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A leading dog charity has teamed up with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Durham University to train six coronavirus sniffer dogsDogs could be hired by the NHS to screen up to 750 key workers an hour for coronavirus. Medical detection dogs have already been used to sniff out cancer, Parkinson’s, and malaria. But a new collaboration between a dog charity and two leading universities could see pooches trained to diagnose coronavirus patients. Professor James Logan of the London school of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said six dogs are ready to be trained. The dogs will be...

A study in China has suggested that the deadly coronavirus may have spread among people at a restaurant due to its air conditioning. The study was published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Researchers examined 10 coronavirus patients from three families who had visited the same restaurant in China’s Guangzhou for dinner. One of the families had just travelled from Wuhan, the epicentre of coronavirus in China. The three families dined at the restaurant while sitting at neighbouring tables on 24 January. Later that day, a person of the family that had come from...

So for what it's worth, this was just posted on a neuro MD site: The author is a triple board certified Neurologist. He has published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. and Cell Mol Neurobiol. He trained at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York Presbyterian, Hospital for Special Surgery, Montefiore, Northwell and Mount Sinai. He has been in Private Practice for the past 12 years in New York. Surviving COVID-19 with Neurological Involvement from the perspective of a Neurologist "To be honest, it was very scary to go through no matter how much specialized medical training one...

Where in the world is Waldo? Oh, wait — wrong meme. Carmen Sandiego? Warmer, but no. The answer is zinc sulfate 220-milligram tablets or capsules suitable for popping like candy for a few days. As we've seen, the mass media has been determinedly ignoring the third leg of Dr. Vladimir Zelenko's treatment trifecta. Still, the word has gotten out, and the stuff appears to be out of stock absolutely everywhere.Forward magazine piece on Dr. Vladimir Zelenko. So! What happens if you get sick enough from coronavirus to seek treatment? Even if your own primary-care doctor is friendly to the hydroychloroquine...

Question of the day. – Why hasn’t President Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to force the New York Times and Washington Post to convert their facilities to produce toilet paper? It would be a very minimal conversion process. “Never again…” – Peter Navarro, the director of trade and manufacturing policy, national Defense Production Act policy coordinator and just general all-around White House badass, made a statement at Thursday’s Coronavirus Task Force briefing that didn’t get a lot of attention from our clueless, corrupt news media. But it should have, because Peter Navarro doesn’t just say stuff to hear himself...

Physician complicity in, and indeed responsibility for, certain Nazi crimes against humanity has been well documented in books and treatises by historians and other scholars. The Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial provided the first public examination of these acts, but has subsequently been criticized for its narrow focus on a relatively small number of defendants. For the better part of 50 years, mainstream medical literature all but ignored this subject (a notable exception being the article by Leo Alexander, a physician consultant at the Nuremberg trial, which appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1949. Part of this agnosia was...

Rosemary Gibson is senior advisor at the Hastings Center and a national authority on health care reform. In 2014, she won the highest honor from the American Medical Writers Association. She is an editor for JAMA Internal Medicine. She has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Speaking to journalist Sharyl Attkisson in an April 23, 2018, interview,  Gibson warned: "What happens if we have a Fukushima type event or the trade routes are blocked in the South China Sea? Or if there's a global pandemic? And the United States and virtually every other country...

On March 9 a team of researchers in China published results showing hydroxychloroquine was effective against the 2019 coronavirus in a test tube. The authors suggested a five-day, 12-pill treatment for Covid-19: two 200-milligram tablets twice a day on the first day followed by one tablet twice a day for four more days. A more recent French study used the drug in combination with azithromycin. Most Americans know azithromycin as the brand name Zithromax Z-Pak, prescribed for upper respiratory infections. The Z-Pak alone doesn’t appear to help fight Covid-19, and the findings of combination treatment are preliminary. But researchers in...

I take it to be axiomatic that there is no contradiction between good theology and good science. I take it as axiomatic that we do not choose between science and faith. The strange conflicts of the modern period have nurtured a sort of bifurcation (at all times and not just in our present trials). I have written regarding mental health issues any number of times, always encouraging people to include medical intervention among their therapies. We are not a “ghost in the machine” a “soul inhabiting a body.” Whatever we are, we are one thing. The separation of the soul...

★★★ A NEW CONSERVATIVE AGE IS RISING ★★★ The Coronavirus Spread SLOWS as the latest Chloroquine Study Shows a 100% Cure Rate; that’s what we’ll be talking about on today’s video. President Trump HAS just announced and indeed has confirmed that the malaria drug chloroquine is showing astonishing results in the fight against the coronavirus, and we’re going to take a look at the observations of a Noble Laureate as to the rate of natural immunity to the virus; I think you’re going to find it very, very interesting.

What’s worse? The rapid spread of a novel virus which originated in China or the media hysteria created and broadcast around the world? If it was the intent of the American media to create a state of fear and panic, they’ve succeeded brilliantly. The dissemination of information pertinent to the virus has morphed into a murky river of rumors, innuendo, outright lies and blather proffered by pundits who are neither doctors nor experts on much of anything other than opinionating. Despite the media hype, COVID-19 is not the first world pandemic and it won’t be the last. As long as...

A U.S. official said he is preparing an executive order to hand to President Donald Trump that would help relocate medical supply chains from overseas to the United States, as the coronavirus outbreak exposes the vulnerabilities of foreign supply chains. White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, told CNBC that the United States is heavily dependent on the global supply chain “not just for its medicines but for its medical supplies and medical equipment.” “The essence of the order … is to bring all of that home so that we don’t have...

As the coronavirus threat grows, we are all hoping to limit its spread, or even better, invent a vaccine. Yet, at the very same time we need new treatments some people are proposing to abandon decades of proven success in innovation policy. Fortunately, there is widespread support and mounting evidence in favor of keeping the pro-innovation approach that has always defined the American spirit. The American bio-pharmaceutical industry leads the world in innovation. Americans have access to newer treatments, sooner. And that's not all. A recent report highlighted that sector of our economy supports more than 4 million American. A...

White House Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro confirmed Wednesday the administration is working on an executive order to eliminate the government’s reliance on foreign-made medical supplies. The “Buy American” order comes on the heels of concerns expressed by senators during their Tuesday meeting with President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill. [snip] The order would prevent federal agencies from purchasing medical supplies, including face masks, gloves and ventilators, from China. [snip] China has prevented the export of surgical face masks, severely limiting supplies in the U.S. and countries around the world. “China has managed to dominate all aspects...

...In the 1970s, Congress facilitated the passage of tax breaks for companies that base their operations in Puerto Rico. Drug manufacturers took advantage of these benefits and converted the island into one of the world’s pharma production hubs. However, President Bill Clinton signed a law that started to phase out the tax breaks during the 1990s. Once these tax breaks fully expire in 2006, the industry started to leave the island. Policymakers should consider bringing back these strategic tax breaks...

Vimeo censors my interview, in which Catherine Austin Fitts and I discuss coronavirus and vaccines Vimeo also removed another Fitts interview with a distinguished attorney, on the subject of mandated vaccines They're meddling with you, and deciding for you . To boil it down: a video was posted, then it was censored. Removed. Deleted. By Vimeo. On March 4. Bang. Why? Because you're not supposed to know what was discussed in the video. It might give you a wrong idea. You might infer something you shouldn't. You can't handle making up your own mind. You have to feed at the...

CHICAGO (CBS) — Statewide legal marijuana sales in Illinois totaled nearly $35 million in the month of February, according to the state. The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation announced preliminary numbers showed statewide sales totaled $34,805,072.01 for February. Dispensaries sold 831,600 items in total, with $25,615,371 worth being purchased by Illinois residents, and $9,189,701.01 being purchased by out-of-state residents. The figures do not include taxes collected. The state charges a 7% tax on the sales of cannabis by cultivators and craft growers to dispensaries. The governor’s office has estimated cannabis tax revenues will grow to $127 million in...

A woman has been diagnosed with a never-before-seen condition after doctors discovered she was urinating alcohol – without drinking a single drop. The unnamed patient, 61, has become the first person in the world to be diagnosed with ‘urinary auto-brewery syndrome’ caused by yeast in her bladder that ferments sugar in her urine to produce alcohol. The process is almost exactly the same as one used by beer makers – but it was happening in her own body. At first medics suspected she may have been hiding an alcohol addiction when urine tests for the drug were repeatedly positive. Kenichi...

China’s efforts to contain the coronavirus by initially shutting down factories and keeping workforces at home could have global ramifications for public health around the world, including regarding diabetes, blood pressure, headaches and fevers. As the world’s top producer of active pharmaceutical ingredients, including the ones used to manage those conditions, China’s disrupted factory output has the potential to upset global supply chains, and regulators have been watching with concern. The United States’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Thursday announced that one drug was already in short supply after production of its active pharmaceutical ingredient was affected by the...

Sought-after on-call physicians offer their thoughts on the coronavirus hitting L.A., share preventative measures to take and treatments Hollywood is asking for. Stars. They're just like the rest of L.A. dwellers, fearful of the spreading coronavirus, but with a doctor on speed dial to probe with their questions. "My day started at 8 a.m. on Sunday, with some hours of sleep here and there," Dr. Leslie D. Michelson, CEO and chairman of Private Health Management, told The Hollywood Reporter. "We've been advising people for about four weeks now, since the very first case was presented," he said of the coronavirus....