The WHO convened an emergency committee meeting Thursday to discuss the severity of the monkeypox outbreak. The result of the meeting was announced Saturday. “Overall, in the report, they (the emergency committee) advised me that at this moment the event does not constitute a Public...
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New coronavirus subvariants escape antibodies from vaccination and prior Omicron infection, studies suggest 💥💥💥
However, Covid-19 vaccination is still expected to provide substantial protection against severe disease, and vaccine makers are working on updated shots that might elicit a stronger immune response against the variants. “We observed 3-fold reductions of neutralizing antibody titers induced by vaccination and infection against...
Is romance really dead? 💥💥💥
This decline isn’t just about the pandemic either since the downward trend was happening before 2020. So just what the heck is going on? I wanted to find out if love is really dead — and if so, who killed it? That’s why I decided...
China’s bank run victims planned to protest. Then their Covid health codes turned red 💥💥💥
But when Liu scanned a local QR code to exit the Zhengzhou train station, his health code came back red — a nightmare for any traveler in China, where freedom of movement is strictly dictated by a color-code system imposed by the government to control...
How psilocybin, the psychedelic in mushrooms, may rewire the brain to ease depression, anxiety and more 💥💥💥
“Let’s be adults about this. These are no longer ‘shrooms.’ These are no longer party drugs for young people,” Stamets told CNN. “Psilocybin mushrooms are nonaddictive, life-changing substances.” “The data are strong from depression to PTSD to cluster headaches, which is one of the most...
Airborne transmission of monkeypox ‘has not been reported,’ CDC says 💥💥💥
Unlike other viral diseases like Covid-19 and measles, the monkeypox virus isn’t subject to “airborne transmission,” which involves small particles that linger in the air or spread on air currents, the CDC notes. “In instances where people who have monkeypox have travelled on airplanes, no...
Teens are facing a sleep deprivation epidemic. Here’s why 💥💥💥
Lewis, a mother of two, helped spark the first law in the nation requiring healthy school start times for adolescents — a law that will be put into action in California later this summer. Lewis shared why sleep is so important for teenagers, how much...
A die-hard diet soda drinker investigates the zero sugar trend 💥💥💥
I ordered my Diet A&W Cream Soda, and I quickly realized something was different. My “diet” soda was no longer diet. Instead, it had become “zero sugar.” Just what the heck was going on? I had to know because diet soda is my everything. It’s...
Abbott restarts production of specialty formulas at Michigan plant 💥💥💥
Abbott said it is starting with production of EleCare, an amino acid-based hypoallergenic product for babies who can’t tolerate other formulas, as well as other specialty formulas. Abbott said the first batches of Elecare product are expected to be available to consumers around June 20....
Changing our DNA: ‘The age of human therapeutic gene editing is here’ 💥💥💥
While Rose spent her short life helping to break down the stigma attached to a devastating illness, geneticist David Liu has dedicated his career to developing ways to alter the genetic code that took her life at such a tender age. “That a single misspelling...