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It’s been about a decade since Knights Landing had its local public health center start operations. In an effort to provide reliable services to the community, UC Davis created a student-run clinic in the area that visits twice a month and provides free services.Leer en español”Health inequities and injustices and this is a perfect example …

Dr. Anthony Fauci corresponded with a Chinese health official early in the pandemic, acknowledging the “crazy people in this world” and vowing to “get through this together,” a new report revealed Tuesday. The nation’s top expert on infectious diseases received an email March 28, 2020, from George Gao, director of the Chinese Center for Disease …

Hudson Headwaters serves communities from Moreau to the Canadian border, said Jane Hooper, community relations manager for the organization. The network has brick and mortar clinics, “but many places throughout the Adirondacks are underserved,” she said. “Mobile is a good way for us to work with those communities.” Staff at Hudson Headwaters worked with Farber …

Feeling stigmatized, threatened or discriminated against correlates with structural heart abnormalities in Latinos, according to a preliminary study. Why it matters: Experts increasingly recognize the negative effects of discrimination on physical wellbeing, and the American Medical Association has identified racism as a public health threat. How it works: The study measured the left ventricle and …

The U.S. economy expanded rapidly in the first quarter, growing at a 6.4% annual rate and extending what economists project will be a robust, consumer-led recovery from the pandemic this year. The jump in U.S. gross domestic product in the first three months of the year, reported by the Commerce Department on Thursday, put the …

Healthy, young volunteers who have previously had COVID-19 will be deliberately exposed to coronavirus for a second time to see how the immune system responds, as part of a new U.K. study. Researchers at the University of Oxford on Monday launched the “human challenge” trial to investigate what happens when volunteers who have recovered from the …

Science Advances publishes proteomics technology from Oblique Therapeutics AB with a potential to bring several novel antibody medicines to large patient populations in multiple disease areas Gothenburg, Sweden, April 16th, 2021 – Oblique Therapeutics AB, a Sweden-based biotech company, in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden), Gothenburg University (Sweden) and several local biotechs published …

Following new concerns about potential side effects, Alexandria and statewide health administrations are pausing all planned Johnson & Johnson vaccinations. The news comes after the CDC and the FDA released a recommendation to stop using the vaccine after six patients reportedly developed a rare and severe type of blood clot. According to the Alexandria Health …

Shares of Roper Technologies Inc. ROP, +0.81% inched 0.81% higher to $421.58 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.77% rising 0.77% to 4,128.80 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.89% rising 0.89% to 33,800.60. This was the stock’s second …

Credit Suisse Group AG A fire sale of stocks by a large U.S. investor burned Credit Suisse and Nomura Holdings Inc. The global investment banks said Monday that they could incur substantial losses after Bill Hwang’s firm Archegos Capital Management and its banks began liquidating huge positions in blue-chip companies. Large banks served as prime …