Apr 15, 2021

This story also ran on USA Today. It can be republished for free. Mary Ann Steiner drove 2½ hours from her home in the St. Louis suburb of University City to the tiny Ozark town...

Apr 14, 2021

Although widely accepted as an important treatment approach offering significant benefit to patients with environmental allergies, allergen immunotherapy (AIT) comes with the risk of severe allergic r...

Apr 14, 2021

TUESDAY, April 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- While rare, thrombosis and thrombocytopenia can occur after the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 adenoviral vector vaccine against COVID-19 (AstraZeneca), according to two r...

Apr 14, 2021

TUESDAY, April 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 infection is an independent risk factor for surgical mortality, according to a research letter published online April 12 in JAMA Network Open. M...

Apr 14, 2021

Ultraviolet A linked to lower mortality, observational study found Higher ambient ultraviolet A exposure was associated with fewer Covid-19-related deaths in observational analyses from the United St...

Apr 14, 2021

No infected moms in Israeli case study passed virus to their newborns No infections occurred among 55 mostly breastfed neonates born to mothers with Covid-19 in a study from Israel, suggesting that...

Apr 14, 2021

Health agencies investigating six U.S. cases of CVST and thrombocytopenia post-vaccination The FDA and CDC recommended a pause in vaccinations with Johnson & Johnson’s adenovirus-vectored Cov...

Apr 14, 2021

Kristin Novotny once led an active life, with regular CrossFit workouts and football in the front yard with her children — plus a job managing the kitchen at a middle school. Now, the 33-year-old mo...

Apr 14, 2021

The twists and turns of the American health system can sometimes leave people lost, confused and looking for answers. We’ve created a new video series — “Explained by KHN” — in w...

Apr 13, 2021

MONDAY, April 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Chinese COVID-19 vaccines "don't have very high protection rates," the director of the China Centers for Disease Control admitted over the weekend. At a c...

Apr 13, 2021

MONDAY, April 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Fake COVID-19 vaccination cards are being sold online at sites such as eBay, Etsy, and Shopify, and bogus ads for the cards are appearing on Facebook, accord...

Apr 13, 2021

MONDAY, April 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- People living with someone who has COVID-19 appear to get powerful protection against infection when they are given the Regeneron antibody cocktail, a new st...

Apr 13, 2021

MONDAY, April 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The Pfizer request to expand emergency use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine to include children ages 12 to 15 years will be evaluated "as quickly as pos...

Apr 13, 2021

New domestic supply alleviates emergency measures and in most cases reuse not necessary The FDA issued a statement recommending that health care personnel and facilities begin rolling back certain cr...

Apr 13, 2021

Two studies showed similarity to HIT Separate case reports from Europe provide more details about a rare blood clotting disorder believed to be linked to AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, ChAdOx1...

Apr 13, 2021

Calls are mounting for the Biden administration to set up a national tracking system of covid-19 deaths among front-line health care workers to honor the thousands of nurses, doctors and support staff...

Apr 13, 2021

More than 3,600 U.S. health care workers perished in the first year of the pandemic, according to “Lost on the Frontline,” a 12-month investigation by The Guardian and KHN to track such de...

Apr 12, 2021

FRIDAY, April 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- In a setback to a national vaccination campaign that was finally gaining ground, the federal government said Thursday that Johnson & Johnson will allocate...

Apr 12, 2021

Available evidence does not support causal inference Clinical details of a participant in a Covid-19 vaccine trial who developed Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) after vaccination were published in...

Apr 12, 2021

Linath Lim’s life was shaped by starvation. She was not yet 13 when the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia and ripped her family apart. The totalitarian regime sent her and four siblings to...