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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- After testing negative for COVID-19 and leaving isolation last Sunday, First Lady Jill Biden again tested positive for the virus on Wednesday."After testing negative on Tuesday, just now, the First Lady has tested positive for COVID-19 by antigen testing," the First Lady's Deputy Communications Director Kelsey Donohue said in a statement. "This represents a “rebound” positivity.""The First Lady has experienced no reemergence of symptoms, and will remain in Delaware where she has reinitiated isolation procedures," Donohue added. "The White House Medical Unit has conducted contact tracing and close contacts have been notified."Biden had returned to public life on Sunday, after isolating on Kiawah Island, S.C., where she first tested...

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Jon Kostas, a lifelong resident of New York City, started bar-hopping at age 13. At the height of his alcoholism, he was consuming as many as 30 drinks a night.Desperate for a way out, Kostas, 32, turned to a new therapy: psilocybin -- the psychedelic compound found in so-called "magic mushrooms.""It definitely affected my life, and I like to say it saved my life," said Kostas, who had his first psilocybin treatment session in March 2015.He's not the only one being helped. A new study suggests that psilocybin might be better at helping alcoholics give up booze than any current treatments, researchers say.The study reported that two doses of the drug reduced drinking by 83% on average among heavy drinkers when combined with...

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Buying someone a cup of coffee might seem like no big deal, but a new study shows that small acts of kindness have a bigger impact than people believe.In a series of experiments, researchers found that those on the receiving end of a kind gesture typically appreciated it more than the giver anticipated. One reason, the findings suggest, may be that recipients feel the warmth behind the gesture, while the giver often overlooks that.The implication, experts said, is fairly straightforward: If you have an opportunity to be kind, take it."You might think it's a small thing," said researcher Amit Kumar. "But for the recipient, its meaning goes beyond the thing you're giving."Being kind does take a bit of awareness and effort; it's more than...

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Childbirth shouldn’t put any dent in your future lovin’, regardless of the way your baby was delivered, new research assures.Sexual enjoyment isn’t affected at all by method of delivery in the years following childbirth, according to a study involving the mothers of more than 14,000 babies born in the United Kingdom between April 1991 and December 1992.The study was prompted by suggestions that Cesarean section births might maintain sexual well-being better than vaginal delivery, due to the reduced risk of tearing and preservation of vaginal tone, the researchers said.Prior research has found little difference in how the two types of delivery affect a couple's sex life, but these studies usually covered only the six months following...