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Canada’s health authority said Monday it has approved Pfizer’s anti-COVID pill, Paxlovid, for adults at high risk of progressing to serious disease. The oral treatment was approved after an “expedited review,” Health Canada said in a statement on its website,…

The IL-6 family of proteins has a bad reputation: it can promote inflammation, arthritis, autoimmune disease and even cancer. However, a new USC-led study published in Communications Biology reveals the importance of IL-6 and associated genes for maintaining and regenerating…

The American Red Cross announced this week that it is facing its first-ever blood crisis amid a surge in cases of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2. Due to restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic, 68% of blood centers in the United…

(HealthDay)—The nomination of former U.S. Food and Drug Administration head Robert Califf, M.D., to again lead the agency now heads to the full Senate for a vote, after a Senate committee on Thursday voted 13-8 for approval. Among those who…

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new survey finds most Americans are in favor of allotting “the last ICU bed” to the patient with the highest probability of surviving COVID-19. Responses from 2,000 respondents from the nationally representative YouGov internet…

U.S. health officials on Friday encouraged more Americans to wear the kind of N95 or KN95 masks used by health-care workers to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Those kinds of masks are considered better at filtering the air. But…

Supermarkets fill me with dread. The carnage of mask-less shoppers ignoring both the one-way systems and the distancing measures have led me to have multiple panic attacks.   My chest tightens, my fingers tingle, and I stagger as quickly as I…

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health report successfully removing the nucleus out of a type of ubiquitous cell, known as enucleation, then using the genetically engineered cell…

How to banish your insomnia for good without pills: PROFESSOR GUY LESCHZINER shares techniques for dealing with epidemic of sleeplessness caused by Covid anxiety In yesterday’s Daily Mail, in the first part of an exclusive series about how to beat…