Jun 18, 2021

THURSDAY, June 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and six other areas will be downgraded when it expires on Sunday as new daily cases continue to decline, the Japan...

Jun 18, 2021

Tofacitinib reduced mortality and respiratory failure compared to placebo Treatment with the Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor tofacitinib was associated with a lower risk for death or respiratory failure...

Jun 18, 2021

AMA issues recommendations for protecting privacy, equity when rolling out vaccine policies The American Medical Association (AMA) stepped into the public debate over Covid-19 vaccine mandates and va...

Jun 17, 2021

WEDNESDAY, June 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Many modifiable cardiovascular risk factors are associated with more severe consequences from COVID-19, according to a review published online June 9 in th...

Jun 17, 2021

Testing program suggests rapid antigen POC tests of little use in people with lower viral loads Routine reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing for Covid-19 successfully dete...

Jun 17, 2021

Studies offer seemingly contradictory short-term outcome findings Findings from separate, large observational consortium studies appear to offer contradictory results regarding the efficacy of immu...

Jun 17, 2021

Promise: “Double the number of drive-through testing sites, invest in next-generation testing, including at home tests and instant tests, so we can scale up our testing capacity by orders of mag...

Jun 16, 2021

TUESDAY, June 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Most of California's COVID-19 restrictions were lifted on Tuesday and the nation's most populous state is "poised to come roaring back," according to Gov. Ga...

Jun 16, 2021

No deaths, organ rejections reported in Mayo Clinic study Solid organ transplant recipients with mild-to-moderate Covid-19 can be safely treated with monoclonal antibody therapy, a new study confirme...

Jun 16, 2021

Third dose boosted antibody levels in small study One third of organ transplant recipients who failed to show protective responses after receiving two doses of an mRNA Covid-19 vaccine showed evidenc...

Jun 16, 2021

Labor Department officials on Thursday announced a temporary emergency standard to protect health care workers, saying they face “grave danger” in the workplace from the ongoing coronaviru...

Jun 15, 2021

MONDAY, June 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Individuals with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) do not have an increased risk for adverse events (AEs) after the mRNA COVID-19 vaccination, according to a s...

Jun 15, 2021

MONDAY, June 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- There is a strong inverse correlation between convalescent plasma (CCP) use per admission and mortality for hospitalized COVID-19 patients, according to a stu...

Jun 15, 2021

MONDAY, June 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A lawsuit brought by a group of Houston Methodist employees over the hospital's mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy was dismissed Saturday by a federal judg...

Jun 15, 2021

MONDAY, June 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Novavax, a Maryland biotechnology company that has struggled mightily with delays in developing its COVID-19 vaccine, announced Monday that its two-shot regim...

Jun 15, 2021

May be best bet for hospitalized patients In patients hospitalized with Covid-19, anticoagulation strategies for venous thromboembolism (VTE) were rapidly disseminated and implemented in a study of M...

Jun 15, 2021

Viral load driving factor in transmission When it comes to Covid-19 transmission, there doesn’t appear to be a significant difference between children and adults. What matters, according to a c...

Jun 14, 2021

FRIDAY, June 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. regulators have extended the expiration date on millions of Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine doses by six weeks, the company announced Thursday....

Jun 14, 2021

FRIDAY, June 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- About 60 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine must be discarded due to possible contamination, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ha...

Jun 14, 2021

New guidance outlines mask use, returning to sports after Covid infection The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published interim guidance outlining how U.S. kids can participate in sports and o...