Multiple sclerosis: Recent research on causes and treatments – Medical News Today
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Month: March 2021
Psirenity granted approval to conduct Jamaica’s first psilocybin clinical trial to help manage depression – StreetInsider.com
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COVID-19: Reintroducing confirmatory PCR testing
Coloured transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of a SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus particle isolated from a UK case of the disease Covid-19. Every day, rapid testing is helping us find cases of COVID-19 that we wouldn’t otherwise know about, breaking chains of transmission and potentially saving lives. We know that rapid tests are effective in detecting people that … Read more
Family Travel Gets Complicated Without a Covid Vaccine for Kids
Amid the chatter of travel’s long-awaited rebound one year into the pandemic, many families with children feel largely left out of the conversation. View original article Contributor: Debra Kamin
A Hygenist Had Covid. Shouldn’t My Dentist Have Told Me?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on balancing health care providers’ privacy against patients’ concerns, creating an equitable vaccine system and more. View original article Contributor: Kwame Anthony Appiah
World leaders call for an international treaty to combat future pandemics.
A letter published in newspapers around the globe pressed for a cross-border understanding, similar to the one that followed World War II, to prepare for widespread health emergencies. View original article Contributor: Steven Erlanger
Vaccines Stop COVID-19 Infection, But Here’s Why You Still Need to Wear a Mask
In a report published today in the MMWR, scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report more good news from real-world studies of people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19. In the study involving 3,950 health care workers, first responders and other essential workers who were vaccinated between December 2020 and March 2021, … Read more
Getting a Prescription to Die Remains Tricky Even As Aid-in-Dying Bills Gain Momentum Across the U.S.
Linda Heim knew her dad didn’t plan to wait for the cancer to kill him. For decades, he’d lived in Montana, which they’d thought was one of the few places where terminally ill people could get a prescription to end their life. After two years of being sick, Heim’s dad got the diagnosis in 2019: … Read more
The Draft of a WHO Report Says Animals Were the Likely Source of COVID-19
BEIJING — A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is “extremely unlikely,” according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press. The findings were largely as expected and left … Read more
Biden, health officials sound alarm as signs of covid surge proliferate
Case counts are up, and younger people who are not yet vaccinated are being hospitalized with severe coronavirus infections. View original article Contributor: Lenny Bernstein