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Bass and Spears have been friends ever since they became hugely famous pop stars in the early aughts. With the new documentary examining the legal situation surrounding Spears’ 13-year conservatorship, the #FreeBritney movement, and everything that led to her current position, celebrities from Bass to Cher to Bette Midler are standing up for the singer. Read on to see what Bass had to say about his friend, and for more from those close to Spears, check out Britney Spears’ Boyfriend Just Slammed Her Dad on Instagram....

READ THIS NEXT: Dr. Fauci Just Said This Is the Tell-Tale Sign You Have Long COVID. Even though patients have reported lingering issues with COVID since the earlier days of the pandemic, it was only the passage of time that eventually showed long COVID was a relatively common outcome for survivors of the virus. According to a recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that analyzed the medical records of 353,164 patients, one in five people under the age of 65 in the U....

In a short statement posted on Instagram, Planet Blue said: “We have made the difficult decision to close our store locations in the upcoming weeks. This decision is made even more difficult by the loss of excellent and loyal employees and customers. From everyone in the Planet Blue family, we wanted to thank you for your continued support and hope you visit us soon. It’s not goodbye; it’s see you later....

Thanks to yet another supply chain disruption, you may not be able to wing it the next time you sit down for a meal. Restaurants across the U.S. are reporting that they can’t keep chicken products in stock thanks to a new surge in demand, meaning wings, breasts, and tenders temporarily go offline from some menus, Bloomberg News reports.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb And for more up-to-date information delivered straight to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter....

RELATED: If You Don’t Have a Booster, You’ll Be Barred From This, as of Jan. 17. On Jan. 6, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced two new vaccine mandates for the state, which will require that many in the healthcare sector get additional doses. According to the two executive orders signed by Lamont, employees of all long-term care facilities and state hospitals in Connecticut must receive their COVID booster shot by Feb....

The study, conducted by researchers at St. Cloud State University, recruited 89 women to assess the effects of flavor on attraction. They split the women into three groups and served them various food items before showing them pictures of men and asking them to rate their attractiveness on a nine-point scale. Confirming their hypothesis, the women who had eaten spicy foods rather than sweet or bland foods rated the men’s portraits 21 percent more attractive overall....

Many patients have shared stories of their earache COVID symptoms online, Prevention first reported. Thomas Russo, MD, professor and chief infectious disease at the University at Buffalo in New York, confirmed to the publication that coronavirus patients could have earache symptoms, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) doesn’t list earaches as a common coronavirus symptom. Leann Poston, MD, a licensed physician and health advisor for Invigor Medical, says earaches usually occur because of “infected fluid behind the eardrum,” which is the result of nasal and sinus congestion....

RELATED: If You’ve Done This, Your Risk of COVID After Vaccination Is 82 Times Higher. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), breakthrough cases can occur with any of the three vaccines. “No vaccines are 100 percent effective at preventing illness in vaccinated people. There will be a small percentage of fully vaccinated people who still get sick, are hospitalized, or die from COVID-19,” the agency explains....

Several other luxury beachfront homes were also purchased by the company. Read on to find out more about the company’s real-estate buying binge, the extent of the company’s collapse, and why a CEO brought in to restructure the bankrupt firm called its financial situation “unprecedented.” 1 Two-Year Buying Binge Reuters reports that Bankman-Fried’s FTX bought at least 19 properties worth nearly $121 million in the Bahamas over the past two years....

While dermatological reactions can occur with any shot—not just the COVID vaccine—researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have noticed a delayed COVID vaccine side effect on the skin of some individuals who’ve received the Moderna vaccine. In a letter to The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), physicians noted that the reaction can present on the vaccinated arm as a red, itchy, painful, sometimes raised area, which, in some cases, covers a large area of skin....

The study led by researchers at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine sought to compare cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), Kundalini yoga, and standard stress management education, based on their effectiveness in reducing anxiety. The researchers divided 226 people with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and dispersed them evenly between the treatments. Participants had weekly two-hour sessions with about 20 minutes of nightly homework. The study found that CBT was the most effective form of treatment, followed by yoga, and then stress management....

During a Feb. 4 interview on Cuomo Prime Time, host Chris Cuomo pointed out that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Rochelle Walensky, MD, had said the new variant of the virus could potentially lead to more deaths. Cuomo asked Fauci to weigh in. “That is true,” the White House adviser said. He explained that the U.K. variant is “more efficient in going from person to person, and a recent study from the U....

READ THIS NEXT: Dr. Fauci Just Revealed That He Got COVID by Doing This. The dominant version of the virus in the U.S. right now is the Omicron subvariant BA.5. According to the CDC, this variant is estimated to be causing 88.7 percent of infections in the nation. Other COVID iterations aren’t even close to overtaking BA.5 yet—although its sister subvariants BA.4.6 and BA.4 are responsible for most of the remaining infections, at 7....

During a Facebook Live chat with Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, Fauci discussed the unique problem that sharing vehicles with unfamiliar drivers presents during the pandemic. “When I’m in a car now, I keep the window open,” he told Raimondo. “Even though the person who’s driving the car and me both have masks on, I keep the masks on and keep the windows open.” Multiple experts have noted that rolling your windows down is key in any car ride with someone outside of your household amid coronavirus....

READ THIS NEXT: Napping at This Time Boosts Your Brain Health, Study Says.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb Since what you drink is an important part of your overall diet, it’s not surprising that research has shown that your beverage of choice can significantly affect your personal risk of developing dementia. Scientists have supplied evidence that common beverages may have a positive effect: One study published last April found that people who drank tea were 16 percent less likely to develop certain forms of dementia compared to those who did not partake in the brewed beverage....

RELATED: If You Notice This in the Bathroom, Get Checked for Cancer. Thanks to its purported health benefits, yerba mate is sought out worldwide as a daily brew. Proponents of the herbal tea say it can help overcome fatigue, assist weight loss, help relieve headaches, and ease depression, but according to the Mayo Clinic, there’s “limited evidence” supporting this.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb But research has shown there may be adverse effects to drinking the popular herbal beverage....

RELATED: If You Do This During the Day, It May Be an Early Sign of Dementia. Investigators at the Ohio State University recently published a study in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, evaluating groups of older and younger rats that were fed highly processed food—as rats are so genetically similar to humans and have similar behavioral characteristics, they are often used in medical research. When sticking to this “junk food” diet of chips, frozen entrees, and deli meats for just one month, older rats showed signs of memory loss, failing behavioral tests by forgetting places they had been, and not showing fear when shown danger cues....

RELATED: Drinking Your Coffee Like This Can Slash Your Alzheimer’s Risk, Study Says. In a study published in the May 2019 issue of the scientific journal Nutrients, a team of researchers looked at the diets of 4,582 adults in China and analyzed the amount of chili they ate over 15 years. For the purposes of the study, the team included both fresh and dried chili peppers towards consumption but excluded sweet capsicum peppers—AKA bell peppers—and black pepper from their counts....

The new research, which was just published in the journal Physics of Fluids, finds that while face shields are capable of stopping large droplets expelled with coughing, sneezing, or loud talking, they don’t fully keep potentially contaminated aerosols from traveling around the plastic visor and moving around the room. “Over time, these droplets can disperse over a wide area in both the lateral and longitudinal directions, albeit with decreasing droplet concentration,” the study authors wrote....

RELATED: These Are the Symptoms of the Omicron Variant, South African Doctor Says. But despite there still being so much we don’t know about the Omicron variant, health officials have said there are tried and true COVID precautions that we know can at least stave off some infections and severe cases. “How do we address Omicron? … Get boosted if you are vaccinated,” Fauci said during a Nov. 30 White House press briefing....