Milestone for Safe Injection; Plasma Exchange for VITT; Cruises Beat Back CDC Rules
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Rhode Island is the first state to make safe injection sites legal in an effort to prevent opioid overdoses. (Providence Journal) The global death toll from COVID-19 surpassed the 4 million mark on Wednesday. (USA Today) As of about 8 a.m. ET, the estimated COVID-19 toll […]
COVID Surges Emerge; FDA Warns About Chantix; Lions, Tigers, Bears Get Vaxxed
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. While the rest of the country celebrated Independence Day, a sudden rise in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations — especially among Black residents — put a damper on the holiday spirit in Los Angeles County. (Los Angeles Times) A hospital in hard-hit Springfield, Missouri ran out of […]
The Royal Family Could Use Family Therapy. Here’s What Therapists Would Tell Them.
Will the royal rift eventually give way to some much-needed royal healing? That’s been the question weighing on the minds of monarchists and avid Anglophiles alike, as tension between the Sussexes (Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex) and the rest of the British royal family reached a fever pitch this year. […]
J&J Vax Booster Needed? COVID Boards Another Cruise; Sneaky Vaxxed Teens
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Will recipients of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine need an mRNA booster against the Delta variant? (Reuters) Two children under age 16 who tested positive for COVID while on a Royal Caribbean cruise were quarantined and then flown home by the cruise line. (New York […]
Dangerous Delta COVID-19 Variant Infecting Vaccinated Adults In Israel
In an alarming new development, the particularly transmissible delta variant of COVID-19 has infected some fully vaccinated adults in Israel, officials there have reported. Of more than 100 daily cases amid an outbreak of the delta variant, half were children younger than 16., The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Most of them hadn’t yet been […]
All COVID Deaths in the Unvaxxed; U.S. Life Expectancy Slides; Trump Had It Bad
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Nearly all new COVID-related deaths in the U.S. are in people who haven’t been vaccinated, as only 0.8% of deaths in May were among fully vaccinated individuals. (AP) As of 8 a.m. EDT today, the unofficial U.S. COVID-19 toll reached 33,591,369 cases and 603,181 deaths, increases […]
‘Modest’ Erectile Dysfunction Benefit With GLP-1 Agonist
GLP-1 receptor agonist treatment in men with type 2 diabetes may thwart some new cases of erectile dysfunction, an exploratory analysis of a randomized trial suggested. The findings, from the Researching Cardiovascular Events with a Weekly Incretin in Diabetes (REWIND) trial, showed that slightly fewer men developed erectile dysfunction while on long-term treatment with once-weekly […]