Researchers sought to determine how blood pressure medication could impact heart health, publishing their meta-analysis May 1 in the journal The Lancet. The researchers analyzed data from 48 trials that included more than 344,700 participants, and found that each 5 mm Hg (millimeters of mercury) reduction in systolic blood pressure reduced someone’s risk of heart attack by about 10 percent—even if they had normal blood pressure levels and no history of heart disease....

‘Tricked You!" Alves wrote next to a photo of herself wearing a black and red bikini and sunglasses. “Just a early #tbt. Hope you are having a beautiful summer and NO my body doesn’t look like this now,” she continued adding some crying-laughing emoji. “Just a friendly reminder to LOVE YOURSELF in any stage you are in,” she added, noting it’s “not easy when you are not at your ideal place....

READ THIS NEXT: A Barista Is Rating Celebrities Based on How Rude They Are. In the TikTok, Siwa, outdoors and dressed for the pool, answers prompts by flashing photos of celebrities on her phone. While she flips the screen quickly towards and away from the camera, it’s possible to pause and see who her pick is for each superlative. When the text, “rudest celebrity I’ve met…” pops up, the 19-year-old shows a photo of Bure, 46, who first came to fame as a child playing D....

“Hey everyone, it’s me,” Inaba begins her video. “I just wanted to come on and let you know I just tested positive for COVID-19. So, I am home and I am following the guidelines.” She goes on to share more about her symptoms and encourage everyone watching to be as careful as they can. “Because you don’t want this,” she adds. Read on to find out what Inaba shared about her symptoms and how her diagnosis is affecting her TV show The Talk....

“I think there was a lot of wishful thinking around the country that, ‘Hey, it’s summer,’” she said, per reporting by CNBC. “‘Everything’s going to be fine. We’re over this.’ And we are not even beginning to be over this. There are a lot of worrisome factors about the last week or so.” RELATED: For more up-to-date information, sign up for our daily newsletter. On June 26, the U.S. recorded over 46,000 new coronavirus cases, shattering the record of the previous peak, which occurred in April....

Keep reading to find out when they were together and why it didn’t last. If you had no idea that some of these relationships ever happened, don’t worry—neither did just about everyone else. And for snaps of pairs in their honeymoon phase, check out 13 Photos of Celebrity Couples When They First Got Together. The late rapper Tupac lived a lot of life despite dying at the age of 25, and that included a brief relationship with Madonna....

RELATED: Dr. Fauci Just Gave This Urgent Warning to Vaccinated People Amid New Variant. During an appearance on CBS’s Face the Nation on Dec. 5, Gottlieb was asked whether a recent anime convention in New York City that may have become one of the earliest superspreader events for Omicron in the U.S. was proof Omicron could spread more easily. He explained that anecdotal evidence would be difficult to use in making that case, especially since entry to the convention only required one dose of vaccine....

1 Ex-Employee Paid Entirely in Small Change. Very Small Change The UK Times reports that a health management company in Changsha was ordered to repay a former employee 10,000 yuan (about $1,400) in wages and compensation after it fired her without cause and lost a dispute in an arbitration court. The head of the company, which has not been disclosed, told an employee to go to several banks and obtain 10,000 yuan in small change....

According to a June 14 report from ESPN, football players at Ohio State have been asked to sign a two-page waiver indicating their understanding that they may be exposed to coronavirus during their practices and agreeing to abide by the guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These include wearing masks in public and maintaining social distance, self-monitoring for coronavirus symptoms, and self-quarantining if necessary. Similar forms have recently been adopted as requirements for attending a rally, returning to work at the New York Stock Exchange, and working out at certain branches of the YMCA....

RELATED: Never Buy These 6 Things at Costco, Experts Warn. If you go to Costco for your cleaning supplies, you might have noticed that one product has significantly increased in price. On Jan. 23, a Costco shopper posted a price comparison on Reddit of a 40-pound container of Clorox’s Xtra Blue chlorinating tabs for pools and spas sold in a Northern California Costco store for both 2021 and 2022. According to the shopper’s photos, the chlorinating cleaner tabs were $129....

RELATED: The One Thing Every Major Department Store Has Now Permanently Banned. CVS announced on July 15 that it would be pausing the sale of two of its sun-care products. The company is pulling both CVS Health After Sun Aloe Vera and CVS Health After Sun Aloe Vera Spray from its shelves. A CVS spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal that the company halted sales of these two products “out of an abundance of caution....

During a recent interview on The Graham Norton Show, Kaluuya said that he was not invited to the world premiere of Get Out, which took place at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2017. Kaluuya, who stars in the recently released biopic Judas and the Black Messiah, doesn’t say why he wasn’t invited, but it’s clear that he was all set to attend. He made sure to have his schedule open even though he was in the middle of filming the Marvel movie Black Panther....

Brazilian researchers published their findings on how non-disinfected toothbrushes could enable coronavirus spread in The Journal of Infectious Diseases in December. In the study, researchers concluded that toothbrushes “act as reservoirs for microorganisms, favoring the transmission of diseases in heathy and sick individuals.” This is especially concerning during the COVID pandemic because an earlier May study found that high viral loads of coronavirus can be found in the saliva, nasopharynx, and oropharynx—even in asymptomatic patients....

RELATED: This One Symptom Could Be Your First Sign of Omicron, Doctors Warn. One of the more difficult challenges posed by COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic has been understanding how it can affect people differently. Now, doctors are citing dizziness or lightheadedness as a symptom of Omicron that can get overlooked compared to other signs of infection. Health officials have pointed out that mounting research shows the symptom has been reported in patients....

RELATED: If You Bought This at Family Dollar, Stop Using It Immediately. On Feb. 8, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced that Kia Motors America and Hyundai Motor America had issued a recall on certain vehicles due to a potentially serious safety issue. For Hyundai, the affected vehicles include the 2016-2018 model year Santa Fe SUVs, 2017-2018 Santa Fe Sport SUVs, the 2019 model Santa Fe XL, and 2014-2015 model Tucson SUVs....

While many of these new approaches prioritize convenience, they can be risky. In an article published by the National Library of Medicine, researchers found that some of the potential hazards related to telehealth include the potential for misdiagnosis, as well as privacy and security risks. The virtual prescribing of controlled substances has raised concerns as well—especially in combination with possibly misleading advertising that may result in self-diagnosis. In early 2022, NBC News reported that Meta and TikTok had “pulled advertisements from a major mental health care startup” because the ads “promoted negative body images and contained misleading health claims....

RELATED: If Your Hair Is Thinning, This Food Could Be to Blame, Study Says. Hair loss in the shower is a given—you’ve been finding it in the drain since the days when any thinning hair woes couldn’t have been further from your mind. According to the American Academy of Dermatologists (AAD), losing between 50 to 100 strands throughout the day is totally normal. But using hot water to wash your hair may be upping those numbers by weakening your strands, creating more hair loss over time....

RELATED: If You Live in These States, Don’t Drive With Your Windows Down, Officials Warn. Whether you’re looking to sit back and relax in your yard, hit the beach, or find a hiking trail, it’s ill-advised to wear dark clothing. Experts told The New York Times that people should wear light-colored clothing so that you can spot ticks that might’ve latched on to you. If you wear black or other dark colors, the parasitic bugs can be easier to miss, which gives them more time to suck your blood and potentially infect you with Lyme disease....

Health experts are speaking out about their side effects in order to assure the public that much of what may seem like a negative or painful reaction to the COVID vaccine is normal; in fact, it’s just a sign your body is working to build immunity against the virus should you eventually come in contact with it. During a Jan. 28 interview with MSNBC, Fauci said, “The vaccine, because you’re giving it in the arm, it gives a systemic reaction....

While appearing via video at a press conference held by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Dec. 7, Fauci pressed the executive on the issue of in-person learning being suspended while bars and restaurants remain open across the state. Despite initial concerns that students would have high infection rates when classrooms reopened, Fauci argued that “we’re not finding that with this coronavirus.” He added: “The test positivity in schools is actually really low, which is really a good thing....