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In an analysis of married, widowed and unmarried adults enrolled in the Harvard Aging Brain Study, widowed participants “demonstrated worsening cognitive performance,” as well as higher levels of beta-amyloid protein....Read More

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told Congress Wednesday that the coronavirus risk for Americans is “very low” and that, from a public health perspective, the United States is in a “state of containment.”...Read More

Aerobic exercise is generally healthy, but an American Heart Association study published Wednesday says more intense activities — like marathons and triathlons — might increase risk for heart attack....Read More

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning letter to sandwich chain Jimmy John’s, accusing the company of selling fresh produce linked to five outbreaks of E. coli or salmonella in the past seven...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday warned Americans to prepare for a coronavirus pandemic....Read More

A new, wearable sensor may be able to detect — and thus prevent — a major health emergency in patients with heart failure, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Circulation: Heart Failure....Read More

The number of U.S. adults 65 years of age and older who reported using cannabis over the past year nearly doubled over a three-year period, from 2.4 percent in 2015 to 4.2 percent in 2018....Read More

State Department officials Friday cautioned that American citizens trapped in areas impacted by COVID-19 in the future should not rely on government-sponsored evacuation flights to get home....Read More

WHO on Friday confirmed that its 12-member team on the ground in China will be visiting Wuhan, ground zero for the outbreak, and announced six special envoys to confer with world leaders to coordinate global response....Read More

As many as 30 countries have instituted some form of travel restriction in response to the new coronavirus, COVID-19, WHO officials said, in spite of limited scientific evidence they contain infectious diseases....Read More