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RELATED: These Products Sold at Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Other Stores Are Being Recalled. The new recall concerns two ceiling fans, which are identical but were sold under different brand identities: Harbor Breeze 52-inch Belleisle Bay and Honeywell 52-inch Rio ceiling fans, per the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The Harbor Breeze Belleisle Bay ceiling fans in question have a brushed nickel housing finish (model number 40650) or an oil-rubbed bronze housing finish (model number 40651)....

READ THIS NEXT: The No. 1 Way to Keep Snakes From Getting in Through Your Toilet. If you’re wondering why snakes have their preferred hiding spots, there are a few things to keep in mind. First, snakes are cold-blooded, meaning they can’t regulate their own body temperature. In the summer, they’re often looking for somewhere cool, and vice versa in the winter. They can get warm behind appliances or cool on the tiled floors of a bathroom....

RELATED: Selma Blair Reveals the First Sign She Had Multiple Sclerosis. On Aug. 10, Applegate took to Twitter to announce that she had been diagnosed with MS. “Hi friends. A few months ago, I was diagnosed with MS. It’s been a strange journey,” she wrote on her page. “It’s been a tough road. But as we all know, the road keeps going. Unless some a****** blocks it.” In a second tweet, Applegate shared insight from one of her friends who has the same condition....

The study, from Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, were published in the Virology Journal in October and the researchers found that the smoother surfaces of cell phone screens and banknotes allow COVID to live for longer. Of particular concern was how much stronger the virus was than flu, which only survived for 17 days under the same conditions. “Our results show that SARS-CoV-2 can remain infectious on surfaces for long periods of time, reinforcing the need for good practices such as regular handwashing and cleaning surfaces,” Debbie Eagles, MD, co-author of the study, said in a statement....

Some experts are suggesting that you skip your daily sweat session in the two hours before and after you sit down for your shot. Rob Simon, MD, allergist and immunologist at the Scripps Clinic, told CBS News 8 that vigorous exercise right after the shot could potentially affect the flow of the vaccine. Once the shot is delivered into your muscle, “you want that vaccine to come out of the muscle into your bloodstream to start to educate your immune system at a certain rate—the rate at which was studied in the clinical trials....

Read the original article on Best Life. During an interview with Washington University Internal Medicine on Jan. 7, Fauci commented on the worsening situation in California. “There are some regions of the country that are really getting to the point of what we consider the unimaginable where you actually have to triage and determine who’s going to get taken care of and who’s not,” said Fauci. “I refer specifically to the very difficult situation that’s going on in California....

During a Jan. 5 interview with Newsday, Fauci was asked about whether the COVID vaccine will be made mandatory. The doctor said that he expects some places will mandate the vaccine. “There will be individual institutions—they can be hospitals, they can be workplaces, they can be schools—where the authorities in charge of that say that in order to participate in the activities of this institution, you have to get vaccinated,” he explained....

During a Twitter Q&A with the White House COVID-19 Response Team on Feb. 4, Fauci was asked which vaccine he specifically recommended. “Of all the vaccines available which one would you recommend based on trial results; effectiveness; length of immunity & number of doses required,” a follower asked. Simply put, Fauci said, “I urge everyone to receive the vaccine that is made available to you.” He added that both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines and the upcoming Johnson & Johnson vaccine “are all highly effective in preventing severe disease....

RELATED: If You Eat This Once a Day, Your Dementia Risk Increases, Study Says. In one study, published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia in March 2017, a team of researchers analyzed data collected from 4,000 people in the Framingham Heart Study’s Offspring and Third-Generation cohorts. These groups are comprised of the children and grandchildren of the original participants who enrolled in the landmark study in 1948. The team then assessed each participant’s beverage consumption habits, considering those who drank two sugary beverages a day—which included fruit juice, soda, or other soft drinks—as well as those who consumed more than three drinks of just soda alone per week....

On Tuesday, March 16, DSW CEO Roger Rawlins confirmed that the business had seen a 34 percent dip in sales amid the pandemic. To offset these losses—amounting to approximately $489 million in total—the company plans to shutter 24 of its stores in 2021, and an additional 41 over the next four years, Columbus Business First reports. “Until [customers] come back to us for the social occasion, this is the game that we’ve gotta play,” explained Rawlins....

RELATED: Drinking One Glass of This a Day Slashes Your Heart Disease Risk, Study Says. You may not want to hold back on the seasonings the next time you’re whipping up something in the kitchen. A new study conducted by researchers from Penn State University and Texas Tech University has found that eating just 1.5 teaspoons of herbs and spices each day can help improve your heart health by lowering your blood pressure....

To announce her pregnancy, Ratajkowski penned an essay for Vogue as their newest cover star. Along with sharing the news itself, the essay also explained why Ratajkowski and her husband don’t want to know the gender of their child (“We won’t know the gender until our child is 18 and that they’ll let us know then”). Ratajkowski’s friend, Award-winning director Dunham, also created a short film for Vogue to accompany the announcement, featuring curated moments of Ratajkowski’s pregnancy thus far and voiceover of her wondering about the child she’ll soon meet....

Today, all three actors have moved on, and Thompson is on good terms with the woman Branagh cheated with. In a recent interview with The New Yorker, the star opened up about how she felt when she found out about the affair and confessed that she had been “utterly, utterly blind” to it. Read to see what else 63-year-old Thompson had to say about her high-profile divorce. READ THIS NEXT: Ethan Hawke Said He “Had No Business” Marrying Uma Thurman....

RELATED: 40 Percent of People Who Get Severe COVID After Pfizer Have This in Common. As health experts warn that unvaccinated people are at major risk of contracting the highly contagious Delta variant that has become the dominant strain in the U.S., concern has also risen over rare “breakthrough” infections of fully vaccinated individuals. But experts say the one warning sign that a COVID test is necessary is if you develop symptoms, regardless of whether you’re vaccinated or not....

The study, published in the August-December 2020 edition of Computers in Human Behavior Reports, used a questionnaire to evaluate phone use and the psychopathological symptoms of 495 adults, aged 18 to 24, in Portugal. Researchers found a positive correlation between nomophobia and certain disorders, meaning that if someone has one of these specific mental health conditions—for example, depression—they are more likely to also experience anxiety when away from their phone....

“Everything Harry and Meghan have done and have announced they will do is very clearly distancing themselves from the family,” a source told me. “Hollywood and the monarchy do not mix.” As part of their exit agreement formalized earlier this year, Harry and Meghan retained their titles when they stepped down as senior members of the royal family in March, but they agreed not to use their HRH designations. At his first event after they announced their exit, a Travalyst conference in Scotland in February, Prince Harry asked people to “just call me Harry....

RELATED: If You Do This Common Thing With Your Pills, Have Your Liver Checked Now. According to a 2013 study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, there’s a very good chance you’ve been throwing money away by mentioning brand-name drugs at your doctor’s office. “Approximately four of 10 physicians report that they sometimes or often prescribe a brand-name drug to a patient when a generic is available because the patient wanted it,” the researchers wrote....

READ THIS NEXT: This Popular Party Snack May Cause Colon Cancer, Experts Say.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb According to the Mayo Clinic, several factors may increase your risk of liver cancer. These include certain underlying conditions such as cirrhosis of the liver, inherited liver disease, diabetes, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Additionally, individuals who drink excessive alcohol or are exposed to aflatoxins (a type of poison produced by improperly-stored crops) may also be at increased risk of liver cancer....

As it turns out, the latter factor—H. Pylori infection—may be more common in people with one particular blood type, researchers say. Read on to find out if your blood type may put you at higher risk of stomach cancer, and when it’s time to call the doctor. READ THIS NEXT: This Is the No. 1 Colon Cancer Symptom People Ignore, Doctors Warn. Gastric cancer cells usually begin developing in the inner lining of your stomach, then spread deeper inside the stomach walls....

For the week ending in July 26, Hawaii saw the biggest percentage increase in new cases of any U.S. state, according to Reuters. The state’s additional 302 cases represented an 88 percent rise from the week before. That follows Hawaii breaking its record for daily new cases for the third day in a row on July 25, as Hawaii News Now reported, with 73 new infections. These numbers might sound low, but given Hawaii’s minimal cases throughout the pandemic, they represent a significant spike....