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‘We can pass as many laws as we want, for or against access, but at the end of the day, if you don’t have trained providers, you don’t have choice’

With three COVID-19 vaccines already authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Americans have easy access to plenty of shots.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — New research by a team of San Francisco scientists is raising questions about the usefulness of a new omicron-specific COVID vaccine for next fall, as the virus quickly evolves and the risk of illness is likely to soar.

The team of researchers has found that the Omicron variant induces only a weak immune response. 

Vaccinated people were shown to receive a boost of protection after having Omicron.

UCSF's "working definition" of underrepresented minorities includes Filipino, Hmong, and Vietnamese

LOS ANGELES — The arrival of the first COVID-19 vaccines in December 2020 marked the start of a new, safer phase of the pandemic.

A recent study led by Imperial College London’s Centre for Psychedelic Research found that psilocybin could increase neuroplasticity in cases of treatment-resistant depression (TRD), even more than traditional antidepressants, such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). The results of the study were reported in the journal Nature Medicine under the name…