Food As Medicine: Foresight or Fallacy?
Is it fair to consider food as medicine? What is the basis for this premise that food is medicine? Take a step back in time to about 400 [...]
What to do about K-12 Schools?
for both reasons of backwardness of the medical-hospital infection control profession and political influences of the AHA and corporate medicine. Their guidance’s list of the five key prevention [...]
BETTER BUILDINGS
With the current pandemic pointing the finger at enclosed public areas, the built environment has never had so much flack. Yet we can’t live without them, so ensuring [...]
Coronavirus Outbreak: Latest Updates
Krispy Kreme has found a sweet way to encourage people to get the COVID vaccine. “To show our support for those who choose to get vaccinated, starting Monday, 3/22, [...]
Philly started allowing walk-ins at FEMA vaccine site to improve equity. It might be working.
Philadelphia may have figured out one way to help improve the racial equity of its COVID-19 vaccine distribution, early data suggests. At the federally run clinic at the Convention [...]
Tuberculosis research and investment – lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic
Overview The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted much of the research and development done in the field of tuberculosis (TB) prevention, diagnostics, and treatment measures, as well as shifted the [...]
Institutional inoculation: protecting society from pandemics and politicians
Two million covid-19 deaths have brought the violence of unequal societies squarely into public discussion—“social murder” as Kamran Abbasi has argued in The BMJ.1 What recourse do we have, he [...]
Seroprevalence and humoral immune durability of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Wuhan, China: a longitudinal, population-level, cross-sectional study
Background Wuhan was the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak in China. We aimed to determine the seroprevalence and kinetics of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies at population level in Wuhan to inform [...]
Five reasons why COVID herd immunity is probably impossible
As COVID-19 vaccination rates pick up around the world, people have reasonably begun to ask: how much longer will this pandemic last? It’s an issue surrounded with uncertainties. [...]
How microbes in permafrost could trigger a massive carbon bomb
In May, as the temperatures in northern Sweden begin to creep to several degrees above freezing, scientists will once again descend on the squelchy peat of Stordalen Mire. [...]
Researchers Identify What Causes Prions to Become Pathogenic
Prion diseases occur when normal prion protein, found on the surface of many cells, becomes abnormal and clumps in the brain, causing brain damage. Prion diseases or transmissible [...]
Efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Covid-19 Vaccine against the B.1.351 Variant
BACKGROUND Assessment of the safety and efficacy of vaccines against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in different populations is essential, as is investigation of the [...]
