THE EPOCH TIMES – Due to concerns about the H5N1 avian virus, which has been shown to spread to humans, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed a new approach to pandemic vaccines.
At the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meeting on Thursday, Jerry Weir, director of the FDA’s Division of Viral Products, asked the 11 committee members to discuss changes to the influenza vaccine strain change process.
Under the current plan,...
CNN Digital – Known as A-fib, atrial fibrillation is an irregular heartbeat often described by many people who have it as a “quiver,” “flutter” or “flip-flop” of the heart in the chest.
Atrial fibrillation is the leading cause of stroke(opens in a new tab) in the U.S. In addition, strokes connected to A-fib tend to be “more severe than strokes with other underlying causes,” according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(opens in...
NJ.com – A dog in a Camden County backyard killed a skunk that was later confirmed to be rabid by the state Department of Health and Human Services.
Gloucester Township’s Animal Control Officer was called to pick up the skunk and arranged for the animal to be sent to the state’s lab to be tested for rabies.
The dog that killed the skunk had been vaccinated against rabies, but was given a booster shot and must...
DailyWire.com – An instructor at the University of Kansas has been placed on administrative leave after he was recorded telling his class that men who don’t vote for a female president should be shot.
The instructor, who has not been named, made the comments during a class earlier this semester – a video of which was posted to X on Wednesday morning.
“ guys are smarter than girls, you’ve got some serious problems,” the instructor said...
She never remarried after the assassination of her husband, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and she devoted herself to working on behalf of the causes he had championed.
THE FEDERALIST – On Friday, President Donald Trump agreed to create a new task force aimed at keeping neo-Marxist ideology out of the U.S. military if he is elected this November.
The moment came during an on-stage exchange with Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier at the former president’s town hall in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
The Space Force veteran was fired from the service in May 2021 after publicly discussing the increasing presence of DEI racism throughout the...
"Even if another hurricane hits hard and Mayorkas has to explain there’s no money left to help, we’re sure Harris & Co. will find some way to insist it’s Donald Trump’s fault."
The Conversation – There has been a lot of research on the types of people who believe conspiracy theories, and their reasons for doing so.
But there’s a wrinkle: My colleagues and I have found that there are a number of people sharing conspiracies online who don’t believe their own content.
They are opportunists. These people share conspiracy theories to promote conflict, cause chaos, recruit and radicalize potential followers, make money, harass, or even just to...
THE NEW YORK TIMES – Frank Fritz, a jocular Everyman who as one half of the duo behind the hit show “American Pickers” found ratings gold by unearthing fortunes in attics, basements and garage sales, died on Monday in Davenport, Iowa. He was 60.
His manager, Bill Stankey, confirmed the death, in a hospice. He said that the cause had not been announced, but that Mr. Fritz had been dealing with a number of health...
Heard on Morning Edition – Is your to-do list overwhelming? Do the demands of family or work stress you out?
Or maybe it’s politics, climate change, or global conflict that are making you feel anxious.
It's impossible to eliminate all of your stress, but science shows you can learn to manage it better.
Over the last 20 years, Judith Moskowitz, a research psychologist at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, has been researching a set of eight skills...