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Suicide Attempts Among Adolescents Skyrocketed During The Pandemic, CDC Report Shows
Suicide-related emergency room visits among both adolescent girls and boys spiked amid the pandemic and continued to surge as lockdowns persisted, ac [...]
Rare Heart Inflammation Following COVID-19 Vaccination Sparks Emergency CDC Meeting
Ailan Evans
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will discuss reports of a rare heart inflammation following doses of mRNA-based COV [...]
Citrus County Special Needs Shelter Temporarily Relocating
CITRUS COUNTY, Fla. - Citrus County's only Special Needs Shelter, which houses individuals with special and minimal medical needs during a severe wea [...]
RSI Still Common Today, Even Among Smartphone Users
Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) occurs when you repeat a task so often that it actually harms your body, usually resulting in soreness, stiffness, and [...]
DOH-Pasco Working With Pasco Schools To Vaccinate Children 12 And Up
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. - The Florida Department of Health in Pasco County (DOH-Pasco) is partnering with Pasco County Schools and Health Heroes to provid [...]
Brandon TMS Aims To Battle Depression Using Magnetic Stimulation
BRANDON, Fla. - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is an FDA-approved treatment to reduce depression symptoms with very little risk of side effe [...]
Pasco County COVID-19 Positivity Rate Drops Below 4%, Over 236,000 Vaccinated
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. - The seven-day COVID-19 positivity rate is at 3.8 percent in Pasco County as of Tuesday, June 1. This is the lowest the rolling p [...]
China Reports First Human Case Of Bird Flu Strain
Andrew Trunsky
A 41-year-old man in the Chinese province of Jiangsu is the first human to have contracted the H10N3 strain of bird flu, the co [...]
Increasingly, Research Into COVID-19 Reveals That Much Of What We Thought Was Wrong – Even As People Don’t Want To Let Go
It’s been a rough couple of days for the COVID fearmongers.
For one thing, a University of Louisville study torpedoed the idea that mask mandates [...]
Tampa General Hospital Performs New Procedure to Help Women with Stress Urinary Incontinence
TAMPA, Fla. - Tampa General Hospital became the first health system in the West Florida Region on May 18 to perform a procedure using Bulkamid®, a hy [...]