The word “spike” has become so familiar to us in the last year due to spikes in Covid-19 infections and admissions to hospitals. But there have been other ones running in parallel – spikes in alcohol deaths. Especially between April and September last year. And the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal… Read More »
SATURDAY, April 24, 2021 — If you plan to resume running after an extended break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, you need to ease back in, one expert advises. “There are a lot of good programs, including Couch to 5K or C25K, that focus on increasing running slowly up to about 3 miles or 30… Read More »
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28, 2020 — If you’re the parent of a teen, you had plenty to deal with before the pandemic began — dramatic sighs, slamming doors, eye-rolling — and that was only when your teen wasn’t out somewhere with friends. But the coronavirus pandemic brought your teen’s social life to a screeching halt. No… Read More »
This spring, as countries around the world told people to stay home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, doctors in neonatal intensive care units were noticing something strange: Premature births were falling, in some cases drastically. It started with doctors in Ireland and Denmark. Each team, unaware of the other’s work, crunched the numbers… Read More »