Twenty-year-old Janan Moein vaped his first pen a year ago. By late fall, he was blowing through several THC-laced cartridges a week — more, he said, than most people can handle. Then in early December, he found himself in the emergency room of Sharp Grossmont Hospital in San Diego with a collapsed lung and a… Read More »
Annie Ortega-Long, education director, Los Angeles Regional Office, Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Megan Nevels, assistant education director, Los Angeles Regional Office, Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Nicholas Turton, spokesperson, Stop AAPI Hate. Yaya Yuan, director of education and mentoring programs, Apex for Youth, New York City. Shi Yan Liu, high school student, Brooklyn, NY. Limin Li, high school… Read More »
It’s an unfortunate fact that health officials and pandemic response authorities, by and large, are completely ignoring the role a healthy lifestyle plays in the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing instead, almost exclusively, on the necessity for a vaccine. According to Reuters,1 the U.S. government is planning to launch an “overwhelming” COVID-19 vaccine campaign come November. An… Read More »
An Imam from Melbourne’s west is assisting public health officials in the city’s coronavirus hotspots while setting an example by getting tested himself. Dr Bekim Hasani is the former Imam at the Albanian Mosque in Carlton North and works closely with Muslim communities across the state. On Sunday, the religious leader went door-knocking in Broadmeadows… Read More »
China’s Sinopharm and Sinovac reported positive midstage clinical results for their inactivated COVID-19 vaccines, just as Clover Biopharmaceuticals entered the clinic with its subunit vaccine with help from adjuvants by GlaxoSmithKline and Dynavax. A Takeda plant in Japan was slapped with an FDA warning letter, and the company is sending off seven neuroscience assets to Neurocrine… Read More »