Freight worth an estimated £7.2million ($10million) has been held by customs agents at an airport in Rome, Bloomberg reports. The medicine produced by British manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline is understood to have been held in the capital for around a week while it awaits testing. GlaxoSmithKline said it was aware of the delay […]
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The first witness in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial, a 911 dispatcher, testified Monday that she alerted a police supervisor May 25 after she watched Minneapolis police officers pin George Floyd to the ground live in a security video. The dispatcher, Jena Scurry, said it was a “gut instinct” that led […]
Birx, who featured prominently in CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s special report “COVID WAR: The Pandemic Doctors Speak Out,” has been criticized for not speaking out more about the pandemic response while working in the White House. But Adams defended her. “Fascinating to see zero support for Birx- […]
In space, your heart gets smaller. In a study published on Monday in the journal Circulation, scientists reported that the largest chamber of the heart of Scott Kelly, who spent nearly a year on the International Space Station in 2015 and 2016, shrank in mass by more than one-quarter by […]
Americans who got flu shots last year were 25% less likely to test positive for COVID-19 as the disease surged across the country, study finds A new study looked at more than 27,000 patients who tested positive for COVID-19 from March 2020 to mid-July 2020 Of the 13,000 patients who […]
The massive vessel that was stuck for nearly a week in the Suez Canal has created problems on dry land — with people who suffer from phobias of ships and the sea. Grace Gibson said she was among those who suffer from submechanophobia — a fear of submerged human-made objects […]
Spending very long periods of time in space has something in common with extreme endurance swimming: both can cause the heart to shrink. That’s the conclusion of a study that compared the effects of astronaut Scott Kelly’s year in space with a marathon swim by athlete Benoît Lecomte. Both remove […]
By Michael Le Page , Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Sam Wong , Graham Lawton , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool Members of the public receive covid-19 vaccines at Lichfield Cathedral in Staffordshire, England Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Latest coronavirus news as of 5pm on 29 March […]