AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A group of doctors in Austin, Texas, warned Friday against police use of so-called ‘less fatal’ ammunition to control the crowd after treating people who were seriously injured in protests in May. In a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 12 doctors from …
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Tribune Publishing Company, which has some of the most well-preserved newspapers in American journalism, said Wednesday that it is closing the rooms at five of them, including New York’s Daily News and The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. The company said the newspapers – including the Orlando Sentinel in Florida, …
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WASHINGTON (AP) – A top official at the Federal Reserve criticized the decision by many states to open businesses this spring before the virus came under full control, saying these choices have hindered an economic recovery in the US Eric Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said …
Read More »Companies test antibody drugs to treat, prevent COVID-19
With a vaccine against a coronavirus still months away, companies are rushing to test what the next best thing might be: drugs that deliver antibodies to fight off the virus, without training the immune system to make them. Antibodies are proteins that the body makes when an infection occurs; they …
Read More »Telemedicine shines during pandemic, but will glow disappear?
In this photo provided by Lauren Shell, Shell poses for a selfie at her home in Leominster, Mass., On Saturday, August 1, 2020. During the pandemic, Shell, a survivor of breast cancer, arranged a quick video visit via the app Zoom in May with her doctor in Boston. Telemedicine grew …
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