Parents have reacted angrily to a school’s policy of refusing to authorise sick days related to period pain unless parents provided “related medical information”. Neale-Wade Academy in March, Cambridgeshire, also said it was no longer accepting explanations such as “unwell, poorly or ill” for it to authorise student absences. Some parents criticised the move on … Read more
Nov. 18, 2021 — We have so much to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic and Sanjay Gupta, MD, CNN’s chief medical correspondent in his new book, World War C: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One, urges us to get prepared now for future pandemics. Gupta uses the clever … Read more
A woman who got one jab in England and one in Scotland says her vaccine certificate only confirms a single dose. Source link
Aug. 13, 2021 — San Francisco will require proof of full vaccination for customers to enter indoor restaurants, bars, clubs, gyms, and entertainment venues. The mandate will take effect on Aug. 20, according to The Associated Press. The new rules won’t apply to people who are ineligible for vaccines, such as children under age … Read more
Aug. 11, 2021 — There were 200 hungry mosquitoes in the Plexiglas enclosure volunteers agreed to sit in so scientists could test their new bug-resistant fabric to see whether individuals wearing it got mosquito bites. The live, disease-free mosquitoes were starved overnight and yet they did not bite, report researchers led by senior author … Read more
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is now probing the Sushant Singh Rajput death case from the angle of a suicide. The 34-year-old actor was found hanging at his Bandra residence on June 14. The Mumbai Police had initially declared it to be a case of suicide and has registered an Accidental Death Report (ADR) … Read more
Involved in re-evaluating Sushant Singh Rajput’s post-mortem report, a senior forensic-medicine specialist at Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences has confirmed on tape that their panel found no glaring holes in the autopsy conducted by Mumbai’s Cooper hospital. Remember, the Mumbai police, based on the same post-mortem report, declared Rajput’s death a suicide by … Read more
Sept. 2, 2020 — There’s no evidence to support the use of convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19 patients, and doctors should not consider it a standard of care until more research is completed, a U.S. National Institutes of Health expert panel said Tuesday. “There are insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use … Read more