October 23, 2023
(All Sides) – One of the most prominent cases of disagreement surrounds a medicine called ivermectin, which has been traditionally used to treat parasitic disease in humans and livestock. The FDA has approved the human variant of ivermectin to treat … Read More
October 23, 2023
(Nature) – An imbalance of fungi in the gut could contribute to excessive inflammation in people with severe COVID-19 or long COVID. A study found that individuals with severe disease had elevated levels of a fungus that can activate the … Read More
October 23, 2023
(STAT News) – The risks of severe neonatal morbidity, neonatal death, and admission to the neonatal intensive care unit were all significantly lower during the first month of birth in infants whose mothers were vaccinated against Covid-19, and protection against … Read More
October 20, 2023
(STAT News) – Women have been reporting period disturbances after a Covid infection or after receiving a Covid vaccine, though research has often minimized the relevance of such symptoms. A 2022 systematic review of research found that women can experience … Read More
October 19, 2023
(Axios) – Pfizer will list its COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid at a price of $1,390 per five-day course when it soon hits the commercial market, the drugmaker confirmed to Axios. Why it matters: Paxlovid’s new listed price, first reported by the … Read More
October 18, 2023
(Vanity Fair) – On a chilly day in mid-April 2020, Moncef Slaoui, the retired head of the vaccine department at the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, was sitting by his unopened pool in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, when his phone rang. The hopeful hint … Read More
October 16, 2023
(New York Times) – A team of scientists is proposing a new explanation for some cases of long Covid, based on their findings that serotonin levels were lower in people with the complex condition. In their study, published on Monday … Read More
October 16, 2023
(New York Times) – Questions about whether Covid leaked from a Chinese laboratory have cast a chill over American virus research, drying up funding for scientists who collect or alter dangerous pathogens and intensifying a debate over those practices. The … Read More
October 16, 2023
(Reuters) – Novavax (NVAX.O) said on Friday its updated COVID-19 vaccine was available at U.S. pharmacies such as CVS (CVS.N) and Rite Aid (RAD.N), a week after gaining clearance from the U.S. health regulator. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration … Read More
October 12, 2023
(Axios) – Harvard and University of Oxford researchers are harnessing AI to predict threatening new strains of COVID-19 and other viruses. Why it matters: The approach could prove more efficient than lab-based testing, because it doesn’t rely on people becoming … Read More
October 11, 2023
(Axios) – A trio of new studies paints a grim picture of how overdose deaths, depression and barriers to care are weighing heaviest on disadvantaged and minority groups — and are aligning to widen health disparities as the U.S. emerges … Read More
October 10, 2023
(NBC News) – Clark is one of five people interviewed by NBC News who described what it has been like to get Covid at least five times. All five either tested positive at home, received a positive antibody test later … Read More
October 9, 2023
(New York Times) – Approximately 20 percent of adolescents had symptoms of major depressive disorder in 2021 — the first full calendar year of the pandemic — but less than half who needed treatment received it, according to a new … Read More
October 9, 2023
(ABC News) – Excessive drinking during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to skyrocketing rates of alcohol-associated liver disease to the point of needing transplants, according to doctors. Transplant centers across the United States are reporting more patients in need of … Read More
October 6, 2023
(MedPage Today) – Epidemiological records suggest that Seattle’s drop in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survival during the pandemic could be largely explained by indirect factors such as treatment delays, not acute SARS-CoV-2 infections. While instances of EMS-treated OHCA tended to … Read More
October 5, 2023
(New York Times) – The paper Covid vaccination cards were, for a time, a mainstay of American wallets — pulled out before bouncers, inspected at airport desks and shared with pride on social media accounts. But the days of the … Read More
October 3, 2023
(Axios) – Early hiccups that have complicated the rollout of updated COVID-19 vaccines should be resolved in the next couple of weeks, experts and pharmacy groups told Axios. Driving the news: There have been widespread reports of dropped or limited … Read More
October 2, 2023
(Associated Press) – Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 that were critical in slowing the pandemic — technology that’s also being studied to fight cancer … Read More
September 29, 2023
(STAT News) – The World Health Organization has recommended dropping a component of many flu vaccines because the viruses it protects against appear to have been driven into extinction in the Covid-19 pandemic. A family of viruses known as influenza … Read More
September 26, 2023
(STAT News) – The issues have come as a surprise to people whose appointments have been canceled for lack of vaccine doses, who couldn’t get an appointment at their nearest pharmacy, or who learned with dismay that the place where … Read More
September 26, 2023
(MedPage Today) – Long COVID in the U.S. is rare among children and has affected roughly one in 14 adults, according to a pair of data briefs from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Overall, in 2022, an … Read More
September 26, 2023
(Axios) – A tight labor market, comparatively poor pay, COVID-19 requirements and a lengthy hiring process contributed to staffing shortages and decreased access to care at federal health care facilities during the pandemic, a new report found. Why it matters: … Read More
September 26, 2023
(NBC News) – More than three years into the pandemic, the millions of people who have suffered from long Covid finally have scientific proof that their condition is real. Scientists have found clear differences in the blood of people with … Read More
September 25, 2023
(Nature) – Women who don’t menstruate — including postmenopausal women and those on contraceptives — were several times more likely to experience unexpected vaginal bleeding after COVID-19 vaccination than before the vaccines were offered, a study finds. (Read More)
September 22, 2023
(Washington Post) – That collection effort, underway for more than a decade, has included the acquisition of U.S. genetics companies as well as sophisticated hacking operations, U.S. and Western intelligence officials say. But more recently, it received an unexpected boost … Read More
