During a White House briefing on Monday, President Joe Biden's chief medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, explained exactly how each of the three approved coronavirus vaccines take effect.
CNN – The reversal of Earth's magnetic poles, along with a temporary breakdown of the world's magnetic field about 42,000 years ago, could have triggered a raft of environmental changes, solar storms and the extinction of the Neanderthals.
SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) — An investigation of K-9 training is underway after video showed a North Carolina officer lifting a dog by a leash and slamming the animal into the side of a police vehicle, officials said.
Salisbury Police Chief Jerry Stokes told news outlets he couldn't comment in detail on what happened.
Stokes said the dog, Zuul, wasn't hurt or stunned and has since been separated from the officer. Zuul was on hand with Stokes...
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say fatal drug overdoses nationwide have surged roughly 20% during the pandemic, killing more than 83,000 people in 2020.
NEWARK, New Jersey -- Television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz helped save the life of a man who had suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.
Port Authority Police said Officer Jeffrey Croissant was on patrol when he witnessed a man fall to the floor near the baggage claim area in Terminal C around 11 p.m. Monday.
Oz told "Good Morning America" exclusively that he was returning home from Florida...
ABC NEWS – Gov. Greg Abbott ended Texas' statewide mask mandate and announced an executive order to allow all businesses to reopen at full capacity.
"COVID has not suddenly disappeared," Abbott said at a news conference Tuesday.
"But it is clear from the recoveries, from the vaccinations, from the reduced hospitalizations, and from the safe practices that Texas are using, that state mandates are no longer needed."
Abbott's executive order is effective March 10, overriding a...
Health Center at Auraria – Steve Monaco, director of the Health Center at Auraria, asked that I educate our campus community about vaccine-related scams to avoid.
Types of scams:
You’re asked to pay for your vaccine
You will not have to pay to receive the COVID-19 vaccine when it’s your turn. It is free. If you’re asked to pay or provide private information, that’s not legit.
You’re offered early access for a fee
If you receive an offer to get...
The Academic Times – Consistently ranked as one of the leading causes of death around the world, malaria doesn’t have an effective vaccine yet.
But researchers have invented a promising new blueprint for one — with properties akin to the novel RNA-based vaccine for COVID-19.
Making a vaccine for malaria is challenging because its associated parasite, Plasmodium, contains a protein that inhibits production of memory T-cells, which protect against previously encountered pathogens.
If the body...
Nearly two-thirds of Russians are not willing to receive Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, and about the same number believe the new coronavirus was created artificially as a biological weapon, an independent pollster said on Monday.
MAYO CLINIC NEWS NETWORK – Cholesterol is a waxy substance found in your blood. Your body needs cholesterol to build healthy cells, but high levels of cholesterol can increase your risk of heart disease.
With high cholesterol, you can develop fatty deposits in your blood vessels. Eventually, these deposits grow, making it difficult for enough blood to flow through your arteries.
Sometimes those deposits can break suddenly and form a clot that causes a heart...
SELF – This week, new research provides a stark reminder that COVID-19 and the gym don't mix particularly well.
Indoor group fitness classes are actually a pretty effective way to transmit the coronavirus, according to two new studies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Both of the studies looked at COVID-19 outbreaks that took place at fitness facilities in Honolulu and Chicago during summer 2020—including one cycling class where every participant ended...
PARIS (AP) — In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh's largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms.
It is operating at just a quarter of its capacity.
It is one of three factories that The Associated Press found on three continents whose owners say they could start producing hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccines on short notice if only they...
