The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) is fast-tracking patients for its upcoming cancer vaccine trials — and each one will be tailored to every individual’s needs. As The Guardian reports, patients who meet eligibility criteria need only sign off on having their blood and tissues sampled to gain immediate access to the vaccine trial, which […]
Even as national institutions struggle to coordinate meaningful trials for possible long COVID treatments, researchers continue to tally the damage. New findings suggest that the disease’s reach isn’t merely long—it’s still growing. Three years after their initial bouts with COVID-19, patients who’d once been hospitalized with the virus remained at “significantly elevated” risk of death […]
A mild covid infection at the start of the pandemic has thrown Jeanine Hays’s immune system out of whack, she said, as her husband ticked off ailments the way drug commercials list side effects. Chronic hives. Hair loss. Tinnitus. Severe nerve pain. Extreme fluctuations in blood pressure. Allergic reactions to synthetic fabrics and processed foods. […]
The Republican Party of Texas is considering a platform that appears to endorse the death penalty for abortion providers and patients. Texas delegates voted on a 2024 platform at the state’s GOP Convention on Saturday and aim to tally the votes by Wednesday to finalize their platform for the coming year. The proposal called for […]
I’m not sure how death has become a niche I frequently cover, but considering we all deal with death and grief, I do believe there’s power in talking through what final moments look like. Fanatic Studio / Getty Images/Science Photo Library RF And since death is such a taboo topic, there’s so much people don’t […]
May 20—ESPAÑOLA — It doesn’t feel like much. The high-tech glove reverse-engineered by students from Northern New Mexico College and Española Valley High School emits a gentle pulse to the fleshy pads of the fingertips. The sensation is a little less intense than the vibration of a cellphone. For nearly two years, the students have […]
Many of the ADHD medication shortages that have plagued the U.S. for the last two years have now been resolved, the Food and Drug Administration says. Yet some doctors and patients report they are still struggling to get prescriptions filled. Dr. Royce Lee, a psychiatrist at the University of Chicago Medicine, said supply has gotten […]
(Reuters) -AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 prevention therapy reduced the risk of infection in patients with weaker immunity in a late-stage trial, meeting its primary goal, the drugmaker said on Thursday. The long-acting antibody therapy called sipavibart showed a “statistically significant reduction” in symptomatic COVID-19 cases among immunocompromised patients, the company said. Immunocompromised people include those with blood […]
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile County Health Department’s primary care division Family Health hired an award-winning local artist to revamp the downtown pediatric waiting room. Mobile man arrested in connection with Stockton mass shooting: Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office According to a release, Ty Tover, an award-winning local artist who also had his art submitted to […]
A Kentucky dentist convicted of illegally prescribing morphine to a patient who died of a drug overdose has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, according to federal authorities. A Covington jury acquitted Jay M. Sadrinia, 61, on three charges of illegally prescribing opioid painkillers, but convicted him on one charge of illegally prescribing […]
An Orange County doctor has been arrested for allegedly groping and sexually assaulting female patients. The suspect was identified as John Carl Hoefs, 79, of Irvine, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. Hoefs is a practicing hepatologist at a Hoag-affiliated medical office in Irvine and has been affiliated with the University of California, […]
Elon Musk’s brain technology startup Neuralink said Wednesday that an issue cropped up with the company’s first human brain implant weeks after it was inserted into a patient. The company revealed in a blog post that in the weeks following the patient’s surgery in January, a number of the implant’s connective threads retracted from the […]