A local rock musician launched a crowdfunding campaign to help a small-town businessman who makes unique guitar-shaped braai grids. The response has been phenomenal, with people turning up at the blacksmith's house to meet him and take selfies. There have also been businesspeople who are interested in investing in his business and help it to grow. A small-town…
crackdown — Regulatory "flexibility" was never meant to allow fraud, agency says. Beth Mole - May 5, 2020 10:46 pm UTC Enlarge / MAY 4, 2020: A health worker handles a blood sample on the first day of a free COVID-19 antibody testing event. After a gush of bogus coronavirus blood tests, the US Food…
Fire Department of New York medical staff attend to an elderly person experiencing difficulty breathing outside of an apartment building on April 20, 2020, in New York City.Photo: GettyTests designed to identify people with covid-19 antibodies, but which sometimes yield negative results even in infected patients, have been falsely advertised by some test makers as…
The Food and Drug Administration has updated its list of cinnamon products with dangerously high levels of lead, bringing the total to 21. The alert now includes Wise Wife brand ground cinnamon from SLR Food Distribution Inc., of Hicksville, NY. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Analytical Chemistry collected and analyzed samples of this
(Oona Zenda/KFF Health News) As Grace Griffin and her husband were welcoming their long-awaited baby — a daughter — Griffin found herself worried about looming medical bills and unsure if their family could pay for the care they needed. “This whole experience has me wondering (keeping me up at night, actually): Can we ever afford
LYON, France — Halving the dose of antenatal betamethasone given to prevent severe respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in infants does not appear to affect later intelligence quotient (IQ) scores or other measures of neurodevelopment, suggests a follow-up study of a randomized trial. However, it is unclear from the present data, presented at the Congress of