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While it seems that no one group of people is entirely safe from the COVID-19 virus, there are certain groups who are more at risk, not just of infection, but of complications resulting from the illness. One such group is women who are, or may become, pregnant during the pandemic.

Now we bring you joyous news: you can add to the already lengthy list of things you never thought to worry about before this year the fact that, according to one New York dentist, the pandemic has been seriously detrimental to our teeth.

Back to school, this year, was an easier trip for some kids, since all they had to do was shuffle a few steps to their computer. As classes resume via Zoom, there are numerous benefits. There are, however, certain concerns students are now having to deal with that may impact their mental health.

TikTok is all about offering advice as well as entertainment, but some of the advice isn't always the greatest. Now there's a new TikTok video that has over a million views and nearly 90,000 likes to date that shows a young woman using a mask made of crushed aspirin to clean her face.

Once marketed as a way to stop smoking cigarettes, vaping has come under increasing scrutiny from the CDC and FDA over the last couple of years. There has been some promising news, though, about teens and their vaping habits.

According to a press release from the Clorox company, the latest popular household cleaning product to be proven effective at killing the SARS-CoV-2 virus on contact is Pine-Sol.

We're doing a worse job now at controlling hypertension than we have in years, according to findings presented at an American Heart Association virtual conference. Considering that we're now in a pandemic, this is especially troubling.

With fall fast approaching and fitness centers re-opening across the country, many of us may be thinking of heading back to the gym. But is it safe?

New Jersey already had ticks, as numerous pets and unhappy campers can attest. But you can never have too many tick species — or rather, you can, since one species is more than enough, thank you very much. And yet, here it comes, the Carios kelleyi, aka bat tick.

Now that many kids' new version of "back to school" means back in their bedrooms, a teacher droning on over Zoom, they're missing out recess and lunch with school pals. For some kids, this is having an unexpected benefit — they may be getting more sleep these days.

A famous mask advocate is Kaley Cuoco, who, when posting a video of her workout routine to Instagram, was seen to be wearing one throughout the 1 minute 20-second clip that showed her jumping rope. This drew a lot of negative comments, though.

While the quarantine period was hard on all of us, leaving us holed up at home right when spring was springing and we all wanted to be out and about, it did have one surprising upside. We're talking about all of the quality time you got to spend with your pets.

Canada's Chief Public Health Officer has plenty to say on the hot topic of whether, when, and how you should be doing the deed during this period of pandemic.

After several months of adjusting to disrupted routines, so many of us have resigned ourselves to sleepless nights that there's now a name for the phenomenon: coronasomnia.

While it seems we learn something new about the physical effects of COVID-19 every day, the impact on our mental health is starting to emerge as well — and it's not so great.

Certain conditions, such as high blood pressure, require ongoing medical involvement in order to monitor their status, and that is another area in which telehealth is likely to play an increasingly large role.

By springtime, new coronavirus symptoms started showing up in doctor's offices nationwide, symptoms including chills, shaking, muscle aches, headaches, sore throats, loss of taste or smell, blood clots, and even a weird skin condition resembling frostbite present on the feet and fingers.

Have you ever been out and about and seen people wearing face masks, but they're not exactly wearing those masks as they were meant to be worn? What we're talking about here, though, is people who seem to think that they are fully masked when their masks are only covering their mouths.

Despite the fact that Chadwick Boseman had been seen to have lost a significant amount of weight over the past few months, it seems nobody really knew he was sick. Once the news came out, the shock diminished not one bit when it was revealed that he'd been suffering from colon cancer.

While no cases of babies contracting coronavirus via breastmilk have been recorded, it's understandable that mothers are particularly worried about accidentally spreading to the infection to their newborns.

One such tip is that presented by a TikToker who suggests a budget-friendly teeth-whitening hack. Instead of using the expensive store-bought kits, she suggests just applying regular old 3 percent hydrogen peroxide to a cotton swab and running it across your teeth. Should you, though?

A collective sense of enthrallment is what makes going to the movies — as opposed to binging Netflix at home, alone — so special. But according to experts, it's also what makes the movie theater the ideal environment to transmit coronavirus.

To try to prevent the serious, life-threatening consequences of ingesting hand sanitizer, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning to avoid certain types of the product that look like they are in food and beverage containers, and sometimes are scented with fruit flavors.

As if things weren't bad enough, now word comes in that Florida will soon be releasing millions of genetically-engineered mosquitoes. In fact, 750 million of them over the next couple of years.

Once again, Walmart is poised to be at the forefront of a change, one that will be welcomed by all breastfeeding parents. According to ABC News, they are the first retailer in the nation to install lactation suites in-store.

With family and friends off-limits because of fear of coronavirus transmission, you are now each others' everything. So whyyyyyyyy would you rather have a thousand COVID-19 swabs inserted into your nasal cavity than be intimate right now?