California Sues Country’s Largest Nursing Home Chain California is suing the largest nursing home chain in the United States for allegedly submitting false information to Medicare’s nursing home ratings system. The lawsuit against Brookdale Senior Living — which operates multiple nursing homes in California — was filed on Monday, TheContinue Reading
AstraZeneca Says Its COVID-19 Vaccine is Safe, Despite Reports of Deadly Clots There is no scientific evidence linking the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to recent deaths from blood clots, the company said Sunday after a number of European nations suspended use of the vaccine. On Sunday, Ireland and the Netherlands joinedContinue Reading
SUNDAY, March 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) — When you turn your clocks forward to Daylight Saving Time this weekend, take a few minutes to make your home safer. Change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) suggests. Unless these devicesContinue Reading
Novavax’s COVID-19 Vaccine Highly Effective in Clinical Trials A COVID-19 vaccine developed by Novavax was 96% effective against the original strain of the coronavirus in preventing mild, moderate and severe cases of illness and 100% effective against severe disease caused by new, more contagious variants, two new clinical trials show.Continue Reading
THURSDAY, March 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, remains in breast milk for up to six weeks and may be harmful to infants, a new study warns. The researchers said the finding supports recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics and others that womenContinue Reading
Most Employees Want Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination at Work Seven in 10 U.S. employees who started working at home during the pandemic say their companies should introduce mandatory COVID-19 vaccination before workers are called back to the office, a new survey reveals. It also found that 76% of the more thanContinue Reading
States and Pharmacies to Receive Additional Doses of COVID-19 Vaccines An additional 900,000 doses of the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines will be sent to states and pharmacies this week, according to the White House. States and territories will receive 15.8 million doses of the vaccines, up from 15.2 millionContinue Reading
Many U.S. Colleges Cancel, Shorten Spring Break Spring break has been canceled or scaled back by many U.S. colleges in an attempt to reduce partying that could spread COVID-19. Texas A&M University decided on a three-day weekend instead of an entire week off for students, while the University of AlabamaContinue Reading
AstraZeneca to Seek FDA Approval of COVID Vaccine Within Weeks AstraZeneca says it will file for emergency use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine in the United States after it gets the results of a clinical trial within the next few weeks. If the two-dose vaccine is approved by the FoodContinue Reading
MONDAY, March 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Fine particles in wildfire smoke pose a far greater threat to the lungs than similar particles in vehicle exhaust and other types of air pollution, researchers report. These fine particles — called PM2.5 — have a diameter about 1/20th the size of aContinue Reading
Anti-Parasite Drug Won’t Help Against Mild COVID-19: Study A drug called ivermectin that’s typically used to treat parasitic worms and has been viewed as a potential COVID-19 treatment does not shorten the recovery of patients with mild COVID-19, a new clinical trial shows. The study included more than 400 peopleContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Readers pay attention when social media sites label an article as “unverified” or “suspicious,” a new study suggests. But how an article is presented — including author credentials and writing style — doesn’t affect readers’ views about its credibility. The findings show thatContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Seizures of illegal drugs fell sharply in the United States during early COVID-19 lockdowns, but spiked once stay-at-home orders eased. Researchers studied seizures of marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl in five locations between March 2019 (a year before the pandemic began inContinue Reading
Emptier Roads, But Sharp Rise in U.S. Traffic Deaths in 2020 Even though Americans drove less last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a sharp increase in road deaths, a new study shows. In 2020, there were 42,060 deaths in vehicle crashes — which was 8% higher thanContinue Reading