Jan 07, 2021

CDC recently updated guidance on vaccination contraindications Reported anaphylactic reactions to the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, while rare, are approximately 10 times higher than those repo...

Jan 07, 2021

Study offers tools for better risk stratification among affected patients Older age, male sex, and impaired cognitive and physical function were independently linked with mortality in U.S. nursing ...

Jan 07, 2021

Agency advises caution as state-level issues, vaccine hesitance hamper vaccine rollout WASHINGTON — As the U.S. struggles to keep its Covid-19 vaccination program on track, the FDA issued a state...

Jan 07, 2021

High-titer convalescent plasma reduced progression to severe disease Early administration of high-titer convalescent plasma was associated with reduced progression to severe Covid-19 in older adult...

Jan 07, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- From April to December, there was a significant decline in the number of Americans who say they are willing to get a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a resear...

Jan 07, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The prevalence of serious psychological distress was as high during May 2020 as the past-year prevalence reported in February 2019, according to a study pub...

Jan 07, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The majority of patients with mild COVID-19 versus patients with moderate-to-critical forms report loss of smell, with 75 to 85 percent of all patients reco...

Jan 06, 2021

Funeral director Kevin Spitzer has been overwhelmed with covid-related deaths in the small city of Aberdeen, South Dakota. He and his two colleagues at the Spitzer-Miller Funeral Home have been workin...

Jan 06, 2021

This story also ran on The Guardian. It can be republished for free. Last spring, New Jersey emergency room nurse Maritza Beniquez saw “wave after wave” of si...

Jan 06, 2021

Injections are nasty, but the benefits of getting the COVID-19 vaccine outweigh the risks, no matter how you slice it.   I don’t like injections. Never have, never will. I see in...

Jan 06, 2021

TUESDAY, Jan. 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Short-term mental health consequences of COVID-19 are equally high across affected countries and across gender, according to a review published in the January...

Jan 06, 2021

TUESDAY, Jan. 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Declines in child physical abuse (CPA) encounters at U.S. hospitals were seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published online Dec. 30 in P...

Jan 06, 2021

TUESDAY, Jan. 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- In a case report recently published in The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists Clinical Case Reports, five cases of euglycemic diabetic ketoacid...

Jan 06, 2021

TUESDAY, Jan. 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Two top officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Monday that any American who gets the Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines must get two full do...

Jan 06, 2021

Survey from California also shows less secure firearm storage A survey of California adults found that the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in more gun purchases and greater concerns about pot...

Jan 06, 2021

Similar efficacy seen in older study participants Peer-reviewed findings from the COVE trial showed the Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine to have 94.1% efficacy for preventing Covid-19, with efficacy of 86.4...

Jan 05, 2021

Yolanda Coar was 40 when she died of Covid-19 in August 2020 in Augusta, Georgia. She was also a nurse manager, and one of nearly 3,000 front-line workers who have died in the U.S. fighting this virus...

Jan 05, 2021

MONDAY, Jan. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- There seems to be no causal association between COVID-19 and Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), according to a study published online Dec. 14 in Brain. Noting ...

Jan 05, 2021

MONDAY, Jan. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The mRNA-1273 vaccine has 94.1 percent efficacy for preventing COVID-19 illness, according to a study published online Dec. 30 in the New England Journal of Me...

Jan 05, 2021

MONDAY, Jan. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- If a second dose of the first COVID-19 vaccine is not available or the maker is not known, then another vaccine may be used, new British guidelines say, The Ne...