Month: August 2022

TCM Practitioners Set out Key Difference Between Colds and COVID-19 and Remind Easy Avoidance Measures

More people get a cold during seasonal change as the climate becomes unstable, and the temperature difference between morning and evening is big. The common symptoms of infection with Omicron are similar to those of getting a cold. So how can you tell if you are infected with COVID-19 or a cold? A traditional Chinese…


Inflation, Recession Fears Weighing on US Business Activity

Inflation and risk of a recession are the top concerns for U.S companies in multiple sectors. These worries are beginning to weigh on overall operations, resulting in a slowdown in business activity and declining sentiment according to numerous indices. The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Optimism Index highlighted that 37 percent of small business owners reported…


Free University for 10,000 Nurses, Midwives in Australian State of Victoria

More than 10,000 budding nurses and midwives will have their university degrees paid off in full to ease workforce pressures on the Australia’s state of Victoria’s stretched health system. The nurses and midwives will be recruited and trained for free from next year as part of a A$270 million (US$186 million) initiative announced by the…


Garbage Piles in Scotland Raise Health Concerns Amid Strikes

LONDON—Stinking piles of garbage on the streets of Edinburgh are threatening the health and safety of the public, a health authority warned Saturday as strikes by garbage collectors in the Scottish capital moved into their ninth day. The warning from Public Health Scotland came as garbage collectors in Newham, a borough of London, also walked…


Maryland Court Rules DC-Area Sniper to Be Resentenced

ANNAPOLIS, Md.—Maryland’s highest court has ruled that Washington-area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo must be resentenced, because of U.S. Supreme Court decisions relating to constitutional protections for juveniles made after Malvo was sentenced to six life sentences without the possibility of parole In its 4–3 ruling, however, the Maryland Court of Appeals said it’s very unlikely…


Naomi Judd Autopsy Confirms Country Singer’s Cause of Death

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—An autopsy report in the death of country singer Naomi Judd that was obtained Friday by The Associated Press confirmed what family members have already said about how she died. Judd, 76, killed herself with a gun on April 30 at her home in Tennessee. “We have always shared openly both the joys of…


Feds Declare Emergency in 4 States After Oil Refinery Fire in Indiana

The federal government on Aug. 26 declared a regional emergency affecting Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, following an “unanticipated shutdown” of an oil refinery in Indiana due to a fire. The fire on Aug. 24 knocked out the electrical power and cooling water systems at BP Whiting in Indiana, causing it to shut down and undergo…


43 Percent Infected by COVID Suffer From Long COVID Symptoms—Half of Them Are Neuropsychiatric

A study looked at the data of 1.6 million COVID-19 patients worldwide. The researchers were trying to understand a phenomenon called “long COVID,” where the patients who clear the infection are left with lingering symptoms or new pain after several months have passed. The researchers have found that about 43 percent of infected patients developed…


Legal Challenges to Pentagon’s Vaccine Mandate Just Getting Started, Military Insiders Say

News Analysis The Department of Defense’s (DoD) requirement that all members of the Armed Forces receive COVID-19 vaccinations, even if they’ve already had the virus to developed immunity, has had a severely disruptive effect within military ranks, resulting in the denial of promotions and assignments to those who refused vaccination and in thousands of service…


6 of 43 Missing Mexican Students Given to Army Commander Who Ordered Them Killed: Official

MEXICO CITY—Six of the 43 college students “disappeared” in 2014 were allegedly kept alive in a warehouse for days then turned over to the local army commander who ordered them killed, the Mexican government official leading a Truth Commission said Friday. Interior Undersecretary Alejandro Encinas made the shocking revelation directly tying the military to one…