After the COVID hospital protocol killed their loved ones, many families are filing lawsuits, seeking justice. When the federal government sent $9,000 to Patty Myers to pay for her husband’s funeral, she got angry. “I didn’t want to take a penny. It felt like hush money, like they were paying
Scientists accidentally invent an anti-addiction drug. Christian Hendershot, a psychiatrist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, said that Semaglutide and its chemical relatives seem to work, at least in animals, against an unusually broad array of addictive drugs. All her life, Victoria Rutledge thought
A study published in the journal Current Biology investigates how mosquitoes use your body chemistry to select you as their next meal. To unravel the age-old question of why mosquitoes eat some people alive but spare others, scientists built a large, open-air arena in Zambia and piped in the smells of a
According to a study, something weird is going on with melatonin as the number of annual calls to poison control for pediatric melatonin overdoses has risen by 530 percent over the prior 10 years. In the dark, early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Michael Toce noticed a surprising trend. As
Some scientists fear that the China-Laos Railway could spark another global health crisis after COVID-19 because the accelerated development along its once-remote trajectory is causing tree loss and bringing humans into closer contact with bats. Deep in the forests of Laos, China has built a state-of-the-art high-speed railway. The link
According to a grammar analysis conducted by the Boston Public Health Commission, a mere two-mile distance between Back Bay and Nubian Square in Roxbury results in a 23-year difference in life expectancy in Boston. In Boston, a two-mile difference in where you live may mean a 23-year difference in life
U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman orders FDA to speed up release of Covid-19 vaccine trial data from 23.5 years to just 2. A federal judge in Texas this week ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make public data it relied on to license COVID-19 vaccines—Moderna’s for adults and
The EcoHealth Alliance’s grant has been reinstated, but the NIH’s conditions for reinstatement have not been met. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reinstated a grant that had been terminated by President Donald Trump in April 2020. However, a document first obtained by the House Oversight Committee reveals that the NIH’s conditions for
A study conducted by the Cleveland Clinic suggests that taking additional booster shots may increase the risk of contracting COVID-19. A study conducted on the effectiveness of the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine has surprised many at the Cleveland Clinic. The organization studied its employees to determine how the new bivalent vaccines stack up
A new study suggests that a high percentage of people who required help from a ventilator due to a COVID-19 infection also developed secondary bacterial pneumonia, which was responsible for a higher mortality rate than the COVID-19 infection. COVID-19 is no longer classed as a global health emergency by the World Health Organization, but