by crissly | Jun 22, 2022 | Science, Science / Health
In some pediatric practices, shots are already going into arms. Children’s Medical Group, a private practice in Atlanta, ordered doses as soon as it was allowed and received a first shipment on Monday, the Juneteenth holiday. They began vaccinating at lunchtime....
by crissly | Jun 8, 2022 | Science, Science / Health
A committee of independent, expert advisers for the Food and Drug Administration voted overwhelmingly to authorize the two-dose Novavax Covid-19 vaccine yesterday, with 21 of 22 committee members voting in favor of the vaccine and one member abstaining. The...
by crissly | May 25, 2022 | Science, Science / Health
Another clinically available method of abortion is a medical procedure that uses suction to remove the pregnancy from the uterus. This process is quicker, but abortion pills allow greater control over where and when someone chooses to begin the termination, says...
by crissly | May 9, 2022 | Science, Science / Health
Within minutes of the leaking of the draft opinion from the US Supreme Court calling for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Elizabeth Constance, a reproductive endocrinologist at the Heartland Center for Reproductive Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska, was inundated with...
by crissly | Mar 3, 2022 | Science, Science / Health
Thordis Björg, who lives in Reykjavík, the capital where more than 60 percent of the population lives, has an autoimmune disorder that puts her at risk from Covid. She calls Willum Thór Thórsson, the Minister of Health who enacted the decision to drop the...
by crissly | Feb 1, 2022 | Gear, Gear / How To and Advice, Science / Health
When the house falls silent in the dead of night, or after the kids have gone to school in the morning, I can hear a high-pitched, occasionally oscillating sound. If I focus on it, the noise grows louder and can even keep me awake. At first, I suspected a gadget in my...
