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COVID-19: Trump Not 'Out Of The Woods' Yet, Says Personal Physician

That fact may have been lost on Trump when he told millions of followers "Don't be afraid of Covid". "Don't let it dominate your life", Trump tweeted Monday a...

Bladen election board approves 145 absentee ballots

In granting the voting rights plaintiffs a preliminary injunction, the court put Indiana's noon ballot receipt deadline on ice, at least temporarily. Democrat...

Democrats ask if more material omitted from Barrett response

President Donald Trump nominated Barrett last month to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg . The US Senate Judiciary Committee announced on Monday...

Almost a Third of Hospitalized CCP Virus Patients Experienced Altered Mental State

Other times , delirium causes patients with COVID-19 to suffer hallucinations, and the memory of these terrifying sensations continues to plague the recovered ...

Covid-19 alters mental state of around one-third patients

Covid-19 patients who experience even the mildest illness risk suffering symptoms for months, researchers in France found. Nearly a third of the patients deve...

Coronavirus CRISIS: Hospital admissions soar by 25% in one day in England

The Office of National Statistics says 215 Covid-19 deaths were registered in the week to September 25th - more than 50 per cent higher than the week before. Th...

British trio win medicine Nobel for Hepatitis C discovery

Harvey Alter at the US National Institutes of Health in Maryland, Charles Rice from Rockefeller University in NY, and Michael Houghton , a British virologist...

COVID-19 cases surge in U.S. Midwest and Northeast

Statewide totals from the illness caused by the coronavirus are at 90,663 cases and 2,165 deaths , up from 90,276 cases and 2,158 deaths Monday. More than 1.9 ...

Nobel Physics Prize: Oxford University professor honoured for black hole research

Penrose has been awarded the prize for the discovery "that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity", while Genzel and Gh...

COVID-19 vaccine may be ready by year-end, says WHO's Tedros

In pre-market trading Tuesday, Pfizer shares were adding 1.22% to $37.20 and BioNTech was advancing 9.79% to $88.60. Pfizer has said for months that it will s...

Covid-19 to place greater demand on mental health programmes

Over 67% countries saw disruptions to counselling and psychotherapy, 65% to critical harm reduction services, and 45% to opioid agonist maintenance treatment fo...

Twitter bans Trump death wishes, sparks debate

It was the most active the president has been on Twitter since his hospitalization on Friday. Earlier, Trump, who has played down COVID-19 so far, twee...

Lindsey Graham: Trump ‘Sounds Terrific,’ ‘Excited’ About Judge Barrett Confirmation

The Abbott Now ID test, which the White House used in advance of the September 26 event, is thought to have a 91 percent sensitivity, suggesting that up to 9 pe...

Bristol Myers looks to expand cardiovascular portfolio with MyoKardia acquisition

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the drug sometime next year. The deal follows Bristol-Myers' $74-billion acquisition of Celgene previous year ...

Importance of the 2020 Flu Shot

And the effect of repeat flu shots on kids, the team concluded, was "uncertain". The free flu shots will be available starting Oct.5 at LFCHD's Public Health ...

Canada latest to start regulatory review of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine

The plan prioritizes high-risk health workers, health care facility providers and first responders, which account for about five percent of the United States po...

Trump campaign's next steps unclear after White House return

Miller is an architect of the president's "America First" foreign policy and restrictive immigration measures. The Republican president, running for re-elec...

Spotlight on VP debate after Trump's COVID diagnosis

The poll was conducted on September 30 and October 1, the day after the contentious debate between the two candidates last week, which included frequent inter...

Research indicates increased breast cancer mortality in African American and Black survivors

And Dr. Thomas Bad added that the researchers wanted to gather more evidence about how exercise affects a woman with cancer , before and after her diagnosis,...

Trump’s COVID-19 condition improving, could return to White House tomorrow: Doctors

I want to begin by thanking all of the incredible medical professionals, the doctors, the nurses, everybody at Walter Reed Medical Center - I think it's the fin...

Trump criticized for leaving hospital to greet supporters

His tweets come hours after his drive-by photo-op Sunday evening when he waved at supporters from inside an SUV occupied by Secret Service agents. "I also t...

CDC: COVID-19 can cause severe organ inflammation in some adults

The entirety of the patients had either a positive COVID-19 test or positive counter acting agent test. But so far, there is little information about how or why...

Trump says he condemns all white supremacists including 'Proud Boys'

The vice-president and his wife had also taken a coronavirus test - whose result came out negative. I put a mask on when I think I need it. Questions remain...

Ontario announces new pandemic pay raise for personal support workers

Toronto, Peel Region, and Ottawa have become hot spots for the second wave of COVID-19. They include mandating the use of face coverings in all public indoor ...

COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Well Tolerated in Older Adults

Mr. Trump also said he disagreed with federal health officials who had said a vaccine wouldn't be widely available until next summer. "I've spoken to Pfizer, I'...

Facebook Removes Trump Campaign Ad

Facebook's crackdown comes amid an increasingly acrimonious election between president Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden. We've asked Facebook fo...

Trump airlifted to military hospital for COVID treatment; releases video message

But, he said, "Even with a lot of the mitigating factors, Jim, what you have is a virus that is contagious, that certainly continues to be, regardless of whatev...

Health officials announce 82 new coronavirus cases in BC

State models say virus transmission could continue to climbThe state's latest modeling scenarios show transmission levels of the virus have waxed and waned duri...

Russian Federation to supply 2.5 crore doses of covid vaccines to Nepal

It will allow companies developing potential candidates to assess and compare the immunological responses generated by their jabs. "By taking the centralised ...

Presidential debate derails as Trump hammers Biden about his son

Biden said of Trump and a vaccine, 'I don't trust him at all, nor do you, ' he said looking into the television camera. "But I tell you, Joe, you could never ...

COVID-19 hospitalization levels up in B.C., 125 new cases

Henry also announced a new outbreak at the George Derby Centre in Burnaby, the second outbreak at the facility . Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry s...

MI reports 891 new coronavirus cases, 19 new deaths

The state reported almost 6,800 confirmed or suspected infections during September, down from July and August but higher than in previous months. But at least 7...

India records 6.39 million coronavirus infections

Tamil Nadu has reported a total of 9,586 deaths so far (second only to Maharashtra) and Karnataka is third on the list of states with most deaths with 8,994 rec...

Growth in Covid-19 infections may be slowing in England

The authors state future studies should look at the concentration levels of ACE2 (Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2)-an enzyme attached to the cell membranes of...

QUIZ: Where in your chest is your heart located?

Cardiovascular disease is the top cause of death in China, covering over 40 percent of deaths. World Heart Day is, therefore, the ideal platform for the Cardi...