A child rides a scooter through Venice, California in late April 2020. Photo: Getty ImagesChildren across the U.S. and Europe are coming down with a rare but life-threatening condition that appears to be connected to covid-19. But as doctors continue to study the ailment, some experts are arguing that it should stop being compared to…
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275 South Africans repatriated from US, hundreds more to arrive this weekAmong them was multiple South African surfing champion Jordy Smith and his wife. The champ had been training for the forthcoming global surf tour, in Hawaii, when the global Covid-19 pandemic struck. He told News24 about how the journey had begun chaotically in Washington."There…
COVID can come for anyone, but older adults, men, and black people have elevated risk of death. Photo illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo/Slate. Photos by Unsplash. By this point in the pandemic, we have internalized that the coronavirus could affect any of us. But COVID-19 is not an equal-opportunity killer, either. No one is immune, but…
Dr. Phil McGraw recently said some things about the COVID-19 coronavirus and social distancing. ... [+] (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images) Getty Images Looks like the Twittersphere got their Dr. Phil of Dr. Phil’s appearance on a Thursday night episode of the television show The Ingraham Angle. On the show, Phil McGraw, PhD (no, his…
In 2013, a scientist at Abbott Laboratories saw study results with potentially big implications for the company’s profits and the lives of some of the world’s most fragile people: preterm infants. The upshot, she wrote in an email: Babies fed rival Mead Johnson Nutrition’s acidified liquid human milk fortifier — a nutritional supplement used in
4 min read WHEN YOU'RE TELLING a horror story that's based around a family function or family dynamic, it's important to make sure you're getting the parents just right. Ari Aster's Hereditary, which came out in 2018, hit the nail right on the head, casting Toni Collette as the film's lead—and the increasingly unhinged (and
Dietitians regularly talk up the importance of having variety in your diet to make sure you hit your nutritional needs. But new research suggests that’s actually not helpful—at least, not when you’re trying to lose weight. The study, which was published in the journal Health Psychology, makes a strong case for sticking with the same