READ THIS NEXT: If You Feel This in Your Throat, Get Checked for Cancer. Your blood type can affect your risk of various kinds of cancer, recent research suggests. In particular, people who have type AB blood—the least common blood type in the U.S.—are 21 percent more likely to be diagnosed with stomach cancer, compared to people with other blood types, says Penn Medicine. Regardless of your blood type, however, there are several ways to lower your stomach cancer risk....

The KSU study, which was published on Apr. 20, determined that house flies are able to carry and transmit COVID. To reach that conclusion, the scientists exposed house flies to COVID in a lab and then tested them for infectivity. Environmental samples were also tested for infectivity after contact with the COVID-exposed flies. Samples were collected at various times after exposure. According to the researchers, they found that “house flies acquired and harbored infectious SARS-CoV-2 for up to 24 [hours] post-exposure....

In a Jan. 4 preprint of a study published through medRxiv, researchers at England’s University of Birmingham announced the development of a new means of testing for COVID that takes under five minutes to detect the virus. Unlike prior COVID tests, the University of Birmingham researchers’ new test uses only traditional lab equipment and requires no administration of high heat to samples, like the PCR tests commonly used to detect the virus....

“Times are tough out there,” Raising Cane’s CEO AJ Kumaran told CNN. “(Employees are) seeing it at their gas stations and gas pumps, they’re seeing it on their grocery shelves … Things aren’t exactly easy these days, so when we saw there is a chance to not only have a little fun, but maybe win a little bit extra money for our people, we wanted to do it.” 1 Personal Morale Boosters...

Likely reasons: Some people’s retirement savings have declined in the last year, inflation remains high, and the market is uncertain. The average retirement nest egg has fallen 11% to $86,869, down from $98,800 a year ago, the survey found. “It’s a period of uncertainty for many people, driven largely by rising inflation and volatility in the markets,” said Christian Mitchell, executive vice president, and chief customer officer at Northwestern Mutual....

RELATED: This Is When the Pandemic Will Finally Be Over, Former FDA Head Now Says. As of Nov. 5, COVID cases are still declining in the U.S. by more than 1 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But Ashish Jha, MD, dean of Brown’s School of Public Health, says that the situation is a little more complicated than it might seem. The infectious disease expert warns that these numbers are an indication cases are no longer rapidly decreasing....

According to results from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, eating late in the day is known to “increase weight, insulin and cholesterol levels, and negatively affect fat metabolism,” as well as “hormonal markers implicated in heart disease, diabetes and other health problems.” “We know from our sleep loss studies that when you’re sleep deprived, it negatively affects weight and metabolism in part due to late-night eating, but now these early findings, which control for sleep, give a more comprehensive picture of the benefits of eating earlier in the day,” said Namni Goel, PhD, a lead author of the study and professor in psychiatry at Penn Medicine’s division of Sleep and Chronobiology....

READ THIS NEXT: If You’re Over 65, This Hairstyle Is Aging You, Experts Say. You likely pay most attention to your face and neck in your skincare routine—which is exactly why the hands tend to show your age first. “Our hands are ‘our second face,’” says Geneva-based dermatologist Luigi L. Polla, MD, founder of the aesthetic medical center Forever Institut. “The skin is thin and delicate and impacted by a multitude of factors....

To find that out which language did just that, researchers behind the study fitted 10 participants with heart monitors and played flirtatious “chat-up lines” in various languages from around the globe to identify the increase in heart rate from the group’s resting average of 65 beats per minute (bpm). Read on to discover the most—and the least—heart-racing language you should learn if you want to become more attractive to potential partners....

According to a new survey from YouGov, there’s a major divide among Thanksgiving celebrants when it comes to dessert. Among the 1,055 individuals polled, 840 of whom planned to celebrate the holiday this year, 37 percent said they were planning on making their desserts from scratch, while 26 percent said they’d save themselves the hassle and opt for store-bought desserts instead. However, whether your holiday sweets are homemade or come from the freezer case at your local supermarket, there’s a clear standout when it comes to the least popular Thanksgiving dessert....

Etsy CEO Josh Silverman revealed to CNBC that the most searched term on the site is “personalized gifts,” with shoppers flocking to Etsy during the holiday season to find bespoke items they can’t get anywhere else. “These are things you’re going to need every year, in a pandemic, not in a pandemic, and I think what people are discovering is there’s just a better way to shop,” Silverman said. If you’re looking for great presents for your inner circle, read on to discover our favorite personalized gifts from Etsy this year....

At its peak in 2004, Blockbuster had 9,094 stores around the world. In 2010, Blockbuster Corporate filed for bankruptcy and by 2011, more than 6,000 locations had closed. After another location in Alaska shuttered in March 2019, Bend’s Blockbuster was the last one left standing. RELATED: For more up-to-date information, sign up for our daily newsletter. The store is owned by Ken and Debbie Tisher, who moved from California to Bend, Oregon with their two teenagers in 1990....

The debate over whether a second lockdown could happen has been stoked by surging coronavirus cases and recent images of crowded gatherings at bars, restaurants, and public spaces around the country. “COVID’s not taking a summer vacation,” William Schaffner, MD, an infectious diseases expert and professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told CNN. “It’s actually having new opportunities to spread.” Fortunately, many of the medical field’s top experts believe that a second lockdown can be avoided if the guidelines put forth by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are followed....

RELATED: This Is How Much Money Makes You Middle Class in Your State, Data Shows. Median household income: $45,792 Median household income: $48,850 Median household income: $48,952 Median household income: $51,073 Median household income: $51,734 Median household income: $51,945 Median household income: $52,295 Median household income: $54,449 Median household income: $56,071 Median household income: $56,227 Median household income: $57,153 Median household income: $57,341 Median household income: $57,409 Median household income: $57,603 Median household income: $58,642 Median household income: $58,924 Median household income: $59,227 RELATED: This Is How Much Money You Need to Live Comfortably in Your State....

The study, which was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, tested several popular strategies for lessening the blow of a bad breakup. They gathered 24 test subjects between the ages of 20 to 37, all of whom had recently concluded a significant relationship. Regardless of whether they had initiated their split or were on the receiving end of the breakup, all of the participants expressed strong, lingering feelings for their ex-partners....

Sure, maybe you’re not getting the satisfaction you had hoped from the experience. After all, you deserve pleasure, and it’s empowering to speak up for it. But phrasing it this way can only make matters worse, for both of you. “This statement can make everything go wrong as soon as you spit it out of your mouth,” says relationship expert Amy Olson. “I don’t mean you can’t communicate your needs or what you would like better....

“I think the issue is more the speed of the reopening and how you reopened,” Gottlieb said in a recent interview with American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a public policy think tank where he is a resident fellow. “You could have reopened early but reopened more deliberately and left certain things shut [down] along a period of time.” Gottlieb pointed to bars as one business that reopened too quickly, along with casinos and other popular gathering spots....

“It is certainly better than it was,” Joshua LaBaer, MD, executive director of the Arizona State University Biodesign Institute told FOX 10 Phoenix. “We haven’t reversed the trends, but I do feel confident in saying we have stabilized at a plateau that is encouraging.“ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb Arizona only had 790 new coronavirus cases on May 30. Only a month later, the state reached a high for new single-day coronavirus cases on June 30 with 5,283 new infections, a surge some attributed to Arizona’s early reopening, which began in mid-May....

RELATED: Virus Experts Are Sending This New Warning to Vaccinated People. While infections are still dropping in the country at the moment, we could see a trend reversal in the coming weeks. “I expect we’ll see a wave in the U.S. sooner than what most people expect,” Kristian Andersen, PhD, a virologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, told The New York Times on March 19. According to Andersen, the next COVID surge could hit the U....

In Aug. 2019, Worthy—an online auction marketplace—partnered up with six divorce and relationship experts to conduct a survey on dating after divorce, speaking with 1,700 women from across the country. According to their findings, 32 percent of women began dating when they were separated (but not yet divorced), 21 percent of women started dating within six months of getting divorced, and 12 percent of women began dating between six months to a year after getting divorced....