Feb 23, 2021

Can Zoom remake medical licensing? The world is a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, and much of daily life has changed during the past year. Almost all of those changes were radical, affecting how ind...

Feb 23, 2021

3-month dosing interval may be optimal, affording more protection after second dose A recent pooled analysis of four studies assessing vaccinations with two doses of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine con...

Feb 23, 2021

Fall survey of U.S. adults showed persistent increase in mental health issues Anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues related to Covid-19 remained common and well above prepandemic levels...

Feb 22, 2021

Companies ask FDA allow us of standard pharmaceutical freezers Pfizer and partner BioNTech are asking the FDA to allow their Covid-19 vaccine to be stored at temperatures between −25° and −15�...

Feb 22, 2021

Reports from U.S. and Israel suggest mRNA shots are safe and effective Early reports from the U.S. and Israel on two mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines, Pfizer/BioNTech’s BNT162b2 and Moderna’s mRNA-...

Feb 19, 2021

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, widespread adoption of remote care delivery for COPD occurred rapidly, explains John Hurst, PhD, FRCP, FHEA.  “People with respiratory conditions like COPD wer...

Feb 19, 2021

Editor’s note: KHN wrote about St. James Parish Hospital in April, when it was experiencing its first surge of covid-19 patients. Ten months later, we checked in to see how the hospital and its staf...

Feb 19, 2021

Use Our Content It can be republished for free. A prominent group of academics is pressing the Biden administration to move faster and take stronger action to protect high-risk workers from airbor...

Feb 19, 2021

Vax rates plummeted up to 89% by mid-April 2020, and racial/ethnic disparities remained Weekly vaccination rates dipped dramatically among Medicare beneficiaries age ≥65 years during the opening ...

Feb 19, 2021

THURSDAY, Feb. 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For adults hospitalized with COVID-19, age and frailty are independently associated with inpatient mortality and with higher care needs on discharge, accord...

Feb 19, 2021

THURSDAY, Feb. 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Myocarditis-like injury occurs after severe COVID-19 infection, with late gadolinium enhancement and/or ischemia in 54 percent of patients, according to a s...

Feb 19, 2021

THURSDAY, Feb. 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Thousands of U.S. military personnel are refusing or delaying COVID-19 vaccination, even as service members are being deployed to help give shots at vaccina...

Feb 18, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Immediate action is needed to reduce the airborne transmission of the new coronavirus in high-risk workplaces such as hospitals, schools, meatpacking plant...

Feb 18, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Admission to the hospital for COVID-19 through June 30, 2020, was associated with greater mortality, intensive care unit (ICU) use, and hospital length of ...

Feb 18, 2021

No survival, length of stay benefit shown in RECOVERY trial Treatment with azithromycin was not associated with improved survival or shorter hospital stays in patients hospitalized with Covid-19 in...

Feb 17, 2021

TUESDAY, Feb. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Demographic and community risk factors are more strongly associated with COVID-19 positivity than workplace exposure among health care workers (HCWs), accord...

Feb 17, 2021

TUESDAY, Feb. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Patients undergoing long-term dialysis who become infected with SARS-CoV-2 have a high COVID-19 case fatality rate, according to a study published online Feb...

Feb 17, 2021

TUESDAY, Feb. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has received emergency use authorization from the World Health Organization. Monday's approval for vaccines from the Seru...

Feb 17, 2021

TUESDAY, Feb. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Seven percent of patients with severe COVID-19 present with abnormal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings of the globe of the eye, according to a study ...

Feb 17, 2021

  This story also ran on NPR. It can be republished for free. Peter Prater’s family wasn’t thinking about covid-19 when the call came that he had been taken to the hospital with a fever. ...