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New Amazon health wristband gauges happiness

Amazon-Halo band is now here! Amazon is one of the most popular online shopping website used by a lot of people nowadays. With the help of microphones in th...

Entire flight told to self-isolate after seven confirmed COVID-19 cases

The number of cases linked to the flight has since been revised to 16. According to one of the passengers who spoke to BBC Radio 4, the flight was "full of ...

Who changed the CDC's guidance on coronavirus testing (and why)?

Several large us states including Texas are not heeding new federal health officials' calls to reduce COVID-19 testing of some exposed to the virus , joining ...

Antiviral Drugs For Cats May Help Fight Covid In Humans

The new findings are being reported by scientists at the University of Alberta (U of A), one of whom was also involved in the earliest work on the antiviral d...

Celebrity Bodybuilder, Fitness Coach Satnam Khatra Dead

His death was announced by his coach Rohit Khera on social media. He is 31 years old and born on February 23, 1989. But unfortunately, Satnam Khattra passed a...

Children need extensive testing to identify ‘silently shedding’ COVID-19

They were children with no sign of corona infection. Thanks to such measures, the researchers write, the medics were able to discover 90 infection cases among...

Amazon launches Halo to take on Fitbit, Apple Watch and others

From smart speakers to tablets and related services that function entirely within its ecosystem. Amazon has introduced its new fitness band Amazon Halo ...

Amazon launches Halo fitness tracker to rival Fitbit

Both iOS and Android users will be able to use this band. The Halo device that uses Amazon " Tone " technology looks like a Fitbit tracker more than an A...

Entire TUI flight from Greece to Wales told to self-isolate

All passengers on a flight from a Greek island to the Welsh city of Cardiff have been asked to self-isolate as seven of them tested positive for COVID-19, local...

Amazon enters wearable market with Halo fitness band

But Amazon is offering limited-time access to the Halo Band and 6 months of the Halo service for just $64.99 . Along with the Halo Band , Amazon announced ...

Fauci Concerned About CDC's Virus Testing Change

Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, an infectious disease physician in Palo Alto, said the change is "potentially risky", adding , "I feel like this is going to make thing...

Australia records its deadliest day of pandemic

Victoria has recorded its highest death toll yet with 41 fatalities and 73 new cases of coronavirus on Monday. The country of about 25 million has recorded so...

CDC Director clarifies coronavirus testing guidance

Even so, anyone with a known exposure should quarantine and consider seeking a test, Kuppalli said, adding , "We still need to be careful". But Dr. "Now read...

Ontario reports 112 new COVID-19 cases, one new death

The total number of cases that have been resolved province-wide now stands at 38,204 - that means over 90 per cent of cases have cleared. Of those, approxim...

Amazon introduce Halo, a fitness band and subscription platform

I say barebones because the Halo Band does not have a screen and only a tiny sensor capsule. The scope of growth in the fitness band market has prompted tec...

Ottawa's number of active COVID-19 cases drop, bucking week-long trend

The province recorded 122 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Friday, 118 on Thursday and 88 on Wednesday. According to public health officials, there are...

People With Mild or No Symptoms Still Need to Be Tested

On the agency's RADx website , officials underscore the importance of prioritizing tests that can "detect people who are asymptomatic ". After the U.S. If y...

Asymptomatic People Exposed To COVID Should Also Be Tested

Dr. Carlos del Rio, an infectious diseases specialist at Emory University, said that possible explanation for the change is that President Donald Trump simply...

This is Amazon’s answer to Apple Watch, Fitbit and others

Customers in the United States can request early access to the Halo Band and 6-month Halo app membership for a discounted price of $64.99 starting today. Am...

Amazon jumps into wellness tracking, challenges Apple and Fitbit

Interestingly, Amazon told The Verge that it has not submitted the device to the FDA for any sort of approval, including the less rigorous "FDA clearance" c...

State unveils new criteria and system for countywide reopenings

As for in-person schooling, the system established last month remains in place, but simply swaps being in Tier 1 for being on the "watch list". Professional spo...

Long-term health-care worker in Brandon, Man., tests positive for COVID-19

The total number of lab-confirmed cases stands at 1,096. Effective Today, public health orders will require Manitobans to self-isolate for 14 days after testi...

Singapore battles record dengue outbreak with more mosquitoes

In government laboratories, scientists breed the bacteria-carrying mosquitoes in rows of pallets - separating the male pupae for release in high-risk dengue are...

Putin's daughter 'develops' Covid-19 antibodies after taking vaccine

But no vaccine has yet passed the final stage of trials proving it is safe and effective - conditions usually required to be met to get regulatory approval for ...

Coronavirus: Cases continue to rise in Northern Ireland

There are 142 new cases in Ireland. The number of people in intensive care units remains low, with five confirmed cases at present and nine suspected. "Today ...

Ninth Timmins-area COVID-19 related death confirmed

Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit's medical officer of health, Dr. Charles Gardner, said the two men knew each other but, due to privacy concerns, could not d...

Maine's COVID-19 Case Count Rises By Another 22, No New Deaths

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Maine Department of Health and Human Services on Friday reinstated the license of the Millinocket inn that h...

United States slams China for using 'bullying tactics' against UK

Citing these reports , he said the bank was "maintaining accounts for individuals who have been sanctioned for denying freedom for Hong Kongers, while shutting...

FDA Fires 2 After Blood Plasma PR Disaster Mars Agency

But scientists, Thomas and Fink report in the Times , "were taken aback by the way the administration framed this data, which appeared to have been calculate...

Canadian COVID-19 clinical trial scrapped after China wouldn't ship potential vaccine

He said the "post-registration research" will last six months and involve 40,000 people. Let me tell you that the trial of corona vaccine is now going on in d...