____ (2022-06-03). (W.E. Talk) Covid-19 pandemic in U.S. politicized and polarized: U.S. professor. ecns.cn "Everything in the United States right now is politicized and polarized, and when it comes to the pandemic, that's of course even more unfortunate," said Professor Andreas Wimmer from Columbia University at the talk show "Cultural Relativity".

____ (2022-06-03). China leverages financial toolbox to spur domestic demand. ecns.cn Faced with resurgences of COVID-19 and external uncertainties, China is maneuvering monetary and fiscal policies to spur domestic demand.

_____ (2022-06-03). Paris Lost Direction or What's going on in Mali? journal-neo.org Franco-Mali relations have been feverish for the past two years, following the August (2020) coup in Mali, when President Ibrahim Boubacar KeàØta was replaced by the military. And for an outside observer it looks like a bout of split personality in Paris. France has announced, since June 2021, through the mouth of its President E. Macron, …

____ (2022-06-03). Tibet still among world's best regions in environment: report. ecns.cn Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region remains one of the best environmental areas in the world, with local biodiversity and ecosystems remaining stable in 2021, according to a report issued Thursday.

____ (2022-06-03). New book details Trump administration's botched response to COVID-19 pandemic. ecns.cn It is "the clearest account yet of how Trump's team botched the pandemic," a review recently published by The Atlantic wrote of Silent Invasion, a book written by the Donald Trump administration's coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-02). Mayo Clinic Minute: High-intensity workouts and reducing risk of injury. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org High-intensity function training, such as boot camp-type exercise classes, continues to grow in popularity, especially as many COVID-19 restrictions have relaxed. In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Edward Laskowski, co-director of Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine, explains how someone can reap the benefits of this type of exercise while avoiding injury. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/kNqNSA-m3kk Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (0: 59) is in the downloads at the end of this post. Please courtesy: "Mayo Clinic News Network." Read…

Ecns.cn (2022-06-02). U.S. interior secretary tests positive for COVID-19. ecns.cn U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-02). Consumer Health: Understanding C. diff infection. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Clostridioides difficile is a bacterium that causes an infection of the large intestine. The bacterium is often referred to as C. difficile or C. diff. Some people carry C. diff bacteria in their intestines but never become sick. They are carriers of the bacteria and may spread infections. Illness from C. diff typically occurs after using antibiotics. It most commonly affects older adults in hospitals or long-term care facilities. About 200,000 people in the U.S….

Ecns.cn (2022-06-02). Tibet still among world's best regions in environment: report. ecns.cn Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region remains one of the best environmental areas in the world, with local biodiversity and ecosystems remaining stable in 2021, according to a report issued Thursday.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-02). Consumer Health: Recovering from a stroke. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Stroke Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about recovering from a stroke with stroke rehabilitation. Stroke is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. and a major cause of serious disability for adults. More than 795,000 people in the U.S. have a stroke each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Stroke risk increases with age, especially after 55, but strokes can occur at…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-02). Consumer Health: Treating bladder cancer. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is Bladder Cancer Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about this common type of cancer. More than 81,000 new cases of bladder cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. in 2022, and more than 17,000 people will die of the disease, according to the American Cancer Society. Bladder cancer occurs in men more frequently than in women, and the risk increases with age, especially after 55. Bladder cancer signs and symptoms…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-02). Mayo Clinic expert on how concerned the public should be about monkeypox. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Health officials are investigating the monkeypox outbreak to determine if the virus acquired a mutation that makes it more transmissible or if superspreader events in Europe may be to blame for the current outbreak."Anytime the virus does something new, it catches our attention," says Dr. Richard Kennedy, co-director of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. Watch: Dr. Kennedy discusses the current monkeypox outbreak. youtu.be/O80AmMgSGbg Journalists: Broadcast-quality soundbites are available in the downloads at the end of…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-02). Science Saturday: In neurodegenerative diseases, Mayo Clinic research finds shared gene patterns, widespread damage. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Damage to brain cells in two separate neurodegenerative diseases — Alzheimer's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy — is not limited to specific parts of the brain and these diseases share a pattern of gene alterations within the brain, according to researchers at Mayo Clinic, the University of Florida and other collaborating organizations. The researchers say this finding suggests the neurodegenerative diseases may have the same underlying disease links. The finding, which is published in The Journal…

Sara Flounders (2022-06-01). Demanding China's exclusion: U.S. blocks world access to vaccines. workers.org Just how far is the U.S. government determined to go in the protection of corporate profits? For the past two years the Biden administration and earlier the Trump administration have blocked every effort to make medicines for the COVID-19 virus widely available. U.S. control of the patents has been ruthlessly . . . |

WSWS (2022-06-01). The great unmentionable during the Ontario election campaign—the COVID-19 pandemic. wsws.org All of the parties are peddling the lie that the pandemic is over, and none has so much as attempted to seriously address its calamitous impact on a health care system already reeling from chronic underfunding.

WSWS (2022-06-01). Peruvian government uses "slight increase" in COVID numbers to extend state of emergency. wsws.org Peru's Health Ministry is minimizing the risk of another COVID wave while the government uses that risk to extend the state of emergency.

WSWS (2022-06-01). COVID-19 cases rise in the Mid-Atlantic as school districts refuse to impose any safety measures. wsws.org Despite rapid increases in COVID-19 infections, governments in the heavily-populated Mid-Atlantic region have largely refused to implement any measures to protect children in schools.

TeleSUR, JDO (2022-06-01). Shanghái levanta severo confinamiento tras brote de Covid-19. telesurtv.net La urbe de 25 millones de habitantes regresó a la normalidad. También lo hace la capital china, Beijing.

Katherine V. Houser, Martin R. Gaudinski, Myra Happe, Sandeep Narpala, Raffaello Verardi, Edward K. Sarfo, Angela R. Corrigan, Richard Wu, Ro Shauna Rothwell, Laura Novik, Cynthia S. Hendel, Ingelise J. Gordon, Nina M. Berkowitz, Cora Trelles Cartagena, Alicia T. Widge, Emily E. Coates, Larisa Strom, Somia Hickman, Michelle Conan-Cibotti, Sandra Vazquez, Olga Trofymenko, Sarah Plummer, Judy Stein, Christopher L. Case, Martha Nason, Andrea Biju, Danealle K. Parchment, Anita Changela, Cheng Cheng, Hongying Duan, Hui Geng, I-Ting Teng, Tongqing Zhou, Sarah O'Connell, Chris Barry, Kevin Carlton, Jason G. Gall, Britta Flach, Nicole A. Doria-Rose, Barney S. Graham, Richard A. Koup, Adrian B. McDermott, John R. Mascola, Peter D. Kwong, Julie E. Ledgerwood, VRC 018 Study Team (2022-06-01). [Articles] Safety and immunogenicity of an HIV-1 prefusion-stabilized envelope trimer (Trimer 4571) vaccine in healthy adults: A first-in-human open-label, randomized, dose-escalation, phase 1 clinical trial. thelancet.com Trimer 4571 was safe, well tolerated, and immunogenic in this first-in-human trial. While this phase 1 trial is limited in size, our results inform and support further evaluation of prefusion-stabilized HIV-1 envelope trimers as a component of vaccine design strategies to generate broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV-1.

____ (2022-05-31). Officials, media spread complacency as US enters third summer of COVID infections and death. wsws.org At the Memorial Day weekend, traditionally the start of summer festivals and other mass social activities in the United States, coronavirus infections are at six times the level of a year ago.

____ (2022-05-31). New Zealand PM in the US promotes internet censorship, downplays pandemic. wsws.org In public statements ahead of her meeting with President Biden, Prime Minister Ardern called for greater censorship of social media, and promoted the lie that the COVID-19 pandemic is over.

____ (2022-05-31). Parents and teachers defend Seattle principal fired for exposing district's abandonment of contact tracing. wsws.org Parents and teachers from across Oregon and Washington voiced their support for principal Catherine Brown, who has been fired for alerting the community to changes made to the COVID-19 Guidelines in January, at the height of the Omicron surge.

____ (2022-05-31). Trader Joe's cut retirement benefits during pandemic. wsws.org The standard 10 percent contribution was slashed to 5 percent for most workers, taking thousands of dollars from employees.

____ (2022-05-30). Biden hails Modi, the butcher of Gujarat, for India's COVID policy of mass death. wsws.org Biden declared the COVID policy of India, which has the highest death toll in the world, a "success," while praising the "democratic" policy of a fascistic prime minister complicit in the mass murder of Muslims.

Elaine Bernard (2022-05-30). How Unions Can Emerge from the Pandemic More Effective. zcomm.org Learning from the Covid Disruption…

____ (2022-05-30). Contract talks break down for 70,000 Ontario hospital workers. wsws.org Hospital workers are engaged in a bitter fight for adequate staffing levels, wage increases that match current rates of inflation and workplace pandemic protection, including proper access to personal protective equipment.

Sandipan Talukdar (2022-05-30). Genome of Pompeii volcano victim sequenced for the first time. peoplesdispatch.org The sequencing shows the diversity of the people living in Pompeii during the Roman Empire and the diseases they suffered. The study was published in the journal Scientific Reports on May 26…

____ (2022-05-30). Shanghai emerges out of lockdown after beating back Omicron. wsws.org Shanghai officials announced that they are formally lifting their lockdown after two months of massive efforts have essentially eliminated the disease from the metropolis.

TeleSUR, SH (2022-05-28). Corea del Norte reporta menos 100 mil casos de coronavirus. telesurtv.net Desde finales de abril, Corea del Norte contabiliza 3.36 millones de contagios de la Covid-19.

Chloe Wilson (2022-05-28). [Perspectives] Impossible times. thelancet.com During the COVID-19 pandemic health-care workers have often found themselves in the media spotlight. The pandemic has been framed as a war, and health-care workers have been labelled as soldiers on the front line. But using a wartime narrative to depict the pandemic is dangerous "None of you think you are soldiers, dodging spinning bullets shaped like pretty viral crowns", asserts Roopa Farooki in her book Everything is True: A Junior Doctor's Story of Life, Death and Grief in a Time of Pandemic.

Michelle Ann B Eala, Ethan Angelo S Maslog, Janine Patricia G Robredo, Raymond Joshua L San Pedro, Paolo Victor N Medina, Edelina P De la Paz, Gideon Lasco (2022-05-28). [Correspondence] Violence against health-care workers in the Philippines. thelancet.com Filipino health-care workers have not been immune to the growing violence and impunity in the country since President Duterte took office in 2016. Since 2017, at least ten doctors have been violently killed in various regions of the Philippines. Six were killed in 2017 alone.1 In 2020, Mary Rose Sancelan, a city health officer in Negros Oriental, and the only doctor serving in the province's COVID-19 pandemic response, was shot dead with her husband. She was previously red-tagged by a local anti-communist vigilante group.

Ann Danaiya Usher (2022-05-28). [World Report] Calls for independent evaluation of ACT-A welcomed. thelancet.com Experts working with the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator welcome the conclusions of a key report on pandemic preparedness. Ann Danaiya Usher reports.

Toshifumi Hibi (2022-05-28). [Comment] Risankizumab for Crohn's disease. thelancet.com In The Lancet, two new studies report randomised controlled trials of risankizumab for Crohn's disease.1,2 In the first, Geert D'Haens and colleagues share the findings of the ADVANCE and MOTIVATE phase 3 trials comparing the efficacy and safety of risankizumab with placebo in the induction period.1 The intention-to-treat population included 850 patients (390 [46%] women, 460 [54%] men; median age 37 ∑5 years [IQR 13 ∑3]) for ADVANCE and 569 patients (276 [49%] women, 293 [51%] men; median age 39 ∑6 years [13 ∑3]) for MOTIVATE in hospital academic medical centres, clinical research units, and priv…

Marc Ferrante, Remo Panaccione, Filip Baert, Peter Bossuyt, Jean-Frederic Colombel, Silvio Danese, Marla Dubinsky, Brian G Feagan, Tadakazu Hisamatsu, Allen Lim, James O Lindsay, Edward V Loftus, Julián Panés, Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet, Zhihua Ran, David T Rubin, William J Sandborn, Stefan Schreiber, Ezequiel Neimark, Alexandra Song, Kristina Kligys, Yinuo Pang, Valerie Pivorunas, Sofie Berg, W Rachel Duan, Bidan Huang, Jasmina Kalabic, Xiaomei Liao, Anne Robinson, Kori Wallace, Geert D'Haens (2022-05-28). [Articles] Risankizumab as maintenance therapy for moderately to severely active Crohn's disease: results from the multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, withdrawal phase 3 FORTIFY maintenance trial. thelancet.com Subcutaneous risankizumab is a safe and efficacious treatment for maintenance of remission in patients with moderately to severely active Crohn's disease and offers a new therapeutic option for a broad range of patients by meeting endpoints that might change the future course of disease.

Shawn Yuan (2022-05-28). [World Report] Sandstorms hit Iraq, sending thousands to hospital. thelancet.com Doctors raise concern over whether they will have the resources to treat the thousands of patients with respiratory problems. Shawn Yuan reports from Baghdad.

Sophie Cousins (2022-05-28). [World Report] Pushing for polio eradication. thelancet.com As polio cases resurge in many parts of the world, an updated strategy to eradicate the disease begins. Sophie Cousins reports.

The Lancet (2022-05-28). [Editorial] A hunger for action. thelancet.com The basic nutritional needs of children are at grave risk. Worldwide, more than 13 ∑6 million children under 5 years have severe acute malnutrition, a serious wasting condition associated with poverty and prolonged insufficient access to food. Severe acute malnutrition weakens children's immunity, resulting in repeated rounds of diarrhoea and other infections, such as measles and malaria, and accounts for a fifth of deaths in this age group. In an alert released on May 17, UNICEF warned that over 10 million of these children do not have access to ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), considered the most effec…

Geert D'Haens, Remo Panaccione, Filip Baert, Peter Bossuyt, Jean-Frederic Colombel, Silvio Danese, Marla Dubinsky, Brian G Feagan, Tadakazu Hisamatsu, Allen Lim, James O Lindsay, Edward V Loftus, Julian Panés, Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet, Zhihua Ran, David T Rubin, William J Sandborn, Stefan Schreiber, Ezequiel Neimark, Alexandra Song, Kristina Kligys, Yinuo Pang, Valerie Pivorunas, Sofie Berg, W Rachel Duan, Bidan Huang, Jasmina Kalabic, Xiaomei Liao, Anne Robinson, Kori Wallace, Marc Ferrante (2022-05-28). [Articles] Risankizumab as induction therapy for Crohn's disease: results from the phase 3 ADVANCE and MOTIVATE induction trials. thelancet.com Risankizumab was effective and well tolerated as induction therapy in patients with moderately to severely active Crohn's disease.

Deepika Bahri (2022-05-28). [Perspectives] Why stories about illness matter. thelancet.com Plagues and contagious epidemics have long inspired writers, Sophocles, Boccaccio, Daniel Defoe, Mary Shelley, Albert Camus, and Orhan Pamuk among them. In the past decades, other diseases have found gifted chroniclers. Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee's bestselling The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, for instance, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011. Physicians and medical historians continue to add to the literature on diseases, ranging from anxiety to kidney failure to osteoporosis and more.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-05-27). Questions and answers about monkeypox. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Current concerns The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has indicated a U.S. resident tested positive for monkeypox after returning to the U.S. from Canada. The CDC also is tracking multiple clusters of monkeypox that have been reported in early to mid-May in regions that don't normally report monkeypox, including in Europe and North America. What is monkeypox? Monkeypox is an infection from animals caused by a virus closely related to the smallpox virus. Infection…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-05-27). Helping children cope with school shooting: Tips for talking about tragedy. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org As the nation tries to comprehend the shooting at a school in Texas that claimed 21 lives, many are now trying to find ways to have conversations with their children to help them cope. Listening to your child at this time is important, says Dr. Paul Croarkin, a Mayo Clinic child psychiatrist. "Listening provides comfort, stability and safety for children," says Dr. Croarkin. All children have different communication styles. Initially, they may not want to discuss what…

Anonymous103 (2022-05-26). Nightmarish Scenarios Resulting From US And NATO Ukraine-Bound Weapons Reaching Black Markets. southfront.org As Hillary Clinton once admitted, the US and NATO are infamous for leaving weapons and trained terrorists behind without any regard for the possible consequences. | Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst | The United States and the "purely defensive" NATO alliance

Maxyyjones (2022-05-26). Nuland-Pyatt Tape Removed From YouTube After 8 Years. scheerpost.com By Joe Lauria / Consortium News | The smoking gun proving U.S. involvement in the 2014 coup in Kiev has been removed from YouTube after eight years. | The two talk about "midwifing" the unconstitutional change of government and "gluing it together" and of the role then Vice President Joe Biden should play and what meetings to set up with Ukrainian politicians. | The U.S. State Department never denied the authenticity of the video, and even issued an apology to the European Union after Nuland is heard on the tape saying, "Fuck the E.U." Mainstream media at the time focused almost exclusively on that off-color…

Unicorn Riot (2022-05-26). Two Years After George Floyd. unicornriot.ninja

____ (2022-05-25). Sri Lankan SEP holds its Third National Congress. wsws.org SEP congress was held under extraordinary political conditions in Sri Lanka, amid an immense global crisis of capitalism, intensified by the pandemic, the US-NATO proxy war against Russia and the international upsurge of the class struggle.

____ (2022-05-25). Ontario unions hail NDP for putting "working people first"—Who do they think they're kidding? wsws.org The OFL's support for the pro-austerity, pro-war NDP is the political expression of its systematic suppression of the class struggle, imposition of concession-filled contracts and policing of the ruling class' profits-before-lives pandemic policy.

____ (2022-05-25). Persecution continues of UK mum Sarah Paxman for stand against COVID-infested schools. wsws.org Sarah is charged with "failure to ensure regular school attendance" of her son, Stanley. This carries a fine of up to £2, 0 and a possible three-month prison sentence.

____ (2022-05-25). With new COVID-19 outbreak in Latin America, governments let virus rip. wsws.org The policy of letting the virus spread through the region's most populous countries threatens a new devastating wave of deaths in Latin America.

____ (2022-05-25). Australian election: Workers and youth speak out over rising inflation, war dangers and COVID-19. wsws.org "The unity of the working class is a must. There's power in numbers and it's better to be backed up by different people and groups that all want the same thing. That's where we get our real power" — Jorella, a Sydney railway worker.

____ (2022-05-25). Gray report allows UK Prime Minister Johnson to brush off partygate scandal. wsws.org Hostile to any mobilising of the working class that would bring Johnson and his entire government to account for the crime of overseeing almost 200,000 deaths from COVID, Starmer insisted for months that Johnson's removal be organised by "decent, honourable" Tory MPs in a palace coup.