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Folks: He’s Got It

President Donald Trump disclosed via Twitter on Friday morning that he and his wife, Melania, had tested positive for covid-19. “We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!,” Trump tweeted. The president and his wife will remain at home in the White House, the president’s physician, Sean Conley,…

Health Tom McKay & Dell Cameron

Woman With Rare Skull Condition Leaked Spinal Fluid After Covid-19 Nasal Swab, Doctors Say

A Iowa woman’s nasal swab test for covid-19 caused her to leak spinal fluid, her doctors report, in what seems to be the first recorded injury of its kind related to the novel coronavirus. But don’t worry too much about something similar happening to you during a swab test—the unfortunate accident was likely only possible…

Health Ed Cara

No Evidence That Hydroxychloroquine Can Prevent Covid-19, Concludes New Study

A new study is the latest to suggest that hydroxychloroquine isn’t an effective weapon against covid-19, even when taken as a preventative drug. The randomized, double-blinded trial found no difference in the risk of catching covid-19 among health care workers who either took the malaria drug or a placebo before they were potentially exposed to…

Health Ed Cara

CDC Director Overheard Trashing Trump’s ‘Herd Immunity’ Guy, Scott Atlas

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention thinks that one of Trump’s top pandemic advisers has no idea what he’s talking about. Reports have indicated for months that the CDC chief, Dr. Robert Redfield, is on thin ice with the Trump administration for contradicting the White House’s brainwashed spin on the pandemic.…

Health Tom McKay

The FDA Approved Prescription Opioids Without Critical Safety Data, Study Says

The Food and Drug Administration has been lax in how it’s approved prescription opioid treatments dating back to the late 1990s, according to a new study out Monday. The study found that the FDA has routinely approved new opioid drugs or new formulations of existing drugs on the basis of limited evidence from clinical trials…

Health Ed Cara

The UK Could Be the First Country to Intentionally Give People Coronavirus to Test Vaccines

The UK is considering a controversial approach to testing potential vaccines for the coronavirus that causes covid-19: intentionally exposing volunteers to the virus, in a strategy known as challenge trials. Last week, the Financial Times reported that the UK government will allow human challenge vaccine trials to begin by January 2021. In these trials, volunteers…

Health Ed Cara

It’s 2020, So of Course a Texas City Is Dealing With a Brain-Eating Amoeba in Its Water System

2020 is so far the year of the novel coronavirus, murder hornets, climate change-induced wildfire hell and now: a brain-eating amoeba. Yes, you read that correctly. On Saturday, the city of Lake Jackson, Texas issued a disaster declaration after it detected the microscopic amoeba Naegleria fowleri in its water systems. Naegleria fowleri is commonly found…

Health Jody Serrano

This Dog Is Learning How to Detect Covid-19

Can man’s best friend lend a hand, or a nose, to the fight against the novel coronavirus? The answer might be yes. There are various ongoing efforts to train sniffer dogs to detect covid-19, the disease caused by coronavirus. If dogs prove to be reliable in detecting the virus, scientists believe that they could provide…

Health Jody Serrano

Don’t Be Fooled by Reports on the ‘New’ Coronavirus Mutation

A wave of attention is once again being paid to studies suggesting that the coronavirus behind covid-19 has mutated, possibly into a form that’s more infectious. But while the basic science of this research may be legitimate, it isn’t as worrisome as some headlines might lead you to believe—the virus is not becoming capable of…

Health Ed Cara

Too Much Licorice Stopped Man’s Heart and Killed Him, Doctors Say

A Massachusetts man’s fateful switch to licorice candy seems to have sent him to an early grave. In a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors described how the man’s recent habit of eating a bag of black licorice every day likely led to his sudden cardiac arrest, kidney failure, and…

Health Ed Cara

In 2020, Not Even Your Seltzer Is Safe

If you, like me, woke up one day in your 30s and decided that seltzer was suddenly your thing, I have some bad news. It’s time to sit down, friend, and mourn yet another thing that this garbage year 2020 has taken from us. As it turns out, a Consumer Reports investigation has found that…

Health Victoria Song

Trauma Disrupts Children’s Brains—but Researchers Are Finding New Ways to Help Them Heal

Between 1966, when abortion was outlawed in Romania, and 1989, when the revolution overthrew the communist government, many parents turned over children they couldn’t care for to state-run institutions. Children grew up in neglect, without the security of a dependable, comforting caregiver. Babies were left alone in cribs, rarely held. No one answered their cries,…

Health Jackie Rocheleau

Australian Regulators: If You Want to Vape, Get a Prescription

Australia’s muddled laws on vaping are emerging from a dank cloud of confusion: According to a Wednesday report in the Guardian, the country’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has ruled that nicotine will be reclassified as a prescription-only medication in June 2021. Sales of nicotine e-cigarettes and fluids (whether nicotine juices or salts) are already prohibited…

Health Tom McKay

‘Brain-Boosting’ Supplements Are Full of Unapproved, Untested Drugs, Study Finds

Supplements that supposedly improve brain health and functioning, known as nootropics, often contain unapproved and potentially unsafe drugs, according to new research published Wednesday. The study not only detected drugs unapproved in the U.S. in these nootropic products, but also found that these drugs could be in much higher doses than labeled or in combinations…

Health Ed Cara

Hell Yes, It’s Time to Get Your Flu Shot

Friends: The time has come. It’s the first day of fall, and you can partially fill the coronavirus-vaccine-shaped hole in your heart by getting a flu shot. I got my flu shot on Monday. My arm still kind of hurts, but that’s OK, because now I’m less likely to get and spread the extremely shitty…

Health Ed Cara

CDC Says Covid-19 Can Be Airborne, Then Takes It Back

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finally took a stance on whether covid-19 can be airborne, only to take it back within days. Over the weekend, the public health agency issued new guidelines that warned people about catching the viral illness from the lingering respiratory droplets and tiny aerosol particles emitted by an infected…

Health Ed Cara

Look How Hot These People Wearing Masks Are

As we all know, face masks are a critical tool in battling the novel coronavirus pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have described them as “one of the most powerful weapons we have to slow and stop the spread” of the coronavirus, which causes the disease covid-19. This week, CDC Director Dr. Robert…

Health Jody Serrano

CDC Nukes Absurd Testing Guidance, Now Says All Exposed People ‘Need a Test’

On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention struck down a previous guidance that recommended against the testing of asymptomatic people for the coronavirus that causes covid-19, even if the person was exposed to the virus. The agency now recommends testing anyone who could have caught the infection from a close contact, symptoms or…

Health Ed Cara

CDC Says Pregnant Women With Covid-19 More Likely to Give Birth Prematurely

Pregnant women and their babies face unique challenges from covid-19, suggests new research published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study found that pregnant women who develop covid-19-related symptoms while hospitalized often become critically ill, and pregnant women with covid-19 may be more likely to have a preterm birth or possibly even…

Health Ed Cara

Lab-Made Antibodies Show Early Promise for Treating Covid-19

A lab-made antibody treatment has shown encouraging results in preventing hospitalizations from covid-19, at least in some preliminary data. On Tuesday, the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced that its experimental antibody treatment was found to reduce the rate of hospitalizations among people with covid-19 treated in an outpatient setting, compared to a placebo control group.…

Health Ed Cara

Folks: He’s Got It

Woman With Rare Skull Condition Leaked Spinal Fluid After Covid-19 Nasal Swab, Doctors Say

No Evidence That Hydroxychloroquine Can Prevent Covid-19, Concludes New Study

CDC Director Overheard Trashing Trump’s ‘Herd Immunity’ Guy, Scott Atlas

The FDA Approved Prescription Opioids Without Critical Safety Data, Study Says

The UK Could Be the First Country to Intentionally Give People Coronavirus to Test Vaccines

It’s 2020, So of Course a Texas City Is Dealing With a Brain-Eating Amoeba in Its Water System

This Dog Is Learning How to Detect Covid-19

Don’t Be Fooled by Reports on the ‘New’ Coronavirus Mutation

Too Much Licorice Stopped Man’s Heart and Killed Him, Doctors Say

In 2020, Not Even Your Seltzer Is Safe

Trauma Disrupts Children’s Brains—but Researchers Are Finding New Ways to Help Them Heal

Australian Regulators: If You Want to Vape, Get a Prescription

‘Brain-Boosting’ Supplements Are Full of Unapproved, Untested Drugs, Study Finds

Hell Yes, It’s Time to Get Your Flu Shot

CDC Says Covid-19 Can Be Airborne, Then Takes It Back

Look How Hot These People Wearing Masks Are

CDC Nukes Absurd Testing Guidance, Now Says All Exposed People ‘Need a Test’

CDC Says Pregnant Women With Covid-19 More Likely to Give Birth Prematurely

Lab-Made Antibodies Show Early Promise for Treating Covid-19

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