Dive Brief: The Mayo Clinic reported turning a profit in the first quarter of the year, although its expenses rose significantly compared to the first quarter of 2020, which was mostly completed before the COVID-19 pandemic became a significant issue. Overall, net income for the Minnesota-based multistate hospital system totaled $ 243 million without counting… Read More »
Former president Donald Trump’s description of Covid-19 as “the Chinese virus” on Twitter last year has been linked to a measurable increase in anti-Asian hashtags on the platform, according to new research from the University of California, San Francisco. In a study of nearly 700,000 tweets published on March 18, 2021 in the American Journal… Read More »
And now for some bad news.. UK records 12,718 daily cases – down just 2.3% since last Wednesday – and 738 deaths, while symptom-tracking app says infections are RISING in parts of the country ‘in a hitch’ Scientists running app said that after a five-week period of sustained drops in infections, there’d been a ‘hitch’… Read More »
I would kill to have an orgasm, but I refuse to die for one. That’s my daily quarantine mantra. I whisper it when I get a Raya alert. I scream it while giggling wildly with friends. Eventually I text it directly to a film director—the kind who thinks if he slides into my DMs, I’ll… Read More »
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 26, 2020 — Most strokes strike when an artery in the brain suddenly becomes blocked, but new research shows a rarer cause of strokes is becoming more common. It’s called cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT), and it happens when a vein in the brain is clogged. While CVT is estimated to cause less than… Read More »
Doctors are seeing a rise in people reporting severe mental health difficulties, a group of NHS leaders says. It follows a more than 30% drop in referrals to mental health services during the peak of the pandemic. But there are predictions that the recent rise will mean demand actually outstrips pre-coronavirus levels – perhaps by… Read More »