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The amenities offered by the suburban EconoLodge motel may not be fancy, but they were just what Seattle-area officials were looking for in a quarantine facility for coronavirus patients By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press March 5, 2020, 10:24 PM 4 min read SEATTLE — Hard surfaces, easy-to-clean floors and separate heating-and-cooling units in each room: […]

Six weeks ago the BBC covered the story of a team of researchers based at Edinburgh University’s Euan MacDonald Centre, who were launching a drugs trial to help people with Motor Neurone Disease (MND). During filming we met 37-year-old Ruth Williamson, who was diagnosed more than two years ago. This week she started taking the

Mediocre eggs can make or break a breakfast plate, and there’s no need to settle when just a few tweaks can take your home-cooked eggs from good to great. To help you achieve perfectly cooked sunny side up eggs (with cooked whites and runny yolks), hard-boiled eggs that are easy to peel, silky scrambled eggs

Vice President Mike Pence is pledging that federal officials will “lean into” the fight against the new coronavirus By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press March 5, 2020, 7:39 PM 2 min read MAPLEWOOD, Minn. — Vice President Mike Pence pledged Thursday that federal officials would “lean into” the fight against the new coronavirus as he visited

Image copyright PA Media Image caption The patient had been in and out of the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading A patient with underlying health conditions has become the first person in the UK to die after testing positive for coronavirus. The Royal Berkshire NHS Trust said they were an “older patient” who had been

It may seem like sound baths are yet another New Age trend, but sound therapy is as old as time, dating back over 40,000 years. Ancient Greeks used flutes and lyres to treat digestion and mental health, Tibetans used singing bowls for over 2,000 years for meditation purposes, and Australian aboriginal tribes played the didgeridoo

BANGKOK — The Latest on the virus outbreak (all times local): 10:50 p.m. A U.S. envoy says the United States has offered humanitarian assistance to Iran to help them deal with their coronavirus outbreak but “the regime rejected the offer.” U.S. special representative for Iran, Brian Hook, spoke Thursday at a news conference in Paris.

Image copyright Getty Images With the number of coronavirus patients rising around the world, children are being exposed to information and misinformation from many sources. How can parents best keep them up to date without terrifying them? “Will I get sick?” “Will my school close?” “Will grandma or granddad die?” Coronavirus is dominating the news

Before the 2010s, you’d be hard-pressed to find a Black news anchor wearing her natural hair on-air. To forgo the relaxer, or the quintessential “anchor bob,” could jeopardize a reporter’s likability, and even her job. This is what happened to Brittany Noble, a reporter who was fired from her local news station in 2018. She

The World Health Organization says re are about 17 times as many new infections of the novel coronavirus outside China as in it March 5, 2020, 12:44 PM 2 min read WARSAW, Poland — Factories are gradually reopening in China months after the new coronavirus that first emerged there upended daily routines. While China looked