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A doctor in Florida is making headlines after announcing she will no longer serve patients who are not vaccinated amid climbing COVID-19 cases in the state. NBC Miami reports Dr. Linda Marraccini, a family practice physician based out of South Miami, sent a letter to her patients saying she is refusing to treat any unvaccinated patients in person. Marraccini says she […]

A 90-year-old Belgian has died after suffering simultaneous infections from two COVID-19 variants.  Bloomberg reports the unvaccinated woman tested positive after admission to the OLV hospital in Aalst in March after she fell multiple times. Her oxygen levels were initially good, but her condition rapidly deteriorated and she died five days later. An autopsy has now revealed that […]

Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus shared on Wednesday that he has spent the last three months undergoing chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer. “I have cancer. It sucks and I’m scared, and at the same time I’m blessed with incredible doctors and family and friends to get me through this,” Hoppus wrote. “I still have months of […]

Emory’s School of Medicine apologized on Wednesday to 83-year-old Marion Hood for rejecting his application over six decades ago because he was Black, per Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “I am sorry I must write you that we are not authorized to consider for admission a member of the Negro race. I regret that we cannot help you,” the […]

An 80-year-old woman, Shameema Begum, died on Sunday, two weeks after an ex-security guard allegedly posed as a doctor and performed surgery on her at a hospital in Pakistan, The Guardian reports.  Police say that Muhammad Waheed Butt attempted to treat Begum’s back wound at Lahore’s Mayo hospital. “We can’t keep up with what every doctor […]

Television personality and former NFL star Michael Strahan shared a curiously timed video on Tuesday showing himself getting the iconic gap in his front teeth closed. April Fools’ Day is right around the corner, after all. According to TMZ, Strahan went with Dr. Lee Gause of Smile Design Manhattan to get the procedure, which looks to be only a temporary […]

Two pediatricians from Florida believe the first known baby with COVID-19 antibodies was born in late January, WPBF reports.  Dr. Paul Gilbert and Dr. Chad Rudnick, of Palm Beach County, said the unidentified woman is a front-line healthcare worker, who was given the first dose of the Moderna vaccine while she was 36 weeks pregnant. When […]

A Sacramento plastic surgeon is under fire after logging into Zoom traffic court while simultaneously conducting an operation, representing the latest instance of some COVID-19-induced court proceedings being weird enough to generate national headlines. (The champion of this genre is still that Texas lawyer who couldn’t turn off the cat filter.) According to NBC News, Dr. Scott […]

A Texas doctor has been accused of stealing multiple doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and giving them to friends and family members. The doctor in question, however, has argued that he only took the doses as a way of making certain they wouldn’t be wasted amid the ongoing pandemic. Hasan Gokal, a health department doctor in […]

A viral video has reignited a longstanding theory about Mucinex’s effect on fertility. As pointed out by BuzzFeed, TikTok user @juliasendojourney recently made the claim when speaking about her COVID-19 recovery. She says that while battling the infection, she took Muxinex to relieve her symptoms, but noticed another unexpected side effect from the cold medication: her “fertile signs” surged like […]