Category: pharma & healthcare

Harming Those Who Receive It: The Dangers Of Molnupiravir (Part 2)

Molnupiravir may also be a danger to those who receive the drug as a treatment, potentially causing cancerous tumors and birth defects.

How Can You Make Your Child’s Covid-19 Vaccination Hurt Less?

Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccination for younger children is expected to be authorized by the CDC this week. How can you best prepare your child for the vaccine?

Nature Has Gifted Humans With Intelligence That Can Relegate Covid-19 If Not A Disease Of The Past, Then One That Rarely, If Ever, Is Fatal

There are many lessons we can take away from the ways in which SARS-CoV-2 works to suppress and evade the innate immune system.

A Big Step Forward In Solving The Organ Shortage

Last week, NYU Langone Health published a press release detailing the successful transplant of a genetically engineered pig kidney to a human body.

The Urgent Need For Increased Surveillance Of Variants That Arise From Chronic Covid

Where do mutations come from that yield new variants? Is it possible that the most serious variants arise not in large populations, but in immunosuppressed individuals?

Supercharging New Viral Variants: The Dangers Of Molnupiravir (Part 1)

As much as people are justifiably excited about the prospect for orally available drugs that can prevent and treat Covid-19, I believe the FDA needs to tread very carefully with molnupiravir, the antiviral currently before them for approval.

Preparing For The Next Pandemic: Guarding Against Anti-Science

Public health preparedness in the U.S. faces enormous challenges. These include decades of neglect of public health and chronic underfunding at the local, state, and federal levels. Also, there is entrenched opposition to public health interventions, f…

An Approaching Storm: What To Expect With Covid This Winter

To understand what may happen with Covid in the US this winter, we need look no further than Europe today.

Cake Decorating Dust Leads To Toxic Metal Poisoning In Children

Lead, copper and other heavy metals were found in the decorative dust after several people were sickened, including a 1 year old child.

The Next Big One: Drug-Resistant Airborne Tuberculosis

New research has found that tuberculosis bacteria can spread via airborne and asymptomatic transmission similarly to SARS-CoV-2.