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Treatment involves adult patients with severe alopecia areata Eli Lilly has announced that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has granted marketing authorisation for baricitinib – also known as Olumiant – for the treatment of severe alopecia areata in adult patients. Marketing authorisation was based on BRAVE-AA1 and BRAVE-AA2 studies which both used the Severity of Alopecia Tool (SALT) score and both met the primary endpoint among the proportion of patients. Meanwhile, achievement of full regrowth or regrowth with minimal gaps in eyebrow and eyelash hair was also seen, with baricitinib, for patients who at baseline had significant...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Wednesday criticized her party for what she sees as a growing sector of the GOP that supports Russian President Vladimir Putin as he wages his attacks on Ukraine. “You know, the Republican Party is the party of Reagan, the party that essentially won the Cold War. And you look now at what I think is really a growing Putin wing of the Republican Party,” Cheney said at a McCain Institute event at Arizona State University.

Weber Shandwick is helping run communications around the vaccine program.. But the PR group is already working for Moderna, and has worked for Pfizer.. .. A PR company that represents Pfizer and Moderna has staff 'embedded' in the CDC's vaccine division.. New York-based firm Weber Shandwick has been responsible for elevating Pfizer's profile since at least 2006. It partnered with Moderna ... Yet questions are being raised about a possible conflict of interest as it emerged the company was hired by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ... Vaccine makers made more than $34 billion in profits last...

The January 6 Committee with Liz Cheney will reconvene today in Washington DC. .... Snip.... Politico reported: Donald Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election didn’t end on Jan. 6, 2021, or even when he left office. Since then he’s gone to even further lengths to delegitimize his defeat. That ongoing effort will be a centerpiece of the Jan. 6 select committee’s next — and perhaps final — televised pitch to Americans on Thursday. “Tune in for our discussion of Trump’s clear and present danger presented to democracy and freedom in America by a movement that he’s galvanized,” panel member...

Covid-19 patients with a history of cardiovascular disease are at an increased risk of developing severe illness and could benefit most from the Covid-19 treatment Paxlovid – but there’s a catch. Paxlovid can have dangerous interactions with some of the most common medications for cardiovascular disease, including certain statins and heart failure therapies, a new paper warns. The review paper, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, lists dozens of cardiovascular medications and whether they are safe to give along with Paxlovid or whether they could have interactions. Some medications such as aspirin are safe to...

Democrat Gov. Steve Sisolak and the State of Nevada launched a website that provides information about abortion and encourages Nevadans to report Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) if they are “concerned about misleading services.” “As Governor, I am committed to ensuring Nevadans have access to reproductive health care without fear or shame,” Sisolak said of the website, according to News 4 & Fox 11. “We will not abandon the right to an abortion, and we will protect those in need of care. This website is one more step forward in this work.”

VIDEONo member of the media reporting from Arizona displays as much biased animosity towards Kari Lake as "reporter" (Democrat operative) Vaughn Hillyard of MSNBC. However, his dread of a Kari Lake victory in particular and MAGA in general has caused even him to slam Katie Hobbs as a Debate Coward due to her refusal to appear on the gubernatorial debate stage with Kari Lake. Hillyard knows such debate cowardice is sure to not only doom Hobbs' campaign but threatens to demoralize Democrats statewide to the extent that their lowered turnout as a result could also result in an Arizona MAGA...

BEIJING—Police rushed to a highway bridge in Beijing after a column of dark smoke appeared above protest banners condemning Chinese leader Xi Jinping by name—a rare display of defiance in the capital that came as top Communist Party officials arrived to attend a closely watched political gathering. Video footage and photographs of the smoke and two banners—one of which had “Depose the Traitorous Dictator Xi Jinping” scrawled on it in red—circulated widely on Chinese social-media platforms Thursday. One man told Wall Street Journal reporters he saw the thick smoke and the unfurled banners hanging from the bridge at about 1...

It’s unclear who the FBI and their handlers thought they were dealing with in regards to the Mar-a-Lago raid.Maybe after getting the election snatched from him, they thought President Trump would simply lay over for Biden and his vultures to consume. Well, they’ve learned very quickly that the President is always ready to put up a championship caliber fight at any moment.Within weeks, of the DOJ and FBI raid, the President’s team was able to halt the government’s witch-hunt well into December.A federal judge agreed to appoint a special master to review records seized by the FBI during its search...

Gabbard said the Democratic Party is controlled by 'fanatical ideologues who hate freedom' ... Tulsi Gabbard will hit the campaign trail with Republican New Hampshire Senate nominee Don Bolduc, after announcing her shocking exit from the Democrat Party because she believes they are "controlled by fanatical ideologues who hate freedom." ... she denounced the "elitist cabal of war-mongers" who make up her former party and divide the country by "racializing every issue and stoking anti-white racism." ... Gabbard made headlines Tuesday after she announced she would be leaving the Democratic Party she once represented in Congress, her reason being that...

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) was called out by fact checkers for claiming in a campaign ad that her opponent, Republican Adam Laxalt, cheered the loss of Hispanic jobs and businesses. In the ad, Laxalt says, “I think the good news is that now we’re a year, a lot of those jobs never came back, a lot of those Hispanic small businesses never reopened." In Spanish, the add then tells viewers, “Adam Laxalt is not on our side.” A description placed with the ad claims Laxalt called it “‘good news’ that Latino small businesses suffered during the pandemic because he...

Google on Wednesday said it has allowed Donald Trump's Truth Social app in its Play Store for Android devices -- after receiving assurances the app would meet the platform's standards for moderating harmful content.The app -- which Trump launched after being barred from Twitter over the 2021 Capitol riot -- had been kept out of Google's store over its lack of moderation tools, including for violent threats.Google said Truth Social has since been updated to comply with its policies barring objectionable posts, and has built in effective systems for reporting and removing unwanted content as well as blocking abusers."Apps may...

PLANO, Texas - A manager of a Hooters restaurant was brutally attacked last week all over some chocolate bars. The fight happened on Oct. 6 at the Hooters off Central Expressway near Southwestern Avenue in Plano.

People living with HIV may be more likely to develop long-term symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection—commonly known as long COVID—and this might be related to differences in immune function, according to research published in the October 1 edition of AIDS. The study, conducted by Michael Peluso, MD, of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), and a team of colleagues that includes long-time HIV cure researchers Steven Deeks, MD, and Timothy Henrich, MD, found that HIV status “strongly predicted” long COVID. “There are lots of reasons why this might be the case based on what we know about the effects of...

In a sign that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has been advancing, the annexed region's Moscow-installed head Vladimir Saldo has asked Russia to help evacuate residents from the whole area. (snip) But as Zelensky's men continue their lightning counteroffensive, they are said to be narrowing in the occupied Black Sea city. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed Russia was preparing to evacuate civilians in the Kherson region suggesting the possibility that Russian troops will attempt to consolidate a new front line west of the village of Mylove after retreating about 12 miles in the north of the Kherson sector earlier this month....

LIVE Jury reaches decision in Nikolas Cruz sentencing trial: Live updates. 15 mins ago (Looks like NO death penalty. )

Viktor Orban believes Donald Trump is the only person who can end the war in Ukraine. The Hungarian Prime Minister doesn't believe peace talks should be conducted between Ukraine and Russia, but between Vladimir Putin's regime and the US, with the former president leading the negotiations, rather than current American commander-in-chief Joe Biden. Speaking at a panel event in Berlin, Orban said: “The Ukrainians have endless resources because they get all that from the Americans “That’s why the Americans have to come to an agreement with the Russians. And then the war will be over. Anyone who thinks that this...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has a plan to impose a carbon allowance that will control what you buy, eat, do, and where you to. It is outlined in an article we already discussed, ‘My Carbon’: An approach for inclusive and sustainable cities. It needs to be re-stated. THE GUISE OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY The piece began by expressing how easy it was to get the world to submit to their view of “social responsibility” [using COVID] – they just had to nudge [strike fear in] people to get it done. “A huge number of unimaginable restrictions for public health were...

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX - SEPTEMBER 2022 The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.4 percent in September on a seasonally adjusted basis after rising 0.1 percent in August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 8.2 percent before seasonal adjustment. Increases in the shelter, food, and medical care indexes were the largest of many contributors to the monthly seasonally adjusted all items increase. These increases were partly offset by a 4.9-percent decline in the gasoline index. The food index continued to rise, increasing 0.8 percent over...

The founder of the Oath Keepers and other leaders of the self-styled militia organization were in contact with Secret Service officials multiple times in late 2020 and leading up to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to an agency official and court testimony in Stewart Rhodes’s ongoing seditious conspiracy trial. A former member of the Oath Keepers testified last week that Rhodes, the group’s founder, claimed to be in touch with someone in the Secret Service in the months before the riot. A Secret Service official confirmed that members of the agency’s protective intelligence division...