Last week, the FDA stated it needed much more data to authorize the treatment. Source: https://www.livescience.com/fda-issues-emergency-authorization-plasma-therapy-for-covid.html
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FDA wants more proof COVID-19 plasma therapy works
The agency is waiting on more data from “gold standard” clinical trials. Source: https://www.livescience.com/fda-authorization-plasma-therapy-for-covid.html
Meditation-relaxation therapy may offer escape from the terror of sleep paralysis
Sleep paralysis — a condition thought to explain a number of mysterious experiences including alleged cases of alien abduction and demonic night-time visits — could be treated using a technique of meditation-relaxation, suggests a pilot study published today. Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200812094900.htm
At Talkspace, Startup Culture Collides With Mental Health Concerns
The therapy-by-text company Talkspace — which has raised more than $100 million from investors — made burner phones available for fake reviews and doesn’t adequately respect client privacy, former employees say. From a report: The app launched in 2014 to positive press but lukewarm customer reviews, with ratings of about three stars out of five on both the Google and Apple…
Convalescent plasma could reduce death from COVID-19, early data suggests
But few “gold standard” trials have been completed on the therapy, so take the results with a grain of salt. Source: https://www.livescience.com/convalescent-plasma-therapy-reduces-covid19-deaths.html
Your ‘Doomscrolling’ Breeds Anxiety. Health Experts Offer Ways To Stop the Cycle
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: So many of us do it: You get into bed, turn off the lights, and look at your phone to check Twitter one more time. You see that coronavirus infections are up. Maybe your kids can’t go back to school. The economy is cratering. Still, you incessantly scroll though bottomless doom-and-gloom news for…
Delays Reported For Possible Covid-Inoculating Plasma Shot
“It might be the next best thing to a coronavirus vaccine,” writes the Los Angeles Times. “Scientists have devised a way to use the antibody-rich blood plasma of Covid-19 survivors for an upper-arm injection that they say could inoculate people against the virus for months.”
Using technology that’s been proven effective in preventing other diseases such as hepatitis A, the injections would…
Masked Arsonist Identified and Jailed Because of Etsy Review
An anonymous reader quotes Ars Technica:
To some extent, every Internet user leaves a digital trail. So when a masked arsonist was seen on video setting fire to a police car on the day of a recent protest in Philadelphia, the fact that her face was hidden didn’t prevent a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent from tracking down the suspect. The keys…
How The FBI Identified That Masked Arsonist Identified and Jailed Because of Her Etsy Review
An anonymous reader quotes Ars Technica:
To some extent, every Internet user leaves a digital trail. So when a masked arsonist was seen on video setting fire to a police car on the day of a recent protest in Philadelphia, the fact that her face was hidden didn’t prevent a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent from tracking down the suspect. The keys…
Shock therapy temporarily improves woman’s colour blindness
A woman who is colour-blind says she could see red berries in a green bush for the first time after receiving electroconvulsive therapy for depression Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2243072-shock-therapy-temporarily-improves-womans-colour-blindness/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…