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Wynd offers indoor air analysis, reporting and improvement to corporate property owners and tenants for safer, more productive workspaces post-COVID

A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has created and posted online a free Lyme and tick-borne disease dashboard. The group has published a paper describing the information available on the dashboard and how to use it on the open-access site PLOS ONE.

The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) reported today the first human Jamestown Canyon Virus (JCV) case in the state since 2013.

A report on hospital admissions in South Africa's worst-affected Omicron (B.1.1.529) COVID-19 variant district—

Sticking to a low-carb diet when dining out can be hard, especially at fast-food restaurants. That's because these meals are often based on bread, tortillas, and other high-carb items. Still, most fast-food restaurants offer some good low-carb options, and many items can easily be modified to fit your lifestyle. Here are 14 delicious fast foods you can eat on a low-carb diet.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to almost normal times, a new, highly mutated variant of the coronavirus has reared its ugly head in the U.S.

So far, US experts are displaying cautious optimism that Omicron may cause more mild illness than Delta or the original strain. "Though it's too early to really make any definitive statements about it, thus far, it does not look like there’s a great degree of severity to it," said Antony Fauci, MD, the White House's top medical advisor, yesterday on CNN.

Scientists assumed that the spread was due to human travel, but when they sequenced the cases, they were surprised to find that these strains weren’t closely related at all. Instead, scientists were seeing multiple, independent infections of an unknown fungal disease, emerging around the world, all at the same time. About a third of people infected with Candida auris die from the infection within 30 days, and there have now been thousands of cases in 47 countries. Some scientists think this sudden boom in global cases is a harbinger of things to come.

Asthma and diet: What’s the connection? If you have asthma, you may be curious about whether certain foods and diet choices could help you manage your condition. There’s no conclusive evidence that a specific diet has an effect on the frequency or severity of asthma attacks.

If you or a loved one has asthma, you should know about the best treatments for short-term relief and long-term control. This will help you and your doctor manage the symptoms. If you have symptoms or an asthma attack, it's important to know when to call your doctor to prevent an emergency.