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READ THIS NEXT: Doing This at Night Makes You 30 Percent More Likely to Develop Dementia. Many different types of dementia exist, and they present with a wide range of symptoms. In their earliest stages, some of these may appear similar to the normal effects of aging, though experts say they are decidedly distinct. “Normal, age-related memory changes are very different from dementia,” says Verna Porter, MD, neurologist and director of Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurocognitive Disorders at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, CA....

Conducted by OnePoll on behalf of Diamondère, the survey asked respondents to weigh in on their past, present, and future relationships, including what astrological sign they absolutely refuse to date. Read on to discover the least desirable zodiac sign. RELATED: This Is the Least Vaccinated Zodiac Sign, Data Shows. People who refuse to date this sign: 7 percent If your birthday falls between Feb. 19 and March 20, you are a Pisces, which is a water sign symbolized by two fish and the last constellation of the zodiac....

RELATED: The One Thing Every Major Department Store Has Now Permanently Banned. Respondents who purchased it while drunk: 16 percent For the latest retail news delivered straight to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter! Respondents who purchased it while drunk: 16 percent Respondents who purchased it while drunk: 17 percent Respondents who purchased it while drunk: 22 percent Respondents who purchased it while drunk: 26 percent Respondents who purchased it while drunk: 28 percent Respondents who purchased it while drunk: 30 percent Respondents who purchased it while drunk: 36 percentae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb Respondents who purchased it while drunk: 46 percent

Of course, it’s no secret that while the pay gap persists across the U.S., some states have more inequity than others. That’s exactly why the financial site GOBankingRates analyzed data from the U.S. Census Bureau to identify the states with the smallest and largest pay gaps in the U.S. In crunching the numbers, they found that women make less than 70 cents for every dollar a man makes in each of the worst-offending 15 states....

RELATED: For more up-to-date information, sign up for our daily newsletter. A team of doctors and scientists from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Naval Medical Research Center, and the Henry. M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine came together to show how the immune response of someone who had no side effects differs from that of someone who had strong ones. In their study, which was posted to the pre-print website medRxiv on July 2 and has not yet been peer-reviewed, the authors explain they wanted to look into the connection due to all of the confusion equating side effects and efficacy....

During a recent interview with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show, Fauci said it’s not all that hard to wear your mask most of the time you’re at the table. “I think because there’s enough movement of people that are usually within six feet that you probably should [wear a mask],” he explained. “What I do is I put it around my neck, then I can eat or drink, and then I can put it back up when you’re waiting for the waiter....

RELATED: 70 Percent of Hospitalized Omicron Patients Have This in Common. During an interview with CNN on Dec. 20, Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota, warned that conditions were in place to create a “perfect storm” for the latest variant to drive up cases. However, he explained that this increase would likely not be limited to specific areas as previous spikes have tended to be....

A study published Dec. 28 in Experimental Physiology says that when taking your temperature measurements for COVID, you should be doing so in two different places: your finger and your eye. The reason you need these two measurements is because you should be measuring your deep, core body temperature. According to the researchers, even a 1 degree increase in deep body temperature could “indicate the onset of fever by a viral infection....

Customers are calling for a boycott of Trader Joe’s after a former New York employee said he was fired for expressing his concerns about store safety policies. On Feb. 26, Ben Bonnema tweeted that he had been fired from his job at a Trader Joe’s in Manhattan. According to Bonnema’s tweets, he was fired in response to a letter he wrote “advocating for a safer workplace” amid the COVID pandemic....

Tammy Chen, DDS, a dentist based in New York City, wrote an article for The New York Times in which she said she has seen at least one tooth fracture every single day since she reopened her practice in early June. On average, she sees around three to four fractures daily—with the worst days giving her at least six patients with fractures.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb Chen says she has “seen more tooth fractures in the last six weeks than in the previous six years....

READ THIS NEXT: U.S. National Parks Are Getting Rid of This for Visitors, Starting Now. National parks are wildly popular tourist destinations in their own right, where all forces of nature are on display. But while they may be a spectacle in some cases, they also can alter the visitor experience and even partially or fully close sites. The most recent notable example is the catastrophic flooding that struck Yellowstone National Park on June 14....

Yet there are many reasons to be cautiously optimistic about the pandemic’s future, vaccines being chief among them. With three highly efficacious shots on the market, we now have a way to push back against these new COVID variants by slowing their spread. And while any of the current vaccines may be effective against emerging variants, only one company has formally assessed their own product and found it to be effective against these new threats....

On March 1, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that pet food manufacturer Vitakraft Sun Seed, Inc. had recalled one of its pet foods due to potential Salmonella contamination. Read on to discover if the pet food you have in your cabinet could be putting your furry friend’s health—or yours—in harm’s way. And for more products to get rid of, If You Have This Quaker Oats Product at Home, Get Rid of It Now, FDA Says....

YogaWorks had initially announced temporary closures of all of its studios due to COVID precautions, revealing in April that its New York-based studios would be closing for good. “The economic realities are clear that there is no path to reduce our losses and get the New York region to break-even,” said YogaWorks CEO Brian Cooper in a statement at the time. He added that the company had “tried desperately to keep New York afloat....

RELATED: This One Royal Will “Never Forgive” Harry and Meghan, Say Insiders. Sally Hawkins, who you may recognize from The Shape of Water, plays a Sandringham staffer—a dresser named Maggie—in Spencer. It’s an important role, as Diana says things to Maggie that she wouldn’t to any of her royal in-laws. But Maggie isn’t based on a real person—or, at least, she isn’t based on one real person. Steven Knight, who wrote the script for Spencer, told Vulture that he interviewed several real Sandringham staff members to find out what a stay like the one depicted in the film would have been like....

To get to the root of the problem, we diligently pored over the most recent results of the National Surveys on Drug Use and Health conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and used the number of people in each state with illicit drug use disorder (meaning they are addicted to one or more illicit substances) and the most recent population data to calculate how many people have illicit substance use disorder per capita*....

A 2020 study from car insurance website Insurify analyzed a database of more than 2.5 million car insurance applications, tabulating disclosures from the applicants regarding failure to yield violations, failure to stop violations, tailgating, passing where prohibited, improper backing, street racing, and hit-and-run accidents. The data scientists measured the number of applicants guilty of at least one of these violations in areas with more than 50,000 residents, and cities with the largest number of drivers with one or more of these infractions were ranked as ruder than those with fewer violators....

To find out, we at Best Life first measured three factors: the appeal and diversity of the restaurant scene; the sustainability and popularity of locally grown produce and meat; and the ease of accessing healthy, affordable food. For the first metric, we turned to travel experts Far and Wide, which ranked each state based on the quality, diversity, and appeal of local restaurants. Then, for the latter two metrics, we factored in Strolling of the Heifer’s most recent Locavore Index, which uses several stats to rank all 50 states based on their level of commitment to producing healthy, local food....

On June 29, Gov. Doug Ducey ordered gyms, bars, movie theaters, and water parks to all shutter once again for at least 30 days shortly after new COVID-19 cases exceeded 3,000 for the seventh time in 10 days, NPR reported. This includes Arizona’s single-day record of 3,800 new cases. “Our numbers continue to increase,” Ducey told reporters at a press conference on Monday. “Our expectation is that our numbers next week will be worse,” he added, calling Arizona’s COVID-19 situation “brutal....

RELATED: Doing This After Your Vaccine Can Make Side Effects Worse, Doctors Say. Researchers from the Scripps Research Translational Institute in California reported on physiological responses to the COVID vaccines, publishing an early version of their study May 4 on medRxiv. The researchers collected data from more than 4,000 Americans using a smartphone-based app that reports on physiological activities from smartwatches, and found that some people experience increased heart rate as a reaction to the vaccine....