Category Archives: Health News

Crowded parties and coronavirus concerns keep high schoolers from returning to the classroom

Their study, published last Thursday in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, found a statistically significant increase in clinic and hospital visits by patients who reported respiratory illnesses as early as the week of December 22. The first known case of Covid-19 in the US was thought to be a patient in Washington who had… Read More »

Lag between COVID-19 vaccine boosters, new variants highlight need for therapeutics, expert says

While work on COVID-19 vaccine boosters is already underway, one expert warned that emerging variants threaten to create a “window of susceptibility,” which without therapeutics could lead to more virus-inflicted death. “Of course there’s a need for boosters,” Dr. Jonathan Javitt, CEO of NRx and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, told Fox… Read More »

‘Insensitive’: Dan Murphy’s plan slammed

Woolworth’s consultation process for a new booze barn in Darwin prioritised commercial objectives over good relations with the community and was insensitive towards local Indigenous people, a panel has found. Through its subsidiary Endeavour Group, the retail giant planned to build the Northern Territory’s first Dan Murphy’s store, a proposal that was blocked by the… Read More »

May 2021 Reads

Sharing the books I read in May 2021 and if I’d recommend them! I always love to hear about your book recs, so if you read something amazing in May, please let us know in the comments. Hi friends! Hope you’re having a wonderful week so far! We’re off to San Diego (wahoo!!) but I… Read More »