May 25, 2021

MONDAY, May 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The COVID-19 death toll in Latin America and the Caribbean has surpassed 1 million, Johns Hopkins University data show. The region has only 8 percent of the...

May 24, 2021

FRIDAY, May 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Vaccines approved for use in the United States and Europe show protection against all of the more infectious coronavirus variants known to be circling the glob...

May 24, 2021

FRIDAY, May 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- In 2020, there were marked shifts in the therapeutics used to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients, according to a research letter published online May 21 in J...

May 24, 2021

Regeneron’s mAb treatment reduced hospitalization, death by 70% Treatment with Regeneron’s two-drug antibody cocktail of casirivimab and imdevimab was associated with a roughly 70% reduct...

May 24, 2021

Once dismissed as a conspiracy theory, the idea that the covid virus escaped from a Chinese lab is gaining high-profile attention. As it does, reputations of renowned scientists are at risk — and so...

May 21, 2021

THURSDAY, May 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- There was an increase in drug overdose deaths in San Francisco during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a research letter published online May 12 in JAMA N...

May 21, 2021

THURSDAY, May 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Fully vaccinated people will likely need a COVID-19 booster shot within about a year, the nation's top infectious diseases expert and the Pfizer CEO said Wed...

May 21, 2021

THURSDAY, May 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- New storage rules for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine after it has been thawed that will make it easier to transport and deliver the doses have been announced by...

May 21, 2021

THURSDAY, May 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The risk for developing new clinical sequelae is increased after the acute phase of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), according t...

May 20, 2021

WEDNESDAY, May 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For every 10,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, there are approximately 4.3 recurrent cases, according to a study published online May 4 in PLOS ONE. Ithan D....

May 20, 2021

WEDNESDAY, May 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Reported hospitalization rates overestimate the burden of COVID-19 in children, according to a study published online May 19 in Hospital Pediatrics. Laur...

May 20, 2021

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May 19, 2021

TUESDAY, May 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline announced Monday that their COVID-19 vaccine candidate produced powerful responses in a preliminary trial that followed an earlier ...

May 19, 2021

TUESDAY, May 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For health care personnel (HCP), the vaccine effectiveness (VE) of authorized mRNA COVID-19 vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) against symptomatic COVID-1...

May 18, 2021

Less organ decompensation and fewer deaths, but not statistically significant As a class, sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) have consistently demonstrated benefit—initially as a ...

May 17, 2021

MONDAY, May 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Participants receiving heterologous prime and boost doses of COVID-19 vaccines have an increase in systemic reactogenicity after the boost dose compared with t...

May 17, 2021

FRIDAY, May 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 may be at risk for developing new heart failure, according to a research letter published in the May 4 issue of the Journal...

May 17, 2021

FRIDAY, May 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Some of the lowest U.S. COVID-19 vaccination rates are among Hispanics, but not because they do not want the vaccine, according to a new survey. Rather, the lo...

May 17, 2021

Masks only needed in health care settings and mass transit In a reversal of previous recommendations, the CDC announced that individuals who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 can forego wearing m...

May 17, 2021

EAST LOS ANGELES — For the past year, 13-year-old twins Ariel Jr. and Abraham Osorio have logged on to their online classes from their parents’ flower shop. Ariel nestles in a corner among flo...