Health & Wellness

Throughout a rough year, we’ve been lucky enough to report on stories that restored our faith in humanity or just made us chuckle. So, with that, on this Monday (also the shortest day of the year), we figured we could use a little dose of positivity with our favorite feel-good stories from 2020...

Overture Promotions’ in-house capabilities allowed the company to quickly produce a face mask order in less than a week—a feat not possible without internal decorating—for a local law firm at the onset of the pandemic. But that task didn’t come without a minor setback...

Pepsi launched a sweepstakes last week where customers can tweet the #PepsiSpa hashtag and tag a friend. If selected, they’ll receive a Pepsi-branded spa kit that includes a Pepsi-scented sugar scrub, a Pepsi Blue face mask and a Pepsi-scented bath bomb. The bath bomb has a pretty ingenious design...

Sharing pens isn’t like it used to be. There are sanitary measures that we haven’t really had to take until recently, at least outside of medical facilities. But a doctor in Ohio thinks he’s found a way to keep his current batch of pens without having to risk the spread of any disease or viruses...

Wearable tech has been around for a while. Watch any training footage of your favorite athletes, and they’re probably wearing at least one garment over their torsos that keeps track of vitals and other measurables. And hardware like smart watches have been known to identify possible ailments. But, what about something as minimal as socks…

With most people still working from home these days, Old Spice is bringing the tradition of a White Elephant gift exchange online. The top prize is a man cave valued at $13,000, complete with an Old Spice branded billiards table, a flat-screen TV, and all kinds of other Old Spice gear...

How often should you replace your face mask with a new one? That answer depends on the quality and construction of the mask, and also how tough your washing machine is on it. There are a few main factors to consider when determining if a mask is past its useful life...

Navitor, North Mankato, Minn., has partnered with scientific experts to develop Scent Check, an early detector test used to identify loss of smell. The product comes at a time when businesses and private organizations across the country need tools to support return-to-workplace symptom screening. More than 140,000 tests have been…

Thanks to promising news about a COVID-19 vaccine, there’s a glimmer of hope that live events like concerts, full-capacity sporting events and trade shows could return sometime soon. It’s still far too early to start penciling in live events for 2021, but Ticketmaster is planning ahead by creating a framework for what events could look like once a vaccine is rolled out...

Dennis W. Haggerty, Jr., president of At Diagnostics Inc., was arrested on Tuesday for wire fraud after he and two business partners sold a combined one million N95 masks to two large university hospitals in Chicago and Iowa City...