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Silicon Valley Bank gave company-wide bonuses hours before it collapsed: report

sarah12/03/2023 55 Views

Ben Levisohn, Carleton English and Jack Hough discuss the markets following Federal Reserve Chairman Powell’s testimony before Congress, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the impact on the banking industry and railroad safety spending data.

Silicon Valley Bank employees received their annual bonuses on Friday just hours before the government took control of the company, according to reports.

SVB traditionally processes annual bonuses on the second Friday of March, unnamed sources associated with the bank told CNBC. The bonuses were reportedly for work completed in 2022.

SVB did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

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Heart-healthy habits linked to a longer life without chronic conditions

sarah07/03/2023 27 Views

A woman wearing leggings and workout clothes runs up a staircase in the rain at night — A study found that heart-healthy lifestyle habits described in the American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8, such as physical activity and quality sleep, are associated with a longer lifespan and more years spent free of chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes and cancer. urbazon/Getty Images

The American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8 is a concept that defines cardiovascular health based on four modifiable behaviors, such as physical activity and sleep, and four modifiable biometric measures, such as weight, blood glucose, and blood lipid levels, that impact cardiovascular health.
The composite cardiovascular health score measured using the

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US Life Span Falling Behind Our Peer Countries

sarah06/03/2023 57 Views

March 6, 2023 · 7:29 AM

From NPR:

The average life expectancy for Americans is shortened by over seven months [in 2021]according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That decrease follows an already big decline of 1.8 years in 2020. As a result, the expected life span of someone born in the US is now 76.4 years — the shortest it has been in nearly two decades.

But we still have the best healthcare system in the world, right? Not if you judge it by life expectancy. From Health System Tracker:

Life expectancy in the

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Half of the world will be obese by 2035, health organization predicts

sarah04/03/2023 27 Views

Half the world will be overweight by 2035, a health group warns.

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The World Obesity Federation predicts over 4 billion people will be obese if preventive measures are not implemented, BBC News reported Thursday.

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The findings show that overweight rates are rising fastest among kids, and that low to middle-income countries in Africa and Asia will undergo the starkest changes.

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Those countries, the report explains, have dietary preferences which trend towards more highly-processed foods, in addition to increased levels of sedentary behavior, weaker policies on food supply and marketing. Healthcare services are lacking, too.

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“Governments and

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Adjusting to later school start times is good for overall adolescent health: Opinion

sarah28/02/2023 20 Views

As a pediatrician and a child and adolescent psychologist, we are seeing, like so many of our colleagues, teenagers suffering from the impact of not getting enough sleep daily. We treat children who have to wake up at 5:30 am, get ready for school and get to a bus stop by 6:15 am. We hear from concerned parents and teachers about teens sleeping at school – if not missing school altogether – getting poorer grades, seeing diminished athletic performance and struggling with social interactions, mood disturbances and other mental health concerns. We notice they are not getting enough exercise and

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Indonesian health ministry rejects fabricated articles on ‘high value of unvaccinated sperm’

sarah24/02/2023 37 Views

Indonesia’s health ministry has rubbished a screenshot shared on Facebook and Twitter that purportedly shows an article it published saying that the sperm of unvaccinated men “will be of great value in the future”. The screenshot is doctored to look like a genuine article from the ministry’s Sehat Negeriku news portal. Health experts have debunked misinformation linking Covid-19 vaccines to fertility problems.

“Good news! Sperm of Unvaccinated Men Will Be Highly Valuable in the Future,” reads a screenshot shared in a Facebook post shared on January 26, 2023.

The screenshot appears to show an article published on the same day

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What is Valley Fever? Cases increasing on the Central Coast

sarah08/02/2023 57 Views

Valley Fever is a fungal infection that attacks the lungs. People can become infected when they breathe in fungal spores. The fungus is in the soil in places like the Southwest and the Central Valley. Dr. Martha Blum, medical director of infectious prevention at Montage Health, said the Central Coast soil has the right chemistry and balance of minerals for the fungus. The fungus that creates the spores is found in dry soil and people can get sick when they inhale the dust carrying the dust. “We see the largest exposures are people who work outside in dry, dusty conditions. …

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COVID: Inhaled Canadian vaccine to enter Phase 2 human trials

sarah27/01/2023 21 Views

A new made-in-Canada COVID-19 vaccine that can be inhaled is set to enter Phase 2 human trials.

The vaccine is being developed at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont.

“There is a pressing need to develop new, more effective next-generation vaccine strategies,” McMaster’s vice-president of research, Dr. Karen Mossman, said in a news release. “As international leaders in respiratory mucosal immunity and vaccines, our researchers pivoted quickly with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on an already strong inhaled vaccine research program focused on tuberculosis.”

Pre-clinical trials have already shown that the inhaled aerosol vaccine can be more effective at

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