1996 brought reality into the world of the Looney Tunes with Michael Jordan starring in the highest grossing basketball film of all time: Space Jam. The 90s nostalgia classic tells a story of Jordan helping our childhood favorites, the Looney Tunes (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, etc.), defeat the Monstars in a game of basketball of… Read More »
Labour Party leader Alan Kelly got into a heated row with Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly over the government’s vaccine rollout, accusing Donnelly of being “incompetent.” [embedded content] Speaking at the Dáil today, Health Minster Stephen Donnelly told TDs that he expects there to be an average of one million Covid-19 vaccine doses are delivered… Read More »
iPhones and Apple Watches could enable at-home assessment of cardiovascular disease patients’ frailty via sensor data and an app-guided version of the six-minute walk test (6MWT), a traditionally clinic-based assessment of a person’s functional capacity, according to data published yesterday in PLoS One. Conducted by Stanford University researchers and funded by Apple, the study provided 110… Read More »
People who have experienced anaphylactic reactions to vaccines are being urged to wait 30 minutes after receiving their COVID-19 vaccine, after Queensland rapidly shifted its advice. Queensland Health Minister Yvette D’Ath urged people who had previously experienced anaphylactic reactions to hold off on getting immunised on Wednesday, after the state reported four anaphylactic reactions. But… Read More »
Researchers studying COVID-19 and its variants across the U.S. have expressed concern over a mutation found in New York City that could diminish the effectiveness of vaccines on the virus. The New York Times reported that researchers at Caltech and Columbia University studied the mutation, called B.1.526. One scientist told the paper he was more… Read More »