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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…
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The US will require travelers from China to have a negative carbon dioxide test.
China’s National Health Commission (NHC) on Wednesday said it will no longer conduct daily coronavirus tests. The move comes after daily COVID-19 cases hit record highs and the NHC decided to scale down its daily COVID-19 report. NHC also said that COVID-19 testing will no longer be conducted in residential areas. China has reported over…
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People are saying what they think about the show.
Talking about his experiences with other royal marriages, Prince Harry said, “These are the skeletons in the closet that frequently make an unwelcome appearance in daily life.” He added, “Sometimes, you know…you’re part of the problem…and there is a huge level of unconscious bias.” Harry further said, “I think for so many people…there can be…
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A woman is sentenced to three years in prison for collecting $400,000 in a scam.
A New Jersey woman, who pleaded guilty to helping her boyfriend spread the feel-good story about a homeless veteran that garnered more than $400,000 in online donations, has been sentenced to three years in prison. Prosecutors said 32-year-old Katelyn McClure wasn’t present in the Mount Holly courtroom on Friday because she is serving a one-year…
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The nurses union said it is going to strike on Monday if the tentative contract agreements are not reached in the remaining hospital.
Nurses at a New York hospital, where infants are transferred after a strike notice, said it was taking significant actions to care for patients. Mount Sinai Hospital said the strike notice was a “reckless” action by the nurses’ union. It added that its current wage offer is “identical” to ratified agreements at NewYork-Presbyterian and Maimonides.
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Travelers from China are subject to COVID testing requirements.
China has eased the restrictions on travel into the country but said it would keep restrictions on travel into the country until at least mid-2023 as part of a campaign to vaccinate older people against COVID-19. The move comes after the Chinese government eased some of its coronavirus lockdown restrictions, including the requirement of a…
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Fauci reacts to Musk’s attack and rates the world’s response.
Vaccination against COVID-19 in asymptomatic older adults is safe and effective at reducing their risk of dying from the illness, according to a study by the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland. The researchers said that it’s too early to say whether vaccination is safe for older people. They added that older adults…
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The USDA approved the first vaccine for honeybees.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued conditional licenses for honeybee vaccines to help combat American Foulbrood Disease. The honeybee vaccine doesn’t have a injection in it. Instead, it’s mixed into “queen feed,” which the worker bees consume, according to Dalan Animal Health. The queen bee excretes vaccine fragments in her ovary after consuming…
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Public health experts warn that a new variant of coronaviruses could end up happening.
The Omicron COVID-19 sub-virus, that was first identified in China, has been discovered in the US. It’s a new combination of the most evasive Omicron sub-virus subvariants, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers. The original Omicron variant was from the COVID-19 viruses and has shifted as far as the antibodies we have made to use…
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The FDA approved a drug that slowed the growth of Alzheimer’s.
US’ Food and Drug Administration is expected to decide this week whether to give accelerated approval to lecanemab, an experimental Alzheimer’s drug, according to Biogen and Eisai. Lecanemab has been tested in a phase III clinical trial to see if it would stop brain shrinkage in Alzheimer’s patients. Earlier, three people had died after receiving…
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Everyone is sick now.
A new variant of coronavirus has been detected in people who’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 and others who’ve been infected with it, researchers said on Monday. “The bad news is that it’s likely that people who’ve been vaccinated and/or infected will still get infected,” Dr Daniel Barouch, a virologist at Beth Deaconess Hospital in Boston,…
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I am the last barrier between New York City and my sister.
Amid the ongoing national crisis about caring for the mentally ill, families like mine are a key constituency that has been largely sidelined during the national crisis about caring for the mentally ill. In California, where I live, the Legislature recently passed the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Act, known as CARE, which allows families…
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Is lecanemab the key to changing the course of Alzheimer’s disease?
US’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering an accelerated approval for a drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease. Leqembi, developed by Biogen and Eisai, reduced marker of amyloid in Alzheimer’s patients’ brains and was associated with less decline in cognitive function than a placebo. The drug is currently being tested in a Phase 3 clinical…
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Hamlin has a Breathing Tube that was removed.
The NFL has approved a plan to use a coin flip to determine where the Bills-Bengals game would take place if both teams are still in the playoffs. However, if the Ravens beat the Bengals on Sunday, the game site would be determined by a coin toss. This comes after Buffalo’s safety Damar Hamlin collapsed…