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“We’ve also known for a while that some COVID-19 patients’ hearts are taking a beating—but over the past few weeks, the evidence has strengthened that cardiac damage can happen even among people who have never displayed symptoms of coronavirus infection,” Carolyn Barber, MD, a veteran emergency department physician, wrote for Scientific American. Barber says COVID heart damage is centralized around myocarditis, a disease that causes inflammation of the heart muscle....

Marquardt lived in the Playboy Mansion from 2002 to 2009. She also appeared on the reality TV series The Girls Next Door about Hefner’s three girlfriends at the time—Marquardt, Holly Madison, and Kendra Wilkinson—from 2005 to 2009. After her time on the show, she hosted a TV series about travel, but then took a major career turn and became a paranormal investigator and has hosted her own podcast, Ghost Magnet, since 2019....

However, it’s not just aggressive behavior from this animal you have to watch out for—if this animal is acting friendly to you, it’s time to call the authorities. Read on to find out how to best protect yourself against this potential danger this summer. RELATED: If You See This Bug, Call Local Officials Immediately, Experts Warn. While fluffy adult raccoons and their bandit-masked babies may be adorable to humans, don’t get too close if you see one in your yard....

Bonior explains that not agreeing on what your relationship issues are can send your romance spiraling because if you can’t even decide which problems you need to address, it’s very difficult to progress to a healthier place. “It’s particularly difficult to begin to work on a problem when there is a total disagreement about what that problem is,” Bonior writes, adding that blaming one another for your relationship issues can lead to your relationship’s ultimate collapse....

RELATED: If You Bought This From Walmart, Stop Using It Immediately. On Nov. 20, KraftHeinz announced it was recalling specific containers of Country Time Lemonade, Tang, Arizona Tea powdered beverages, and limited Kool-Aid powdered beverages. According to a notice posted on its website the same day, the recall also includes products that were sold at Walmart and Sam’s Club locations across the U.S. The affected products have “Best When Used By” dates between May 10, 2023 and Nov....

You might want to think twice about choosing potato chips as your late-night snack. A 2006 study from the European Society of Endocrinology found that salty foods can delay how quickly people fall asleep, cause people to wake up more frequently throughout the night, and create sleep disturbances for two to three hours. When the participants in the study were finally able to fall asleep, the salty foods decreased deep sleep, resulting in “superficial at best” rest....

RELATED: If You Got Pfizer, You May Have This Delayed Side Effect, New Study Says. The study—which was released as a preprint on July 23, but has not yet been peer reviewed—looked at the immune response among 503 U.K. healthcare workers who received the Pfizer vaccine between Dec. 9 and May 23. Researchers from various U.K. universities tested and analyzed the antibody and T cell responses (which are used to determine immunity levels) among the workers against different COVID variants....

RELATED: Drinking One Glass of This Per Day Can Slash Your Stroke Risk, Study Says. The latest research comes from a team at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health that was recently published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Scientists examined 372 blood metabolites in almost 5,000 people, ultimately finding that 41 metabolites were associated with coffee consumption. Of all the metabolites detected, one—glycochenodeoxycholate, a lipid involved in primary bile acid metabolism—is considered potentially beneficial to kidney health....

READ THIS NEXT: USPS Just Sent Out This Major Warning About a “Serious Threat” to Everyone. The USPS has made a number of changes to its service over the past few months, and it is has been warning us that it’s still planning to make more as the year goes on. In April, the agency warned customers that it would start slowing down delivery times for almost a third of its First-Class Packages in May—increasing the time it takes for certain packages to get to you by one or two days....

RELATED: If You Get This Message from Your Bank, Contact Authorities, FBI Says. According to John E. DiScala, founder of the Johnny Jet travel blog, there’s a new scam targeting potential victims by disguising itself as an alert from American Airlines. The message claims that “your primary email was changed” in the subject line and uses a very legitimate-looking layout in the body. DiScala writes that since he had just canceled a flight with the airline earlier in the day, when he first received one of the messages on his phone he didn’t pay it much mind....

RELATED: Moderna Just Made This Major Announcement About Its COVID Vaccine. The latest findings, which were published in the journal Science on Sept. 14, come from a team of researchers from La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) who set out to study how long immunity against COVID-19 would last in patients given the Modern mRNA vaccine at different dosage levels. The team compared the immune responses seen in recovered COVID patients with those who had received two 25 microgram (mg) injections of the vaccine 28 days apart—which is a quarter of the 100 mg doses currently administered in shots—during phase one clinical trials....

READ THIS NEXT: If You Bought This at Walmart, Stop Using It, Officials Warn After 62 Injuries. The CPSC was established in 1972 to “protect the public against unreasonable risk of injuries and deaths associated with consumer products,” according to the agency’s website. Appliances generally fall under the regulator’s jurisdiction, and recalls happen more often than we’d like. In June, the CPSC announced that certain Frigidaire and Electrolux refrigerators were recalled due to a faulty ice level detector arm in the ice maker....

READ THIS NEXT: If You Have This Tree in Your Yard, Kill It and Cut It Down, Experts Warn. At first glance, it’s difficult to determine whether a plant is friend or foe. Botanists and scientists are often issuing warnings about dangerous plants, which are generally of the invasive variety. To be classified as “invasive,” the plant must be both non-native to the U.S. and “likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health,” the U....

On March 20, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that 68 different types of pasta had been recalled after it was discovered they had been distributed without appropriate inspection by the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The affected products include meat-filled pastas from brands including Ambrosino’s, Calabria Imports, Conde di Savoia, Countryside Fresh Markets, Frankie’s Deli, Frank’s Deli, Gene’s Marketplace On Oakton, Minelli Meat & Deli, Nature’s Best, Piatto Pronto, Prisco’s Family Market, S&T Provisions, Tony’s Italian Deli & Subs, Vesuvio Bakery and Deli, Avanza Pasta, Fratello’s, Caputo, and Zeppe’s Italian Market....

RELATED: If You Use This Medication, Throw It Away Now, FDA Says. On Oct. 13, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) posted a new draft, recommended a change in guidance for adults 60 years and older taking daily aspirin as a preventative measure against heart attack and stroke. According to the new document, the task force has found that the potential harm of taking this medicine every day cancels out its benefits for adults of this age group....

Some individuals are now seeing an alarming message pop up when they’re trying to watch a movie or show on Netflix: “If you don’t live with the owner of this account, you need your own account to keep watching.“ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb But you shouldn’t panic about having to shell out for your own Netflix account just yet. In a statement, the company says, “This test is designed to help ensure that people using Netflix accounts are authorized to do so,” meaning it’s intended to protect your privacy, not just keep your friend from bingeing Gilmore Girls on your account....

READ THIS NEXT: Walmart and Dollar General Are Under Fire for Doing This to Customers. Dollar General is working to increase its store count nationwide, as reported by Forbes, with plans to open another 1,110 new stores in 2022. The retailer has plans to increase access for rural populations, where residents often need to travel pretty far to get to their “local” grocery stores, the outlet reported. But with an increased number of stores, Dollar General is also looking inward, and that means there are plans set in motion for existing locations....

The timelines for the Modern and Pfizer vaccines—spread four and three weeks apart, respectively—were impressed upon the public by the CDC and other public health and medical professionals. The CDC advised everyone to get the “second dose as close as possible to the recommended interval. If the second dose is not administered within 42 days of the first dose, the series does not need to be restarted. Second doses inadvertently administered less than 21 days apart do not need to be repeated....

On April 20, the FDA announced that Church & Dwight Co. had voluntarily recalled multiple types of gummy vitamins manufactured under the Vitafusion label. The recalled vitamins include the brand’s Vitafusion 50-count Kids Melatonin gummies printed with UPC number 0-27917-00170-8; Vitafusion 220-count Fiber Well gummies printed with UPC number 0-27917-01984-0; Vitafusion 250-count SleepWell gummies printed with UPC number 0-27917-02524-7; Vitafusion 150-count MultiVites gummies printed with UPC number 0-27917-01919-2; Vitafusion 44-count Melatonin gummies printed with UPC number 0-27917-28011-0; Vitafusion 140-count Melatonin gummies printed with UPC number 0-27917-02671-8; and Vitafusion 90-count Fiber Well gummies printed with UPC number 0-27917-01890-4....

Unfortunately, if you’re using one particular headache treatment, you could be putting yourself in harm’s way, according to authorities. Read on to discover if you should be tossing this treatment from your headache arsenal now. RELATED: If You Take Any of These 6 Supplements, the FDA Has a New Warning for You. On June 24, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that Plant Guru had recalled its Headache Relief Essential Oil Blend and Headache Relief Roll-On Essential Oil Blend due to improper packaging....