Cody Gough, podcast host at Curiosity.com, discusses new studies that reveal why we may not want to be around people when we're sick. He also describes the physical characteristics that tell people when we're feeling under the weather.
Gough jokingly discusses why people are scientifically wired to "call out sick." Our immune system sends signals to our brain when we're ill telling us to not be around others. We also dig into the evolutionary aspects of being sick. Naturally, when we're sick our bodies want us to get rest in order to heal and avoid infecting others.
Federal health advisers voted overwhelmingly against an experimental treatment for Lou Gehrig’s disease at a Wednesday meeting prompted by years of patient efforts seeking access to the unproven therapy.
President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that federal disaster assistance is available for Louisiana, which is working to slow a mass inflow of salt water creeping up the Mississippi River and threatening drinking water supplies in the southern part of the state.
