Monthly Archives: November 2023

Raven La Fae, a 32-year-old artist in Calgary, Canada, has always been able to predict their menstrual periods almost to the day; it arrived every 28 days and lasted for five. But after contracting COVID-19 in late 2020, that’s no longer the case. La Fae’s bout with the disease lasted for two miserable weeks. A […]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has awarded the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM) $3.7 million in cooperative agreements to develop vaccines designed to prevent or limit the impact of future disease outbreaks that can spread between animals and humans. These cooperative agreements, which are […]

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Elisabeth Mahase The BMJ Antibiotic resistance is on the rise in England after a decline during the covid pandemic, and “more dangerous strains of bacteria” are spreading in the community and hospitals, the UK Health Security Agency has warned. National surveillance data unveiled at the UKHSA annual conference in Leeds on 15 November showed that […]