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The fossil preservation and evolution of the fish brain is exceptional.
A University of Michigan study has found that a fossil of the skull belonging to the extinct Coccocephalus wildi is a biologically active fish. “This indicates that the telencephalon configuration seen in live ray-finned fishes must’ve emerged much later than previously thought,” lead study author Rodrigo Tinoco Figueroa said. The fossil was found in a…
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Where to find rapid covid-19 tests.
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered the third round of rapid at-home COVID-19 tests to be available for free to Americans who don’t have health insurance or who haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19. People with private insurance will have to pay full price for at-home tests at drugstores after that, WIRED said. This comes…
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Where to find rapid covid-19 tests.
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered the third round of rapid at-home COVID-19 tests to be available for free to Americans who don’t have health insurance or who haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19. People with private insurance will have to pay full price for at-home tests at drugstores after that, WIRED said. This comes…
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The Christmas season will be a hard time for a prosperous city in Hungary.
The Hungarian government has been criticised for not doing enough to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the UK-based charity World Health Organization (WHO). It said that Hungary had allowed the virus to spread through its population, adding that the country was the only country in Central Europe that did not do…
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Older adults are especially good candidates to get a COVID booster.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday said the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine “performed well against COVID-19-associated hospitalisation in older adults”, a study found. The study was conducted by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
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The opinion is that a knock at the door doesn’t mean much in China.
China will allow citizens to return from abroad for Lunar New Year amid concerns that the virus could make its way into rural areas, a report said. It added that people in big cities are expected to return to their hometowns, bringing the virus to the rural areas where vaccinationRates are lower and medical resources…
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African scientists say aid from the west is backfiring.
African countries should revamp their centralised disease surveillance systems to end the exportation of health-care workers, a researcher has said. He added, “The real issue is that African countries rely too much on the West.” The researcher further said that African countries should start paying salaries that people deserve so they don’t leave the continent…
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Funding equity for researcher-mums is a call that has been made.
A study in Australia has revealed that the proportion of female and non-binary research scientists in the country has decreased from 35% in 2016 to 25% in 2020. This comes after the National Health Research Council (NHRC) implemented gender quotas in research funds. The NHRC will award half of its mid- and late-career research grants…
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The world requires processed food.
Ultra-processed foods are associated with an increase in cancer mortality, a study by Imperial College London found. The study found that the risk of dying from cancer increased by six per cent for each additional ten per cent increase in ultraprocessed food consumption. Overly processed foods include soups, sauces, frozen pizza and ready-to-eat meals, among…
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The family of a double-amputee claims that police used excessive force.
Police in US’ San Antonio have released a video of an officer shooting at a teenager who was in the car in a restaurant parking lot. In the video, the officer is seen ordering the teenager out of the car, and then opening the car’s door and shooting five times. The teenager was taken to…
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The new way to protect abortion access is outlined in the opinion.
A US appeals court has rejected an appeal seeking to overturn the state’s new law that banned most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The judge ruled that the law violates the constitutional right to privacy of a woman who gets an abortion. The US Supreme Court overturned the law in June, allowing states to…
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About 4 minutes after a man with high-Capacity magazines opened fire at a school, police entered.
An 18-year-old man opened fire at a US high school on Wednesday, killing at least two people and injuring four others, officials said. As many as three students were critically injured in the incident. The gunman was found dead at the scene, while another student died after being airlifted to a hospital, police said.
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According to 6 experts, how to fix American health care is an opinion.
The US government will end the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) on May 11, 2020, it said. It added that the government will give at least 60 days’ notice prior to ending the PHE. “This wind down would align with Administration’s previous commitments to give at least 60 days’ notice prior to termination of the…
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There are more lawsuits available after the appeals court cleared the way.
A US appeals court has overruled a bankruptcy judge’s ruling that halted lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) after it used a “Texas two-step” approach to avoid juries. J&J had first assigned liability for talc lawsuits to a spin-off company, called LTL Management, and then immediately put that company into bankruptcy. Over 1,500 talc lawsuits…
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China’s exports shrunk in October due to rising inflation and interest rates.
China’s National Health Commission (NHC) on Wednesday scaled down its daily COVID-19 report starting Wednesday in response to a decline in PCR testing since it eased anti-virus measures after daily cases hit record highs. The NHC said the changes were based on scientific evidence, including spread of the milder Omicron variant and China’s level of…
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The drugs that have surprised researchers are the breakthrough weight loss drugs.
Semaglutide, a drug used to treat diabetes, was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2021 for weight loss for adults with obesity. It was approved for use in patients with type 2 diabetes who’re at high risk of developing complications from the disease. It is also used to treat heart disease…
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We can’t just give up and keep quiet.
US President Donald Trump has said that he is working to “make America a better economy” by lowering the costs of everyday things such as health care premiums and prescription drug prices. He added, “We passed…Inflation Reduction Act without a single Republican vote to lock in lower health care premiums for 13 million Americans and…
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The push is to improve children’s health.
A study by Yale Center for Infectious Disease Modelling and Analysis found that the COVID-19 vaccines have helped people in the US save up to $9,300 in health care costs. It added that if people factor in cases of long COVID-19 that vaccines likely prevented, the savings may be much higher. COVID-19 has killed over…
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Hospitals are being hammered by theRSV wave, but vaccines and treatments are coming.
A study has found that a vaccine for newborns to prevent anddefend the spread of coronavirus has been found effective in two trials in South Africa. The Pfizer-GSK vaccine was tested in pregnant people and was found to be effective in increasing their total antibody numbers. The researchers said that the vaccine is one of…
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Child hospitalizations are up due to the flu in Canada.
COVID-19 is not yet known if it’ll become a seasonal illness or if it will continue to rise intermittently throughout the year, but next year’s flu season might be tamer if many of the susceptible people get it in the coming months. A record number of people were in the hospital for flu last week,…
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The Covid-19 variant is poised to drive a winter surge.
Experts have said that a new COVID-19 variant has emerged in Europe where people have some immunity from “an Omicron infection” and it’s a very different sort of population landscape for a variant to emerge in. “With lots of people now being boosted and vaccinated and with people having some immunity from an Omicron infection,…
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These doctors do not want patients with disabilities.
Lisa Iezzoni, a professor of medicine at Harvard University, has said that she heard the same story during research with hundreds of people who have disabilities: Health care that was substandard. Protected by anonymity, only first names and nicknames were used. Iezzoni added that groups of eight to 10 doctors began talking. The US National…
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A similar plan for Congress was put forward after the 9/11 Inquiry.
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) in a report has said that the government needs to be “more transparent” in its evaluation of clinical research, which was slow in generating useful results on a range of issues, such as optimal vaccine schedules and the evaluation of drugs to mitigate COVID-19 symptoms. The agency also said…
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Individualized treatments are paving the way thanks to the success of the CRISPR cancer trial.
A researcher at the University of Pennsylvania has said that a CAR-T-cell therapy that harnesses an individual’s own T cells is not the same as in other diseases. Joseph Fraietta said, “Solid tumours provide barriers to T cells, which have to move through the blood to kill the cancer cells.” He added, “In three years,…
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There was a huge spike in child hospitalizations due to the flu.
An outbreak of bird flu in Spain has claimed the lives of at least 20 people, making it the country’s biggest- ever death toll from the virus. According to the Health Ministry, over 76,000 people have been infected with bird flu in Spain. The death toll is likely to rise further as several more cases…