Monthly Archives: August 2023

Idaho’s first human infection of West Nile virus this year has been identified

The following is a news release from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare: WASHINGTON COUNTY — Idaho’s first human West Nile virus (WNV) infection this year was identified in a Washington County resident over the age of 50 on Thursday. This person has been hospitalized with the infection but is recovering and being discharged […]

R-rated horror show inspires shock and awe with gravity-defying, blood-soaked stunts

PORTAGE, MI — “Never interrupt the ritual.” That’s the warning you receive upon entering the Paranormal Cirque III, a show by Cirque Italia, a premiere travelling circus in the U.S. with roots in the European circus scene, with an R-rated horror twist. Advertisements promised to welcome you into “the darkest corner of your mind” and […]

Thousand-Year Blood War Episode 18 Review

Reading Time: 3 minutes Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Episode 18, titled “Rages at Ringside,” continues the intense battle between the Soul Reapers and the formidable Stern Ritter forces. Viewers are provided with an update on the battle’s progress, revealing that the odds are not in the Soul Reapers’ favor. A staggering 42% of their forces […]

Judge: State must return or destroy blood samples taken without parents’ permission

A federal judge has ordered the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to return or destroy blood samples taken from some newborn infants unless it gets permission from their parents to keep them in a state database. The state requires health providers to take small blood blots from the heels of newborns to screen […]

Aurobindo Pharma Gets U.S. FDA Nod For Skin And Bone Infections Drug

Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. has received final approval from the U.S. health regulator to manufacture and market Vancomycin Hydrochloride, a drug which is used to treat infections such as that of skin and bone. The approval was granted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to Eugia Pharma Specialities Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of the […]

Academia Sinica, hospital rebut online blood rumor

RESEARCH: Calling the rumor that Taiwan was helping the US develop a viral agent a work of absurd fiction, the hospital said it would file charges against the poster By Chiu Chih-ju, Wu Po-hsuan and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporters, with staff writer Taipei Veterans General Hospital and Academia Sinica yesterday rebutted a rumor circulating […]

Here’s how the Southern quarterback battle is shaping up early in preseason camp

Harold Blood is Southern’s starting quarterback as preseason camp moves through its first week, but he’s hearing footsteps. They aren’t the bad kind, though. They are teammates trying to make him better. If they all do their jobs, Southern will have the best quarterback possible when it opens the season at Alabama State in Montgomery, […]

Everything we know about the Covid Eris variant as infections rise in the UK

Covid hasn’t gone away – and the latest variant is surging (Picture: Getty Images) Life may have returned to normal for many of us, but Covid cases are back on the rise, with an estimated 200,000 jump in UK cases during July. Experts say that a new strain of Omicron, dubbed Eris, is partly to […]