Month: September 2021

Men with prostate cancer could be cured in ONE WEEK: Patients could be treated with just two sessions of radiotherapy Typically prostate cancer is treated with roughly 20 radiation doses a month But researchers found that the radiation can be safely given in 5 big doses  Doctors are this week set to treat the first patient as part of a trial looking into whether it is safe to give radiotherapy in two large doses By Henry Martin For Mailonline Published: 08:40 EDT, 19 September 2021 | Updated: 09:22 EDT, 19 September 2021 <!-- <!-- <!-- <!-- <!-- (function (src, d, tag){ var s = d.createElement(tag), prev = d.getElementsByTagName(tag)[0]; s.src = src; prev.parentNode.insertBefore(s, prev); }("https://www.da...

When the schools in Marietta, Ga., opened their doors on Aug. 3, the highly contagious Delta variant was sweeping across the South, and children were not being spared. By Aug. 20, 51 students in the city’s small school district had tested positive for the coronavirus. Nearly 1,000 others had been flagged as close contacts and had to quarantine at home for seven to 10 days. “That’s a lot of school, especially for children that are recovering from 18 months in a pandemic where they missed a lot of school or had to transition to virtual,” said Grant Rivera, the superintendent of Marietta City Schools. Last week, the district changed tack. Students who are identified as close contacts can now continue attending school as long as they have no symptoms and test negative for the virus every day...

The Lancet medical journal has published an article calling for an "objective" and "transparent" debate about the true origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, more than a year and a half after its controversial article condemning "conspiracy theories" that suggest the virus leaked from a laboratory in China. The article published Friday, titled, "An appeal for an objective, open and transparent scientific debate about the origin of SARS-CoV-2," is signed by 16 scientists arguing that a laboratory-related accident is "plausible," as is the virus having a natural origin, and that neither theory should be ruled out yet. GROUP SAYS CORONAVIRUS EVOLVED IN NATURE RENEWS CALLS FOR 'SCIENTIFICALLY RIGOROUS INVESTIGATIONS' "Overwhelming evidence for either a zoonotic or research-related origin is lac...

People opposed to COVID-19 vaccines often embrace ivermectin, a drug that's been touted as an effective prevention and treatment for COVID-19, which they think is not getting the attention it deserves. Here, an anti-vaccination protester takes part in a rally against vaccine mandates, in Santa Monica, Calif. Ringo Chiu/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ringo Chiu/AFP via Getty Images People opposed to COVID-19 vaccines often embrac...