Author Archives: Health

FDA offers best practices for patient-facing alerts on medical device vulnerabilities

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a new best practices document this week to help healthcare actors and government agencies design a communication approach regarding cybersecurity vulnerabilities.    The agency’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health notes that the document is not a guidance and doesn’t create any regulatory expectations.   Instead, authors “hope… Read More »

Covid-19 news: Past covid-19 infection boosts protection from vaccines

By Michael Le Page , Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Sam Wong , Graham Lawton , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool A health worker administers a second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech covid-19 vaccine. Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/Shutterstock Latest coronavirus news as of 12pm on 7 October Vaccines are up to 94… Read More »

‘COVID toe’ a result of body’s misplaced effort to contain coronavirus: study

Breadcrumb Trail Links World News Health and Wellness Health Those with the disease may not exhibit its typical symptoms so connection to virus may be overlooked Author of the article: Shari Kulha Publishing date: Oct 06, 2021  •  1 day ago  •  2 minute read  •  23 Comments “COVID toe” looks like chilblains, which happen as… Read More »

Sexplain It: My Antidepressants Killed My Sex Drive. My Partner Is Getting Pissed.

I’m Zachary Zane, a sex writer and ethical manwhore (a fancy way of saying I sleep with a lot of people, and I’m very, very open about it). Over the years, I’ve had my fair share of sexual experiences, dating and sleeping with hundreds of people of all genders and orientations. In doing so, I’ve… Read More »