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

<![CDATA[ window.addEventListener('message', function(event) { if (typeof event.data['datawrapper-height'] !== 'undefined') { var iframes = document.querySelectorAl...

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...

May 14, 2021

THURSDAY, May 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Neurological manifestations are common among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and are associated with an increased risk for in-hospital mortality, accordi...

May 14, 2021

THURSDAY, May 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- An artificial intelligence (AI) system can predict deterioration of COVID-19 patients in the emergency department, according to a study published online May ...