Monthly Archives: August 2020

FDA stops emergency approval of COVID blood plasma treatment

The Food and Drug Administration’s emergency authorization for blood plasma as a treatment for the coronavirus has been put on hold to obtain more data, according to a report. An emergency service approval could still be issued by the FDA in the very near future, H. Clifford Lane, clinical director …

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Supernovae may have caused massive extinction 359m years ago

Exploding stars – or ‘supernovae’ – at least 65 light-years from Earth, could have unleashed devastating mass extinction events about 359 million years ago. The extinction of the Late Devonian saw 50 percent of all genera – groups of species – and 19 percent of all families disappear, the next …

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