Tinnitus Worsens for Vaccine Scientist Who Points to Onset After COVID Vax
In March of last year, Gregory Poland, MD, was grappling with what he described as unrelenting symptoms of tinnitus that he developed shortly after receiving his second dose of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in early 2021. About a year-and-a-half later, after his first COVID infection, Poland told MedPage Today that his tinnitus has worsened. Indeed, […]
Monkeypox Likely Spread By Sex At 2 Raves In Europe, Expert Says
LONDON (AP) — A leading adviser to the World Health Organization described the unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox in developed countries as “a random event” that might be explained by sexual behavior at two recent raves in Europe. Dr. David Heymann, who formerly headed WHO’s emergencies department, told The Associated Press that the leading theory to […]
Military Exposure to Burn Pits Under Scrutiny
Doctors, scientists, and patient advocates described the tremendous harms of burn pits to active duty service members and veterans, ranging from cancers to severe respiratory illness and death, during a hearing of the Senate Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel on Wednesday. Subcommittee Chair Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) opened the hearing by stating that service […]
Biden Unveils Plan to Hasten ‘End’ of HIV Epidemic
President Biden announced a new National HIV/AIDS strategy that he described as “a roadmap for how we’re going to put our foot on the gas, and accelerate our efforts to end the HIV epidemic in the United States by the year 2030.” On World AIDS Day, the president spoke from the East Room of the […]
How confined protons migrate
The results described by the team of the Bochum Excellence Cluster Ruhr Explores Solvation, RESOLV for short, together with colleagues of the sister research network CALSOLV in Berkeley were published in the journal Angewandte Chemie on September 3rd, 2021. The reviewers rated the results as a Highlight Paper (Top 10%). Protons (H+) and hydronium ions […]
Do vitamin D supplements offer kidney-related benefits for individuals with high diabetes risk? Trial shows no significant effects on kidney outcomes
A recent clinical trial described in CJASN has examined the potential of vitamin D supplementation for protecting the kidney health of individuals with pre-diabetes. In the general population, low blood vitamin D levels have been associated with higher risks of various diseases, including type 2 diabetes and kidney disease. Sun H. Kim, MD, MS (Stanford […]