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Envisioning food security: Steps we take now can help

Before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity (lack of reliable access to nutritious food) was a considerable problem, affecting 11% of the country, with higher rates among low-income and racial and ethnic minorities. The shutdown of businesses to slow the spread of COVID-19 has led to historically high levels of unemployment, most recently… Read More: Envisioning food security: Steps we take now can help »

Tremfya (guselkumab) Approved by U.S. Food and Drug Administration as the First Selective Interleukin (IL)-23 Inhibitor for Active Psoriatic Arthritis

Print this page HORSHAM, PA, July 14, 2020 – The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Tremfya (guselkumab) for adult patients with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA), a chronic progressive disease characterized by painful joints and skin inflammation.[1],[2] Tremfya is the first treatment… Read More: Tremfya (guselkumab) Approved by U.S. Food and Drug Administration as… »

Tiny Love Stories: ‘We Gave Up, but Her Hair Didn’t’

Narrowing Our Social Distance The driving rain hit her train window and streamed two rows back across mine. The depth of her grief was impossible to contain within six feet of social distance. It spilled over. Too on edge to listen to music, I overheard her story unfold through phone calls as we crossed Connecticut:… Read More: Tiny Love Stories: ‘We Gave Up, but Her Hair Didn’t’ »

Mysterious rock art discovered in megalithic tombs in Israel

Rock art, believed to be over 4,200 years old, has been discovered on megalithic burial sites in Israel. The art was found on dolmens, single-chamber burial structures built from huge rocks in what is now the Yehudiya Nature Reserve in the Galilee and Golan Heights. Researchers from the Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel-Hai College studied… Read More: Mysterious rock art discovered in megalithic tombs in Israel »