Personal Health

FOLX Is Making Queer and Trans Healthcare So Much Easier. Finally.

Launched in January of this year, FOLX Health is one of the first healthcare companies dedicated to providing customized medical treatment and care specifically for queer and transgender communities. The current state of healthcare is abysmal for trans people, with 42% of trans women reporting mistreatment or abuse by healthcare providers, reports the National Center […]

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Restoring health and fitness with exercise

If COVID-19 restrictions have kept you home exercising less and eating more, it could be affecting your health as could the stress, boredom and isolation of this time. Exercise can help. Exercise helps you build muscle mass, maintain bone density and avoid osteoporosis, improve balance, prevent weight gain, decrease stress and improve sleep. It can […]

Pet Care

Animals Find New Homes and Lives After a Catastrophic Texas Storm

Following an unprecedented winter weather crisis in Texas in February that left millions of homes and businesses without power, the ASPCA and Wings of Rescue transported over 170 pets to the Northeast, providing much needed relief to animal shelters impacted by the storms. “Animal shelters were impacted by the storms, many losing power and access […]

Pet Care

Celebrities and Customers Call on Costco to Address Chickens’ Suffering

A recent investigation by Mercy For Animals into a Costco-supplying farm revealed chickens suffering from sores, injuries and horrifying, inhumane conditions. In response, we published a letter and appealed to Costco to address this urgent issue by adopting meaningful welfare standards. More than 100,000 advocates have signed the letter to the retailer’s executives, and a […]

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Antiviral T cells safe and effective for treating debilitating complication common after stem cell transplants

A Phase II trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found that BK virus (BKV)-specific T cells from healthy donors were safe and effective as an off-the-shelf therapy for BKV-associated hemorrhagic cystitis (BKV-HC), a painful complication common after allogeneic stem cell transplants for patients with leukemia or lymphoma. The […]