By Jessica Hamzelou FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn speaking at a White House press conference on 23 August. He later clarified his remarks in a tweetSAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images Blood plasma donated by people who have recovered from covid-19 will be used as a treatment for the infection in the US. The US Food and…
the experimental therapy, which involves transfusing the antibody-rich blood serum of recovered COVID-19 patients into people who are battling the illness.Of the 5,000 seriously ill patients who received blood plasma transfusions for the study, fewer than 1 percent experienced serious adverse events. The mortality rate seven days after treatment was 14.9 percent, but the researchers…
April 24, 2020A medical procedure doctors have used to treat novel diseases for a century has emerged as a focal point in the fight against Covid-19: convalescent plasma.Conva-what-now…?Convalescent plasma is the term used for plasma that is removed from the blood of a person who has recovered from a disease, then transfused into a patient…
Another outbreak was traced to the consumption and handling of meat Published: February 23, 2026, 12:05 am Researchers have shared details of an outbreak at a funeral in Uganda that killed three young people. Aeromonas bacteria can cause food poisoning with an incubation period of 12 hours to seven days, typically 24 to 48 hours. In February 2024
Here in the northern hemisphere, winter famously contributes to widespread vitamin D deficiency as sunlight exposure decreases. The trend is “very marked in clinical practice," Mary Gover, MD, an internal medicine doctor at Montefiore Einstein Advanced Care in New York City, tells SELF. What you might not know, however, is that vitamin D isn’t the
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