No need to fly off the bag handle over lost luggage. An insufficient reimbursement for mishandled suitcases can feel like a slap in the face for anyone who has been forced to replace a wardrobe’s worth of personal items. However, there’s a little-known airline regulation that gives international travelers more leverage than many realize, Fodor’s … Read more
This news may be hard to process. A new study from the University of Michigan estimates that 15.6 million American adults regularly take herbal and dietary supplements that could be potentially toxic to their liver. The six supplements are turmeric, green tea, ashwagandha, black cohosh, garcinia cambogia and red yeast rice. Over 80,000 herbal and dietary … Read more
As the U.S. weathers its fourth wave of the opioid epidemic crisis, more people are turning to non-opioids — including a natural remedy known as kratom — to combat their pain. Yet medical examiners and coroners have found that kratom caused 1.5% to 1.7% of overdose deaths between Jan. 2020 and Dec. 2022. That’s according to … Read more
President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently finalized an air quality rule that the manufacturing industry is warning could wipe out one million jobs and undermine efforts to build new manufacturing facilities in America. Jay Timmons, president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), is set to sound the alarm about the regulation … Read more
They joined the mile-high chub. Japan Airlines had to schedule an extra flight over concerns that a group of sumo wrestlers exceeded the weight limit for two planes. “It is extremely unusual for us to operate special flights due to the weight restrictions on this aircraft,” an airline representative told local outlet Minami-Nippon Shimbun, per The Guardian. … Read more
Machismo music has no place in this Mexican city. Last week, the city of Chihuahua reportedly banned lyrics that degrade or promote violence against women from performance venues — to curb the rampant gender violence in the area, reported Mexico News Daily. “Today, another of these harsh realities has motivated reform,” said Patricia Ulate, the … Read more
A549ACE cells ACE2-expressing A549 cells were generated as previously described3. A549ACE2 cells were grown in RPMI-1640 with 10% FBS and 1% penicillin-streptomycin and were maintained free of mycoplasma. Cells were infected at an MOI of 1 and fixed or lysed at 24 or 48 h after infection. HEK293T cells HEK293T cells were obtained from the American Type … Read more
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize new COVID-19 booster shots this week without a staple of its normal decision-making process: data from a study showing whether the shots were safe and worked in humans. The shots, modified to target the latest versions of the omicron variant, won’t have finished testing in humans when the FDA … Read more
Gay and bisexual men in the US are hitting walls to find a monkeypox vaccine because of limited supplies, with some activists criticizing the government as being too slow to increase its vaccine stockpiles. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while the US awaits about 800,000 vaccine doses in Denmark, the number … Read more