchers in the U.S. and England, aimed to examine "the prevalence of misrepresentations of and nonadherence to COVID-19–related [public health measures] by parents regarding their children, their reasons, and associations of individual characteristics with these behaviors." Over 1,700 U.S. adults were sampled in the study over the course of December 2021, as Omicron variant rates skyrocketed across the country, including 580 parents who had children younger than 18 years old living with them throughout the pandemic. Seventy percent of the respondents were women, and all participants were recruited online. A quarter of par

[ad_1] New Delhi:  The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has made people more cautious about health and well-being. More and more individuals are drawn towards gyms or other forms of physical exercise for the sake of staying healthy. According to a Statista report, India has seen a rise in the importance of overall health, with the fitness sector's revenue expected to reach 43.89 million dollars by 2022. A growing desire to remain healthy is the main motivator behind the rising readiness to spend money on health and fitness. If you are someone willing to start a career in health and fitness, now is the right time. With the rising awareness for a healthy lifestyle people are now looking forward to fitness coaches that can act as a guide for them on their fitness journey by offering them physical exercise regimens, nutrition counseling that can gradually change their whole lifestyle. Kickstart your fitness career Identify your niche: When it comes to starting a fitness

[ad_1] People who get COVID-19 but never develop symptoms, known as super dodgers, may have a hereditary advantage. According to a new study headed by UC San Francisco researchers, they are more than twice as likely as individuals who become symptomatic to contain a specific gene variation that aids in virus eradication. The paper, published July, 19, 2023 in Nature, offers the first evidence that there is a genetic basis for asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2. The research helps to solve the mystery of why some people can be infected without ever getting sick from COVID-19. The secret lies with the human leukocyte antigen (HLA), or protein markers that signal the immune system. A mutation in one of the genes coding for HLA appears to help virus-killing T cells identify SARS-CoV-2 and launch a lighting attack. cre Trending Stories Also read: Monitoring T Cells Might Allow Type 1 Diabetes Prevention: Study The T cells of some people who carry this variant can identify the novel cor

[ad_1] A healthcare worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Biden administration on Thursday announced a program to provide free Covid vaccines to uninsured Americans through December 2024 after the federal government's supply of shots runs out this fall. Those free shots, which the government is purchasing at a discount, will be available to the uninsured at pharmacies and 64 state and local health departments. The Health and Human Services Department also is hoping that vaccine makers will donate shots to pharmacies as part of the program. There are between 25 to 30 million uninsured adults in the United States and other Americans whose insurance will not cover free Covid products this fall, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Currently, the government has an

[ad_1] Repaired Ruby Princess sails for Alaska after 3-day layover in San Francisco Repaired Ruby Princess sails for Alaska after 3-day layover in San Francisco 03:36 The U.S. Coast Guard gave the Ruby Princess clearance to depart San Francisco on Sunday, three days after the cruise ship crashed into a dock and had to undergo significant repairs.  Representatives with Princess Cruises, the ship's owner, said that repairs to the punctured hull —which forced the ship to remain at San Francisco's Pier 27 over the weekend— were inspected and certified by the Coast Guard and the "ship is safe and fit to sail." The Ruby Princess set sail Sunday for the Pacific North

[ad_1] Americans have transmitted COVID-19 to wild deer hundreds of times, an analysis of thousands of samples collected from the animals revealed, and people have also caught and spread mutated variants from deer at least three times. The analysis published Monday stems from the first year of a multiyear federal effort to study the virus as it has spread into American wildlife, spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, or APHIS.  Scientists analyzed 8,830 samples collected from wild white-tailed deer across 26 states and Washington, D.C., from November 2021 to April 2022, to study the COVID variants that had infected 282 of them. By comparing sequences from the viruses in deer against other publicly reported samples from databases of human infections around the world, they were able to trace the likely spread of these variants between humans and animals.  A total of 109 "

[ad_1] Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. adults and older teens had still not caught COVID-19 by the end of last year, according to new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while 77.5% had antibodies from at least one prior infection. The figures are based on the final batch of results from the agency's nationwide studies of antibodies in Americans ages 16 and up.  Federal officials often cited estimates from these studies in moving to simplify vaccine recommendations and loosen COVID-19 restrictions, as the Biden administration wound down the public health emergency earlier this year.  Virtually every American ages 16 and older — 96.7% — had antibodies either from getting vaccinated, surviving the virus or some combination of the two by December, the CDC now estimates. The study found 77.5% had at least some of their immunity from a prior infection. Of all age groups, seniors have the smallest share of Americans with