In 2004, Amy Proal got an infection that changed her life. “I was in my pre-med, last year of college, and totally tanked,” she says. “No one could tell me what it was, everybody said my blood work was fine — sent to a psychiatrist, the usual story.” She started reading papers from her sickbed
While other country music singers remained silent — or outright discriminated against — the LGBTQ+ community, Parton was always an outspoken supporter and ally. “I got a huge gay following and some really macho-looking women,” Parton told Andy Warhol in a 1984 Interiew magazine story. “To me, people are people… Many of my friends are
Documentary icon Sheila Nevins — who holds the all-time record for most Emmy wins by an individual (31), thanks to her long run as president of HBO Documentary Films — had to skip Thursday night’s Television Academy Hall of Fame event, after being diagnosed with COVID and pneumonia. Instead, Nevins sent her acceptance speech via
Epstein–Barr virus (coloured electron microscope image) is among several viruses in the body that can be reactivated by severe bouts of COVID-19.Credit: James Cavallini/Science Photo Library A severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body. That’s according to a study of more than 1,000 people hospitalized with
Paul has repeatedly argued that Covid likely leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, a theory the CIA backed last year. At the hearing, the senator suggested that while Fauci had said publicly that Covid originated naturally, his diaries indicated that he privately believed the virus originated in a medical laboratory. Republicans asked
Former top US health official Anthony Fauci refused to answer questions at a tense US Senate hearing on Covid-19, saying he feared Republicans would try to use his testimony to prosecute him for perjury. He invoked the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which says that no one may be “compelled in any criminal
