Britain, which has one of the world’s highest death tolls from COVID, is facing a new wave of cases, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson is lifting most restrictions in England in what some have dubbed “Freedom Day”. Epidemiologists are generally sceptical that lifting restrictions is the right thing to do, but many young British people… Read More »
While the World Health Organization has put the death rate from novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at 3.4%, a study in Nature Medicine put it much lower, at 1.4%. The fact is, with many cases going unreported and untested, mild and asymptomatic cases may not be included in official COVID-19 death rate figures, which could skew the… Read More »
An Australian mom has given a firsthand account of the devastating effects of bullying on her son in a now-viral clip. In the heart-wrenching anti-bullying video, Yarraka Bayles’ son Quaden Bayles — who was born with achondroplasia, a genetic disorder that results in dwarfism — sobs in the family car after another child at his… Read More »
Janine, a nurse in Arizona, checked into the hospital for stomach surgery in 2017. Before the procedure, she told her physician that she did not want medical students to be directly involved. But after the operation, Janine said, as the anesthesia wore off, a resident came by to inform her that she had gotten her… Read More »
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