Now that the coronavirus has been in the United States for roughly a year, new numbers are revealing the scale of covid-19’s impact on American health: Covid has become the country’s third-leading cause of death, and could be on its way to outpacing cancer. As of Wednesday afternoon, 528,603 Americans had died of the coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University data. […]
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark has temporarily suspended AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine shots after reports of cases of blood clots forming, including one in Denmark, Danish authorities said on Thursday.FILE PHOTO: Staff member handles AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines in storage at Region Hovedstaden’s Vaccine Center, Copenhagen, Denmark February 11, 2021. Ritzau Scanpix/Liselotte Sabroe via REUTERS They did not say how many reports of […]
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FILE PHOTO: A logo is pictured on the headquarters of the World Health Orgnaization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, June 25, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File PhotoBEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said the country would continue to work with the World Health Organization (WHO) in trying to find the origins of COVID-19, in response to a question on U.S. criticism that […]
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Researchers in the United States have computed genome-wide covariation within severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) to investigate interactions that could be of considerable importance in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). When the researchers considered the level of variability within both the full genome and different virus clades, they found nucleotide variability differed between […]
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Beverly Peele says she initially had a "hard" time parenting her son Trey, whom she says she shares with former fashion executive Peter Nygard, after Nygard allegedly sexually assaulted her. In response, Nygard's Winnipeg-based attorney, Jay Prober, denies Peele's claims against the executive. "My son and I are very close. I told him that, 'It was hard for me to […]
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Three projects from University of Colorado Cancer Center researchers have received grants from the Denver-based Michele Plachy-Rubin Fund for Pilot Grants in Brain Cancer Research. Receiving $40,000 each to fund their work around brain cancer are Sujatha Venkataraman, PhD; and the teams of Philip Reigan, PhD, and Michael Graner, PhD; and Natalie Serkova, PhD, and Nicholas Foreman, MD, MBChB. New […]
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Life with kids, while fulfilling and amazing, kinda sucks sometimes. It’s dirty and sticky and loud and sometimes, on the hard days it can feel like you’re all alone, screwing things up, and you wonder how in the world your kids will ever grow up to be normal, functioning adults. Moms know, rationally, that we all struggle, but most of […]
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Nearly one in three patients with blood cancer and survivors say they are unlikely to get a COVID-19 vaccine or unsure about getting it if one were available. The findings come from a nationwide survey by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, which collected 6517 responses. “These findings […]
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After Naya Rivera‘s tragic drowning last summer while on a boating trip with her son, Josey, three Glee creators payed tribute to the actor’s contributions to the hit show and announced they were setting up a college fund for Josey. Recent tweets from fans and Rivera’s father, George Rivera, suggested this promise has gone unfulfilled and was just a “hollow […]
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Precisely two weeks after receiving her second COVID-19 vaccine shot, Sylvia Baer spent the day getting an eye exam, enjoying a manicure and buying groceries at Whole Foods – a schedule that 12 months ago would have been utterly unremarkable. Yet the 71-year-old college professor found herself on the verge of tears at, of all places, […]
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