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MONDAY, Sept. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- At Rutgers New Jersey Medical School's trauma center, Dr. Stephanie Bonne and her team noticed a string of patient injuries caused by broken glass tables. "They were quite serious, significant injuries that required pretty big operations and long hospital stays," said Bonne, who is an assistant professor of surgery and trauma medical director. "We wanted to see, is there anything that's known about this that we can figure out. And, if not, maybe we should talk about it." Bonne's group found more than 3,200 U.S. cases of glass table-related injuries requiring trauma center care occurring between 2009 and 2015. The data was collected from the 96 sample hospitals included in the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System database. More...

MONDAY, Sept. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Aches and fatigue quickly progressed to fever with severe chills, but the terrible and unrelenting headache was the real signal that actress Rita Wilson was in for a rough ride following her infection with COVID-19. "It was a massive headache that really lasted for about two weeks," Wilson recalls. "It was relentless. It wasn't like Tylenol was making it go away or anything like that. It was just there." Wilson and her husband Tom Hanks, both 63, became two of the first celebrity sufferers of COVID-19 back in early March, while on a movie set in Australia. The news of their infection, which Hanks revealed on social media on March 11, combined with the shutdown of the NBA season, elevated public awareness of COVID as a health threat, Wilson...

MONDAY, Sept. 21, 2020 (Healthday News) -- As the U.S. coronavirus case count neared 200,000 on Monday, public health experts debated whether the spread of the virus will continue to slow or a new surge will come, as cold weather returns to much of the country. "What will happen, nobody knows," Catherine Troisi, an infectious disease epidemiologist at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, told The New York Times. "This virus has surprised us on many fronts, and we may be surprised again." In the United States, fewer new coronavirus cases have been detected week by week since late July, but the nation's daily count of new cases has started to climb again in recent days, the Times reported. Meanwhile, at least 73 other countries are seeing second surges in new...

SUNDAY, Sept. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly 6 in 10 U.S. parents say their children don't get enough sleep on school nights, an American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) survey finds. It included more than 1,000 parents across the country with children between ages 5 and 18. Parents reported that early school start times (40%), homework (39%), sports (34%) and social media (33%) have a significant impact on the kids' ability to get enough sleep on school nights. Other factors include hobbies (32%), spending time with friends (29%), chores/jobs (27%), band/music (26%) and clubs (25%). About one-quarter of parents say their child's bedtime is less consistent due to remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic. "Even though students may not need to catch the bus or carpool...