NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenya will receive the first batch of 13 million COVID-19 vaccine shots from Johnson & Johnson in August, President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Tuesday, helping to accelerate the country’s vaccination drive.FILE PHOTO: A medical worker gives a dose of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine to a man, at the Ruaraka Uhai Neema Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, April 8, […]
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Mice are an important animal model of human vision due to the powerful genetic tools available in this species. However, mouse vision was thought to be different to that of humans because humans have a region of the retina specialized for fine details called the ‘fovea’ whereas mice do not. Researchers from the Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience (NIN) have shown […]
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A San Diego doctor faces charges before the California medical board for several negligent acts in 2017 and 2018. The charges include failure to maintain adequate and accurate medical records and unprofessional conduct. Dr James Novak The accusation filed in May against James Novak, MD, involves two patients who received a controversial diabetes treatment at a Trina Health clinic that […]
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A new study looking at national opioid mortality, hospitalization and emergency department visits in Canada has found a nearly six-fold increase in opioid-related deaths between 2000 and 2017. The study by University of Waterloo researchers is the first publication to assess the growth of Canadian opioid-related deaths during this time period at a national level. Researchers used comprehensive national databases […]
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Heparan sulfate (HS) is a cell surface glycosaminoglycan that has been identified as a key entry receptor for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), in association with the well-known angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor. Some preliminary studies have suggested that competitive inhibition or removal of HS can reduce the ability of SARS-CoV-2 to enter cells and thus lessens infection. […]
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National cabinet yesterday announced it will mandate COVID-19 vaccination for residential aged-care workers, with the aim to ensure all aged-care staff have received their first dose by mid-September. A support package worth A$11 million is intended to facilitate this, by enabling aged-care facilities to provide their staff with paid leave to be vaccinated. Health department figures released to The Age […]
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Summer camps are making a comeback According to the American Camp association 40% of day camps and 80% of overnight camps were forced to closed last summer. Nearly 100 cases of coronavirus have been linked to a camp in Illinois where indoor masking was not required and vaccination status was not checked, officials said Monday, adding that one unvaccinated young […]
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Researchers have identified a new treatment candidate that appears to not only halt neurodegenerative symptoms in mouse models of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, but also reverse the effects of the disorders. The team, based at Tohoku University, published their results on June 8 in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. The treatment candidate has been declared safe by Japan’s governing […]
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The discovery of hundreds of children’s remains in Kamloops, Brandon and Cowessess have exposed the absolute devastation settlers inflicted upon Indigenous children, families and communities through the Indian Residential School system. As a nutrition researcher, and settler-Canadian, I am calling on my peers to recognize and understand the harms that malnutrition and nutrition experiments on Indigenous people have caused and […]
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