Experts fear bad tick season amid coronavirus pandemic As if there wasn’t enough to worry about in 2020, experts are warning about a potentially bad tick season.
US sets single-day record for new coronavirus cases … The United States saw over 60,000 new coronavirus cases Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University, making it a record-breaking day.
Merck anti-baldness drug Propecia has long trail … Newly unsealed court documents and other records show that Merck & Co and U.S. regulators knew about reports of suicidal behavior in men taking the company’s anti-baldness treatment Propecia when they decided not to warn consumers of those potential risks in a 2011 update of the popular drug’s label.
Group of Republicans condemns ‘scheme’ to undo election … The Republican effort to overturn the presidential election has been condemned by an outpouring of current and former GOP officials warning the effort to sow doubt in Joe Biden’s win and keep President Donald Trump in office is undermining Americans’ faith in democracy.
‘Unfathomable’: US death toll from coronavirus hits … The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus topped 200,000 Tuesday, a figure unimaginable eight months ago when the scourge first reached the world’s richest nation with its sparkling laboratories, top-flight scientists and stockpiles of medicines and emergency supplies. “It is completely unfathomable that we’ve reached this point,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins University public […]
Former official tied to international adoption fraud … Petersen pleaded guilty to three counts of fraudulent schemes and one count of forgery, all felonies in Arizona. He operated the international adoption scheme in Arizona, Arkansas and Utah, according to the the latter’s office of the Attorney General.
‘Don’t tell me I killed my mom’: Nursing home worker … WINDSOR, Conn. (WTNH) — A nursing home worker says she believes she caught coronavirus at work and unknowingly passed it along to her mother who later died of the virus. Certified Nursing Assistant Francene Bailey said her mother, Hazel, died April 19 of the highly-contagious coronavirus. Sister station WTNH first spoke with Bailey earlier this […]
US can get coronavirus levels ‘way down’ by Election … “We can be way down in November … if we do things correctly , and if we start right now,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN’s “New Day.”
New FDA limits on arsenic levels in infant rice cereals … It’s official: There’s a limit on how much arsenic can be in your baby’s cereal.
Getting to the pediatrician during a pandemic As Americans adjust to social-distancing during coronavirus, many are wondering how best to care for their children’s medical needs.
Some seniors with COVID-19 show unusual symptoms, … Some older adults with COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, have several “atypical” symptoms, complicating efforts to ensure they get timely and appropriate treatment, according to physicians.
