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A former evangelical activist said he pushed the boundaries in Supreme Court dealings.
US Supreme Court Justice Ginni Thomas has been accused of leaking a Hobby Lobby opinion that allowed companies to cover contraception for their employees. As per the complaint filed by Thomas’ lawyer, Gayle Wright, Schenck wrote to Chief Justice John Roberts asking him to look into the matter. Gayle had earlier denied being involved in…
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The Indiana doctor who provided abortion services to the rape victim dropped his lawsuit.
A doctor in US’ Indiana has dropped the lawsuit she filed against the state Attorney General, alleging that a law that prohibits abortion is too “risky”. The doctor said if she worked in the morning she risks her life as Indiana has a law that prohibits abortion but is currently blocked by the courts.
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Why this mainly Republican county in California is declaring a public health crisis.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors in California has declared racism a public health crisis. “These health disparities underscore the urgently need to address systemic racism as a root cause of racial and ethnic health inequities and a core element of public health efforts,” Chairman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors Doug Chaffee said.
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It’s not a mandated thing as Covid cases rise.
The US’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued guidelines urging health authorities to provide face masks to everyone, whether they’re at home, work or school. This comes after a Pew Research Center survey found that over half of Americans said they were never wearing a mask outside the home. The report also…
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Pfizer/BioNTech say the updated Covid-19 booster’s protection against Omicron subvariants is significantly higher than original vaccin.
A US government study has found that the number of deaths due to coronavirus could rise by nearly 1,000 a day if COVID-19 vaccine boosters continue at their current pace. The study by The Commonwealth Fund found that vaccination against the virus had led to nearly 700,000 fewer hospitalizations in the US last year and…
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The disease is spreading very fast, overwhelming children’s hospitals.
Hospitals across the US are struggling to care for the influx of children due to the coronavirus pandemic, with some reporting an increase in the number of people coming in with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The number of coronavirus cases in US has exceeded 20 lakh, according to Johns Hopkins University tracker. The virus has…
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Parents should know about the symptoms and treatment of respiratory syncytialvirus in children.
US President Donald Trump on Monday said, “I’m confident that we’ve got to do everything that we can to stop coronavirus from spreading to the American people. I’m confident that…we’ve got to do everything that we can to protect our people.” He added, “I believe we can do it even if it takes longer to…
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People are moving into danger zones.
The air pollution in the US over the last two weeks has been “the worst period I’ve ever experienced”, Perry Hystad, a researcher at Oregon State University in Corvallis, said. “It was the worst two-week period I’ve ever experienced for air pollution anywhere, including India, China and Bangladesh,” added Hystad, who studies health impacts of…
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There are many children’s hospitals overwhelmed by the high levels of the respiratory syncytial virus.
Children’s Hospital Colorado has seen an early uptick in RSV hospitalisations and is starting to see the first few flu cases of the season, said Dr Kevin Messacar, an Infectious Disease Specialist and Associate Professor at University of Colorado School of Medicine. RSV, or respiratory syncytialvirus, is a common respiratory infection that typically causes mild,…
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The work remains to face the next crisis as we helped Biden on the Pandemic.
European public health experts have warned that the lack of major publicity campaigns is likely to reduce the number of people willing to take a risk. Adam Finn, chair of ETAGE, an expert group advising the WHO on vaccine preventable diseases in Europe, said, “There must be some complacency in that life seems to have…
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The new study found that Statins are vastly superior to supplements to cut cholesterol.
A new study suggests that taking a dietary supplement like fish oil instead of a senna, commonly prescribed for lowering cholesterol, is more effective in helping people cut down on their cholesterol risk than a senna. It found that people who took fish oil in place of a senna had a reduction in their high-density-density-density…
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Police say there were four dead University of Idaho students.
Four college students died in a murder-suicide at a house near University of Idaho campus in the US state of Idaho, police said on Monday. Police added that they received an unconscious person call from the residence on Sunday afternoon. The university issued a shelter in place order for students until investigators could rule out…
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Chaos will be created before the top meeting.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said that the country had “protected the people’s health and safety to the greatest extent possible” and “made tremendous, encouraging achievements” in both epidemic and social development. He said this during the opening of the Communist Party’s five-yearlyleadership reshuffle on Sunday. China has reported over 20 lakh COVID-19 cases and over…
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Health panels advise against screening kids for anxiety.
A panel of medical experts on Tuesday recommended for the first time that all kids under the age of 18 are screened for anxiety. “The earlier you identify symptoms, the earlier you intervene, and that reduces the amount of time a child is suffering,” a researcher said. In June, the Biden administration called the recent…
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The loss of Atlanta Medical Center is part of a larger pattern of urban hospital closings.
Black Buffalo residents have a life expectancy 12 years longer than White Buffalo residents, according to a new report by the Buffalo Center for Health Equity. The report also found that the city has the highest prevalence of diabetes in the nation, with nearly 70% of its residents suffering from the disease. There is also…
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The Italian government is turning away ships that rescue migrants.
Veterinarians and Red Cross workers have refused to leave a charity-run migrant rescue ship that has been stuck at sea in Sicily for over 24 hours, after authorities refused to let 35 of the migrants disembark. Many of the migrants are from Gambia, unable to speak French, Italian or English, SOS Humanity said. The ship…
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There are early signs that a new U.S. surge will be on its way.
As COVID-19 cases rise in Europe amid cooler weather, experts have warned that vaccine fatigue and confusion over methods of shots available will likely limit booster uptake. If a child is under eight years of age, they need two immunizations in one month before they’re protected against the flu, said Madhavan. She added that the…
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Can vaccines help in the fight against the disease?
US virologist Heinz Feldmann, who has contributed to the development of the current ebola vaccines, has said that it’s not clear if a single shot can provide robust protection against infection with Ebola. The current ebola vaccine has mRNA be stored in cold climates which can make it difficult to distribute. Public health in Africa…
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The vaccine for the disease is ready for roll out, but there are still safety concerns.
Researchers have said that a new vaccine for dengue could make infections worse in some people. They said that after dengue infection, the immune system is hyped up enough to protect against a second infection with any serotype for one to two years. However, after that period, people are protected only from the serotype to…
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Chaos will be created ahead of the top meeting.
China’s state media reported that the death toll from coronavirus in China rose to 2,075 after new cases of the virus were reported. According to a government data, the total number of coronavirus cases in China have risen to over 9.41 lakh. The country has reported over 2.5 lakh coronavirus cases in total, according to…
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The success of the CRISPR cancer trial paves way for personalized treatments.
University of Pennsylvania researchers have developed a new approach to personalise personalised T-cell therapies for solid tumors. They isolated T cells from blood of 16 patients with solid tumors, including colon, breast, or lung cancer. The team chose up to three receptors for each patient and added the genes for these receptors to the person’s…
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It is opinion that you can prevent the next epidemic.
A new study has claimed that if you take the drug Paxlovid early in your illness, it can help prevent post-COVID-19 symptoms. Researchers reviewed hundreds of thousands of electronic health records from the US Department of Veterans Affairs for patients who tested COVID-19 positive between March and June 2022, and found that most of them…
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The vaccine doesn’t work against the outbreak of the disease.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has declared a three-week lockdown in Mubende and Kassanda districts of the country after the discovery of a new strain of Ebola in Uganda. Museveni said that the country was seeing an “explosive rise” of the virus, and that there was a need to impose a lockdown in the areas. At…
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This week, there are places in the world where abortion is on the ballot.
A US obstetrician-gynecologist has said that she was “worried about what will happen to patients like mine” since the Supreme Court upheld a state law that allowed abortions. “Literally, we’ve had to watch patients deteriorate in front of our eyes,” she added. In states where abortion is allowed, doctors offer to terminate the pregnancy since…
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The race in Minnesota will show the difference between crime and abortion.
A Massachusetts lawyer who had an abortion when his girlfriend was pregnant, said the thought of women of reproductive age being forced to birth an unwanted child into almost inevitable poverty and abuse by an ignorant government is what he still thinks about today. He added that he would like to have the right to…