Following a mass shooting that killed four people at a Tulsa hospital, Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor reacted to proposals encouraging a new assault weapon ban in America on “Cavuto: Live” Saturday. Noting the ban may seem like a “big action,”
The White House is facing backlash after it falsely claimed in a tweet this week that “there was no vaccine available” for COVID-19 when Joe Biden took office last year, but Twitter, along with the White House, remain silent on why the that claim remains on the platform with no “misinformation” warning label. On Thursday, the official White House
The World Health Organization says at least one death has been reported in connection with a mysterious liver disease outbreak affecting children in Europe and the United States. The U.N. health agency said late Saturday that it has so far received reports of at least 169 cases of “acute hepatitis of unknown origin” from a […]
Researchers revealed on Tuesday that an American, described as a middle-aged woman of mixed race, has likely been cured of HIV after undergoing a new transplant procedure using donated umbilical cord blood. The patient, who needed a stem cell transplant for leukemia, reportedly developed a new HIV-resistant immune system following a breakthrough procedure in which […]
The Army said Wednesday it will immediately begin discharging soldiers who have refused to get the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine, putting more than 3,300 service members at risk of being thrown out soon. The Army’s announcement makes it the final military service to lay out its discharge policy for vaccine refusers. The Marine Corps, Air Force […]
Both vaccination and a prior infection provided protection against another infection and hospitalization due to COVID-19 during the United States’ delta wave, according to a study released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between May and November 2021, researchers analyzed data from New York and California to determine the impact of
As the super contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus spreads, hospitals are seeing a growing trend: Patients admitted for other ailments are also testing positive for Covid-19. Doctors say it may mean more people have asymptomatic or undiagnosed disease than the current data show. Across NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s 10 campuses, just less than half of patients
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)Trusted Source has expanded its recall of Ellume at-home COVID-19 tests due to potential false-positive results. More than 2 million tests made by the company that were distributed between April 13, 2021, and Aug. 26, 2021, are now targeted. “The FDA has identified this as a Class I recall, the […]
England saw a rise in young adults taking up smoking during the first lockdown, according to a study. The number of 18 to 34-year-olds who classed themselves as smokers increased by a quarter, from 21.5% to 26.8%, says Cancer Research UK. The data does not explain why the changes occurred but experts believe many turned to […]
“The window of opportunity” to conduct crucial studies into how the Covid-19 pandemic started is closing, senior scientists have said. A team appointed by the World Health Organization to find the cause of the outbreak say the process has stalled. And further delay could make crucial studies “biologically impossible”. In an article in the scientific