Saturday, May 4, 2024

Health

Dr. Chauncey Crandall: Beat the Virus With These Tips

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WEST PALM BEACH, FL (Newsmax) - The best way to build the body's defenses against the coronavirus is to live a healthier lifestyle, world-renowned cardiologist Dr. Chauncey Crandal...

New York, Connecticut And New Jersey Tell Travelers From States With Rising Coronavirus Rates To Isolate For 14 Days

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NEW YORK (AP) — New York, Connecticut and New Jersey will require visitors from states with high infection rates to quarantine for 14 days, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesda...

Bennett: Stop Scapegoating The Chareidim And Closing Chareidi Neighborhoods

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Yemina leader MK Naftali Bennett sharply criticized the government decision to close down Chareidi neighborhoods in Tiberias as well as the Chareidi town of E...

Hadassah Becomes World’s First Hospital To Use IgG Serum On COVID-19 Patients

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Hadassah hospital spokeswoman Hadar Elboim announced Tuesday evening that it had became the first hospital in the world to treat COVID-19 with a passive vacci...

US Officials: Brace For 2nd Wave Of Coronavirus

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WASHINGTON — Federal health officials tell Congress to brace for a second wave of coronavirus infections in the fall and winter of this year. Drs. Anthony Fauci of the NIH, Robe...

Fauci Says ‘It Will Be When Not If’ For A Covid-19 Vaccine

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s top infectious disease expert told a House committee on Tuesday he believes “it will be when and not if” there will be a COVID-19 vaccine and tha...

Maayanei Hayeshua Hospital Reports 85% Recovery Rate For Respiratory-Assisted COVID-19 Patients

BNEI BRAK (VINnews) —Following the winding-down of the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit of the Coronavirus Department, and the last patients returning home, the hospital’s senior ma...

Miami-dade Mayors Challenge Florida Gov On Virus

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MIAMI — Mayors of some of the largest municipalities in hard-hit Miami-Dade County, gathered at a press conference on Monday and challenged Florida governor’s contention over the w...

FDA Warns of Hand Sanitizers With Toxic Chemicals

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NEW YORK (Newsmax) - A Mexico-based company is selling potentially dangerous hand sanitizers that may contain toxic chemicals. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned that pr...

Leading Italian Disease Expert: Coronavirus Changed From ‘Aggressive Tiger’ To ‘Wildcat’

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GENOA,ITALY (VINnews) — A leading Italian infectious diseases specialist claims that coronavirus is now much less dangerous than it used to be, and may die out without requiring a ...

Surging US Virus Cases Raise Fear That Progress Is Slipping

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Coronavirus cases in Florida surpassed 100,000 on Monday, part of an alarming surge across the South and West as states reopen for business and many Ame...

From Shops To Dining Out, NYC Reopening Hits ‘Biggest Piece’

NEW YORK (AP) — From Macy’s “Miracle on 34th Street” store to the World Trade Center's office towers, New York City hits a key point Monday in trying to rebound from the nation’s d...

Leading Chareidi Medical Advisor: Close Shuls, Go Back To Open-Space Minyanim

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BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — Rabbi Shimon Ragobay, a senior medical advisor for the Chareidi community in Israel and the director of the Mazor organization, called for a return to open sp...

UK Study: Are Vitamin D Deficient Minorities More Vulnerable to COVID-19

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LONDON (Newsmax) - After being revealed 94% of United Kingdom doctors who died from COVID-19 infections were black, Asian, and minorities, a study is exploring whether vitamin D de...

NYC Virus Tracing Off To A Bumpy Start: Report

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus through contact tracing has been hampered by the reluctance of many people who are infected with the vi...

2nd Wave Of Virus Cases? Experts Say We’re Still In The 1st

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NEW YORK (AP) - What's all this talk about a “second wave” of U.S. coronavirus cases? In The Wall Street Journal last week, Vice President Mike Pence wrote in a piece headlined ...

Israeli Team Publishes Successful COVID-19 Vaccine Trials, Could Start Human Trials Soon

NES TZIONA (VINnews) — The Institute For Biological Research in Nes Tziona published a 26-page manifesto in which it detailed the results of coronavirus vaccine trials on animals. ...

Jewish Men In UK Are Twice As Likely To Die From Coronavirus Than Overall Population, Study Shows

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LONDON (JTA) - In a statistical analysis of deaths from the coronavirus in England, Jewish males were shown to have double the risk of dying from COVID-19 than the general populati...

New Model By Israel Aerospace Industries Uses Ai To Forecast Changes In Covid-19 Patients

JERUSALEM (JNS) - Israeli defense company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has developed a model that predicts changes from one day to the next in the medical status of COVID-19 p...

California Orders People To Wear Masks In Most Indoor Spaces

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California on Thursday started requiring people throughout the state to wear masks in most indoor settings and outdoors when distancing isn't possible. ...