Some Americans haven’t felt the effects of stimulus aid, $2G check a very popular stance: Rep. Comer Rep. Jim Comer weighs in on the stimulus standoff on ‘America’s Newsroom.’ Amid a complex, difficult mass immunization effort nationwide, the spotlight has shifted to the clear disconnect between a militant-style cadence of vaccine distibution, and the efforts […]
Pool Play! See Kandi Burruss’ Family and More Celeb Kids Swimming
Family fun! Khloé Kardashian and more celebrity parents have been spending summer 2020 swimming with their kids. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star has been posting pool pictures of her and Tristan Thompson’s daughter, True, all season long, from the little one kissing grandma Kris Jenner’s cheek in the shallows to smiling with cousins […]
Inside Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna’s New Custody Agreement of Dream
Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna have put their messy custody battle over their daughter, Dream, to rest. Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna: A Timeline of Their Relationship Kardashian, 33, and Chyna, 32, initially entered a paternity arrangement in October 2017 that neither party ultimately followed. The former couple have since reached a new agreement “without […]
US coronavirus response unimaginative, should focus on rapid testing and indoor air: expert
California coronavirus cases climbing despite strict lockdown orders Dr. Marc Siegel argues against the effectiveness of widespread lockdowns, says the surge in cases is likely due to gatherings in homes. Underused rapid antigen tests and lack of interest in cleaning indoor air are the two missing pieces amid the deadly, novel coronavirus pandemic, according to an […]
New theranostic approach reduces tumor volume and increases survival in NET study
A pair of copper radionuclides that target the somatostatin receptor overexpressed in neuroendocrine tumors has proven successful in identifying tumors and improving survival. According to new research published in the December issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, the imaging agent 64Cu-CuSarTate produced high-quality positron emission tomography (PET) images in a mouse model of neuroendocrine […]
Cancer researchers identify potential new class of drugs to treat blood and bone marrow cancers
A new study by researchers in Cleveland Clinic’s Taussig Cancer Institute and Lerner Research Institute describes a novel class of targeted cancer drugs that may prove effective in treating certain common types of leukemia. The results first appeared online in Blood Cancer Discovery. Myeloid leukemias are cancers derived from stem and progenitor cells in the […]
The Truth About Air Filters and COVID Prevention
Long before COVID-19 had us all spending a lot more time inside our home and worrying about airborne everything, the quality of the air indoors was making people sick. Air pollution can come from pretty much anything—candles, grooming products, burning firewood, printers, and even your cooking. These pollutants intermingle with those that enter through drafty […]
Diabetes and obesity risk factors for severe malaria
Infectious diseases doctor Katja Wyss’s thesis is the product of many years’ research on malaria in Sweden. With clinical data from almost 3,000 diagnosed cases over a twenty-year time span, Katja Wyss at Karolinska Institutet’s Department of Medicine in Solna presents risk factors for malaria and new links between malaria and lymphoma—results that are of […]
COVID-19 in Victorian schools and childcare mainly driven by community transmission
COVID-19 cases in schools, early childhood education centers and childcare are mainly driven by community transmission. Off-site learning should therefore be a last resort, a new Australian report has found. The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) prepared the COVID-19 in Victorian Schools Report at the request of the Victorian State Government. The report recommends schools […]
Tokophobia is an extreme fear of childbirth. Here’s how to recognise and treat it
Many pregnant women worry about birth. Some, however, suffer from a much more serious condition called tokophobia: a severe and unreasoning dread of childbirth, which is sometimes accompanied by a disgust of pregnancy. At its most extreme, tokophobia can lead to: an obsessive use of contraception to prevent pregnancy termination of pregnancy not attending maternity […]