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THURSDAY, Feb. 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Modern technology has unraveled an ancient mystery about the death of an Egyptian king. Computed tomography (CT) scans of the mummified remains of Pharaoh Seqenenre Taa II, the Brave, revealed new details about his head injuries not previously found in examinations since his mummy was discovered in the 1880s. Those examinations, including an X-ray study in the 1960s, had found that the king had suffered several severe head injuries but no other wounds to his body. Seqenenre briefly ruled over South Egypt during the country's occupation by the Hyksos, a foreign dynasty that held power across the kingdom for about a century (c. 1650-1550 BC). He was killed during his attempt to oust the Hyksos. His violent death indirectly led to the...

THURSDAY, Feb. 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Stress is the No. 1 reason U.S. teachers left the profession before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new poll reveals.Nearly 1,000 former public school teachers were polled in December. Three-quarters said their job was often or always stressful during their final year in the classroom.Stress was nearly twice as common as poor pay as a reason for quitting, according to the results of the survey from the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization.Most of the former teachers got new jobs with equal or less pay, and three in 10 took jobs without health insurance or retirement benefits.The survey also found that teachers' stress was worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly half of those who quit early and voluntarily...

THURSDAY, Feb. 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Dental hygienists have a low rate of COVID-19, even though their jobs are considered high-risk, a new study says.The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) declared hygienists at high risk for COVID-19, so researchers decided to investigate.They analyzed survey data collected in October from nearly 4,800 dental hygienists in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.Just 3.1% of hygienists said they had been diagnosed with COVID-19, and those who had had the illness weren't clustered in any single region, according to findings in the February issue of the Journal of Dental Hygiene.These initial findings were released Feb. 24 by the American Dental Hygienists' Association (ADHA) and the American Dental Association (ADA).The COVID-19...

THURSDAY, Feb. 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A cancer diagnosis for your child is devastating enough, but new research shows the coronavirus pandemic has made the battle even harder for many families."Parents and caregivers of children who have cancer are already under tremendous stress," said study author Kyle Walsh, an associate professor in the department of neurosurgery at Duke University, in Durham, N.C. "And while the pandemic has impacted everyone, the isolation, job losses, reduced wages, school closings and other effects of the pandemic have hit families whose children have cancer especially hard."For the study, Walsh and his colleagues surveyed 360 parents and caregivers of children in treatment or still being monitored for cancer. The survey was conducted between April and...