Tag: health
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TikTokers are touting vibration plates for health benefits, but do they work?
“Do you vibe?” It’s a question that’s been reverberating around TikTok as users flood the platform with videos of themselves balancing on shaking vibration plates, bodies quivering, often in an attempt to hawk the devices as the latest cure-all. Their efforts have certainly made waves. Online searches for vibration plates — which look like a hybrid…
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Health workers killed in Lebanon
Share Netanyahu to speak at UNGA after defying international calls for a cease-fire Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday after striking a defiant note the day before as he vowed to continue hitting Hezbollah “with all our might.” Netanyahu said Israel will not stop…
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CDC says a second health care worker tied to Missouri bird flu case had symptoms
A second health worker in contact with the Missouri patient who tested positive for H5N1 also developed respiratory symptoms but wasn’t tested for influenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. The Missouri bird flu patient, who didn’t have known contact with poultry or dairy cows, was hospitalized in August and tested positive…
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U.S. health care ranks last compared to 9 other countries; Australia. U.K., Netherlands lead, report finds
No country was at the top or bottom in every category. The countries that ranked in the top three overall were Australia, the Netherlands and the U.K. Australia, and the Netherlands also had the lowest health care spending, according to the report. The researchers said the U.S. stood out for its “exceptionally weak” performance. It…