Health

White House Coronavirus Task Force Member Dr. Anthony Fauci said he underwent surgery and did not attend the Aug. 20 meeting of the Task Force to discuss updated U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines that suggest asymptomatic people may not need to be tested for Covid disease. 19, …

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency authorization to Abbott Laboratories for a $ 5 rapid response COVID-19 antigen test that is about the size of a credit card. The inexpensive, rapid-response test could be administered in an office of a physician as a school nurse and uses …

Orlando Bloom, a 43-year-old British actor, shared a charity post Unicef, of which there are few ambassadors, confirming the arrival of her daughter along with a black-and-white photo of the child’s hand. “Welcome to the world, Daisy Dove Bloom! We are honored to introduce Goodwill Ambassadors @KatyPerry and @OrlandoBloom’s new …

And patients who received anticoagulants were also 30% less likely to need a ventilator to breathe, a team at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York reported. Their study of more than 4,300 patients, including those who died, often had evidence of blood problems in their bodies, although many …

A woman who was diagnosed with HIV almost 30 years ago may have been cured of the virus – without taking medication or having a bone marrow transplant. Scientists have been studying Loreen Willenberg for decades, with the 66-year-old insisting she never took medication to keep the virus at bay. …