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Europe is once again at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, fueled by daily record deaths and cases in Russia, and surges in Ukraine, Poland and Germany. The continent was the only one to post one-week increases: in deaths at 10% and cases at 9%. Worldwide, cases increased 2% with 250,543,185 so far Sunday but […]

The Biden administration’s new rules requiring most foreign nationals to be vaccinated before flying to the United States take effect at 12:01 a.m. EST (0501 GMT) Nov. 8. Here’s what you need to know: * Starting Nov. 8, foreign air travelers to the United States will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and […]

Memory loss and ‘brain fog’ may be side effects of COVID-19, new study shows   Long-term COVID-19 side effects could include memory loss and other cognitive dysfunctions commonly labeled as “brain fog,” according to a study released that examined 740 patients in the Mount Sinai Health System.   The study, which was published Friday in […]

Is social media responsible for recent outbreaks of teenagers developing tics? The Doctors investigate. Senior investigative producer Leslie Marcus shares mental health professionals around the globe have documented outbreaks of Tourette’s-like behavior after watching tic content on TikTok and some specialists say the mysterious eruption of tics might be a mass psychogenic illness. This occurs […]

Trash bags stuffed full of used medical gloves, some visibly soiled, some even blood-stained, litter the floor of a warehouse on the outskirts of Bangkok. Nearby is a plastic bowl, filled with blue dye and a few gloves. Thai officials say migrant laborers had been trying to make the gloves look new again, when Thai […]

Teachers are going to get a little extra lovin’ this week with free breakfast “Thank You” meals from McDonald’s as a token of appreciation. Any educator, including teachers, administrators, and school staff can go to McDonald’s from October 11 to October 15 to receive their breakfast meal, McDonald’s said in a news release Friday.   […]

Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are back online after a massive global outage plunged the services and the businesses and people who rely on them into chaos for hours   Facebook Inc. blamed a global service outage that kept its social media apps offline for much of Monday on a problem with its […]

Merck says it has first antiviral pill found to be effective against COVID Molnupiravir is an experimental antiviral drug which is orally active and was developed for the treatment of influenza. It is a prodrug of the synthetic nucleoside derivative N4-hydroxycytidine, and exerts its antiviral action through introduction of copying errors during viral RNA replication. […]

Gender binary (also known as gender binarism, binarism, or ambiguously genderism) is the classification of gender into two distinct, opposite forms of masculine and feminine, whether by social system or cultural belief. Most cultures use a gender binary, having two genders (boys/men and girls/women). In this binary model, sex, gender, and sexuality may be assumed […]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating a multistate Salmonella outbreak that has spread to at least 25 states and sickened over 100 people. The CDC said the Salmonella outbreak is “fast-growing” and has not been linked to any one specific food source.         A recent salmonella outbreak has infected […]