FRIDAY, Sept. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday gave its approval to a new drug for ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. But approval of the drug, called Relyvrio, is bound to stir new questions, with some doubting theContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Public health officials tried everything to convince Americans to get vaccinated against COVID, including giving away cash, but that wasn’t enough to change hesitant minds, a new study shows. Researchers were surprised by the findings. “There is literature and evidence from other vaccinationContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) – The Jynneos vaccine, originally designed to guard against smallpox infection, also seems to protect against monkeypox, new U.S. government data shows. The potency of the vaccine in a real-world setting was impressive: While two doses of the vaccine offered more protection against monkeypox,Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Pregnant women who get COVID-19 and then get vaccinated before giving birth are more likely than other moms to pass protective antibodies to their newborns, new research shows. Babies can’t get their own shots until they’re 6 months of age. For this study,Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) — It’s very frustrating to get a COVID-19 vaccine and then wind up catching the virus anyway. But these breakthrough infections actually do you a world of good, providing a powerful boost to your existing vaccine-induced immune protection, a new study reports. People infectedContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Aluminum in childhood vaccines has long been the cause of speculation about a potential link to allergies and asthma, but a new study designed to figure out whether there might be a connection did not come to a definitive conclusion. While the federallyContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Patients with weakened immune systems could be inadvertently helping COVID-19 develop resistance to the antiviral drug remdesivir, a new study reports. After lengthy COVID infections, two kidney transplant patients on immune-suppressing drugs to prevent organ rejection developed a mutated version of SARS-CoV-2 resistantContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Women may experience a small, but temporary, delay in their menstrual cycle after receiving a COVID shot, a new study finds. The delay was, on average, less than one day and, for most women, it resolved after the first cycle post-vaccination, according toContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) — All COVID travel restrictions in Canada will be gone starting on Oct. 1, health officials announced Tuesday. Both international and domestic travelers to the country will be able to give up such pandemic mainstays as submitting mandatory health information through ArriveCAN when enteringContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Children who fall ill with COVID-19 may have a slightly increased risk of developing type 1 diabetes, a new study suggests. Researchers found that of more than 285,000 children with COVID, 0.04% were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes over the next six months.Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Adults with hearing loss soon will be able to amble into a big box store or pharmacy — or just visit a website — and buy hearing aids without a prescription. Over-the-counter hearing aids will be on the market by mid-October, available forContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Both Pfizer and Moderna have asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve their updated coronavirus boosters for children. The “bivalent” shots, like those that adults were able to start receiving this month, target both the original coronavirus and the Omicron BA.4Continue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has eased its universal masking recommendation for nursing homes and hospitals, unless those health care institutions are in areas seeing high levels of COVID-19 transmission. The change is part of updated guidelines published by theContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) – Admissions to drug treatment programs declined sharply during the pandemic’s first year, likely explaining a later surge in fatal overdoses. Among people of color, admissions dropped nearly 25%, a RAND Corp. study found. This is one possible reason for the recent surge inContinue Reading