As the world faces the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study suggests that antibodies, proteins produced by the immune system that can provide protection against reinfection, may disappear in just two months after infection in certain people who have recovered from the virus. The study was conducted in China and published …
Read More »Miley Cyrus reveals she has been sober for 6 months
The singer, who has been outspoken about smoking marijuana in the past, revealed that she became sober after undergoing vocal cord surgery late last year. “It has been really important to me for the past year to live a sober lifestyle because I really wanted to polish my craft,” said …
Read More »Activists stop street protests in South Carolina as some protesters become infected
South Carolina racial justice activists said they would postpone future protests or move them online after at least 13 people who participated in previous protests tested positive for the coronavirus. © Sean Rayford / Getty Images Protesters march June 5 in Columbia, SC. asking for racial justice. Protest organizers say …
Read More »Health officials had to face a pandemic. Then came the death threats.
CHICAGO – Leaders of local and state health departments have been subjected to harassment, personal insults and death threats in recent weeks, a response from an angry and public minority that says the mask requirements and restrictions on companies have gone too far. A top health official, Dr. Barbara Ferrer, …
Read More »A game changer in the fight against dementia
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A recent article published in Frontiers in neuroscience, describes a pathway of cognitive decline induced by pulse pressure that sheds light on why previous treatments for dementia may have failed and proposes promising new directions for the prevention and treatment of dementia. “In the past two …
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