Brazil’s health minister Eduardo Pazuello — the third person to hold the job this year during the coronavirus pandemic — is in hot water with President Jair Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro took to social media to disavow his minister on Wednesday after a flurry of negative comments from his supporters opposing the …

October 2020 YahooNews; Vaccines for the coronavirus may not be recommended to children when they first become available, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency said on Wednesday that drugmakers have tested potential Covid-19 vaccines – of which there are several in trial phases  – on non-pregnant adults. Trials are expected …

October 2020 Yahoo; An otherwise healthy 25-year-old Nevada man is the first American confirmed to have caught COVID-19 twice, with the second infection worse than the first. He has recovered, but his case raises questions about how long people are protected after being infected with the coronavirus that causes the …

October 2020 Yahoo; Ultra-processed foods are designed to be cheap, convenient, and keep us energized and full until the next meal. But increasingly, health experts are discovering these foods aren’t great at keeping us satisfied, or even alive, long-term. A new study from researchers at the Centers for Disease Control suggests that …

October 2020 NYtimes; After contracting the coronavirus in March, Michael Reagan lost all memory of his 12-day vacation in Paris, even though the trip was just a few weeks earlier. Several weeks after Erica Taylor recovered from her Covid-19 symptoms of nausea and cough, she became confused and forgetful, failing …

October 2020 CNN; When people of color have found themselves marginalized and shunned from mainstream spaces, they’ve historically built rooms for themselves. That initiative and resistance is what some people of color — Black, Latinx, Asian American and Native American — have taken up by creating digital spaces and organizations …

October 2020 Medicalnewstoday; The findings even hold true for individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The research, which appears in the journal Annals of the American Thoracic Society, contributes to dispelling some of the myths surrounding the use of face masks in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. FACE …

October 2030 TheStar ;The two Cuban doctors who were abducted by al Shabaab militia in Mandera have been released, according to the Daily Mail. The two, Landy Rodriguez and Herera Correa, were kidnapped in a daring road ambush where the gunmen shot and killed one of the police officers guarding the …

October 2020 Dailynation : Dr Allan Pamba was Friday sacked as the CEO of The Nairobi Hospital just six months after his appointment, signalling that the stormy times in the giant private hospital’s management are far from over. A letter from the hospital’s board chairman, Maj (Rtd) Dr Irungu Ndirangu, …

October 2020 Dailynation ;The management of the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (Kemsa) rejected discounts by suppliers of Covid-19-related items, a special audit has revealed, raising the red flag on the controversial tendering which may cost taxpayers up to Sh2.3 billion. A forensic audit by the Office of the Auditor-General found …