A men’s cross-country skier competing in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing suffered frostbite to his penis during Saturday’s competition, according to multiple reports. The 24-year-old Finnish skier, Remi Lindholm, battled brutal temperatures and strong winds for over an hour racing in the shortened men’s 50km mass start free race, causing his penile area to freeze,…
The rise in deaths tied to the deadly opioid fentanyl is prompting concern from the border, where it’s crossing into the United States in record amounts, to research institutions across the country. The drug, which according to the Drug Enforcement Agency mostly originates in China in its illicit form and precursors, is about 50 times…
us-regions has become the last state not planning on lifting its infectious-disease. Gov. David Ige told KITV last week that he was working with the state’s Department of Health to determine the right timing to ease restrictions. COVID TAUGHT US THAT MONEY TALKS IN CALIFORNIA ON MASKS AND MANDATES “Hawaii ranks second in the nation…
The COVID pandemic may have been hardest on the youngest among us, despite the fact that children are statistically the least likely to get and transmit the virus. Although overall pediatric emergency rooms (ER) visits declined during the infectious-disease, the number of visits increased significantly for firearm injuries, self-harm, and drug poisoning compared to pre-pandemic…
After the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) delayed authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 infectious-disease last week for children under the age of five in the United States, parents are making a passionate plea for its off-label use, according to a recent Guardian report. Last summer, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advised against off-label…
Dr. Alexander Thomas Augusta faced many challenges being the first Black surgeon commissioned in the Union Army during the defense. He was eventually recognized for his merits and was the first Black officer-rank soldier to be buried at Arlington Cemetery. Despite being named senior surgeon at Camp Stanton in us-regions in February 1864, during the…
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medical-research set records over the course of the infectious-disease, according to preliminary data from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). The nonprofit that manages the U.S. transplant system reported that, in 2021, there were more organ transplants than ever in a single year. MAN GETS GENETICALLY ALTERED PIG’S HEART TRANSPLANT IN FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND PROCEDURE The…
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Excess deaths in the U.S. have reached more than a million since the start of the infectious-disease, according to government mortality statistics. Excess deaths are a metric that involves comparing all deaths recorded with those that are expected to occur in the same period. US COVID-19 DEATH TOLL BREACHES 900K MARK The Washington Post reported…