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. ...

Feb 17, 2021

Preprint findings outline the woes of SARS-CoV-2 viral mutations Results from a preprint study identified seven Covid-19 variants that seem to have originated in the United States—and it’s poss...

Feb 16, 2021

Agency calls for mitigation strategies, monitoring of community transmission The CDC released its Operational Strategy for safely getting kids in grades K-12 back into classrooms during the Covid-1...

Feb 16, 2021

Randomized trial stopped early due to futility Use of the over-the-counter supplements zinc gluconate or vitamin C was not associated with significant declines in symptom duration among non-hospita...

Feb 16, 2021

Public health organizations release new recommendations as pandemic rages on The CDC and other public health entities recently issued a host of new Covid-19 guidance, with recommendations covering to...

Feb 15, 2021

VA study confirms 30-day mortality decline Treatment with prophylactic blood thinners within 24-hours of hospital admission for Covid-19 was associated with reduced 30-day mortality and no increase i...

Feb 12, 2021

What are the different COVID vaccines that are available? There are two vaccines that have been approved by the FDA for EUA (emergency use authorization). One is manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech and t...

Feb 12, 2021

THURSDAY, Feb. 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly one in four caregivers reported being hesitant to seek emergency department care for their child, according to a rese...

Feb 12, 2021

THURSDAY, Feb. 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Fully vaccinated Americans can now skip quarantines if they are exposed to someone infected with COVID-19, new federal guidelines say. "Fully vaccinated ...

Feb 11, 2021

California mom Megan Bacigalupi has had enough. She wants her kindergartner and second grader back in their Oakland classrooms.   This story also ran on USA Today. It can be republished for fre...

Feb 11, 2021

New Rapid, Living Practice Points classify use by ventilation status, not disease severity The American College of Physicians (ACP) updated its Rapid, Living Practice Points on the use of antiviral r...

Feb 11, 2021

But minorities, younger adults not yet keen on the idea From September to December 2020, the number of U.S. adults willing to receive a Covid-19 vaccine saw a substantial increase; however, more ef...

Feb 11, 2021

Indication includes individuals age 65 and older and those with chronic conditions WASHINGTON —The FDA issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for combination bamlanivimab/etesevimab to treat...

Feb 10, 2021

TUESDAY, Feb. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with dementia have an increased risk for COVID-19, with the strongest effect seen for vascular dementia, according to a study published online Feb. 9...

Feb 09, 2021

Kaitlyn Romoser first caught covid-19 in March, likely on a trip to Denmark and Sweden, just as the scope of the pandemic was becoming clear. Romoser, who is 23 and a laboratory researcher in College ...

Feb 09, 2021

No Covid-positive patients discharged alive after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, Swedish study reports Patients with Covid-19 who suffer a cardiac arrest, either in or out of the hospital, are substa...

Feb 09, 2021

Study findings suggest PPE effective in critical care settings Patient-to-health-care worker transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was found to be low in the ICU of a large, academic hospital in London during t...

Feb 09, 2021

Investigational combo to be studied in hospitalized Covid patients The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it has begun recruiting for a sub-study to assess AstraZeneca’s investigati...