As Racism Plagues Health Care, Unions Offer A Treatment By Alex J. Rouhandeh, The American Prospect. November 23, 2020 As Racism Plagues Health Care, Unions Offer A Treatment2020-11-232020-11-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/unions.jpg200px200px Above photo: Members of SEIU 1199 New England marched last summer to demand new laws to protect long-term caregivers and consumers, July 23, 2020, in Hartford, Connecticut. Jessica Hill/AP. Health care workers of color are twice as likely […]
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Shipt Workers Demand Better Pay, Treatment By Connor Sheets, AL.com. October 20, 2020 Shipt Workers Demand Better Pay, Treatment2020-10-202020-10-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/shiptworkers-e1603237658229.jpg200px200px Above photo: Abby Hathcock, a Shipt Shopper and co-organizer of the Sunday demonstration outside the company’s headquarters in downtown Birmingham, addresses the gathering of protesters. Connor Sheets. Alabama – More than 20 Shipt workers demonstrated in front of the grocery delivery company’s headquarters in downtown Birmingham Sunday […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/104825/65/1048256531_0:183:3500:2151_1200x675_80_0_0_f58db1c885392ac22ad254f63c0acf5a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/latam/202010181080811715-maduro-says-venezuela-received-thousands-of-doses-of-coronavirus-treatment-from-russia/ LA PAZ (Sputnik) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says thousands of doses of a coronavirus treatment have arrived from Russia. “Favipiravir, a powerful antiviral medication, has arrived from Russia,” Maduro announced on Sunday, showing a package of the Avifavir antiviral drug. According to the president, the coronavirus treatment will be available to Venezuelans for free. “It has an amazing […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump told his supporters in Wisconsin that all Americans will get the coronavirus treatment he received for free. “We’re gonna make, what I had, available to everybody, free. The antibodies, I think the antibodies are the best thing, we’re gonna make it free,” Trump said at his campaign rally in Janesville, Wisconsin on Saturday. “This election is a choice between […]
NIH Director’s Blog Liquid Biopsies Can Guide Cancer Treatment FDA Approves Blood Tests That Can Help Guide Cancer Treatment https://t.co/uceAapeOOW — Carol Duff (@CarolDuff18) October 16, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: Liquid biopsies analyze DNA that tumors have shed into the blood stream. Up till now, a biopsy takes a sample of the tumor and is far more invasive and usually quicker. Immunotherapies and targeted therapies work […]
US health regulators have paused drug firm Eli Lilly’s trial of an antibody treatment for Covid-19, due to safety concerns. The setback comes a day after a separate vaccine trial was halted due to an “unexplained illness.” “Out of an abundance of caution, the ACTIV-3 independent data safety monitoring board (DSMB) has recommended a pause in enrollment,” an Eli Lilly spokeswoman told reporters on Tuesday. While […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/0a/1080419598_0:110:3321:1977_1200x675_80_0_0_6b1bd9926956c4e62688988ed1f71720.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010101080727372-us-signs-486mln-deal-with-astrazeneca-to-secure-100000-doses-of-antibody-treatment—hhs/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Trump administration has signed an agreement with biopharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to develop and secure 100,000 doses of a cocktail antibody treatment for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Health and Human Services said in a press release. The release said the company’s antibody treatment, which is called AZD7442, is a cocktail of two monoclonal antibodies and […]
A week ago, the US president was admitted to the Walter Reed Medical Centre for treatment after announcing that he had tested positive for COVID-19. US President Donald Trump has said in a radio interview with Rush Limbaugh that he is pushing to get COVID-19 antibody drugs developed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc and Eli Lilly and Co approved quickly and out to hospitals after his own […]
Guardian: One of the drugs taken by Donald Trump that he has touted as a potential “cure” for coronavirus was developed using human cells originally obtained from an elective abortion, a practice repeatedly denounced by the president and many of his supporters. The drug is a monoclonal antibody cocktail developed by Regeneron. The president received an 8-gram infusion under a “compassionate use” exemption when he was hospitalized […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107337/45/1073374598_0:100:1920:1180_1200x675_80_0_0_89906fdf37bf08270d6fb2875d4c8fd9.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202010071080695646-indian-drug-regulator-allows-human-trials-for-antibody-treatment-for-covid-19-developed-from-horses/ For the therapy, which works similarly to plasma therapy to treat the novel coronavirus, the blood plasma is taken from horses. There horses were injected with an inactivated COVID-19 virus. After 21 days, the plasma samples taken from horses’ blood showed antibodies against the virus. The Indian drug regulatory body, the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), has given […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/03/1080654628_0:76:3359:1965_1200x675_80_0_0_964d79f1c757834b12adbbf5a83a7f59.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010041080661302-situation-near-walter-reed-military-hospital-where-trump-undergoes-treatment-for-covid-19–video/ Trump announced on Friday night that he and his wife Melania had tested positive for COVID-19. The White House said that both were experiencing mild symptoms. Live from outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, as Donald Trump continues to receive treatment for COVID-19 after testing positive on Friday. The next day, the US leader arrived at […]
…from Russia Today, Moscow [ Editor’s Note: A group of us inside VT have been following the large amount of life extension research that has been going on for some time now. The testing starts out on mice first, and then moves on to human trials prior to being available for human use. All of the earlier research using nano particles involved their delivering a cancer […]
Four people are dead. One criminal trial is pending, while a second will never take place. And amid all that death and uncertainty, the two shooters at the heart of the incidents are enjoying spectacular martyr status on the right. Jake Gardner, an Omaha, Nebraska, bar owner, who shot and killed a Black man during local Black Lives Matter protests in May, died of suicide this […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107757/15/1077571532_0:244:3092:1984_1200x675_80_0_0_efb4cb18c3504c9033a140e758b0b99b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202009161080481443-fire-at-private-drug-treatment-clinic-in-russias-krasnoyarsk-kills-4-people/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Four people have died and two more have been injured as a result of a fire at a private drug treatment clinic in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said on Thursday. “On 16 September at 23:46 [20:46 GMT], the territorial dispatcher of the garrison informed about a fire at a private drug […]
President Trump takes questions during a Labor Day press conference. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images President Trump takes questions during a Labor Day press conference. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images The U.S. Senate will on Wednesday hold a hearing on the development of vaccines aimed at eradicating the coronavirus, amid an escalated political rhetoric regarding the potential effectiveness of a fast-tracked vaccine. As […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/16/1080248562_0:130:3076:1860_1200x675_80_0_0_73bfbbebead1242504288be464957663.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202008291080311044-situation-outside-charite-hospital-in-berlin-where-alexei-navalny-receives-treatment—video/ The Russian opposition figure was transported to Berlin last week, following a request from his wife. According to German medics, his condition remains serious but stable. Sputnik is live from Berlin where Alexei Navalny receives medical treatment in Charite hospital. Last week, Navalny fell gravely ill during a domestic flight and went into a coma. Following an emergency landing […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105689/07/1056890761_0:114:2200:1352_1200x675_80_0_0_2932208db7d91200744ca8080e688a5d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/uk/202008251080270125-uks-astrazeneca-begins-human-trial-of-covid-19-treatment-using-monoclonal-antibodies/ LONDON (Sputnik) – UK-based pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca announced on Tuesday that it had begun the human trial of a new treatment for COVID-19 using a combination of two monoclonal antibodies. “The first participants have been dosed in a Phase I trial of AZD7442, a combination of two monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) in development for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19,” […]
US President Donald Trump called the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) emergency use authorization to treat COVID-19 with convalescent plasma a “historic announcement” on Sunday, but there isn’t enough data to tout it as a breakthrough, Dr. Jason Kindrachuk, assistant professor of viral pathogenesis at the University of Manitoba, told Sputnik. The technique uses plasma donated from survivors of the novel coronavirus to treat patients currently […]
The Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency authorization for convalescent plasma as a ‘promising’ coronavirus treatment in the US, concluding that the known and potential benefits of the therapy “outweigh the risks.” “The FDA has made the independent determination that the treatment is safe and very effective,” US President Donald Trump said at a press conference on Sunday, amid criticism that his administration ‘forced’ […]
President Trump was expected to use a press conference on Sunday to announce emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for convalescent blood plasma to treat COVID-19, according to media reports. The treatment, which hinges on injecting antibodies from COVID-19 survivors into other patients to boost their body’s defenses against the virus, has been used on at least 97,000 patients. So far, though, the […]
MOSCOW—As Russia’s most prominent opposition figure, Aleksey Navalny, lay in a coma on Friday after a suspected poisoning, a fierce tug-of-war raged between his family and authorities over whether he could be flown to Germany for additional medical treatment. Finally, on Friday night, Russian doctors relented and allowed Navalny to leave the country “on his wife’s responsibility.” All day, while a German air ambulance waited at […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The special medical aircraft from Germany, which is set to deliver from Russia to Berlin the hospitalized Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, has landed in the Omsk Airport, according to Flightradar24 tracking service. According to Flightradar24, the Bombardier Challenger 604 left Nuremberg at 03.12 a.m. local time (01:12 GMT) and landed on the runway of the Omsk Airport at 12.10 p.m. local time […]
a rescue boat searches for survivors in Bari Harbor after the December 1943 attack. Fuel from damaged freighters and a ruptured pipeline flooded the harbor. (George Kaye / Alexander Turnbull Library / National Library of New Zealand; U.S. Army Signal Corps / National Archives) bombing The December 1943 German military air raid on Bari destroyed 17 Allied ships, killed more than 1,000 servicemen and ignited a […]
What is it about courtside at the Oakland Arena that really brings out the worst our country has to offer? You may recall, during the 2019 NBA Finals, when Golden State Warriors’ part-owner and venture-capitalist scumbag Mark Stevens took a second out of his night to shove Raptors guard Kyle Lowry and then call him a “piece of shit,” all for the crime of trying hard […]
Javier Alvarez donating his plasma at Houston Methodist Hospital in July after his grandmother died from the virus.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Last week, just as the Food and Drug Administration was preparing to issue an emergency authorization for blood plasma as a Covid-19 treatment, a group of top federal health officials including Dr. Francis S. Collins and Dr. Anthony S. […]
a rescue boat searches for survivors in Bari Harbor after the December 1943 attack. Fuel from damaged freighters and a ruptured pipeline flooded the harbor. (George Kaye / Alexander Turnbull Library / National Library of New Zealand; U.S. Army Signal Corps / National Archives) bombing The December 1943 German military air raid on Bari destroyed 17 Allied ships, killed more than 1,000 servicemen and ignited a […]
Once again branding Biden as “Sleepy Joe” and claiming that he “never takes questions”, Trump also argued that “his reporters have zero drive”. With the 2020 election drawing near, US President Donald Trump has launched a fresh verbal jab against his Democratic rival Joe Biden, pointing to the latter’s handling of feedback during a recent campaign event held by Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris. […]
A new report was released by Sky News on Turkey’s COVID-19 Coronavirus early hydroxychloroquine treatment strategy and the results are clear. The early treatment program in Turkey relies on hydroxychloroquine as the first step in the therapeutic process. Covexit.com reported: Sky News’ story about “Turkey’s COVID Detectives” by special correspondent Alex Crawford is remarkable. It not only covers the track and trace teams in action in […]
US President Donald Trump has long promoted the use of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the ongoing coronavirus. Testing the drug for use in treating COVID-19 has, however, been blocked by international health bodies which have noted the compound’s adverse effects on patients. An official in the US government pandemic response team on Sunday affirmed that there is zero evidence that hydroxychloroquine is […]
How many tens of thousands of Americans must die because of Dr. Fauci’s mistakes? It is becoming more and more apparent with each new day and as more information is accumulated that Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, the CDC and the FDA failed in their response to the China Coronavirus. Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx pushed a completely fraudulent Imperial College study to lockdown and destroy […]
Tech censorship and leftist intolerance if the biggest threat today to America’s future. On Monday Twitter censored President Trump for posting video of Dr. Stella Immanuel discussing her success with hydroxychloroquine in treating coronavirus patients.Dr. Stella Immanuel said on Monday that she has personally treated over 350 patients with COVID-19 with Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, and Zithromax and they have all recovered. Advertisement – story continues below Twitter […]
On Monday afternoon, as Megan Thee Stallion opened up to fans on Instagram after being hospitalized with gunshot wounds earlier this month, she said words no human being should ever have to say: “I didn’t deserve to get shot. I didn’t do shit.” Rapper Tony Lanez allegedly shot at Megan Thee Stallion and her friend, Kelsey Nicole, after the three argued at a party. The Los […]
Roger Stone appeared to use a racial slur during a live interview Saturday with a Black radio host who pressed him on whether he got special treatment from President Trump. Morris W. O’Kelly, the host of The Mo’Kelly Show, told Stone he believed his close ties with the president “weighed more heavily” in his commutation than Trump simply wanting to right a wrong in the justice […]
Tulare County Man Indicted for Falsely Marketing Herbal Mixtures as FDA-Approved Treatment for COVID-19 FRESNO, Calif. — A Porterville man was arrested today after a federal grand jury returned a five‑count indictment on July 9, charging him with mail fraud and introducing a misbranded drug into interstate commerce with the intent to defraud, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. According to the indictment, Huu Tieu, 58, […]
French officials have begun a new phase in an investigation over the mishandling of human bodies donated to a Paris university research center after photographs taken at the facility revealed horror-film-like conditions. An ongoing probe into “violations of the integrity of a corpse” at the Center for Body Donations (CDC) of Paris Descartes University has been transferred to magistrates by prosecutors who launched an initial investigation […]
Two hundred and sixteen medical professionals signed an article published in The Lancet medical journal demanding an end to the “ongoing torture and medical neglect” of award-wining WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who remains incarcerated in Britain’s Belmarsh maximum-security prison. Clinical psychologist Dr Lissa Johnson, who co-authored the letter, explained to Sputnik why she and her colleagues felt it necessary to draft this latest version despite having […]
Victoria Gray, who underwent a landmark treatment for sickle cell disease last year, has been at home in Forest, Miss., with her three kids Jadasia Wash (left), Jamarius Wash (second from left) and Jaden Wash (right). Victoria Gray hide caption toggle caption Victoria Gray Victoria Gray, who underwent a landmark treatment for sickle cell disease last year, has been at home in Forest, Miss., with her […]
A Catholic archbishop in Cameroon says he has developed two plant-based remedies for Covid-19 which are given free to those who test positive for the disease. Archbishop Samuel Kleda of Douala diocese, who has practiced herbal medicine for several years, called the products ‘Elixir Covid’ and ‘Adsak Covid.’ Kleda told Reuters that 3,000 patients have been cured with the remedies, adding that he met Cameroon’s PM […]
A Seattle Man Received a $1.1 Million Bill for His COVID-19 Treatment Time BY MADELEINE CARLISLE AND TARA LAW After spending months hospitalized for COVID-19 at Swedish Medical Center in Issaquah, Wash., Michael Flor, 70, says that he knew his stay would be pricey. He’d spent 62 days in an intensive care unit, including weeks in an induced coma, and come so close to death that his family […]
The United States has called for the “immediate release” of Paul Whelan, who was jailed today for 16 years for espionage. The 50-year-old citizen of the UK, US, Ireland, and Canada has been in Russian custody since December 2018. A statement published by the US Embassy in Moscow, and signed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, said the US is “outraged by the decision,” citing the […]
Costs have gone up for addiction treatment centers in recent months, as they have had to invest in teletherapy and personal protective gear. “We are at risk for not having the funding that we need to keep our doors open,” says one medical director. Maskot/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Maskot/Getty Images Costs have gone up for addiction treatment centers in recent months, as they have […]
_________Jerusalem PostIsraeli specialist: Hydroxychloroquine ineffective treatment for COVID-19 A top Israeli infectious disease specialist has said that she believes that hydroxychloroquine is ineffective in treating COVID-19. The drug has been under investigation worldwide, including in the United States, after US President Donald Trump called it a “game changer” in the fight against coronavirus. Galia Rahav, head of the Infectious Disease Unit and Laboratories at Sheba Medical […]
Concept to represent the 2020 virus threat Coronavirus, blood in a test tube. __________Times of IndiaWest Bengal To Start Plasma Therapy To Treat COVID-19 Patients The therapy involves taking antibodies from the plasma of a person who has recovered from COVID-19 and transfusing those antibodies into an active coronavirus patient to help the immune system fight the infection. Kolkata: West Bengal has taken a major step […]
The COVID-19 outbreak has prompted Russian health professionals to develop new methods for treating coronavirus patients. As the creation of an anti-COVID vaccine does not seem to be imminent, Russian scientists are prioritising the urgent production of drugs that activating human beings’ innate immunity. The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 poses substantial challenge to the world’s health professionals given that a coronavirus-specific treatment and vaccines have yet to […]
Detroit News: Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan health system, this week was denied doses of the antiviral medicine remdesivir after requesting it for COVID-19 patients. In recent days, doctors and hospitals nationwide expressed frustration with the federal distribution of the country’s limited stock of remdesivir — the only drug approved to treat the illness COVID-19. Officials have not publicly disclosed the criteria for determining which medical […]
Longtime Amazon VP Explains Why He Quit Over Treatment Of Amazon Whistleblowers May 6, 2020 Longtime Amazon VP Explains Why He Quit Over Treatment Of Amazon Whistleblowers2020-05-062020-05-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/timbray-e1588809071718.jpg200px200px Above photo: Tim Bray. May 1st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of rewarding fun. I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making […]
Scientists were inspired by antibodies produced by this llama, named Winter, to develop their antibody against SARS-CoV-2. Winter is four years old and still living on a farm in the Belgian countryside operated by Ghent University’s Vlaams Institute for Biotechnology. Photo credit: Tim Coppens. Antibodies from Llamas Could Help in Fight Against COVID-19 by Marc G. Airhart/The University of Texas at Austin-News from the College of […]
Thousands of lives could be saved with the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat the China coronavirus. One of the most recognized experts in the study of communicable diseases worldwide is Dr. Didier Raoult: Dr. Raoult is very hopeful regarding the treatment of the China coronavirus by using hydroxychloroquine. TRENDING: Armed Texas SWAT Team Raids Daddy Zane’s Bar in West Odessa After Breaking State Orders and Reopening […]