Pet Care

Don’t Let Your Pets Get Tricked by These Halloween Treats!

This year, millions of Americans added furry friends to their families and will now experience Halloween for the first time together as a family! Whether your pet is new, or you’ve got an experienced trick-or-treater on your hands, use this list from ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center (APCC) to make sure you steer clear of any […]

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EU to get 40 mn more Moderna jabs in Q3: medicines agency

The EU’s medicines watchdog said on Friday that the bloc was likely to get 40 million more Moderna vaccine doses by October, after an output boost at two new US sites. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) in June gave the green light for the US sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire to produce ingredients needed […]

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Why do some people get severe COVID-19? The nose may know

The body’s first encounter with SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, happens in the nose and throat, or nasopharynx. A new study in the journal Cell suggests that the first responses in this battleground help determine who will develop severe disease and who will get through with mild or no illness. Building on work published last […]

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EU to get 50 million Pfizer doses early as Denmark scraps AZ

The EU said Wednesday that it is expecting 50 million Pfizer coronavirus vaccine doses earlier than expected, as rival drugmaker AstraZeneca faced a fresh setback after Denmark banned its use over blood clot links. The news comes after Johnson & Johnson said it would delay its European rollout, also over blood clot fears—a major hit […]

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EU to get 50 mn Pfizer doses early as Denmark scraps AZ

The EU said Wednesday it would get 50 million Pfizer vaccine doses earlier than expected, as rival drugmaker AstraZeneca faced a fresh setback after Denmark banned its use over blood clot links. The news comes after Johnson & Johnson said it would delay its European rollout, a major hit for the continent’s beleaguered immunisation campaign […]

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DR ELLIE CANNON: When will my eyes get better?

DR ELLIE CANNON: I stopped taking statins due to droopy eyes. When will they get better? I recently stopped taking statins after suffering a droopy eye and sight problems because of the pills.  A month later, my eyesight is not better. How long will it take to go back to normal? Statins are medications that […]