Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that he had received the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, as the Kremlin struggles to convince a skeptical public about the benefits of inoculation. “I thought that I needed to be protected as long as possible. So I chose to be vaccinated with Sputnik V. The military is getting vaccinated with […] Read more
Swiss drugmaker Novartis has received breakthrough therapy designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for an experimental treatment for advanced castration-resistant prostate cancer, the company said on Wednesday. Men with a deadly form of prostate cancer that has spread and who were not helped by other treatments on average survived four months longer after getting Novartis’ […] Read more
People under the age of 40 in the U.K. are to be offered an alternative to the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, as concerns over links to rare blood clots continue to weigh on its roll out. Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Professor Wei Shen Lim, chair of the U.K.’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and […] Read more
The Food and Drug Administration’s staff endorsed Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, a critical step in bringing a third shot to the U.S. marketplace. The staff report released Wednesday is meant to brief the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, which will meet Friday to review J&J’s request for emergency use authorization. During […] Read more
Medical schools across the country have adjusted their curriculums in the wake of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to include more remote learning, virtual reality, and simulations. For example, instructors at NYU Grossman School of Medicine three-dimensionally scanned plastinated bodies in order to make anatomy courses available in a remote setting. “We thought, how do we teach anatomy if […] Read more
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If you’ve been experiencing odor distortions after Covid-19, then ‘smell training’ could help you start smelling normally again – according to new research involving the University of East Anglia. Parosmia is a symptom where people experience strange and often unpleasant smell distortions. Instead of smelling a lemon you may smell rotting cabbage, or chocolate may […] Read more
Pfizer and BioNTech will apply Friday for an emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for their coronavirus vaccine. If Pfizer’s application is approved, the vaccine will likely be limited and rolled out in phases, with health-care workers, the elderly and people with underlying health conditions getting the first inoculations. Essential workers, teachers and people in […] Read more
A new pilot study concludes that using acupuncture before surgery can reduce a person’s need for opioids following surgery. The Detroit-based researchers believe that acupuncture is a low-cost, safe method that reduces pain and anxiety in some people. Share on PinterestImage credit: Thanapol Kuptanisakorn/EyeEm/Getty Images In the United States, the opioid crisis claimed the lives […] Read more
Fifty years after political and cultural winds slammed shut the doors on psychedelic research, UC Berkeley is making up for lost time by launching the campus’s first center for psychedelic science and public education. With $1.25 million in seed funding from an anonymous donor, the new UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics will […] Read more
