By Arthur Allen Wednesday, November 11, 2020 (Kaiser News) — Pfizer’s announcement on Monday that its COVID-19 shot appears to keep nine in 10 people from getting the disease sent its stock price rocketing. Many news reports described the vaccine as if it were our deliverance from the pandemic, even though few details were … Read more
The National Testing Agency (NTA) was supposed to declare the result of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2020 today i.e. October 12 but the date of the declaration of result has now been pushed further. Candidates who appeared for the NEET 2020 examination will be able to check their results on the official … Read more
Oct. 2, 2020 – More than two-thirds of WebMD readers – the majority of them women — say a candidate’s policies on health care and how they’ll handle the COVID-19 pandemic are “very important” to their vote, a new poll finds. In the poll of 1,000 readers, 67% ranked a candidate’s policies on healthcare … Read more
Image copyright Getty Images People are being advised to get a flu jab to help protect against the “double danger” of flu and coronavirus. Research shows people can catch both diseases at the same time, with serious and sometimes deadly consequences. More people are being offered a free flu vaccine this year – anyone over … Read more
Governments around the world keep talking about R0, also known as the “Reproduction-number” or “R-number”. It’s a measurement that lots of countries are using when it comes to making decisions about lockdowns, what restrictions should be kept in place and which ones should be lifted. But what exactly is the R number and why does … Read more
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) affects roughly 15 million people in the U.S. People with the condition may drink in ways that are compulsive and uncontrollable, leading to serious health issues. “It’s the addiction that everyone knows about, but no one wants to talk about,” says George Koob, Ph.D., the director of the National Institute on … Read more