FRIDAY, Jan. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is falling down on the job when it comes to dealing with numerous public health crises, a nonpartisan government watchdog said Thursday. This includes its communications to the public and healthcare providers, coordinating with federalContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Older people who live near or downwind of fracking sites have an increased risk of premature death, likely due to airborne contaminants from the sites, according to a new study. “There is an urgent need to understand the causal link between living nearContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) — An initial surge in antibody levels against the Omicron variant after a booster dose of the Moderna COVID vaccine wanes within six months, but the antibodies remained effective against it in lab tests, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed antibody levels in volunteersContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) — U.S. hospitals continue to reel from the pressure posed by the ongoing pandemic, facing critical workforce shortages and rising labor costs that amount to a “national emergency,” hospital executives say. Nearly 1,400 hospitals — 31% of the nation’s total — are on theContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) — More than 1.1 million American kids were diagnosed with COVID-19 during the week ending Jan. 20, new data show. That’s 17% higher than the 981,000 cases diagnosed the week before and double the number from two weeks before that. “As we approach theContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Although they report difficulty breathing and discomfort while wearing a face mask, most people with asthma still use them in public places during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study finds. University of Illinois Chicago researchers conducted an online survey of more than 500Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Remember when everyone was disinfecting their groceries at the start of the pandemic, fearful that the new coronavirus could be spread simply by touching a surface on which the virus had landed? New research confirms that much of that cleaning was unnecessary becauseContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Living through the pandemic has not been easy for kids, but it has really thrown off children who have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), new research warns. Though they were not more likely to catch COVID-19, they were more likely to experience symptoms if theyContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Pfizer Inc. announced Tuesday that it has launched a trial that will compare its existing COVID-19 vaccine against a new version tailored to beat back the highly contagious Omicron variant. “While current research and real-world data show that boosters continue to provide aContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — It has begun to feel like a pandemic that will never end, but public health experts now say the Omicron variant may be ushering in a “new normal,” where COVID-19 becomes an endemic, but manageable, disease. “I do feel that we are movingContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — European Union residents should be able to move freely between the 27 member nations if they’ve been vaccinated in the past nine months or have recently recovered from coronavirus infection, bloc officials said Tuesday. The announcement was made a day after the WorldContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (healthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Monday that it will curtail the use of two monoclonal antibody treatments that do not appear to work against the highly contagious Omicron variant. The combo treatments bamlanivimab/etesevimab and casirivimab/imdevimab, made by Eli Lilly and Regeneron,Continue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Coronavirus testing requirements for vaccinated people arriving in England will be scrapped, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Monday. Details about the changes are to be provided later in the day by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, the Associated Press reported. To “show thatContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) — While it appears that Black Americans were more hesitant than white Americans to roll up their sleeves when the COVID-19 vaccines launched last year, that unwillingness has lessened. Following 1,200 U.S. adults through much of the pandemic, researchers found Black people were moreContinue Reading