Income Tax dept., CBI and ED are used as frontline warriors of BJP: Congress

Income Tax dept., CBI and ED are used as frontline warriors of BJP: Congress

Congress leader Pawan Khera addressing the media at AICC, in New Delhi on Friday. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma A day after the Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested two Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials for demanding a bribe of ₹15 lakh in a chit fund case, the Congress on Friday mounted a fresh offensive against … Read more

Tick Spraying May Not Guard Against Lyme Disease

Tick Spraying May Not Guard Against Lyme Disease

April 14, 2022 – Two widely used and environmentally safe tick control measures may slash the number of bloodthirsty bugs in your neighborhood, but they won’t reduce your chances of contracting Lyme disease, researchers have found. The results of a 4-year study, which appears in the May 2022 issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, showed a … Read more

Months Later, Some New Yorkers Are Still Banging Pots to Thank Frontline Workers

Months Later, Some New Yorkers Are Still Banging Pots to Thank Frontline Workers

Sept. 28, 2021 — When the coronavirus pandemic locked down the nation’s largest city in the spring of 2020, New Yorkers flocked to their windows to bang their pots and pans and yell their thanks to health care workers and first responders for saving a city ravaged by COVID-19. But as the pandemic wore … Read more

Even With PPE, Frontline Workers Face COVID Risk

Even With PPE, Frontline Workers Face COVID Risk

By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Aug. 3, 2020 (HealthDay News) — At the peak of the pandemic in the United States and United Kingdom, frontline health care workers, especially minorities, had much higher risks for COVID-19 than other individuals, a new study finds. Paramedics, who are often the first to see sick patients, are … Read more