Medicine

Michael Straight, a former jockey paralyzed from the waist down, found himself unable to walk again after the manufacturer of his $100,000 exoskeleton refused to fix a malfunctioning battery. The part allegedly costs just $20, but the manufacturer claims the medical device is too old to fix.

“Dual mutant” strains of H1N1 influenza have been confirmed in at least two people in America, but medicines may not be able to combat the strains.

A delegation from Ukraine arrived in Taiwan on Sunday, hoping to secure assistance from Taiwanese firms to rebuild in the aftermath of the Russian invasion.

Scientists at China’s Air Force Medical University reportedly performed the world’s first successful transplant of a pig liver into a human.

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, scientists credited with discoveries leading to the development of mRNA vaccines, received the Nobel Prize.

The Times of India (TOI) reported on Sunday that conditions in Ukraine are increasingly difficult for visiting Indian students, because the Ukrainians resent India’s positive relationship with invading Russia. Indian visitors say the locals are increasingly telling them to “go back” as the war grinds on.

Harvard University hosted a “Black Health Matters” conference which focused on the theme of “decolonizing black health.”

The University of Utah School of Medicine adopted a diversity agenda after being pressured by an accreditor.

Two cases of a novel strain of gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease, have been found, health officials in Massachusetts say.

Vanderbilt University is one of many institutions applying Critical Race Theory to the medical field in pursuit of “health equity.”

Target is restricting purchases of specific children’s medicines as the nation endures what has been dubbed the “tripledemic.”

A week after Chinese state media confidently boasted that surging production of masks and medicine would turn the massive nationwide Chinese coronavirus outbreak into a marvelous profit opportunity, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) told a very different tale of anguished Chinese coronavirus patents finding store shelves bereft of aspirin, ibuprofen, and other over-the-counter medicines that could make their symptoms more bearable.

Chinese state media looked for a bright side to the relaxation of dictator Xi Jinping’s deranged “zero Covid” policies this week by touting the anticipated surge of demand for masks and over-the-counter cold medications.

William Jacobson how “non-white” patients are being prioritized for medical care due to “woke” ideology affecting standard of care.

Officials in socialist Sri Lanka boasted on Thursday of having arrested 137 people for “hoarding” gasoline, diesel, and kerosene as the government struggles to purchase sufficient supplies or distribute the little it has efficiently — a crisis worsened by severe shortages of medicine and basic items like powdered milk.

Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Monday cited anguished social media posts from Shanghai residents whose relatives died because the brutal coronavirus lockdown imposed on the city three weeks ago prevented them from receiving vital medical care.

The Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH), a Spain-based advocacy group, accused the Communist Party on the island on Tuesday of engaging in “massive occultation of information” regarding the escalating coronavirus pandemic.

A leading medical ethics journal faced fierce backlash online after publishing an article suggesting that parents lose their authority to manage their transgender children’s medical decisions.

Armed robbers in Colombia targeted several shipments of medical and humanitarian aid to areas devastated by leftist riots on Wednesday, jeopardizing the country’s Chinese coronavirus response.

In a major breakthrough, Israeli scientists have grown mouse embryos in artificial wombs and have said humans could be next.

Doctors forced to work for Cuba’s slave doctor program revealed in remarks Thursday that they fabricated data on Chinese coronavirus investigations, making up names of “patients” that they had treated who did not exist to make the Communist Party appear more productive.

South African medical students in Cuba under a bilateral education agreement denounced Havana this week for offering them “appalling” living conditions, barely feeding them, and failing to offer them access to proper hygiene.

Sens. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced legislation on Monday that would require the U.S. government to investigate the Pan-American Health Organization’s (PAHO) role in helping Cuba enslave thousands of doctors, an industry that generates billions for the communist regime.

The University of Bristol’s Medical School has outlined measures the institution will take to “de-colonise the curriculum”. One of the UK’s top medical schools, Bristol announced it will be taking a range of actions including educating students on medicine’s ‘racist’

Manoreys Rojas Hernández, a former Cuban slave doctor who defected from the program and is thus banned from his home country for eight years, said in an interview published Friday that he fears his children think he does not love them because the communist regime won’t let him visit them.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated an Israeli Defense Ministry-run laboratory on its announcement it will begin testing its coronavirus vaccine on human subjects in October, with the vaccine expected to be ready by the end of the first quarter of 2021.

A new medical device preventing preterm birth, which exacts the heaviest toll on the field of obstetrics, has been developed by a team of Israeli doctors and engineers.

A Chinese woman and her husband pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Thursday to conspiring to sell scientific trade secrets to the Chinese government and to wire fraud focused on research, identification, and treatment of a wide range of pediatric medical conditions. 

Human body parts named after “men, kings and gods” have been deemed irrelevant and misogynistic by some Australian doctors who no longer seek to salute the ideas of dead, male anatomists.

Restoring American generic drug manufacturing would create “hundreds of thousands of good-paying STEM jobs,” explained Rosemary Gibson, author of “China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine,” on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour.

Doctors and nurses in South Africa protested the arrival of over 200 Cuban slave doctors to the country this week after reports surfaced indicating the country would have to pay the Communist regime far more than it would have if it had just hired local doctors.

The human rights NGO Cuban Prisoners Defenders published an article on Friday citing three Cuban medical researchers concluding that the communist regime’s publicity campaign for Interferon alpha-2b, which it claims can cure Chinese coronavirus, is a “serious crime against world public health.”

Surgeon General Jerome Adams expressed the frustration of trying to communicate the principles of health during the coronavirus crisis in a partisan politicized media environment.

A new paper published on the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that the coronavirus may travel up to four meters, twice as far as previously thought, and can appear on the soles of shoes of medical personnel.

Chinese state media bubbled with articles over the weekend praising Chinese companies for quickly recovering from the coronavirus lockdown, churning out medical equipment for customers around the world and raking in huge profits. Meanwhile, the rest of the world was noticing that a great deal of those Chinese masks and test kits are dangerously defective.

The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom will begin treating coronavirus patients with plasma transfusions from those who have recently recovered from the Chinese virus.