Adios COVID Funds; Death After Xenotransplant; What’s ‘Deltacron’?
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Democrats took $15.6 billion in COVID relief funding off the table in order to get the $1.5 trillion federal spending bill passed by the House of Representatives. (New York Times) Observers decried Russia’s bombing of a maternity and children’s hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine. (BBC News) The […]
OSHA Ups Hospital Inspections; IDSA Slams Florida Vax Policy; A Perilous Kyiv Escape
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. The Biden administration asked a federal appeals court to reinstate a vaccine mandate for federal employees, arguing that the need for the mandate has increased now that more workers are headed back to their offices. (Politico) The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said it will be […]
COVID Vaccine Flops; Heat Wave Threatens West; Hand Sanitizer Vapor Warning
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Participation award for developing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate goes to CureVac — the German company announced interim trial results and suggested variants were to blame for the 47% efficacy. An extended and potentially lethal heat wave is threatening more than 40 million Americans in western parts […]
Lucky genes can help protect people with obesity from some disease: Geneticists have revealed why some people with obesity remain relatively healthy, whilst others suffer from life-changing ailments such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
Geneticists have revealed why some people with obesity remain relatively healthy, whilst others suffer from life-changing ailments such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Anyone with a BMI over 30 is considered obese rather than just overweight and although people with obesity all have a few extra kilos in common, two people with the […]
Counterfeit HIV Drugs; Turned Away By Rural EDs; Bogus Pop-Up Testing Sites
Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week. Counterfeit HIV Drugs Drugmaker Gilead says a network of suppliers and distributors sold counterfeit versions of its HIV medications, the Wall Street Journal reported. The company found that just over 85,000 counterfeit bottles of Biktarvy and […]
How Do You Reveal a Compulsive Liar? 7 Ways
Lying is natural human behavior. Many of us have lied at some point in our lives, whether to avoid hurting someone or get out of trouble. However, compulsive liars lie out of habit, without intent or motive. They may lie spontaneously and automatically, without even thinking about it, and for little or no reason. Compulsive […]
U.S. Hits 600K COVID Deaths; Brazil’s Iffy Drug Cocktail; STDs Reach New High
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. As of Wednesday at 8 a.m. EDT, the unofficial U.S. COVID-19 toll reached 33,486,925 cases and 600,287 deaths, up 11,626 cases and 327 deaths from yesterday. And while daily cases and deaths have drastically declined, new and dangerous variants could set back the U.S.’s progress on […]
For some Greenlanders, eating sugar is healthy
Imagine being able to swap out broccoli for sweets, Ben & Jerry’s or some other sugary treat and achieve the same health benefits. This is fact not fantasy for about two to three percent of the Greenlandic population. Two copies of a gene variant make it so that they absorb sugar differently than other people […]
Are We Born With Hate? Psychology of Hatred
Some believe hate is an acquired trait that is conditioned according to a person’s social and political environment. Being born with hate is still a debatable question. Some believe that hate is an acquired trait because newborns have a clean slate and are conditioned according to their social and political environments. Another opinion is that […]
Can Anxiety Make You Feel Feverish? Anxiety Symptoms
In some cases, anxiety can make you feel feverish without actually increasing your body temperature. In other cases, it can cause a recordable fever In some cases, anxiety can make you feel feverish without actually increasing your body temperature. In other cases, it can cause a recordable fever. Fever is defined as a body temperature […]