Are you looking forward to Thanksgiving with your family? Or awaiting Dr. Anthony Fauci's permission? With most traditional events geared to usher in the holiday season cancelled Americans are forced to make decisions on any upcoming family gatherings.
Some say, perhaps in jest, that COVID-19 will vanish on Nov. 4, at least if the correct candidate wins. Each candidate has presented a plan to combat the coronavirus, but what will the election's outcome determine?
Professors from Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford, along with more than 200,000 medical practitioners, scientists, and citizens have signed the Great Barrington Declaration, stating that to continue current COVID-19 policies until a vaccine is developed will "cause irreparable damage."
For those who are old enough, you may remember Grandma telling you to play outside and get fresh air and sunshine. Fresh air dilutes and dries out germs, and the ultraviolet light in sunshine kills them.
Six months into the pandemic, there is hardly a sole on earth who isn't in Coronavirus overload. What's more, we don't know what to believe! This is my attempt to intelligently discuss corona-phobias, facts, fiction, and feelings.
President of Doctors for Disasters Preparedness, Dr. Jane Orient, M.D., remains a strong advocate of the drug hydroxychloroquine in the fight against the Coronavirus, despite the various labels the drug has been given and its mainstream stigma.
Every school year, children catch illnesses at school, and so do teachers and parents. Occasionally an outbreak causes schools to close for a time, say during a flu epidemic that is causing a lot of absenteeism.
Dr. Jane Orient, the President of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, explains the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is withholding the vital anti-viral drug, Hydroxychloroquine, in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus by blocking the distribution.
As Covid-19 cases surge across the United States citizens are supposed to follow "evidence-based medicine" these days, but there is no firm evidence to support the masking and "social distancing" mandates being imposed throughout the land.
Today, as COVID-19 surges in border states, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) calls on governors to consider the approach used for HIV/AIDS instead of more lockdowns and issued the following statement.
As people begin to emerge from house arrest, there is much fear about a resurgence of cases of COVID-19. People wonder how to protect themselves, and some are going to a lot of trouble to disinfect packages and groceries.
If the country re-opens for business, there will be more cases of COVID-19 reported, and more deaths. And the more tests we do, the more cases we will find. If we remain locked down the expectations are the same.
The Coronavirus has been a cruel enemy, invisible, free to invade unchecked, with a strength any general would admire, unabated by traditional military might, the pandemic handicapped the world's economies and challenged every available medical resource.
Will the FDA Find Courage in the Age of CoViD-19? While on lockdown to maintain our sanity many of us have turned to movies. I beg you not to rent Pandemic, Contagion, or 28 Days Later.
As the coronavirus becomes embedded in our psyche with a new revelation countering previous knowledge each day, knowing a few do's and don't may be just what the doctor ordered to collectively calm nerves and gain insight.
COVID-19 has been, in all probability, active for six months in Wuhan, China, before any global disease investigation team mobilized to confirm the onset of the new coronavirus, which becomes day one for the issuance of interim procedural guidelines.
In today's brave new world, imagine receiving a letter from the school principal about your only child: Your son will not be home tonight, but your daughter will be home in a few days.
With confirmed cases of the Corona-virus worldwide now reaching 90,000, three thousand new cases in two days, and the United States finally seeing confirmed cases and unfortunately deaths, the biblical reference to a worldwide plague, hasn't escaped media.
As the death toll and cases of 2019- nCoV (aka novel coronavirus) infection rises, our curiosity increases as to the epidemic’s when, why, where, and how. Is the new virus naturally occurring, animal to human transmission, a bio-weapon?
Clusters of a dozen or so deaths may get nonstop “if-it-bleeds-it-leads” press coverage. But the lack of preparedness for the really, really big threats may be met with virtual radio silence—until panic breaks out.
A couple of years ago, computer programs, algorithms, and glorified Google searches were touted as the replacements for a physician’s analysis of a patient’s medical condition. Web MD became the physician of choice for many searching for a diagnosis.
The Oath of Hippocrates states physicians have the duty to advise their patients according to the best of their ability and judgment. Physicians usually recommend vaccination, believing that for a particular patient, the benefit exceeds the risk.
In a lawsuit against Aetna for denial of benefits which the patient alleges "almost killed him," Aetna's medical director admitted under oath that he never looked at patients' medical records when deciding whether to approve or deny care.
Those who believe that Americans are far-removed from the threat of Zika are in for a wake-up call. Puerto Rican blood banks have seen a steady rise in the number of Zika-infected blood units collected.
"Fire with Fire," a three minute documentary from DB Productions and GE Froward, a subsidiary of General Electric, presents the findings of a rare cancer treatment, breakthrough, CTL019, decades in the making.
En l'absence d'opposition politique crédible, le macronisme, toujours indéfini, s'impose comme l'idéologie dominante car seule en lice. Et si cette domination n'est pas substance politique, elle suffit à répondre partiellement aux attentes des Français. Pour l'instant.
President Donald Trump made good on his threats to increase tariffs on Chinese imports this week, as the two nations stalled on a trade agreement increasing tariff tax 15% on all Chinese goods imported into the United States.
An Early Bird's new single 'Warning Signs' has an almost naive, etheral beauty. Featuring vocals from Georgiana Craciun, it's the first introduction to Stefano De Stefano's debut album in his new incarnation as An Early Bird.
Edinburgh is set to welcome one of the most exciting music festivals in Scotland for 2017. SpringFest, an indoor festival with four stages, ten zones, and numerous covered spaces, takes place on the bank holiday weekend of 27th and 28th May at the Corn Exchange.
President Obama remembered the fallen from September 11, 2001 as the day etched forever in our hearts, memories and minds, turned fifteen and a nation reflected on the recovery and hope birthed from one of the nation's darkest days.
U.S. Major General Harold Greene was assassinated, and fifteen other high ranking military personnel wounded, in a broad daylight staged attack during a joint visit to a UK military training facility in Afghanistan.
“Extraterrestrial,” from IFC Midnight Films, pits campy horror with heightened suspense and pulls off a winning foray into the Extraterrestrial, life on other planets, Area 51 horror space with authentic performances, credible special effects, and a realistic story.
It sounds so dreamy, doesn’t it – going out for a romantic dinner on Valentine’s Day? Except it doesn’t always turn out that way. All too often the restaurant is crowded, the servers cranky and the “exclusive” prix fixe menu is limited and expensive.
AirAsia Flight 8501, originating from Surabaya, Indonesia, with 162 passengers and crew on board disappeared from radar nearly mid-way into its flight after encountering a wall of severe and volatile thunderstorms somewhere over the Java Sea.
TIME Magazines announced today that German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the formidable backbone of the largest nation in Europe, won its Person of the Year award, edging out competitors such as Donald J. Trump and the Black Lives Matter movement.
For New York Bridal Fashion Week, Galia Lahav set out to explore the intangible of the five senses. GALA Collection No. 5 took on rhythm, challenging ourselves to bring adagios, crescendos and a symphony of sounds to life.
Judge Amy Coney Barret, an impressive and accomplished legal professional, a notable and distinguished academic, who once clerked for the much-respected Judge Antonio Scalia, on paper presents the credentials of a perfect, although left leaning, justice.
PIE International will release two additional front line books for Fall 2018. October will see the release of A Victorian Flower Album featuring hand drawn wild flowers from the Victorian Era and the exquisite artistry in grow: The Art of Koyamori.
Relic, from IFC Midnight, brings to the screen a riveting layered story that begins with a missing parent, gone for two weeks, her sudden return, the haunting and bizarre behavior that follows, hidden secrets and decay.
"Labor Day,” from Indian Paintbrush and Paramount Pictures, presents the story of three people, wounded from the road of life, who for one moment regain the freedom they felt before tragedy took up residence.
