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PEORIA - For thousands of people, recovery after a COVID-19 infection comes with a laundry list of issues, some neurological. These cognitive cases run the spectrum from mild difficulties focusing on tasks to major memory problems or even rare cases of COVID-induced psychosis. Researchers are finding that COVID-related cognitive symptoms can not only impact people of all ages, but can also linger for months. The most common post-COVID neurological complaint is brain fog. Dr. Deepak Nair is an OSF HealthCare vascular and critical care neurologist. He says brain fog, despite its seemingly flippant name, can severely impact someone’s day-to-day life. “Brain fog is such a funny, silly term for something that I think can be profound and really disabling for people,” he remarked. “Brain fog itself is a constellation of different symptoms. When we use the term brain fog that can be everything from just mild fatigue and just not feeling like you're running on all

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SPRINGFIELD - Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White is reminding customers with license plate stickers expiring at the end of the month that they can renew online at ilsos.gov, print their receipt, and keep that receipt in their vehicle to comply with Illinois law. “This is a consumer-friendly initiative that encourages online transactions with my office,” said White. “Many customers visit our Driver Services facilities to buy their stickers the week before they are set to expire. I am reminding the public that they can make the same transaction online, and use their receipt as proof of up-to-date registration and compliance.” Motorists are allowed to drive without an up-to-date vehicle renewal sticker on their license plate as long as they have the receipt from the Secretary of State showing that they bought the sticker before expiration. The receipt is valid for up to 30 days from the expiration of the previous registration sticker’s date. Last year,

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In April 2020, tigers and lions at the Bronx Zoo made the news when they came down with COVID-19 . In the months following these surprising diagnoses, researchers and veterinarians found SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in nearly a dozen other species , both in captivity and in the wild. How are so many animals catching the coronavirus? And what does this mean for human and animal health? We are veterinary researchers who investigate animal diseases, including zoonotic diseases that can infect both humans and animals. It is important, for both human and animal health, to know what species are susceptible to infection by the coronavirus. Our labs and others across the world have tested domestic, captive and wild animals for the virus, in addition to conducting experiments to determine which species are susceptible. The list of infected animals so far includes more than a dozen species. But in reality, infections may be much more widespread, as very few species

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Online school during the COVID-19 pandemic was hard on many teens, but new research I co-authored has found a potential silver lining: Students were bullied less during remote instruction than while attending classes in person. We learned this by surveying 388 ninth-graders at U.S. high schools. We asked them to answer questions three times over the 2020-2021 school year, at about three-month intervals: in November 2020 and February and May 2021. During that period, many students switched between online-only, in-person-only and hybrid schooling, as the severity of the pandemic shifted and state and local guidelines adjusted. We asked the students to tell us which of those environments they were learning in, how frequently they were the target of bullying, and whether they were feeling depressed or anxious, or having physical symptoms of stress, like headaches and nausea. What we found was that bullied teens reported heightened anxiety when they were attending in-person school,

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O'FALLON – Since February is American Heart Month, it’s the perfect time to refresh your memory on the warning signs of a heart attack. Prairie Cardiovascular and HSHS St. Elizabeth’s Hospital encourage everyone to take a moment to learn what you should do if you or a loved one experiences heart attack symptoms. Heart attacks aren't always the swift and intense events that are portrayed on TV. As a result, some people may delay calling 911 because they don't realize that what they're feeling is a heart attack. “Most heart attacks involve discomfort (felt in the center of the chest) that lasts more than a few minutes or comes and goes,” says Arti Singh, MD, a cardiologist with Prairie Cardiovascular. Many people describe it as pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain. Other discomfort not generally perceived as ‘pain’ may: Feel like indigestion Not be in a specific spot Be felt in the chest, the inner arm (especially the left arm), the jaw

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ALTON - There are two ways that your emotions can derail your career track. One way is to let your emotions run amuck in your work life. The other way is to try to suppress them all. Emotions are a natural part of the human existence, even when we are at work. But many careers have been shipwrecked by unbridled emotions. How can you prevent this from happening to you? Below are 12 tips. Learn appropriate ways to express what you feel — In all areas of your life, even when you’re at work, you are a human being and you will have emotional reactions to certain things from time to time. This is normal. You may have received misguided advice in the past that there is no place for emotions in your work life. But we don’t have the ability to simply flip a switch and turn our emotions off. What we can do is learn how to better process and express them. Research has shown that we are more innovative and productive when we work in an environment where it is safe to express

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ST. LOUIS – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) St. Louis District will commence celebrating their 150th Anniversary at the National Great Rivers Museum in Alton, from 11:30 a.m. until noon Tuesday. Lt. Col. Jason Sears, Deputy Commander, USACE St. Louis District and Michael R. Morrow, Mayor of Grafton, will sign a proclamation in appreciation of the District’s history, partnerships and contributions to the region. On February 19th, 1872, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established a new district in Saint Louis, the Gateway to the West, and few could have foreseen this auspicious occasion of their 150th Anniversary would usher in a successful long-lasting partnership between the states of Missouri, Illinois and the U.S. Army Corps in Saint Louis. “We will celebrate a history of innovation with our partners, without which we could not deliver the vital engineering solutions that contribute to the growth and prosperity of the regions we are so proud to service

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A growing number of scientists are cautioning that blaming disasters solely on climate overlooks the poor policy and planning decisions that make these events much worse.

On Feb. 18, 1948, judges announced their winning design for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.

Page: ‘Our public health experts are hopeful that we can move from a mask requirement to mask recommendation by the end of the month.’

Here is the Census Bureau's definition of a housing unit: Housing unit is a house, an apartment, a group of rooms, or a single room occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.... Tents and boats are excluded if vacant.... Living quarters of the following types are excluded from the housing unit inventory: Dormitories, ...continue reading "Raw data: Housing units in the US"

A St. Louis man is now alive thanks to an organ transplant team that persevered through incredible odds. That team had the task of transporting a pair of lungs. Little did they know, the weather would get in their way. 

Family Dollar issued a voluntary recall affecting items purchased from hundreds of stores in several states, including Missouri.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash in the westbound lanes of Interstate 44 in Franklin County.