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Contagious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2
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President Biden signed a $95 billion foreign-aid package in April 2024 that included large allocations for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan . More broadly, U.S. international assistance under Biden reached ...
Tesla’s Fremont factory tours historically were free for owners and ran several times daily; after COVID they were suspended and later returned in limited form tied to the referral program, not open p...
The Affordable Care Act’s premium subsidy enhancements were enacted in 2021 by the Democratic-controlled federal government through the American Rescue Plan Act, which broadened eligibility and increa...
A concise inventory of claims and measured outcomes shows a set of tangible economic actions tied to the Trump presidency—most notably a large tax overhaul, deregulatory drives, active trade intervent...
Ivermectin has a broad set of documented drug interactions—commonly cited as including one major, many moderate, and several minor interactions—and those interactions arise primarily from effects on h...
Drug‑induced liver injury (DILI) from ivermectin in humans is , primarily in case reports and pharmacovigilance datasets rather than large prospective studies. Available evidence shows occasional seri...
Severe ivermectin poisoning is managed primarily with supportive care because no specific, widely accepted antidote exists; most guidelines recommend monitoring, symptomatic treatment, and measures to...
Documented human ivermectin neurotoxicity is uncommon but real: case series and pharmacovigilance reviews describe presentations ranging from confusion, ataxia and tremor to stupor and coma, sometimes...
Ivermectin produces neurotoxicity in humans when it accumulates in the central nervous system — a process normally blocked by P‑glycoprotein — and clinical reports link toxicity to doses well above st...
Documented human cases of ivermectin‑related neurotoxicity are rare but well described in the literature and fall into three broad patterns: mass‑treatment encephalopathies linked to parasitic coinfec...
President Biden presided over a year of notable job gains in 2023 — continuing a multi‑year recovery that produced large net employment increases and monthly job additions — but those headline figures...
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) still insures millions and preserved key protections like coverage for pre-existing conditions, but its short-term outlook is fragile: enhanced premium tax credits ...
The best-supported numeric answer is that the average annual number of removals (deportations) during President Trump’s first term (fiscal years 2017–2020) was approximately , calculated from ICE remo...
Vaccine-induced immune effects can, in principle, influence cancer detection and progression through well-described immunologic mechanisms, and there is emerging clinical and preclinical evidence for ...
Human-formulated ivermectin and veterinary ivermectin contain the same active macrocyclic lactone class compound but differ in dose concentration, formulations and untested excipients, and those diffe...
Belief in global conspiracy theories is driven by an interplay of psychological needs—fear, a craving for control, cognitive style and personality—and social forces such as institutional mistrust, pol...
Federal data show an upward trend in formal removals from FY2017 through FY2019 followed by a sharp decline in FY2020 tied to the COVID-19 pandemic and policy changes at the border; official counts re...
The ESSTS 2022 consensus defines functional tic‑like behaviours (FTLBs) using a small set of phenomenological “red flags” — three major criteria (age at onset ≥12 years, rapid evolution of symptoms, a...
Raw patient-level data are indispensable for the fullest, independent verification of a drug or vaccine’s efficacy because they allow reanalysis, subgroup exploration, and detection of anomalies that ...