Watch Out for Eye Injuries From Champagne Corks, Experts Warn
Keep an eye on those champagne corks this holiday season — but not too close an eye, researchers warned. Eye injuries from popping open bottles of sparkling wine “are an often overlooked and substantial threat to ocular health,” Ethan Waisberg, MD, of the University of Cambridge in England, and colleagues wrote in The BMJ‘s traditional […]
Survey finds Americans struggle to maintain healthy habits during the holiday season
The holiday season is a time for joy and celebration but many Americans admit the endless flurry of activities make it difficult to eat healthy, exercise and get adequate rest, according to a new survey from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Two-thirds of those surveyed said they overindulge in food, nearly 45% said […]
7 Holiday Tasks That Are Secretly Depleting You
As merry as it may be, the holiday season can also be synonymous with stress. Between spending lots of money on gifts, living up to the (probably very high) expectations in your head and making time for all of the holiday events throughout the month, it’s an overwhelming season for many people. But you’re definitely […]
Hospitals Slammed With ‘Viral Jambalaya’ Of Flu, RSV, COVID-19
As Americans head into the holiday season, a rapidly intensifying flu season is straining hospitals already overburdened with patients sick from other respiratory infections. More than half the states have high or very high levels of flu, unusually high for this early in the season, the government reported Friday. Those 27 states are mostly in […]
The Best Gifts For A Loved One With Depression, According To Therapists
As someone with clinical depression, the holiday season is particularly burdening. I feel the overwhelming sense that everyone around me is having “the most wonderful time of the year,” while to me, yuletide feels like a monsoon of pressure, isolation and lying in bed thinking about the chores I’m not doing and the parties I’m […]
CDC Hasn’t Updated COVID Vax Breakthrough Data
As Americans weigh the risks of holiday gatherings, many are looking for data on COVID-19 breakthrough cases, hospitalizations, and deaths among the vaccinated — but nationally, that information is not reported in real-time. In mid-October, the CDC started publishing cases and deaths by vaccination status on its COVID Data Tracker for the first time. But […]