Health Women Loading the player… Due to Mississippi’s archaic laws on reproductive rights, the state has only one abortion clinic. One lone Black woman is fighting back by escorting women who seek to terminate their pregnancies into the clinic under a hail of threats and verbal abuse from protesters, ABC News reports. Asia Brown, 20,… Read More: Black activist, 20, takes charge at Mississippi’s only abortion clinic »
Aduhelm by Biogen Source: Biogen The FDA’s approval of Biogen‘s Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm was a landmark moment in the life of Dr. Paul Aisen. The director of the Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute at USC has spent the past three decades focused on treating the neurodegenerative disease, and in recent years helped shepherd this particular drug… Read More: Biogen Alzheimer’s drug and the battle over dementia treatment of… »
FDA orders Johnson & Johnson to throw out 60 million Covid vaccine doses worth $ 600 MILLION at troubled Baltimore plant that had several violations in major blow to countries facing shortages of shots The FDA has ordered 60 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine to be discarded on Friday The shots were… Read More: FDA ordered Johnson & Johnson to throw out 60 million… »
Dr. Peter Hotez warned that Southern U.S. states could feel the impact of the highly transmissible Delta Covid variant as early as this summer, due in part to low vaccination rates. “I’m really holding my breath about the South and what happens over the summer,” said Hotez, co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at… Read More: Southern states have a ‘real vulnerability’ to Delta Covid variant… »