COVID-19 variant KP.3: Test positivity, deaths, symptoms
Cases of the latest COVID-19 variant, also known as KP.3, are on the rise in the United States. According to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the KP.3 variant has become the dominant variant in the…
Supreme Court decision preserves access to abortion drug mifepristone
WASHINGTON − Two years after erasing the constitutional right to an abortion, the Supreme Court went the other direction Thursday and tossed out a challenge to the widely used abortion drug mifepristone that would have curbed access to the drug…
Symptoms, spread, infections, latest data from CDC
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is tracking the new COVID variant KP.3 as data shows its dominance across the United States. “CDC is tracking SARS-CoV-2 variant KP.3. For the two-week period ending on June 8, 2024,…
New COVID variant KP.3 is on the rise: Here’s what to know
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows that a new COVID variant, the KP.3 variant, is rising to dominance across the United States. For the two-week period starting on May 26 and ending on June 8, the government…
What else the data shows
The CDC has released a new dashboard to track the spread of bird flu. The dashboard includes data on wastewater sampling sites that have tested positive for influenza A. The CDC is also monitoring 260 people who have been exposed…
Chip adjustment after malfunction improved cursor movement
There have been some issues with Neuralink’s brain-computer interface device, or brain chip since it was implanted in its first human patient, the company said in a blog post. It’s been about eight months since the tech startup owned and…
Can you eat cicadas? Try these cicada recipes with Broods XIX, XIII
Cicadas are loud, big and will number in the trillions this year, but there is perhaps the most important question of all to ask: are they delicious? Broods XIX and XIII are already arriving in states across the Midwest and…
Wegovy, Ozempic cost a pretty penny. Many employers don’t want to pay
Kiana Price dropped 35 pounds after she started taking the weight-loss medication Wegovy last year. The Greenville, North Carolina mother no longer gets winded climbing stairs. Her knee pain is gone. And, perhaps most importantly Price, who is prediabetic, her…
Drug shortages in 2024 reach record high, from Wegovy to chemotherapy
Drug shortages have reached a record high in the first three months of 2024. In the first quarter of the year, 323 drugs were running low, surpassing the 2014 high of 320, according to data provided by the American Society…