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A Help Wanted sign is posted at a restaurant amid a still-robust labor market on February 2, 2023, in Los Angeles, California.Mario Tama / Getty Images The January jobs report was far stronger than had been predicted, with the economy adding 517,000 jobs.There was also a big increase in the length of the average workweek from 34.4 hours to 34.7 hours, which led to an extraordinary 1.2 percent rise in the index of aggregate hours.

Move over, therapy dogs-there's a new stress relief animal on the block: mini horses.Colleges invite mini horses trained to provide emotional support onto campus during stressful times in the term, like finals week or midterms, to provide a fun stress relief experience for its campus community.What's the need: During finals week each semester, the University of Central Florida receives higher levels of mental health calls to its police department, a consequence of increased stress before exams.

Contra Costa County has issued a new health order requiring staff in skilled nursing facilities to continue wearing masks to protect elderly patients from being infected with COVID-19.In a Monday announcement, Contra Costa Health Services said the order will take effect April 3, the same day the state's COVID-19 masking order for healthcare settings expires.

On March 20, several viral social media posts claimed that a highly drug-resistant fungal infection was spreading in the United States, and that it can cause death.VERIFY viewer Gabriella recently sent a text to our team asking if these claims were true.Is a drug-resistant fungal infection spreading in the U.S.? Yes, a drug-resistant fungal infection is spreading rapidly in U.S. health care facilities.

NEW YORK U.S. officials are reporting two more deaths and additional cases of vision loss linked to eyedrops tainted with a drug-resistant bacteria.The eyedrops from EzriCare and Delsam Phama were recalled in February and health authorities are continuing to track infections as they investigate the outbreak.

By Low De Wei | Bloomberg A deadly drug-resistant fungus spreading across the US saw a dramatic uptick in cases during the Covid pandemic, with more than half of all states now reporting cases.Candida auris (C.auris) was first described in Japan in 2009, with the earliest known infections in the US dating back to 2013.

A deadly fungal infection is spreading at "an alarming rate" inside health facilities and long-term care hospitals across the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.Here's what to know about the highly drug-resistant fungus - a strain of a kind of yeast known as Candida auris (or C. auris for short) that the CDC says "presents a serious global health threat."

A woman was pronounced dead at the Water's Edge Rehab and Nursing Center in Port Jefferson, N.Y. but hours later, workers at a funeral home discovered she was alive and breathing.Google Maps/Screenshot by NPR Workers at a nursing home on Long Island, N.Y., pronounced an 82-year-old woman dead on Saturday but nearly three hours later, staff at a funeral home discovered the woman was still alive and breathing.

The world's oldest known person, French nun Lucile Randon, has died aged 118, a spokesperson has said.Randon, known as Sister Andre, was born in southern France on 11 February 1904, when the first world war was still a decade away.She died in her sleep at her nursing home in Toulon, spokesperson David Tavella said on Tuesday.

LONDON - Britain's former health minister on Wednesday denied wrongdoing after a newspaper published extracts of private messages he sent in the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic.The Daily Telegraph said the exchanges show that then-Health Secretary Matt Hancock ignored scientific advice to test everyone entering nursing homes for COVID-19.

A "Now Hiring" sign is displayed on a shopfront on October 21, 2022, in New York City.Leonardo Munoz / VIEWpress The economy added 263,000 jobs in November, again coming in ahead of expectations.Perhaps more importantly, wages continue to grow at a rapid pace, as the October average hourly wage was revised up by 6 cents.

Ontario is reviewing pricing practices of nursing agencies involved in long-term care homes, the minister responsible for the file said Wednesday.Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra said at the legislature that his deputy minister has formed a technical advisory committee to examine the issue in response to queries about price gouging by nursing agencies.

Germany's governing coalition is arguing over whether remaining COVID-19 restrictions should be dropped after one of the country's top virologists was quoted as saying that the pandemic is over.Germany has scrapped the bulk of restrictions imposed at the height of the pandemic but, unlike other European countries, still requires mask-wearing on long-distance trains and buses.

Former President Jimmy Carter sits on the Atlanta Falcons bench before the first half of an NFL football game between the Atlanta Falcons and the San Diego Chargers, Oct. 23, 2016, in Atlanta.John Bazemore (AP) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter entered home hospice care in Plains, Georgia, after a series of short hospital stays.

ATLANTA Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter entered home hospice care in Plains, Georgia, after a series of short hospital stays.The Carter Center said in a statement Saturday that Carter, 98, decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.

Sister Andre, a French nun and the world's oldest known person, who lived through two world wars and the 1918 influenza pandemic and survived Covid-19, died on Tuesday in France.She was 118.A spokesman for a nursing home in the southern city of Toulon, where Sister Andre was residing, confirmed the death in an interview with French news media.

Government policies aimed at curbing excessive use of powerful psychiatric drugs for dementia patients in nursing homes are probably having an unintended side effect: greater use of anti-seizure medications, a government report said Thursday.The evidence released by the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services indicates physicians specializing in nursing home care may have traded one controversial practice for another in response to regulatory scrutiny, seeking to sedate dementia patients with anticonvulsant medications rather than antipsychotics.