December 3, 2024
(The Hill) – The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released its final report Monday, laying out numerous conclusions from its review of the federal pandemic response, including what the Republican-controlled panel believes to be the likely origins of … Read More
November 18, 2024
(Medscape) – The prevalence of and number of deaths from alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD) are growing among people age 70 and older in the United States, according to the results of a new study. Even … Read More
November 13, 2024
(Axios) – The U.S. may be heading into Thanksgiving with respiratory disease levels at lows not seen since before the pandemic, and with few immediate signs of another tripledemic. The big picture: Instead of seasonal flu, COVID-19 or RSV, the … Read More
November 6, 2024
(Science) – Now, researchers have devised a strategy to circumvent that problem. Reporting in Nature, scientists say they have equipped human cells with custom-designed receptors that the viruses can bind to and use to sneak inside a cell. The study … Read More
November 5, 2024
(Undark) – Experiencing a severe side effect is rare, but officially documenting such cases is vital to designing better vaccines. I wrote about the experience in 2021 in The Boston Globe, after the FDA attached a warning to the J&J shot, citing an … Read More
October 28, 2024
(National Post) – The case is among several highlighted by an Ontario MAID death review committee involving people who weren’t terminally ill An Ontario man in his late 40s with a history of mental illness died by euthanasia after his … Read More
October 21, 2024
(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has asked a federal judge in Texas to throw out a public records lawsuit related to COVID-19 vaccines, arguing that it has already spent more than $3.5 million to produce more than … Read More
October 21, 2024
Research Ethics (vol. 20, no. 4, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 16, 2024
(Axios) – GlaxoSmithKline is suing Moderna for allegedly using technology patented by GSK in its COVID-19 vaccine. Why it matters: It’s the latest in a series of legal fights over who owns the intellectual property behind mRNA technology and whether … Read More
October 15, 2024
(Washington Post) – As the public heads into another viral season, health experts said the findings highlight how the virus continues to reveal ways to pose long-term consequences. Children and teenagers infected with the coronavirus are significantly more likely to … Read More
October 15, 2024
(STAT News) – When the U.S. health care system pivoted to meet Covid-19 in 2020, routine health visits and screenings where many cancer cases would have been caught didn’t happen. It wasn’t ideal, but many health experts thought that as … Read More
October 14, 2024
(MedPage Today) – When it came to excess U.S. deaths during the COVID pandemic, racial and ethnic disparities hit younger populations particularly hard, a cross-sectional study showed. People ages 25 to 64 had the greatest increases in observed-to-expected all-cause mortality … Read More
October 11, 2024
(UPI) – People infected with COVID-19 appear to face a higher risk of heart attack and stroke for up to three years, a new study finds. The study was published Wednesday in the American Heart Association’s journal, Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and … Read More
October 1, 2024
(Los Angeles Times) – Children, teens and young adults in Southern California had been grappling with rising rates of depression and anxiety for years before the pandemic. Then COVID-19 came along and made their mental health struggles even worse. Among … Read More
September 25, 2024
(NPR) – COVID killed more than 3,600 U.S. health care workers in the first year of the pandemic. It left many more with physical and mental illnesses — and a gutting sense of abandonment. What workers experienced has been detailed … Read More
September 19, 2024
(NPR) – Researchers had found genetic evidence that raccoon dogs, an exotic species known to be susceptible to the virus, were among the animals for sale at the wet market in Wuhan, China, where the outbreak was first identified. Now … Read More
September 16, 2024
(Associated Press) – A woman in Austria was found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19 in 2021, her second pandemic-related conviction in a year, according to local media. A judge sentenced the 54-year-old on Thursday to four months’ … Read More
September 13, 2024
(NBC News) – In updated guidance for health care providersreleased Thursday, the Florida Health Department and state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo questioned the safety and effectiveness of the mRNA Covid vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, including for older adults and … Read More
September 11, 2024
(CBS News) – The latest strategy builds on previous ones and includes a federal action plan calling for implementation of 200 measures over the next three years, including prioritizing populations disproportionately affected by suicide, such as Black youth and Native … Read More
September 10, 2024
(Axios) – About one in five U.S. COVID deaths during the Delta wave were because of overwhelmed hospital capacity, an analysis of data from 620 facilities showed. Why it matters: The findings in Annals of Internal Medicine reinforce the need … Read More
September 10, 2024
(The Southern Maryland Chronicle via MSN) – The United States Postal Service (USPS) has unveiled plans to honor the nation’s health care workers with a commemorative Forever stamp, a collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This … Read More
September 10, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 6, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 9, 2024
(New York Times) – Neuroimaging found girls experienced cortical thinning far faster than boys did during the first year of Covid lockdowns. A study of adolescent brain development that tested children before and after coronavirus pandemic lockdowns in the United … Read More
September 9, 2024
(Axios) – Giving birth became measurably riskier during the pandemic, as factors causing complications — from obesity and diabetes to mental health issues — rose 20% between 2020 and 2023, according to a FAIR Health analysis shared first with Axios. … Read More
September 2, 2024
(Undark) – Government agencies are struggling to monitor and respond to bird flu, mirroring the early months of the Covid pandemic. Despite having a pandemic playbook in early 2020, the U.S. appeared flat-footed in its response to Covid-19, including inadequate … Read More
