The fatal threat from diarrhea and pneumonia to young children in the world’s poorer countries can be drastically reduced by using traditional performing arts to encourage mothers to provide youngsters with safe food and water, a new study reveals. The…
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Mostly virus-free Kauai hit by pandemic after travel resumes
On Hawaii’s rural island of Kauai, where sprawling white sand beaches and dramatic seaside mountains attract visitors from around the world, local residents spent the first seven months of the pandemic sheltered from the viral storm. Early and aggressive local…
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TikTok Users Swear By This Device for a Chiseled Jawline—But It’s Actually Really Dangerous
Social media has a weird way of making you feel insecure about things you didn't even know you should be concerned with—and currently, it's been focusing on your jawline. The popular social media app TikTok is flooded right now with…
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Netherlands aims to begin Pfizer-BioNTech shots by Jan 8
The Dutch health minister said Thursday that coronavirus vaccinations using the Pfizer-BioNTech shots will start Jan. 8 if the European Union’s medicines agency approves it for use next week. Hugo de Jonge said that health authorities have developed a plan…
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COVID-19 Vaccine Caution Issued by U.K. Officials
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 9, 2020 — People with a “significant history” of allergic reactions should not receive the new Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, U.K. regulators said Tuesday. The advice was issued after two people suffered adverse reactions on the first day of…
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Spain to vaccinate third of population by June: PM
Spain plans to vaccinate at least a third of its 47 million residents by June, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Friday, with the COVID-19 immunisation campaign to start in January. Some 2.5 million people will be vaccinated in the…
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This Man’s Diarrhea and Vomiting Were Actually Caused by Parasitic Worms in His Stomach
The man was asked to give a stool sample, and doctors found fertilized eggs from the intestinal parasite Ascaris lumbricoides in his poop. He was eventually given IV fluids, a single dose of the anti-parasitic drug albendazole, and discharged him…
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A novel monoclonal antibody therapy cuts LDL cholesterol by half in a high-risk patient population
The investigational drug evinacumab reduced low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol—the so-called “bad” cholesterol—by 50 percent in patients with severe hypercholesterolemia whose condition is resistant to standard treatments, a phase 2 study from the Icahn School of Medicine of Mount Sinai and…
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People With Limb Differences Are ‘Horrified’ By the Portrayal of Disabilities in ‘The Witches’ Movie
Fans of Roald Dahl have been looking forward to the movie adaptation of his 1983 children's fantasy novel The Witches. But since it was released last month—via on-demand services due to the COVID-19-enforced closure of movie theaters—not all feedback has…
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Daily U.S. Coronavirus Case Count Tops 160,000, Fueled by Small Gatherings
FRIDAY, Nov. 13, 2020 – More than 160,000 new coronavirus cases were reported in the United States on Thursday, yet another record-shattering tally that public health officials say is being driven largely by small gatherings such as dinner parties, game…
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