Jan 28, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Diabetes is associated with increased odds of contracting COVID-19 and with increased COVID-19 mortality, while metformin treatment before diagnosis of COV...

Jan 28, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For patients hospitalized with COVID-19, respiratory, physical, and psychological sequelae are common at four months after discharge, according to a study ...

Jan 28, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Promising new data on two antibody cocktails suggest these therapies can keep COVID-19 patients out of the hospital and even prevent illness altogether in ...

Jan 28, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Retired doctors and nurses are being called to the front lines of the U.S. COVID-19 vaccination effort, the White House COVID-19 Response team announced We...

Jan 28, 2021

It’s all about science WASHINGTON — The White House Covid-19 Response Team on Wednesday presented its first public health press briefing and outlined the state of the Covid-19 pandemic as seen ...

Jan 27, 2021

This story also ran on U.S. News & World Report. It can be republished for free. As hospitals nationwide struggle with the latest covid-19 surge, it’s not so much beds ...

Jan 27, 2021

This story also ran on USA Today and GateHouse Media. It can be republished for free. Computer science teacher Suzy Lebo saw covid-19 dangers frequently in her Indiana high schoo...

Jan 27, 2021

This story also ran on Los Angeles Times. It can be republished for free. SACRAMENTO — As intensive care units filled and coronavirus cases surged over the holidays, Carmela Co...

Jan 27, 2021

TUESDAY, Jan. 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- People taking immunosuppressive drugs prior to a COVID-19 hospitalization do not have worse outcomes, according to a study published online Jan. 7 in Clinica...

Jan 27, 2021

TUESDAY, Jan. 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Cumulative cigarette smoke exposure is an independent risk factor for hospital admission and death from COVID-19, according to a research letter published on...

Jan 27, 2021

TUESDAY, Jan. 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 is dangerous for middle-aged adults, with an estimated age-specific infection fatality rate (IFR) of 0.4 and 1.4 percent at ages 55 and 65 years, re...

Jan 27, 2021

Top-line results promising, but peer-review lacking A very old, and for a long time forgotten, gout drug — colchicine — is once again being promoted as a breakthrough treatment, and this time t...

Jan 27, 2021

Vials contain up to six vax doses, but only when using certain equipment WASHINGTON — The FDA updated the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine to allow physi...

Jan 27, 2021

President believes the U.S. could be mostly vaccinated before summer President Joe Biden said Monday that he believes the U.S. will soon be capable of administering 1.5 million Covid-19 vaccines a ...

Jan 26, 2021

Use Our Content It can be republished for free. Over a month into a massive vaccination program, most older Americans report they don’t know where or when they can get inocul...

Jan 26, 2021

This story also ran on Los Angeles Times. It can be republished for free. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, under growing pressure to jump-start a faltering covid-19 vaccine rollout,...

Jan 26, 2021

Is it time to change control strategies? One-in-three SARS-CoV-2 infections appear to be asymptomatic and nearly three-quarters of people without symptoms who receive a positive PCR test will remai...

Jan 25, 2021

  This story also ran on PolitiFact. It can be republished for free. It’s in the nature of presidential candidates and new presidents to promise big things. Just months after his 1961 inaugur...

Jan 25, 2021

Use Our Content It can be republished for free. Joe Biden on Wednesday took the oath to become the 46th president of the United States, vowing to bring the nation together in the m...

Jan 25, 2021

Viral load reduction did not differ from placebo with bamlanivimab monotherapy Among patients with mild to moderate Covid-19 who were not hospitalized, combination treatment with two investigational ...