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2 days, 15 hours ago

‘Trapped inside’: The children suffocating in the smog of Lahore

Air pollution has become a major problem in Pakistan and it is children who are paying the price. It’s not good.” The fear is real – smog and air pollution cause much more than just coughing fits. So, it’s not actually improving the situation.” The lack of data on pollution levels in Pakistan is also a major problem, he adds: …

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2 days, 15 hours ago

Black adults with long COVID report higher levels of hopelessness and suicidal thoughts

Salon

Black adults living with long COVID pointed to challenges with their physical health – rather than their mental health – when asked to describe their long-COVID symptoms. In other words, while participants clearly explained how long COVID impaired their physical health, they were less likely to attribute their recent mental health struggles to any issues stemming from their experiences of …

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3 days ago

I went from being a doctor to an UberEats driver after a single decision changed my life forever

Daily Mail

A doctor has revealed how a two-year suspension on his medical licence after speaking out against the Covid vaccine cost him almost everything he had. Queensland's Supreme Court recently handed back Dr William Bay's medical licence after it was suspended by the state's Medical Board for criticising Covid vaccines, which sparked complaints from the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Despite …

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3 days, 2 hours ago

Cold or flu? Experts on how to tell the difference as Christmas 'flunami' sweeps the UK... and when you need to seek medical help

Daily Mail

Many of will be plagued with runny noses, coughs and sore throats this winter. Flu figures released this week by the UK Health Security Agency show cases and hospitalisations have continued to rise Colds Rhinoviruses are the most common cause of a cold, but these minor infection of the nose and throat can be due to one of more than …

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3 days, 14 hours ago

Yellowstone spinoff star Danielle Vasinova shares memories from being 'dead for 3 minutes' during Covid fight

Daily Mail

She was recently announced as a cast member on the upcoming Yellowstone spinoff series The Madison. 'On December 12, 2019, I died for three minutes,' Vasinova — who also appeared in an episode of Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan's prequel series 1923 — told People on Thursday. Yellowstone spinoff star Danielle Vasinova, 42, revealed to People that she 'died for 3 …

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3 days, 15 hours ago

Two police officers acquitted of violence during demonstration against Covid measures

NL Times

Two police officers who were accused of assault during a demonstration against Coronavirus measures at the Malieveld in The Hague on March 14, 2021 have been acquitted. The two officers used violence when they were arresting a demonstrator, but the Midden-Nederland court ruled that the violence was justified. The Public Prosecution Service recommended 20 hours of community service against one …

3 days, 22 hours ago

Terrifying quad-demic could ruin your Christmas gatherings, warn health chiefs - as spiralling cases of potentially deadly vomiting bug hit 10-year high

Daily Mail

Brits were today warned of an alarming upsurge in contagious norovirus as cases hit a decade-high. Rates of the vomiting bug, which can also cause diarrhoea, are also more than double the levels seen pre-Covid for this time of year, fresh figures show. Separate flu figures also released today by the UK Health Security Agency show cases and hospitalisations have …

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4 days, 4 hours ago

Hollywood megastar Paul Rudd surprises London pubgoers by asking a question in their Christmas quiz - so do YOU know the answer?

Daily Mail

Paul Rudd surprised pubgoers this week as he featured in their Christmas quiz. The Barley Mow in Marylebone, central London holds a quiz every Tuesday which often features questions asked by a special guest. Paul Rudd surprised pubgoers this week as he featured in their Christmas quiz, asking quizzers to name the top 10 Christmas carols - as voted for …

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4 days, 10 hours ago

US deaths are down and life expectancy is up, but improvements are slowing

Associated Press

NEW YORK — U.S. life expectancy jumped last year, and preliminary data suggests there may be another — much smaller — improvement this year. Death rates fell last year for almost all leading causes, notably COVID-19, heart disease and drug overdoses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Thursday. That means that life expectancy for 2024 …

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California declares state of emergency as H5N1 bird flu threatens pandemic... in chilling echo of Covid dark days

Daily Mail

California has declared a state of emergency for H5N1 bird flu amid fears that the virus could jump to people and start to spread. The declaration of emergency gives California state and local resources to contain the outbreak, including hiring staff or issuing contracts for things like tests or personal protective equipment. California has declared a state of emergency over …

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4 days, 20 hours ago

Scientists discover new frightening effect lockdowns and masks had on our bodies

Daily Mail

Scientists have found that lockdowns lead to much higher levels of inflammation in people's bodies. The above picture shows Times Square in New York City during lockdown, on March 24th 2020, back at the start of the Covid pandemic The researchers linked their results to the hygiene hypothesis, or the idea that reduced exposure to pathogens may raise the risk …

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5 days, 3 hours ago

Americans get off on hurt, cruelty and revenge — and soulless Trump is their hero

Raw Story

Just two weeks before the most consequential election in American history, I decided I’d finally had enough of the hurt and absurdity associated with once again dealing with a racist, America-attacking slob on our presidential ballot. I led the piece this way: “I have heard way more than enough of this grotesque garbage that perhaps we should try to understand …

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5 days, 15 hours ago

How Trump’s lawyer could steer the Supreme Court on abortion and trans rights

CNN

CNN — President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be the government’s top lawyer before the Supreme Court burst on the national scene about a year ago and is best known for winning Trump immunity from prosecution for election subversion. Within 48 hours of Trump’s November 14 selection of Sauer for the solicitor general post, Sauer appeared on a previously scheduled Federalist …

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5 days, 15 hours ago

GOP senator: 'Everybody here has lost someone' — possibly from the COVID vaccine

Raw Story

A Republican senator launched into an anti-vaccine rant Tuesday when reporters asked about confirming noted health conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of Health and Human Services. There is no evidence that the modern vaccine schedule "overwhelms" or "overloads" a baby's immune system. The senator then went on to baselessly suggest that "everybody" in …

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6 days, 15 hours ago

He Was Surgeon General — And He’s Got Thoughts About the Reaction to the United Healthcare Killing

Politico

Adams, an anesthesiologist who now leads Purdue University’s health equity initiatives, spoke to POLITICO Magazine about what Thompson’s murder means for a health care system already mired in politicization and distrust. This erosion of trust hurts everyone, from the upstream public health policy maker to an ICU doctor who’s trying to provide recommended care for a patient who’s refusing it …

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6 days, 20 hours ago

Jumbo Covid centre irregularities: ED names four more in supplementary chargesheet

Hindustan Times

MUMBAI: The Enforcement Directorate has filed a supplementary chargesheet in the money laundering case involving alleged irregularities at two jumbo Covid centres in Mumbai. The chargesheet names four additional accused: Sunil Kadam, 53, Sonu Bajaj, 53, Sanjay Parab, 53, and Ravikant Singh, 53. Jumbo Covid centre irregularities: ED names four more in supplementary chargesheet A supplementary chargesheet is an additional …

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1 week ago

How the risk of long covid continues to affect lives

Live Mint

Three years ago, Andrea Vanek was studying to be an arts and crafts teacher when spells of dizziness and heart palpitations suddenly started to make it impossible for her to even take short walks. “We know that long covid is a big problem,” said Anita Jain, from the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme. About six percent of people infected by coronavirus …

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1 week ago

Brain inflammation may be the reason behind muscle fatigue after infection and injury

Raw Story

Infectious or chronic diseases such as long COVID, Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury can cause inflammation in the brain, or neuroinflammation, that weakens muscles. Neuroinflammation and muscle fatigue Neuroinflammation results when your central nervous system – the brain and spine – activates its own immune system to protect itself against infection, toxins, neurodegeneration and traumatic injury. Conversations between brain …

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Five years on from the pandemic, long COVID keeps lives on hold

Raw Story

Three years ago, Andrea Vanek was studying to be an arts and crafts teacher when spells of dizziness and heart palpitations suddenly started to make it impossible for her to even take short walks. "We know that long COVID is a big problem," said Anita Jain, from the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme. Long COVID, she said, has turned her "life …

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1 week ago

In Public Interest: Kerala HC Upholds Mandatory Rotating Medical Internship By Foreign Students For Missing Classes Due To COVID/ Ukraine War

Live Law

The Kerala High Court has upheld Kerala State Medical Commission's decision mandating two year Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship to foreign students who missed offline classes due to COVID-19 and war in Ukraine, observing that it was made in larger public interest The petitioners had undergone medical course in Ukraine from 2016-2022. The petitioners were challenging a public notice issued by …

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1 week, 1 day ago

NCLT Can Allow Date Of Default To Be Amended In CIRP Proceedings: NCLAT

Live Law

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal bench of Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain, Mr. Naresh Salecha and Mr. Indevar Pandey has held that the NCLT is empowered to allow the parties to amend the pleadings before the final orders in Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process proceedings are passed. The initial default date of 31.10.2020 falls within the moratorium period under Section 10A, …

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1 week, 1 day ago

Column: He refused the COVID vaccine. He exiled himself from baseball. Was it worth it?

LA Times

Benny Gallo stands at a ball field in Encinitas, Calif., in May 2022. “The energy of baseball, and the people that are in baseball, that’s really contagious,” Gallo said. The Nationals had advised employees they would consider “reasonable accommodation” for employees with a “sincerely held religious belief.” In his lawsuit, Gallo cited in part his convictions “as a devout Christian …

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1 week, 1 day ago

Yes, the criteria for regular Covid jabs should be extended

The Independent

It is interesting to see from Sean O’Grady’s article that Stephen Powis, NHS director, “wants everybody to get a jab”. Helen Watson Henley-on-Thames Clean energy plan Thank you, Ed Miliband, for moving ahead with the government’s clean energy plan. In turn, this will create thousands of skilled jobs on top of those being created by the building of 1.5 million …

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1 week, 2 days ago

Karnataka Covid 'scandal': FIR filed over alleged corruption in PPE, mask procurement

Hindustan Times

A case was lodged at Bengaluru's Vidhana Soudha Police Station on Friday over suspected irregularities in the management of Covid-19. the case was registered on a complaint by Medical Education Department Chief Accounts Officer Dr M Vishnu Prasad. According to a PTI report, the case was registered on a complaint by Medical Education Department Chief Accounts Officer Dr M Vishnu …

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‘Trapped inside’: The children suffocating in the smog of Lahore

Black adults with long COVID report higher levels of hopelessness and suicidal thoughts

I went from being a doctor to an UberEats driver after a single decision changed my life forever

Cold or flu? Experts on how to tell the difference as Christmas 'flunami' sweeps the UK... and when you need to seek medical help

Yellowstone spinoff star Danielle Vasinova shares memories from being 'dead for 3 minutes' during Covid fight

Two police officers acquitted of violence during demonstration against Covid measures

Terrifying quad-demic could ruin your Christmas gatherings, warn health chiefs - as spiralling cases of potentially deadly vomiting bug hit 10-year high

Hollywood megastar Paul Rudd surprises London pubgoers by asking a question in their Christmas quiz - so do YOU know the answer?

US deaths are down and life expectancy is up, but improvements are slowing

California declares state of emergency as H5N1 bird flu threatens pandemic... in chilling echo of Covid dark days

Scientists discover new frightening effect lockdowns and masks had on our bodies

Americans get off on hurt, cruelty and revenge — and soulless Trump is their hero

How Trump’s lawyer could steer the Supreme Court on abortion and trans rights

GOP senator: 'Everybody here has lost someone' — possibly from the COVID vaccine

He Was Surgeon General — And He’s Got Thoughts About the Reaction to the United Healthcare Killing

Jumbo Covid centre irregularities: ED names four more in supplementary chargesheet

How the risk of long covid continues to affect lives

Brain inflammation may be the reason behind muscle fatigue after infection and injury

Five years on from the pandemic, long COVID keeps lives on hold

In Public Interest: Kerala HC Upholds Mandatory Rotating Medical Internship By Foreign Students For Missing Classes Due To COVID/ Ukraine War

NCLT Can Allow Date Of Default To Be Amended In CIRP Proceedings: NCLAT

Column: He refused the COVID vaccine. He exiled himself from baseball. Was it worth it?

Yes, the criteria for regular Covid jabs should be extended

Karnataka Covid 'scandal': FIR filed over alleged corruption in PPE, mask procurement