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High-tech help for allergy sufferers These devices can help clean the dust, smoke, mold and allergens out of the air you breathe. Marc Saltzman, Special to USA TODAY Christmas trees dressed in twinkling lights and colorful ornaments, for those who celebrate, bring a special kind of magic inside a home during the holiday season. For … Read more
A sign advertises Covid vaccine shots at a Walgreens Pharmacy in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Aug. 14, 2023. Brian Snyder | Reuters Three years into the Covid-19 pandemic, few Americans are rolling up their sleeves to get a Covid vaccine. Only 15.7% of U.S. adults had received the newest Covid shots from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax … Read more
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Dec 1 (Reuters) – Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has a poster hanging on a wall of his office in Tel Aviv, in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. It shows mugshots of hundreds of the Palestinian militant group’s commanders arranged in a pyramid. At the bottom are Hamas’ junior … Read more
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The number of malaria cases worldwide surged by millions last year, the World Health Organization said Thursday — a change driven by extreme weather events such as catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, as well as other conflicts and humanitarian crises that allowed the deadly disease to … Read more
Four years ago, on November 30, 2019, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was detected in a man in Wuhan, China. It would still be over a month before the SARS-CoV-2 virus was fully identified, but it would go on to kill no less than 7 million people globally and forever alter life on this … Read more
In an ongoing clinical trial, researchers are testing whether just one dose of a new gene therapy that might effectively cure human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections is safe in humans. The therapy, named EBT-101, involves using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to treat HIV. This potential treatment strategy has been studied in animal models since the development … Read more
US ‘intensely focused’ on hostage release, says Blinken as he blames Hamas for ending truce The US remains “intensely focused” on freeing all the hostages held in Gaza despite the end of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has said. Blinken, speaking to reporters on Friday before … Read more
Barbier, A. J., Jiang, A. Y., Zhang, P., Wooster, R. & Anderson, D. G. The clinical progress of mRNA vaccines and immunotherapies. Nat. Biotechnol. 40, 840–854 (2022). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Lindsay, K. E. et al. Visualization of early events in mRNA vaccine delivery in non-human primates via PET–CT and near-infrared imaging. Nat. Biomed. … Read more
Key Points Question Prone positioning may improve the outcome of patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), but is prone position superior to supine position among patients receiving venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO) for severe ARDS? Findings In this randomized clinical trial that included 170 patients primarily with COVID-19 who were undergoing VV-ECMO, successful … Read more
Sign up to our Evening Headlines email for your daily guide to the latest news Sign up to our free US Evening Headlines email In his eight years at the helm of US foreign policy, Henry Kissinger’s unique brand of realpolitik diplomacy was blamed for genocides, massacres, rape and torture on an industrial scale. The … Read more