Health
Sunscreen has a shelf life and other facts to know
Did you know sunscreen has a shelf life and can expire? Or that too much heat or cold can ruin a new bottle?
Jul 5, 2024
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Health
Food watchdog lodges complaint over Nestle mineral water 'fraud'
Consumer watchdog Foodwatch said it was filing a legal complaint Wednesday against food giant Nestle and another group over them allegedly fraudulently treating water for their top mineral water brands.
Feb 21, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
'COVID-killing' remote working pods to revive town centers
Ghost town high streets could come back to life using empty shops to house sealed, self-contained, self-cleaning remote working pods that use ultraviolet light to kill coronavirus. Home workers could escape cramped kitchen ...
Mar 2, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Subways sparkle, but does cleaning decrease COVID-19 risk?
Mass transit systems around the world have taken unprecedented—and expensive—steps to curb the spread of the coronavirus, including New York shutting down its subways overnight and testing powerful ultraviolet lamps to ...
Jul 13, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Debunking COVID-19 myths
Chances are you've heard about a food, drug or other method that claims to prevent, treat, or cure coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). But while it might be tempting to use a questionable product or method to stay healthy ...
Jul 6, 2020
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His plane-disinfecting invention didn't take off—until COVID-19 hit
Seven years before the coronavirus pandemic hit, Arthur Kreitenberg, a Los Angeles orthopedic surgeon, came up with an invention in his basement to quickly disinfect an airplane cabin using ultraviolet light.
Jun 24, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Battling disease with ultraviolet light
Now and in the months to come, hospitals and commercial buildings will be tasked with sanitizing large indoor environments to prevent the transmission of viruses like SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19. A new seed grant-funded ...
May 27, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Frontline safety: LSU group creates mobile decontamination unit for hospitals to decontaminate masks
In addition to LSU's announcement of large-scale production of personal protective gowns in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, or PMAC, another group of LSU innovators worked together to develop a solution to a critical challenge ...
Apr 20, 2020
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Crisis brings robots to medical frontline: researchers
Robots are expected to demonstrate their value for "dirty and dangerous" medical tasks in the fight to quell the coronavirus pandemic, researchers said Wednesday.
Mar 25, 2020
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Ophthalmology
Sights are set on better understanding vision-damaging keratoconus
It's an eye condition where genetics and environmental factors like ultraviolet light and vigorous eye rubbing conspire to make the usual curvature of the cornea more pointy, leaving us with double vision and nearsighted.
Jun 17, 2019
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