The edible insect industry is ramping up — one report predicts the market will reach $9.6 billion by 2030.
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Covid hospitalized him for 453 days. Now he’s home for the holidays.
Dub Crochet was hospitalized through more than a year’s worth of milestones and holidays before emerging from the hospital this month
Desperate covid long-haulers turn to costly, unproven treatments
Unproven treatments put patients at risk of potentially harmful health effects as well as having their hopes dashed and their wallets emptied.
Former surgeon general faces his wife’s cancer — and the ‘Trump Effect’
Jerome Adams and his wife want to tell their own story about melanoma and prevention.
Measles is ‘imminent threat’ globally, WHO and CDC warn
Nearly 40 million children missed a measles vaccine dose in 2021, in part due to the coronavirus pandemic, global health officials said.
Men are using condoms less, even as syphilis and other STDs surge
The United States recorded nearly 2.5 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in 2021, more than doubling in the last two decades.
Sick kids are filling hospitals. But there aren’t enough beds.
Experts say the high demand is due to the early onset of RSV, which is making children sicker than usual, the start of flu season and the continued circulation of covid.
White House touts omicron-specific boosters ahead of feared winter covid wave
The Biden administration’s campaign to boost Americans ahead of an expected winter covid wave has lagged, with about 11 percent of people 5 and older having receiving bivalent booster.
Which cooking oils are the healthiest?
Cooking oil, including olive oil, canola, seed oils and ghee, all have different health effects and smoke points. Here’s how to choose which ones to use.
Visually impaired people less likely to access health care, CDC says
People with vision problems were more than twice as likely as their counterparts to say they had an unmet health need because of cost.
