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TUESDAY, Sept. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Eight in 10 older Americans think health care workers should be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a new poll. Among 50- to 80-year-olds, 61% of respondents said the vaccine should be required for all health care workers. Another 19% said vaccination should probablyContinue Reading

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TUESDAY, Sept. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) – New data out of Israel, to be published this week, could bolster the notion that a third booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine significantly lowers a recipient’s odds for severe illness. The data is scheduled to be published in the peer-reviewed New EnglandContinue Reading

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TUESDAY, Sept. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) — While in the United States preteens and teens aged 12 to 15 have been eligible for COVID-19 vaccines since the spring, the vaccines are only now becoming available for that age group in the United Kingdom. According to the Associated Press, on MondayContinue Reading

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TUESDAY, Sept. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) — U.S. approval of the Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm is already mired in controversy. Now a new study finds that most Alzheimer’s patients could not have taken part in clinical trials that led to the green light. In June, the U.S. Food and Drug AdministrationContinue Reading

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MONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) — COVID-19 vaccine booster shots might not be needed for most people, according to a large international review. The review — conducted by a team that included scientists from the World Health Organization and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — concluded that currentContinue Reading

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MONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) — There’s more sobering news for anyone still unvaccinated against the new coronavirus: Your odds of dying from COVID-19 are 11-fold higher than someone who’s fully immunized, new research shows. The data comes from one of three studies published Friday by the U.S. CentersContinue Reading

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FRIDAY, Sept. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Los Angeles has become the first major school system in the United States to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for all students 12 and older. L.A.’s Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday to require all students 12 and older to be vaccinated before they canContinue Reading

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FRIDAY, Sept. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) — With tens of millions of Americans now vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of August, so-called “breakthrough” cases are bound to occur. But there’s reassuring news from new data: Most such cases are mild and those leading to hospitalization are exceedingly rare. Overall,Continue Reading

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THURSDAY, Sept. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Until now, folks suffering from hearing loss typically have had to fork out thousands of dollars for a device that could be adjusted only by a professional audiologist. No wonder that only one-quarter of the nearly 29 million U.S. adults who could benefitContinue Reading

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THURSDAY, Sept. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) — President Joe Biden is slated to announce an ambitious six-point plan to double down on a resurgent COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, including more pressure on government, business and schools to implement vaccine mandates, news sources report. A speech outlining the newContinue Reading