WHO Official: COVID Outbreak In North Korea Is Likely ‘Getting Worse, Not Better’
LONDON (AP) — A top official at the World Health Organization said the U.N. health agency assumes the coronavirus outbreak in North Korea is “getting worse, not better,” despite the secretive country’s recent claims that COVID-19 is slowing there. At a briefing on Wednesday, WHO’s emergencies chief Dr. Mike Ryan appealed to North Korean authorities […]
WHO Expert Says Monkeypox Won’t Turn Into Pandemic, But Many Unknowns
LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization’s top monkeypox expert said she doesn’t expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns about the disease, including how exactly it’s spreading and whether the suspension of mass smallpox immunization decades ago may somehow be speeding […]
‘Bridgerton’ Actor Ruby Barker Hospitalized For Mental Health Issue
“Bridgerton” actor Ruby Barker said Thursday that she’s been hospitalized for a mental health issue and had been “really unwell for a really long time.” (Watch the clip below.) In an Instagram video from a medical center where she said she’ll soon be leaving, Barker said she was feeling better, but it has been a […]
Chloe Kim Says She’s Taking A Mental Health Break From Snowboarding
Winter Olympics superstar Chloe Kim said she’s taking a break from snowboarding “just for my mental health.” Months after her second straight halfpipe gold medal at the Winter Olympics in February, Kim told Cheddar last week: “[I] just want to kind of reset, don’t want to get right back into it after such a fun, […]
Healthcare Consolidation Expected to Continue, Expert Says
Expect more consolidation in the healthcare industry in the coming year, said Ricky Goldwasser, managing director at Morgan Stanley, during the annual “Wall Street Comes to Washington” event sponsored by the Brookings Institution. “We think that we’re definitely going to see more consolidation,” Goldwasser said Wednesday at the virtual event, which was sponsored by Arnold […]
ALS Drug Needs More Evidence, FDA Advisors Say
In a close call, an FDA advisory committee said data from a single trial for AMX0035, an investigational agent being studied to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), did not support a conclusion that the drug was effective. The 6-4 vote of the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee was based on findings from […]
Opinion | Can Primary Care Physicians Address the Behavioral Health Crisis?
In a recent Senate Finance Committee hearing, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, said, “We are on the verge of beating back one public health crisis in COVID-19, only to see another grow in its place … We have the opportunity and the responsibility to make change happen now.” Murthy was referring to what […]
Ohio State Lineman Harry Miller ‘Medically’ Retires Due To Mental Health Concerns
Ohio State lineman Harry Miller said he was “medically retiring” from football in a gut-wrenching essay posted Thursday on Twitter. The engineering major wrote of his persistent suicidal thoughts and his harrowing journey getting help. Miller, a 6-foot 4, 315-pound junior who started seven games at left guard for the Buckeyes in the 2020 season, […]
Opinion | ‘The Tanks Are Getting Close’: What We Heard This Week
“People started calling and said, ‘The tanks are getting close.’” — Vitaliy Gyrin, MD, director of the Adonis-IVF maternity network in Ukraine, discussing the lead up to the moment a Russian missile struck the maternity clinic in Busova hospital near Kyiv. “We realize that we need to be brave and stay ’til the end, because […]
Children eat what they like, but food intake driven more by what they dislike
It is often said that “children eat what they like,” but the results of a new study by Penn State nutritionists and sensory scientists suggests that when it comes to meals, it is more accurate and more relevant to say, “children do not eat what they dislike.” There is an important difference, according to lead […]