Category: healthcare

Tucker Carlson Incorrectly Claims CDC Mandating Kids Get Covid-19 Vaccine For School

On Carlson’s show, Dr. Martin Makary also leapt to some “kangaroo” conclusions about the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).

Listening To Birdsongs Can Calm Your Frayed Nerves

Clearly, being in nature improves one’s mental health

Elix’s Pioneering Clinical Study Shows The Effects Of Chinese Herbal Medicine On Menstrual And Hormone Health

Elix, the first digital platform to combine Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with a proprietary algorithm, announced today the results of a pioneering clinical trial that validates the efficacy of its main product, Cycle Balance, supporting treatment…

Scientists Work Out How To Grow Zombie Mushrooms In A Lab — It Could Help Unlock New Virus-Fighting, Anti-Cancer Drugs

Cordyceps fungi, which infect and zombify insects, are difficult to cultivate but contain chemicals that could help fight cancer and viruses and possibly help treat Covid-19.

Elevance Health Profits Hit $1.6 Billion As Medical And Drug Plans Grow

Elevance Health reported $1.6 billion in third quarter profits as the health insurer formerly known as Anthem continued to grow its national portfolio of medical and prescription drug benefits.

Mom Founder Uses Texting To Transform Kid’s Healthcare

Using texting to bring pediatricians together with the children who need them is an idea only a mom founder could come up with. And she did. Her startup is a new take on children’s healthcare.

Meet The Black Entrepreneur Working To Save The Lives Of Birthing Mothers And Their Babies

Leseliey Welch, a former public health official, wants to help improve birth outcomes in communities of color. She believes midwives working in free-standing childbirth centers will be key.

Breaking The Mold: A Creative Musical Teaches About Antimicrobial Resistance

How can you make learning about antibiotic resistance fun and memorable? Make it into a musical, like The Mold That Changed the World!

Europe’s Covid Wave Suggests U.S. Outbreak Looms Around The Corner

Though cases, hospitalizations and deaths are down across the U.S., mutated omicron variants are gaining ground and high levels of coronavirus have been found in wastewater.

New Lab-Made Covid-19 Coronavirus At Boston University Raises Questions

A preprint describes how a research team created a new hybrid version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that killed 80% of the mice that it had infected. But is this being misinterpreted?