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
Margery Smelkinson, a research scientist at the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said the US’s failure to recognise natural immunity negatively affected the pandemic response. The failure to recognize how post-infection immunity is similar or superior to that bestowed by vaccination led to prolonged school closures
The FDA has approved Vowst, which is the first oral biologic pill for fecal microbiota containing human feces. Patients needing a fecal microbiota transplant for recurrent Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infections now have the option of getting stool in pill form. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved Vowst,
The NIH has restarted the ‘Bat Virus Grant’ to Peter Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit research organization in New York City, which is a new 4-year grant that represents a stripped-down version of the original grant. Three years after then-President Donald Trump pressured the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
