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New York state is distributing robot caretakers to some 800 elderly adults in an effort to combat a burgeoning epidemic of loneliness, the New York State Office for the Aging announced in a press release on Wednesday. Manufactured by Israeli company Intuition Robotics, the ElliQ bots being distributed to New …

An Indian senior has been detained by the authorities after getting a dozen of Covid shots, which he claims have had a very positive effect on his health beyond keeping him safe from the virus. Former postman Brahamdev Mandal, a resident of Orai village in Bihar, received his first vaccine …

When a woman in her 70s showed up with breathing difficulties at Kootenay Lake Hospital in Nelson, British Columbia, this summer, Dr. Kyle Merritt decided to diagnose her as suffering from a condition not taught in medical school textbooks: “climate change.” Though the woman had a litany of health problems …

The results of the large-scale research by the Ministry of Health of the City of Buenos Aires were published in the prestigious, peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) last week. The study included more than 660,000 elderly residents of Buenos Aires who had been vaccinated with Sputnik V, AstraZeneca …

In the minute-long clip, a woman with a shopping trolley is seen on a bus, involved in an apparent heated argument with a group of people. Laughter and the crying of a child is heard in the background while someone calls the woman a racist. The video then cuts off, …

The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted on Thursday in favor of Moderna’s request for boosters, saying that adults 65 and older, as well as younger adults with health problems, jobs or living situations that put them at increased risk of the coronavirus should have access to them, …

Heeding advice from its special panel on vaccines, the FDA on Wednesday moved to approve a third dose of the US drugmaker’s Covid-19 vaccine to be used on seniors as well as “individuals 18 through 64 years of age and at high risk of severe Covid-19” and adults “whose frequent …

As she held an Australian flag and stood on the road facing toward a group of approaching police, one officer shoved the woman, sending her tumbling to the ground. Another officer then pepper-sprayed the woman as she laid motionless and unable to protect herself. Seconds after the attack – with …

The video of the altercation, in his shop in the town of Aberdeen, Washington, shows the transgender councilman (or woman, depending on your viewpoint), Tiesa Meskis, entering the premises to initiate a confrontation with the store owner over his sign: ‘If you’re born with a d**k, you’re not a chick’.  …

According to Japan’s health ministry, only 2,810 people in Tokyo are expected to get a shot from the first batch of Pfizer vaccines which was delivered around the country over the past week. Most regions have received 1,000 doses or fewer, as Japan starts vaccinations for its considerable elderly population …